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Did the person you know get rejected this year (for '08 admission), or was he a previous applicant?

I'm not familiar with the first year waitlist thing. If they are doing a waitlist for the first time, I assume that would mean less people accepted outright (and thus an increased waiting time for more people) while they wait to find out what the outright accepted people do.

I think the rejections are sent in a few weeks.

Two things: 1) Any chance this thread could be moved to the Government Affairs subforum? 2) Perhaps the Clinton/Obama debate at the UT campus (which I think is being organized by the LBJ school) is delaying LBJ admission decisions?

It definitely sounds like a waitlist notice, especially the bottom half. That can't be a straight rejection.

I've only visited and can't answer part of your question. The city's beautiful, espcially around UBC, even in March. It's expensive, but probably no more so than similar-sized cities. If you're American, the weakening dollar might hurt you. The people seemed friendly and I was amazed at the cultural diversity downtown.

Crazy -- I wouldn't worry about your gpa. If it was freshman year and more than a couple years ago then I doubt an adcom would care that much. At worst it may be a fifth or sixth tiebreaker... even that's unlikely. Your military experience and high upperclassmen gpa is impressive. They want to see improvement. To answer your question from the appications thread, I've got about a 3.5 or 3.6 after my freshman year.

I wasn't able to make it up there for one of the visitation days -- I had to schedule a class visit, informative appointment, etc. on my own. 1400 is way above average... 1140 isn't bad. I got 1200 and am much more worried about my GPA (3.03/4). I thought about international affairs and global policy but instead focused on urban and state because it's closer to my work experience. Although from what I hear, LBJ isn't that focused on concentrations and you can pretty much pick and choose what to study within the school. And I hope you're right about the competition...

Perhaps the following is the result of having too much time on my hands. According to Yuster, the first accept e-mails were sent Feb. 20 (a Tuesday) in 2007 and Feb. 13 (a Monday) in 2006. Assuming they're on the same basic timeline for notifying admits, the first e-mails have to be sent out this week. I think crazydave has it right suggesting Tuesday. Also, it seems like they notify others as late as mid-march (waitlisted?), so I think there's hope beyond that first round.

I sat in on a class and met with one of the administrative assistants. I thought it was cool how close-knit everyone in the program seems to be.

Again, I think they send e-mails, which hopefully will be soon. I don't think they have a rolling admissions for the regular MPA program... I think the only requirement is to meet the Jan. 15 deadline.

It has to be e-mail notifications (at least I hope). I don't know why they'd do e-mail the past few years and then switch over to exclusively postal service. I think I'm in the same boat as you. I had a bad first year undergrad because of electrical engineering. I've got two years professional work experience in journalism and two internships. My verbal GRE is a plus, I think my analytical is a slight minus. Considering they have an approximate 50 percent admit rate, I think you're selling yourself a little short on your chances. I'm counting on a ton of people applying with horrible stats, no letters, etc. Wishful thinking I guess.

Sorry to crosspost. Regarding UT MPA, they send out e-mail notification, which in previous years has happened right about now. May have another week to go...

I applied for the MPA program and haven't heard anything. Looking around at results pages online from previous years, they seem to send out e-mails for the first admits beginning in mid-February. In 2007 they sent out the e-mails about Feb. 20. In 2006 it was Feb. 13.