TakeMyCoffeeBlack
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Once the financial aid office has your FAFSA they will have a number that is your total costs for the semester (estimated). This is your loan limit.
Admittedly I have no idea how grad financial aid works, but are you sure about this? My buddy is in his first year of an audiology program and his first two years' tuition are completely covered, yet he still took out the $20,000 federal loans for living expenses. I'm not sure if that is some weird circumstance?
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I officially have become too plebeian, too poor, and too boring for this thread.
It's been my experience living in Germany that you can find a good wine for between 3-4 Euro (there are okay wines for less).
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Mosel fan here, especially Karthauserhof and JJ Prum. With all due respect to the Burgundians, Germany makes the best white wines in the world.
Ah. For a split second there, I was distracted by the sensory memory of aged Riesling and forgot to obsess over the word "pending" at the Bucky application portal. I know what I'm drinking with dinner tonight!
I second that.
I'm a red wine drinker, and the Rhine and, more importantly, Baden produce some of the world's finest reds.
psh...if you are gonna bribe them, at least come up with something better than that!
I... I don't even know... There's something better than German chocolate and wine? Okay... I'll throw in Rauchbier from Bamberg?
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Different field, but fear not! That does not destroy your chances by any means. Contacting before is more a way of gathering more information about programs. It's possible that you've applied to programs that won't be taking students doing your type of work, yes. But if you're a better candidate than someone else who did contact them, you'll still be the better candidate.
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Ah okay, thanks TakeMyCoffeeBlack! Somehow I missed that post. Panic level downgraded from orange to yellow...
I'm kind of at a perpetual orange. I am desperate for information.
IR IR IR asked earlier what we'd be willing to do for admission. Well, for any admission committees members out there, I'd be willing to send you German chocolates and wines from the vineyards of Baden and the Rhine (my two favorite wine regions in the world)!
- astreaux, IR IR IR PhD and jeudepaume
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You people….
Correct. Some people will get called and won't get in. Some people won't get called (or emailed) but will get in. All in all, more of the people who got contacted will be admitted, it's true, but if you conclude that you're in (or out) because you got a call (or didn't), you're jumping the gun. You'll know when the Grad School sends out notifications.
Also, I think I've mentioned it before, but at OSU funding and acceptance are separate processes. We won't know the results of the fellowship competition until mid-to-late February. Sometimes people get disappointed or scared when they don't see any language about funding right away.
Longtime lurker here, thought I'd post to see if others had opinions on this: I had a phone call from an OSU POI earlier this week. I thought it went well, but at the end of the call he said that I should expect a decision in March but then also talked at length about how the acceptance and funding processes were different. After looking at the results page I see that the acceptances were released in late Jan and early Feb. Should I assume that he was trying to hint that my application would be denied? Really throws me off, we had (what I thought) was a great conversation. hopefully I'm just over analyzing, but now I keep refreshing the status page :/
Hi strangepeace, welcome! See Professor Braumoeller's post about the OSU phone calls. The POI was just being honest. No decisions have been made yet!
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"Your application is currently being reviewed by the committee and we hope to notify all students with a final decision by early February."
This sentence put some pressure on. I think February is going to be a stressful month.
Which school was this?
And hear hear! I'm not sure if I should be thankful for the distraction or upset that I won't have access to much e-mail between Feb. 9-13 (I will be in another country for a conference...). Let's go with thankful for the distraction. I think.
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Any interview news for Emory yet? I can only suspect the next couple weeks will be quite telling!
Either they're taking longer than usual or they're skipping out on interviews this year. Hmmmm.
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Will no one be shown mercy today?
And why do I cling to the unreasonable idea that although my schools do not typically show much movement until next month, that each day might bring with it news?
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Clarify in a follow up e-mail if you're really worried. You might want to demonstrate that although you have specific research in mind, you're open to other directions.
- silver_lining and ratlab
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I've lost a lot of sleep over that old article. The way they (or at least Harvard ca. 1993) account for institutional rigor puts most students who attended non-Berkeley public universities at a huge disadvantage.
Overall, though, it's not a terrible approach. It's an interesting way to reduce the issues of quantity without arbitrary cutoffs of quantifiable, objective factors.
