<p>I keep reminding myself that some people’s TF status didn’t change until like day-of, just a few hours or right before notification.</p>
<p>@ssadiesades: Thanks for the encouraging thoughts! Logically, I know there’s a high correlation between transitional funding status and admission, but two things: 1) I superstitiously believe that if I get too excited the little leprechauns of TFA will find out and make sure I’m denied, and 2) if I happen to be that weird exception, like the one person from 4D, the rejection would just be so, so much worse. Ah, what to do, what to do. How’s your TF status going? I hear ya with the insomnia thing!</p>
<p>@wonderstruck08: Hang in there! There were LOTS of people in the past 4 rounds whose statuses changed really close to the notification deadline. Have faith!</p>
<p>On that note, if I do get in, in my penance for plaguing my friends with my TFA neuroses, I want to go through this thread and consolidate the data we gathered this year for next year’s applicants. I’m crazy beans and have read every single post multiple times so may as well put that knowledge to good use!</p>
<p>So, in my obsessiveness recently I’ve been looking through all of the data/information I could find (like others of you I’ve also read literally every entry on here—yay obsessiveness!!) and I’ve found/seen a few different statistics. First, there’s the teens to twenty that someone else quoted a week or two ago; then there’s a roughly 30% acceptance rate mentioned elsewhere on this thread, I believe; and then in my own calculations based on the article citing 2010 data, a roughly 25% rate. So we can say it’s somewhere between 15-30%, or roughly 20-25% on average. That means that if each of you were in a group of 10-12 for your final interviews, 1-3 will be accepted. That’s pretty solid, I think (aka: I am trying to convince myself).</p>
<p>We can do it, guys. 3 and a half days!</p>
<p>I think what’s driving me the most crazy is not knowing for sure yet what I will be doing after graduation.</p>
<p>Oh man, me too! I graduate in barely over a month and I so badly want to do TFA that I can’t even bring myself to look into options. Should I be rejected, I’ll start looking for other jobs on Thursday night (or more likely Friday morning so I have time to mope). oy!</p>
<p>I’ve already been searching for other jobs. I actually have an interview Wednesday afternoon (lol!) don’t know what I was thinking when I scheduled that. Maybe it will distract me for a little while though. I already am accepted to a teaching graduate program (one that I’d be very excited to do) so if I don’t get TFA, I do have a back-up plan in motion. I just really hope I get this because I’ve been really sold on the organization and mission.</p>
<p>Like ssadiesades, I can’t make myself look into other options besides TFA until Thursday. I’ve been half-heartedly applying to jobs in marketing and human resources, and occasionally getting interviews, but I can’t make myself feel enthusiastic about any of them. I’m afraid that I’ll just be completely lost if I don’t get into TFA this week!</p>
<p>And wonderstruck08, good luck on your interview, and congrats on getting into a teaching grad school program!</p>
<p>Thank you waltzin 
I definitely understand how you’re feeling - it’s very challenging to feel enthusiastic about interviews/job apps right now.
Crossing my fingers for us all!</p>
<p>So should I frantically update my email every minute on Thursday, or perhaps go somewhere without internet (I don’t have a smartphone) and wait until like 8 pm when I for sure must have an admissions decision? Hmm…</p>
<p>My friend invited me to go paintballing on Saturday - a chance to either release my frustration at not getting in or celebrate my acceptance. Either way, I’m sure it’ll be fun. I’ve never been before!</p>
<p>In those quiet moments where I’m just sitting around, TFA thoughts will suddenly attack me, and I get sweaty palms even THINKING about Wednesday. I’m on the West Coast, so I’ll be go to commencement stuff during the day, and hopefully not getting home until late so I don’t frantically refresh.</p>
<p>I haven’t even thought about what I’m going to do if I’m rejected. I can’t bring myself to. It’s like my life is stalled, waiting on word from TFA…</p>
<p>wait, wednesday? i don’t think we hear til thursday?</p>
<p>Sorry, typo’d. I meant Thursday.</p>
<p>lolol i wish it were wednesday</p>
<p>oy me too!</p>
<p>Just like all of you I have read allll of the posts from the past deadlines… It looks like most of the TF changed to complete 4 business days before they got the final accept/reject. Have any of your TF statuses changed to complete?</p>
<p>Mine changed a week and a half ago… but I also had an error with some of the financial information I submitted so they may have completed the whole package then and there to avoid any confusion. So I am not really seeing my transitional funding changing to complete as promising.</p>
<p>i didn’t apply for transitional funding. if i get in i’ll apply for it. tfaaman, i’d say if it changed to complete it probably means you’re in irrespective of wonky paperwork stuff. </p>
<p>less than 3 days!</p>
<p>i have to say, i am going to be devastated if i’m rejected but i kind of think i will be. i just want thursday to come so i’ll know either way!</p>
<p>Mine changed when I checked in Friday. I hadn’t checked for a few days beforehand but I bet it had changed Friday.</p>
<p>I didn’t apply for it… I kind of wish I had so I would have SOMETHING to think about.</p>
<p>I will be absolutely devastated if I’m rejected :(</p>
<p>Hi folks. I didn’t apply for TF either simply because I didn’t want to drive myself crazy checking the status before notification day. While I will definitely be upset if I am not accepted into the 2012 corps I will definitely move on as those of you who are not accepted will. I have already been accepted into a 1 year full time MAT program so I definitely have a back up plan. Also if I’m not accepted I will simply apply next year for the 2013 corps after my MAT program ends. TFA is not the end all be all and if any of us isn’t accepted it will NOT be the end of the world. TRUST ME! :)</p>