emeliej

first, congratulations! second, I have no advice to give regarding your prospective schools but I'm sure someone else eventually will. HOWEVER, until then no need to spam the forum with multiple posts of the same question.

yeaaah! congratulations! the campus is awesome and I really enjoyed my visit but it was just not the right program for me. hopefully the funding works out for you!

yea. not interested in pool parties.. spyglass looks nice but a little bit towards the higher end of my budget (I'm specifically looking for a 1br in the 500-650 range). I'll put it on my list though for places to check out. I saw som craigslist ads for apartments in the oaks condominum and hawthorne reserve... would you happen to know anything about either of those? regardless thanks for the input! really helps a lot!

thanks for the recs! I'm also looking at apartments for the fall.. do you know anything about verdant cove (seems like it was remodeled and renamed recently?), towne parc, point west, or williamsburg village? I do want access to a pool but also quiet and not undergrad dominated.

I agree. go where you want to go and don't worry about 10k. it's really not going to make it or break it in the future. however, if money is a big priority to you, I'd say go to Davis. you just have to decide what your priorities are. go where your heart desires or where you will feel more financially secure. either way I don't think you can go wrong. or flip a coin! seriously. it works. you will know.

I totally get it. I even had a professor email and call me this morning to try to get me to still go there even though I declined and said I had accepted another offer.. just makes it so much harder! I already committed! why couldn't you try this hard a little earlier?! the main reason I declined there was financial so when she's now asking me for another 24h to see if they can get funding it's hard! on the other hand, they've known about my situation for over a week and had plenty of time to get back to me regarding funding.. seriously.. I just want to feel a hundred percent sure I made the right choice!

hey all! I just decided to attend UF as well if anyone have any apartment complexes to recommend let me know! or know anything about towne parc apartments or verdant cove? I get the sense that verdant cove was recentely renovated (and renamed?) so it doesn't have any reviews. hopefully I can make it down there and check it out soon!

made my decision as well - florida it is! it was tough but in the end I went for the place with most funding and where I'd rather live for the next 3 years.. my overall experience is that it's easy to get caught up in everything and get "seduced" by certain programs for various reasons but in the end you just have to consider what's most important to you. I had my heart set on vcu for a long time but it didn't work out and I'm sure it's for a reason

yea, thats pretty shitty but however cliche it may sound.. everything happens for a reason!

damn. I'm sorry. it may be a long shot but what if you contact on of the schools you declined? when I declined one school's offer they said specifically to contact them "if the program I selected didn't meet my expectations". I guess you just have to be very sincere about it and explain your situation and that you regret declining their offer initially. I have no experience with this but what do you have to lose really?

congrats!! that is awesome! wish I could make up my mind soon so I'd have this over with.. did you apply to VCU by any chance?

I just declined my offer from WashU. I don't know how their waitlist works but maybe you will hear soon!

I'm with you on that one... got ONE week! no idea what to do. obviosuly I'm not complaining that I have choices. very happy and grateful for that but I can't visit the schools and can't figure out what "feels" right.. sure, I could go for the money but the difference is only like $2000/year. Arizona seems like the better photo program on paper (and obviously in rankings) but I'm weirdly drawn to Florida and got a good feeling about it early on when talking to the faculty there, although they do very different work than I.. but I don't know if I got that feeling simply because I didn't think the other programs were options then and just tried to get my mind set on it. damn. I'm confused haha. this whole process messes with your head a little for sure. I really REALLY wish I'd get off the waitlist at VCU but they only take 5 so I'm going to pretend it's not an option.

ah ok. I don't think I did since I'm an international student. I have lived in Indiana for the past 5 years though so it's kind of bs. but since I'm a "non-immigrant alien" I'm not eligble for residency (I think that's how it works)

do you have any other offers that you are considering that offer better funding? the way I recently went about it was being open and honest about my situation and that although I'm very interested in X school, it's not feasible for me financially and I have to consider other offers. just be sincere and acknowledge that you don't want money to be the deciding factor but that's unfortunately the case.. and instead of directly asking for more money you can ask if there are any additional funding opportunities or work positions you can apply for to still make it work since X school is your top choice or something like that. however, if you don't have other financially better offers that you are considering I wouldn't lie obviously.. I also get the sense that it helps if you contact the director of your specific program or a professor that you have been in contact with throughout the process as opposed to financial aid since they have a better sense of who you are and obviously want you in their program. they will probably then refer you to someone else but I think it's good to have someone vouch for you. but I'm no expert on the grad admission/funding process by any means! just speaking from my own experience.