Weird email correspondance w/ program director!

Graduate School
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<p>So get this:</p>

<p>Recently a program coordinator emailed me (and cc'd program director) to tell me she received my transripts and would hold onto them until I submitted my application. Turns out that I no longer planned to apply there (for lack of faculty/interests/etc.). I replied to her and explained all this. I even had the nerve to ask for my transcripts back (!), but I wouldn'tvebrought it up had it been for that email. </p>

<p>THEN, I get an email from the director of the program. She's very nice and names some faculty members I might be interested, points out how strong the program is, etc etc. - seems like she's trying to convince me to apply there still. </p>

<p>I reply to her, apologizing if I offended her in anyway explaining the purpose of my email was just to give the coordinator an explanation in case she never received my online application - because she seemed so nice and I'd have felt bad otherwise if I kept them hanging. Anyways, then I told the director that I'll keep my options open and continue to think about it. </p>

<p>She replies saying she didn't think I was being disrespectful but I could call anytime if I have further questions. I've truly felt bad about this, regretting the decision to respond to that first email in the first place. They're very nice people at that school. </p>

<p>What do you make of all this? I'm not so presumptuous to say my chances of getting into that school are 100%, but why is it the one program I'm not as *interested in seems to persue me? Talk about irony. And I guess the greatest question would be, **what would you do? * Would you still apply there, just because the program director encourages you? And even if I got in, would my relationship already be tainted? </p>

<p>As for the transcripts I'm not going to ask them again to send it back to me, lol. I realized that was pretty petty haha. That's totally something George from Seinfeld would do.</p>

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<p>No, your relationship wouldn’t be “tainted.” PhD programs do what they can to try to recruit the students they find promising.</p>

<p>Apply/don’t apply based on your level of interest (or lack of one), and I’m sure the program director will think nothing more of it either way.</p>

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<p>Thanks. BTW, I just received word from the coordinator that she opened one of my transcripts when they first arrived. That’s how she knew to contact me. Lol, duh, I should’ve been able to figure that out. </p>

<p>The 2nd transcript I’m letting them keep though she’s offered to return it. I realize it has their school address printed on it, so it’d be tacky to send to another school (lol), and I don’t want to close the doors on this school just yet. It’s just $10. But that’s 40 McNuggets at McDonalds.</p>