Application Roundup

Now that we've heard some news from every school, here's a quick round up of where we stand at each place:

Accepted

Arizona: with funding, but not sure about fellowships, etc.
Illinois-Chicago: with two years non-service fellowship and three years teaching assistantship; possibility of additional years of fellowship.
St. Andrews: no funding; declined offer.

Wait Listed

Michigan: invited to visit; told I have a 'good chance' of eventually getting an offer.
UNC: invited to visit; told I have a 'good chance' of eventually getting an offer; have people turning wheels behind the scenes for me.
Maryland: not invited to visit; told I have a distant chance of being offered a funded position.
UCSD: just missed the initial cut; don't know whether they will be doing an official wait list or not.

Rejected

Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Oxford, Penn, Toronto: I guess I shouldn't be surprised about these; after all, 3 of them are Ivies (Columbia, Cornell, and Penn) and the other 3 are quasi-Ivies as far as their international stature goes.

I've visted UIC and am going to Arizona Sunday. After I come back from Arizona, we'll have a UIC-Arizona head-to-head and discard the loser. Then we'll ride the winner until the April 15th deadline or until I get off one of the wait lists, whichever comes first. If I get off a waitlist, we'll have another head-to-head with that school and Arizona, and keep eliminating schools in head-to-head contests until there's one left standing by the 15th. The last one standing is the winner.

UPDATE (18/03): I guess I unwittingly showed my bias above ('we'll have another head-to-head with that school and Arizona'). What I meant to say was, we'll have another head-to-head with the UIC-Arizona winner and whatever school's waitlist I get off of. ;)