NYU is a Tease

NYU is so difficult to be in contact with, always. It's beginning to irritate me. I sent them an email last week asking what the timetable was for decision letters, as in, should I be worried that I hadn't yet received one, and they sent back a form email that didn't answer my question in any way. All it said was that the decisions are up to the individual departments, but the letters get mailed by the GSAS, and that they cannot provide decision information over the phone or by email. So I called the English department, to find out if they'd tell me at least whether any decision at all had even been made. I got transferred to an anonymous voicemail, and left a message which was never returned. Today I called again, and got a different voicemail with a message saying that the GSAS sends out all the letters, and that the English department can't give decision information over the phone or by email, as the original email had said. So, I called the GSAS office, and finally reached a very patient man who looked up my applicant account, and said that the English department had just forwarded their decision on my app to the GSAS on Friday, and I should have my letter by the end of this week. But of course, you know the chorus: he couldn't give decision information over the phone. So now I just have to wait until I get the letter this week. But waiting is so damn hard!! Cross your fingers, all. After a lot of thought, I think I'd really like to get in there.

If I do get in:
-I'll have full tuition and a living stipend (NYU guarantees this for their PhD candidates).
-I could live with Charlotte.
-I could not live with Becky or Katie or Lilah or Maddie, though they may not all end up in Boston anyway.
-I'd just be a two hour bus ride from Alex.
-I'd be closer to my family in NY.
-I'd be a subway ride away from Coney Island.
-I'd be in the same city as Katie R. and David and Ray, and I think also Jenn and Matt Skrin.
-I could possibly do my MA in Kid's Lit at Hollins at the same time (6 weeks in summers isn't too much to add to my plate, is it?).
-NYC is an awesome, wonderful, fabulous city of which I am very fond and in which I feel very at home.

If I don't get in:
-I could go to Simmons, if they give me enough money.
-I could live with the Boston contingent, as listed above.
-I would not be near the NY contingent or my family, as listed above.
-I would be 8 hours away from Alex (this has taken me a little by surprise, being a much larger emotional factor now than I'd expected it would be when I began this whole process).
-I could go to Hollins in the summers and work during the year, either in Boston or NYC.
-I could explore a brand new city that I've only spent two days in at all before.
-I'd live outside of PA for the first time since I was 5 (this could be a pro or a con, really).
-An MA might make me more desirable to all the PhD programs I applied to, so that the next time I applied for schools, I'd have more acceptances to choose from.

Sound off, if you feel like it.... Lol. What should I do? What should I hope for? I just don't know. Life and geography are so complicated.