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  1. My partner was told a certain MFA stipend + fellowship number over the phone during her acceptance call, and was told to wait for financial info in an upcoming mailing. No mailing ever came, they went back and forth with a few people via email. Finally they were told a much lower total number with no fellowship. And that any additional funding could only be offered after accepting. The school keeps pushing them to just hit accept already. Why would someone accept something before knowing what the final numbers are? I did my PhD applications a few years ago and I would have never accepted anything before I knew all the numbers in advance. Academics like to act like money doesn't matter; it does. Especially right now, when everything's in crisis. Is this something that happens often? Do MFA programs often want applicants to accept before knowing all the financial details?
  2. I was planning on saying precisely that. Then dropping the mic (or phone, whatever).
  3. Somewhat of a negotiation question: I got an offer from one of my top choices, and my advisor advised me to contact my other top choice immediately, before acceptances came out, I'm guessing to see if they'll come up with a better offer. Has anyone had any experience with this?
  4. been listening to more hip hop. Today, Childish Gambino's because the inter.net. Because if Donald Glover can be a great rapper, actor, comedian, and an all around good guy, maybe there's hope for the rest of us. Also Kendrick
  5. (even funnier is they got my name wrong in the email. "Dear Daniel" instead of "David")!
  6. Oh dear lord. After a Columbia rejection yesterday, I went to my CUNY application and saw that it was still listed as "incomplete," even after I emailed them about it months ago and corrected what I was missing. This began a slow decent into madness as I wondered if I missed something else, and if I'd lose any chance to stay in New York, and if CUNY wouldn't accept me, what if no one would accept me, and oh my god I don't really have a Plan B besides "bum around till I starve or something." Then today a whole bunch of junk emails from CUNY made my eye twitch as I kept refreshing and refreshing. Then I got the CUNY acceptance email. My poor little heart, it is to burst. (I have been ghosting this forum way more than is healthy but haven't posted much. Hi.)
  7. Thank you for bringing this up. I've felt like such a hypocrite this last week, attending protests every night here in NYC then waking up and writing fluffy nonsense about "diversity" in edits of my SoP and diversity statement. I have to pretend that my experience of ethnicity is a boon that fulfills some line on an affirmative action checklist, when the reality of it is marching down the street, penned in by a line of police. I'm Hispanic, so the protests hit close to home without being my personal experience. And I want to do more than yell about it, but academia feels so removed from actuality. It's disheartening.
  8. I took the test last Saturday too, and felt it differed quite a lot from the practice tests, to the point where I have no idea if I did fine or terribly. I tried to base my studying the last few weeks around what felt weakest on the practice test, which was a mistake, because little to nothing of what I studied ended up on the final test. And I really have no idea how, in retrospect, I should have studied. It's such a crapshoot. Usually I can make educated guesses, but all my guesses this time around turned out wrong. Now I just have to worry about it for the next six weeks. gah.
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