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My husband got a new laptop a few months ago, and had no choice (for reasons that I, as a Mac person, heard as "blah blah blah") but to switch to Windows 8. He still hasn't really made peace with it, but the swearing has died down a bit.
I thought about getting a Mac for a while (I used them at an office and while editing a newspaper and loved it), but the hardware available for PC is superior. Plus, I really love new technology, so I got a convertible touch screen PC. It's been great with a few issues here and there (new software, new hardware, bound to happen), until today. I managed to get it to revert back to Windows 8 pre preview upgrade, but now I'll have to reinstall everything.
I am using my Windows 8 exactly like I did Win 7, or XP or 98, or 95. No startup screen, no apps, all desktop business. I even have a start menu. Love it.
I'm cool with the new UI, especially since I have a touch screen PC.
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Unrelated, but general conversation... Does anyone run Windows 8? I got the 8.1 preview over the summer and put off upgrading to the official release because I will lose all my applications. Today, the preview expired. Windows way of forcing us into upgrading is by restarting our computers EVERY 2 HOURS, but the Internet connection I'm on cannot download the very large upgrade file fast enough. When my computer restarts, so does the download, putting me into this endless, hellish loop...
I guess it's a distraction from admissions, but I can't do any work!
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Ha. I got TWO calls from unknown numbers yesterday and i totally freaked out. I failed to answer both and did not get a v-mail. I think they were just tele-pest, but I was hanging out with a bunch of friends and several of them commented on me seeming out of it for like 10 minutes after the calls.
Emotions....blah.
Last year I got a bunch of calls like this during admissions season, even from a few areas that I had applied. I'd search google frantically in the middle of class to see who it might have been (since I couldn't check voicemail, if there was one, right away). Alas, it was always some kind of marketing.
Which! it turns out, is illegal if it's a pre-recorded message going to your cell phone. I'm getting $40 in a class action law suit! Sweet justice...
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You mean January 19th? So soon? I thought it's not until at least 30th-31st.
Jan 20. I mean, things will really be blowing up at the end of the month, as you say. But based on last year's results, there seemed to be daily movement starting last year's equivalent of next Monday.
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Well, crap. That wasn't my goal at all.
Please don't be devastated, whoever you are, if this doesn't work out. If you got a call from us, it means you're a top recruit. If it doesn't lead to acceptance, it means the Graduate School doesn't give us enough slots. Seriously.
I think your earlier post made this clear, but I can imagine the nerves it could fire up (I'm not personally an OSU applicant, nor have I had an interview anywhere (yet?)). It's great at least that you're here to clarify these types of things!
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My magic crystal ball thinks this forum is going to be insane come Monday next week.
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Agreed. It's particularly depressing in light of most of the schools I applied to traditionally not saying anything 'till the end of February. How much longer do you have left in Germany?
I'm in the States for a couple weeks in March, but just under 6 months altogether to go.
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Well, that was a short lived silence!
And yes, congratulations to the MSU admit.an hour and a half in admissions time is like a year.
- ajaxp91 and silver_lining
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Congrats to MSU admit! Anyone willing to claim it?
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Hi Targy! Congratulations!!! I saw UNT isn't even finished receiving applications until today! Do you mind sharing when you had all of your information in?
They do (kind of) rolling admissions though, no?
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Thanks guys! I'm very relieved to know about at least one of my schools. I couldn't even start to think about a back up plan.
First post?
How many other schools are you waiting on? What a great way to start the season! And so early too!
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I don't like working out because it gives me too much time to think about things, which is bad because I over think and read into everything, so I just end up being more miserable than when I started.
I think this is what I'll tell my gf when she asks if I joined the gym yet.
- astreaux and silver_lining
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How do people live off of student loans??
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Look at the cost of grad housing and divide by 12 (even though you only get to live there for like 9 months, I think). How much is it a month? In most cases, you will save a lot of money by living off campus, either in a studio or by finding a roommate.
Also, be in touch with your program and financial aid soon and frequently. My girlfriend got a sweet gig at like $18 an hour for 18 hours a week at her grad school, but it was one of very few jobs like that.