Top Ten Reasons why I will (or won't) get into Grad School

Top ten reasons I will get into grad school
1. I graduated at the top of my class, with distinction and honors, from a competitive, private liberal arts school.
2. I have received awards and grant money for my work in my chosen field.
3. I have no reason to believe that my recommendation letters were anything but stellar. My professors know me very well.
4. I have good research experience, including a long-term research project I conducted independently that resulted in publishable material.
5. I presented the findings of said research at a national conference.
6. I write well.
7. I applied for the NSF GRFP, showing initiative.
8. I exchanged emails with prospective advisers at each of the schools to which I applied, most of which were encouraging.
9. I had a 3.88 GPA overall, 3.98 GPA in my major, and received good scores on my GRE's (predominately 90th percentile rankings).
10. The schools to which I applied were those with programs that had a great deal of overlap with my research interests.

Top ten reasons I won't get into grad school
1. I have not yet been published.
2. My quantitative GRE score left something to be desired. My subject test score could have been better.
3. I did not call prospective advisers to discuss research interests, nor did I carry email conversations as far as I could have (in some cases). In other words, I didn't push it.
4. I don't have any international research experience.
5. I do not speak a foreign language with fluency.
6. I did not have a professor (or anyone, for that matter) proofread each of my application essays.
7. I applied to six of the most competitive programs in my field in the nation. I did not apply to more than six schools.
8. Though I requested ETS send my GRE scores to all six schools four weeks in advance of the earliest deadline, I did not receive notification from several schools that my scores had been received until after the deadline had passed.
9. The economy is bad. People laid off from work are looking to return to school. Undergraduate students graduating this year do not want to face an impossible job market, and are thus trying to continue their education. Funding has been cut nearly everywhere, resulting in fewer spots for grad school applicants overall.
10. I have not yet been contacted by any of the schools to which I applied. Three of the six held interviews in January.

I am already tired of February. The more I've read this week, the more I've realized that if I'm not contacted by my schools by the middle of February regarding interviews, my chances of being accepted are extremely slim. Essentially, if I don't hear from schools next week, it's unlikely I'll be going to graduate school this year.