Acknowledgements?

Acknowledgements?

Liz (guest) 01 Oct 2009 12:34

For those of you who have received acknowledgements for your applications - did you have to follow up to get confirmation that your application was received? I've sent in several (email) applications and haven't gotten any confirmations - which just makes me worried that they didn't go through.

Re: Acknowledgements?

Shannon D. (guest) 01 Oct 2009 15:52

I've been sending emails to places that haven't acknowledged my application and the due date is nearing. Be patient, sometimes it just takes a while for them to get back to you.

Re: Acknowledgements?

Johnny Rothschild (guest) 12 Oct 2009 21:09

Don't hold your breath waiting for acknowledgements. On three occasions in the last two years, top departments didn't even bother to notify me that I wasn't going to get an offer after a campus interview. Given that, you can imagine how high a priority your application acknowledgement will be. There are a lot of oblivious people running searches.

Re: Acknowledgements?

Nina (guest) 23 Oct 2009 21:08

I've gotten acknowledgements from 12 of the 17 sites to which I applied. Three remaining sites were online applications which provided me with a submission confirmation number, and one site acknowledged the application at the beginning of a phone interview. In other words, I have obtained some type of confirmation from 16 of the 17 sites without having to ask for confirmation— although that acknowledgement often took several weeks after I had submitted the application and often arrived via US Mail rather than email. Be patient!