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I can speak as a Princeton undergrad about some of the logistics of our relationship with PTS, if not how it affects doctoral work. The town is safe and quiet, but spendy and impractical. One of the main reasons I didn't apply to PTS is that I want more life in the place I attend grad school. Many PhDs at the university complain about feeling trapped on campus without so much as a basic grocery story within safe walking/biking distance. (Princeton, NJ: home of 6 different ice cream shops, but no place to buy eggs and flour.) In short, it's not a place to be young and single - but I know some people at the seminary do fine with young families here. Princeton and PTS have a pretty distant relationship, but access to a lot of each other's resources: libraries, class listings, etc. They're just so underused (at least on our end of things) as to be almost secret. I'm in the religion department and know more seminarians than most, and I couldn't give you all the details.

Mine was in the body of an email (with the header "Yald Divinity School Office of Financial Aid" haha). There's no info about funding on my application page.

Thanks for the sympathies, but I'm in no condition to complain: 100%+stipend from Chicago, 100% from UTS, and admission to YDS's Institute for Sacred Music (100%+small stipend) with info about non-ISM aid coming tomorrow. Harvard's just helped make my choice easier.

I just learned that HDS isn't offering me any sort of scholarship, so it's off the list. Fingers crossed that everyone else on here who received an email got more exciting news than that!

Yeah, Union. I've seen it commonly referred to as UTS to distinguish it from other Unions (e.g. Union Presbyterian Seminary). My impression is that the YDS applicants, or at least the MDivs, are supposed to hear back about aid by Friday. Best of luck! Yale's response will also help me determine how seriously I'm considering Union.

Accepted to Harvard MDiv! Hooray! ...but with no information about aid of any sort. Hmm. (Edit: oh hey, it's coming tomorrow. That's what I get for not reading the whole email.) (Also, was anyone else accepted to UTS? I haven't seen any discussion of it on this thread/board.)

YDS no longer requires GRE scores from their masters applicants, so no worries there.

Accepted to UChicago MDiv with 100% tuition+stipend (ahhhhh). It's going to be darn hard for any of my other prospects to top that! I know I'm accepted to YDS and am waiting for aid info like everyone else. I recently received a phonecall from their Institute for Sacred Music encouraging me to apply there as well. Has that happened to anyone else? I don't recall indicating any special interest in music in my application. Does anyone know more about the ISM and why the admissions committee thinks I should apply there - aside from the fact that they offer their students intense funding?

Yeah, it was all in the same phonecall. Best of luck to you!

Hi all (hey, first post), I was accepted to the MDiv with 50% merit aid yesterday. I was very excited for about 30 mins...until I opened my email to see an even better offer from UChicago's MDiv. I need to take a few days to mull over their very different programs, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to need to turn Duke down. Hopefully that'll give my place and the money to someone who's a better fit for their theological program!