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Well, thank you everyone. So far, this week has been the most productive week since I got 5 rejections. One of the good things for late replies is that I am happy with rejections because no news was a complete torture. But since I am still waiting answers from more than 15, I am nowhere to feel done. But your comments give me a little bit of hope, so thank you. I know it is not early but if I do get a good news, I will definitely post here.

@finboy - I am sorry for the rejections you've got. The thing is I've applied to more than 20 schools, but the decision has been made for only one program. The only school that's announced their result was posted on their website that I never got an email asking for the check on the status. So, it is more difficulty now since I have to check the status for more than 20 programs whether they've updated the status by now or not everyday. But thank you indeed for allowing me to know your status. I believe finance and accounting are one of the programs that announce the result latest. Let's have our fingers crossed till April (hopefully not until then) @Accgirl - all the programs I've applied for are accounting phd. I knew that I lack of research experience(only master thesis and presentation of it to worldwide conference that is not at all famous), and also work experience(although worldwide, it was not an accounting firm). But now I realize what I had hope has too big to be achieved and that the pumping heart just to imagine teaching the students, reading literature, and finding too small p-value just won't do. @XanthusARES - Thank you for more realistic advice. Yes, I am contacting the job market as I think it is the major weakness in my CV and it's going to take more than two interviews in the job market anyway and more than a month from now. But the thing is I've only applied to those that are low on the ranks (UTD, USNews, etc). There is no UC, no Harvard, no MIT and no whatsoever that are out there that everyone in the world knows. On the other hand, I guess there is no easy program for accounting phd to get in even for those that are below 100 among the North America territory. Thank you very much for your interest in my agony. I just needed to say out loud that I feel devastated. I couldn't tell my friends and family. If you could suggest any way I can do to get me distracted from checking the status everyday, it would be great.

I know most here have got at least one offer to consider or made their decision. Is there anyone who is with me, who has no yes till now, who started to consider plan B more seriously, who but still hopes for good news to come? or am I the only one going crazy checking status and email too oftern?

Same thing here although there are people in accounting who's done interviews. That email is definitely an automated one since I got the exactly same kne as well. But I guess for finance people, it's gonna take a while. They always take more time for finance majors except for the very top schools. My friend got two interviews and two rejections everyday in the last week of March and got too many offers to decline by the beginning of April. I guess you will have to wait, mate.

may I ask which schools you got in? I am still waiting with only one interview done.

Hi I am having trouble with writing an email. Can anyone tell me what comments should be included in thank you email after an interview? Thank you for the reply in advance.

Thank you very much for the reply. I am sticking with believeing their admission processes are really really slow :)

To all the accounting applicants, Are posts on gradcafe all invites sent out? or is the admission process particularly slow this year?

Thank you so much for all the advices. I guess all I ever need for interview is calmness. Has anyone heard from UT Dallas, UW Seattle? This waiting is definitely killing me.

What would you have done if you could go back to the interview? I am just waiting for my first interview and very anxious at the moment. Why would you say you did awful? Any tips would be greatly appreciated.