JillUMASS

Is anyone by chance going to be attending this years Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo?

Good god, I'm not even applying this year (actually just about to start my MA) and this thread has made me a nervous wreck! Very enlightening though.

So I just got an iPad for my birthday. I've already spent hours in the App Store and I started to think: are there any apps the rest of you think are essential for the religion student? I already found one I like for studying Latin. There seem to be an endless amount of Bible study apps.

I've had rec writers not be totally on top of things, but I think that is one of the most selfish things I've ever heard before.

I did the same thing with my studies that you did! Nice to meet another person with my same schooling experiences. I don't know much about Princeton, but New Haven is nice. Yale is located in a city setting and the campus is breath taking, reminds me of Hogwarts lol. You could probably find some decent priced living in the towns just outside the city. I don't know much about either particular program because I didn't apply to them myself, but being in CT has major advantages. You'd be really close to get to Boston and NYC for all the academic resources that are available in those places so it would be really easy to make great connections with people. Just my thoughts on the matter. Congrats on all your excellent offers!

Is that a decent offer compared to your other offers?

So I find it funny that if you look on results page, a good portion of the people accepted to Duke will be turning them down. That's good news for anyone on their wait list, if they have one. But maybe they should consider accepting a smaller amount of people in the future so they can give more funding since that's usually what it all comes down to.

Oh wow, that's awesome!!! I'm jealous! Yeah, screw HDS!

Did HDS not offer you anything either?

I have been accepted to Duke's MA program!

I'm sorry to hear that. Still nice to be able to say that you got in though! Is anyone else offering you money?

YAY!!!

Man, is there hope for anyone?!?!?!

I got an email at 4pm to check the website...sadly I didn't get into HDS, oh well. Congrats to those who got in!

Great news on the funding! Supposedly Harvard will be sending out their decision this Friday.

Rejected from Tufts (art history). Apparently I was not meant to go for an art history masters since both schools with that degree rejected me. Oh well, still waiting to hear from Duke and HDS. At the very least, I'm happy to be sitting on a nice offer from Wake Forest.

Most likely...

Wow, that's torturous that you'd see that before a letter came through. Talk about raising the anxiety

Well no news for me today...GRRR I hate Fridays....Well, for anyone else waiting to hear from a Boston school, don't be too shocked if you don't get any word today. A good portion of the city and surrounding areas are shut down due to the 12 inches on snow we got yesterday and today. UMASS Boston decided to open late today (10am), stupid decision since a lot of other schools closed...THEN, apparently they realized that they had made a stupid decision and then preceded to close the campus at 2pm, sooo glad I decided not to go in today once they delayed opening.

I don't think it's considered either. I didn't get it in the mail, it was an email sent out. I even emailed the director to ask for some clarification because it was a bit confusing. He said they send those out first so you have a better idea of the financials before you receive your decision. I took it as a good sign because they rejected me last year and I didn't get a letter like that before hand. However, it's not a very good offer, I have one from Wake Forest that's $10,000 more. Just to clarify, it's from the grad program in arts and sciences and not the divinity school.

So I get a letter last Friday from Duke about financial information saying decisions will be ready in a couple days, it's not Thursday and still nothing. This seems a bit backwards to me...

Congrats Josh!

UGH! My stomach is in a constant knot!

MA

At Duke I applied for the MA in their religion department. Boston University was art history, as is Tufts. HDS is MTS and Wake Forest is MA in Religion.