I called Ms. Wade last Thursday and she said my application was yet to be considered by the selectors. She also mentioned that the selectors were meeting on Friday and that offers will be made throughout the following weeks.. so I am guessing they make decisions in batches although I am not 100% sure about the regional theory..

This leads me to believe that there is no such thing as excellent candidates. How can they decide who are excellent if they don't look at all of them before?
Or has another board looked at the applications before it comes before the 'selectors'? In that case the first board might send the excellent ones through first..

I'm so uninformed !! :)

Hey, so we have two big jurisdictions still to go.... India and China havn't heard as yet... next couple of days should be interesting..

I just got the conditional offer from Suzanne. Looks like they are finally handing out offers to ppl from China :-p

India stands next now..

Just wondering...ain't Tigerland from India?

''Tigerland could be India'' and not from India, ...

I called Ms. Wade last Thursday and she said my application was yet to be considered by the selectors. She also mentioned that the selectors were meeting on Friday and that offers will be made throughout the following weeks.. so I am guessing they make decisions in batches although I am not 100% sure about the regional theory..

I had called her up too and i was told that my application was going to be taken up on Thursday/Friday (the one that has gone by). Itching to know the outcome..

Just got my conditional offer from Suzanne!!! I'm from the Caribbean...

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well, I might have been rejected in Jan....who knows.
On Friday goes another round of stress... Haha, now I'm actually praying to see "Applicant":)

lustitia, may i know which country are you from? I'm really starting to worry about this "regional offer" theory :S

Croatia. I bet there aren't many candidates from my country, so I'm rather unsure how to interpret this "regional offer" in my case...maybe like this- croatia is near to Italy, and one Italian has already been accepted. thus, I'm not? haha...I don't know.......what do you think?

Well if the regional offer theory actually stands I don't think you have much to worry about since you haven't heard of any Croatians being made an offer yet, have you? I think you're still on the safe side. I on the other hand is starting to look very worrying indeed!

Thanks for the heads-up Angelnel. Hmmm perhaps I should call Suzanne as well haha.

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you're the voice of reason, thank you..
I was already starting to make some theories of my own...like, they hate us Croatians because we play better football haha :) God, that was desperate.

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they missed out on euro 2008 because we beat them twice in the qualifiers! isn't that enough!?;)

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Great going Caribbeanstar, another of our silent but long enduring friends has got the good news..

Where do you put your regional affiliation..? North America or UK/Europe.. I know geographically it is North America, but historically, The Caribbean has been treated with quite a semblance of affinity by the English.

haha, that's what I'm talking about. One loses his mind while waiting and comes up with a lot of stupid ideas, such as this. I'm okay now, no more crazy assumptions, I promise;)

Just to let you know guys - got an offer by email yesterday afternoon.

congratulations! where are you from?

second Belgian in !

Well done everyone! Hope to see you all in October

By the way for those of you who have offers, feel free to join this years (2009/10) Cambridge LLM facebook group!