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I agree, V/Q are fine, but writing needs to be at least 5.0, but the higher the better. But don't sweat it, the GRE gets you through the door and that's it.

I did an MTS and it is true that most schools do not offer near the funding of MDiv programs. Duke offers (I believe) only one (or two) full tuition scholarships, the rest are a set low "scholarship" of a couple thousand (others, feel free to correct me). Vandy offers descent funding, though I don't know about full tuition. Emory has recently opened up their competitive full tuition scholarships (+ stipend?) to MTS students along side MDiv's, so it might be worth investigating.

Do you have any modern languages? Perhaps German would be a better choice than Latin if you don't have it, as several TT PhD programs in NT require you to pass a German reading exam upon entry (in Aug. of your first semester). Also, many traditional programs also require at least two semesters of Hebrew for NT (Yale, for example, suggests 4 semesters for NT). If you're only choosing between Clas. Grk and Latin, I would go Latin, as it would show more diversity.

Just to make it official, my app with ND was updated this morning to make my rejection official.

I certainly agree, its difficult to weight the cost of being where you feel is "best" vs. the financial aspect of it. I'm torn between Candler and Vandy — Emory made a good offer, but Vandy's was better. So now I have to decided if its worth taking on extra debt to be at Emory where I feel like the faculty is a better fit, or if its better to accept VDS's offer and save a little debt for the future...Its a tough call.

I just checked Yale's site – rejected. Not the best news, but I'm not devastated...

I was afraid of that with ND. I had a friend who applied 2 years ago to ND and she said they sent out acceptances around the 10, but didn't inform the wait listed/rejected until early April.

Well, sadly I heard back from Duke MTS — waitlisted

Congrats to those who got into HDS today! I saw one Duke acceptance, anybody else heard from Duke's MTS? That's the one I'm anxious to hear from!

If you would be so kind as to turn down Candler's offer and re-direct that scholarship money to me, I would be much obliged! That's how it works right? Scholarships are transferable...? Oh, I guess not...

For what its worth, I followed the masters forum last year, and I seem to remember only a single person on the forum got accepted (if I remember the complaints correctly). Not to put a damper on things, but I guess it can happen. Maybe the true geniuses aren't surfing web forums but instead are at home studying languages...

I wish you were, oh how I wish you were...! Oh yeah, and regarding the wording of the scholarship offer, I wouldn't worry about, all the offers I've got so far have had the same language.

What's this I hear about a ND acceptance? Oh boy, let the email checking begin...how many hits has ND's online app got in the past two days? Wishful thinking, but any chance we're being trolled...?

I can only speak to my experience, but it seems that the April 15 resolution doesn't hold much influence, even for some signatories (although I know others, like ND, do abide by it). Its non-binding and there is no "enforcement" body over whether schools that sign it actually comply, so in effect it doesn't appear to mean much. I asked the school that required a decision about the April 15 resolution and their response was that it is something that the general university agrees to, but it doesn't apply to individual departments and their admissions decisions. That sounds like a distinction without a difference, but as I said, with no enforcement what's one to do?

xypathos, you should definitely ask for an extension on the deadline for those schools. I'm in the same boat and had 3 schools that wanted decisions before the end of Feb. and I emailed asking for an extension until March 20. Two of the schools were very helpful and agreed to extend it without further questions, the third was less helpful and said they wouldn't extend it and emphasized that if I hadn't returned a decision by the deadline the offer of scholarship AND admission would be withdrawn (which I didn't think was right). I understand a little because it was a big scholarship and they wanted to offer it to somebody else if I didn't accept, so I can't blame them too much. It was difficult to turn them down with such a great offer, but I'm holding out for something big! In my email I just explained that I would like to consider multiple competitive offers before making a final decision and won't hear back from several schools I applied to until March 15. I gave myself a few extra days because I know last year some of the results went out even after the 20th, so I hope that's not the case this year or I'll lose my mind! You could probably also invent a brilliant reason for why you need an extension, but my thinking was that if this is possibly the institution I'm going to try to impress for the next 2 years, honesty is probably the best policy. Long story short, it never hurts to gracefully & graciously ask for an extension, the worst that can happen is them saying no and the deadline stay the same.