The Unexpected

I had the day to work from home. I turned on my cellphone mid-morning to find a message from the associate director at Queen's.

"I have some great news," she says. I thought to myself, here we go, I'm about to get interviewed. This was expected. But, what she did say after was not expected at all.

"We'd like to offer you a seat in our program that starts in May 2009. Additionally, the admissions committee would also like to award you with a $20,000 scholarship."

What in the WORLD? I couldn't believe it. Whatever happened to the phone interview? I was so ecstatic though, I started to cry. I'm going to Queen's. My life is about to change.

The rest of the message said that she was also going to email me. I looked into my personal email and found two messages. One was from her with the same information as she'd just told me on the phone, and one from her staff, with the word version of the official letters they were going to send, and asking me to confirm my mailing address.

(I had a very merry Christmas.)

Messages Regarding Application

Queen's staff sent me three emails (that were not automatically generated) after I submitted my application.

The first one was to acknowledge that they have received my application, and are still expecting some items, namely one of my references and my undergrad transcript. I knew that they were on their way.

Each of the latter emails was to say that they had received one of the items that they were expecting.