I have just found out I was unsuccessful and have requested my individual marks. Good luck to everyone else!

I'm sorry...at least now you now and can move on.

Got email from Nom Con backup - post has arrived today and no sign of ESRC paperwork.

Sorry to hear your bad news Psych.

Thank you both. I am feeling rather low about it all at the moment; however I am sure that will pass in time! Sorry that you still have no news SocDave.

Given what Licky said yesterday, I'm going with accepting I've not got it - and if I have then great. I'll still be gutted when the email comes, but the mourning period won't last as long this way.

Delurking to wish you all good luck and commiserations to those who have had bad news

Just got a reply, I've been granted funding!! good luck to all those still waiting!!

Amazing news Mix - well done you!!!!

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Just got email - unsuccessful. Sob :-(. World of work beckons.....

sorry to hear that socdave..

got an interview for a £20k starting salary job on friday - looks promising (and its not graduate sales!!) things could be worse I suppose

good luck with that. it doesn't sound bad at all!

Oh, really sorry to hear the rejections, gutting for you :-( its just the worst email (or snail mail in my case) to get! SocDave I hope the job works out for you, I know its a massive cliche and of little help at this point but I'm a firm believer in things working out for the best xx Have you checked with your respective depts whether there might be any form of funding available - I was funded for the MA but rejected on the PhD despite being top ranked (which is possibly more gutting than finding that they just don't like your proposal!) but when I told the dept (in floods of tears - it was a bad day) within a few hours they'd held an emergency meeting with the HoD, my sup, the grad dir and I'd been offered a second scholarship (I'd been offered one that would pay my fees prior to the results coming back from the research council) that didn't bring in anything like the maintainence grant a fully funded position would, but meant that I could carry on and survive (kind of). There are sometimes funds floating about that can be allocated to students so it might be worth touching base and asking - hey, nothing to lose, don't ask, don't get!

On the other hand huge congrats Mixilgt - well done you :-) That's great news, I do hope that some of the others will also get similarly good news in the next day or so :-)

They still haven't gotten back to me. Why, oh why, does it take this long?

Have you tried contacting them? I only got an answer because I sent an email asking them, otherwise who knows how long I would've waited..good luck!