Submitting Your Application < | The Waiting Game | > You’re Accepted – Now What?
How Long Must I Wait to Hear?
Once you have sent your applications to graduate school sent off you can sit back and forget about them for the next few months. You will receive some form of acknowledgement from the University and at some point, if items are missing from your files, you will get a request to chase them up. The most common missing items are, of course, references; you may have to go and nag a faculty member or two, sometimes not the easiest job in the world!If a department has a deadline for receipt of applications of the 1st February you can assume that they will still be getting bits and pieces of files up until the 15th February or even later. At this point you will probably get a letter to the effect that if an item is not received by a certain date the file will not be considered by the department. This usually results in the missing document arriving post-haste! We are all aware that Canada Post sometimes screws up. Most missing items are references and transcripts. FAX copies are usually acceptable to get a file moving around the department but an original must be submitted as soon as possible thereafter.
From the beginning of March on you will be getting antsy waiting to hear if you have been admitted. We realize the agonies you are going through, but there is little we can tell you until that final admissions meeting. Because of the fierce competition for good students, schools try to make their decisions as early as possible and to contact successful applicants immediately. Please try not to bug the graduate secretary regarding when the decisions will be made, we can usually tell you no more than "next week" or "by the end of the month."
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