Frankly, I'm not sure how much guidance dates from previous years should or could give, even at a week-to-week granularity. Some programs seem to always have pretty quick decisions (e.g. Wisconsin), and others probably have consistently later decisions. But when the decisions go out still depends on an admissions committee made up of really busy people getting together and agreeing on things, and if you've spent any time in academia...Minovsky wrote:Rationale being...? Just taking a quick look at previous acceptances on this forum, a number of people still get acceptances (from everywhere, including top schools) through March, and some even in early April.woepriest wrote:So Im guessing after tomorrow your chance of getting accepted will fall from small to nil. Im not just talking about the top schools but anywhere for that matter.
But seriously, just because X University sent out a big wave of decisions in the second week of February last year (or the last couple years) doesn't mean that we've all been rejected by X. Of course, if University of Y sent out a bunch of admits last week, and you didn't get one, the situation is a bit different.