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    Rochester, NY
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    2013 Fall
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    I/O Psychology

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  1. So, I applied to 7 schools for MA/MS programs. Accepted to 5 of them, wait-listed to the other 2. The problem comes in here. I always had 3 schools at the top of my list. I'm just going to go ahead and list the schools because it's easier than "school A" etc. My top choice, Minnesota State University Mankato, and then two that were tied for "not my absolute 100% dream school, but fantastic program that I would be very happy in", University of Akron and St. Cloud State University. St. Cloud accepted me outright. I've had great communication with professors and current students at this school. I think I would do absolutely great there. I have applied for a GA which would be 6 credits of classes covered, $5,000 stipend, and in-state tuition for the rest of my credits. This is not *guaranteed*, and I have no idea when they're making those decisions (I'm afraid of pestering/being obnoxious). There are 10 students a year in-coming and 6 GAs, so I have a 60% chance of getting an interdepartmental GA. If I don't get one of those, I can apply to GAs in other departments. Not ideal, but not the end of the world. Mankato has been obscenely frustrating for me. I have had absolutely no communication from Mankato, and I have tried. I have sent 3 emails over the past 2 months, and have gotten absolutely zero response. I finally called the department to figure out if I'd been wait-listed or just rejected and spoke with the secretary (who was an absolute peach) who apologized profusely for the lack of communication and told me that every year students have this problem and just can't get anyone to answer their questions. She did confirm that I have been wait-listed, but she has no way of knowing where I am on the wait-list or anything regarding funding. She told me that she would personally go down to the professor I've been trying to contact and ask her to please respond to me. This was Monday, and I heard nothing all week. This leaves me incredibly disheartened and frankly pissed off that she can't take 30 fucking seconds to reply to me. It leaves an extremely sour taste in my mouth about the program in general. Akron is nearly as frustrating. Their financial aid package is tuition remission, no stipend. Still great news. I've been in contact with the director of the program. She first contacted me to chat about my expectations of the program, and we chatted, and she told me she anticipated extending an offer within the next week. The week came and went. A week after that I emailed her and asked her for an update, and she got back to me three days later telling me I've been wait-listed (probably shouldn't have implied that I should expect an invitation, but whatever I'm over that), and she would definitely get back to me early next week after she talked to some people about if they'd be enrolling or not. This was a week and a half ago, and I've still heard nothing. Again this inconsistency and inconsideration has me not feeling great. My gut tells me to forget the other two and accept at St. Cloud, but I can't help wondering- what if I get a call on Monday saying I've been accepted to Mankato with a fantastic financial aid package? What if I enroll at St. Cloud and don't get any sort of GA and get stuck paying everything out of pocket? What if St. Cloud is waiting to decide who gets GAs based on who accepts? I'm just incredibly overwhelmed and frustrated and would really, really appreciate any feedback any of you wonderful people could give me. TLDR: Three schools, one acceptance with *possible* GA, not sure whether to wait or just go ahead and enroll. Help please.
  2. Thank you so much! I'm honestly not too bummed out about the other two (mostly just because if I let myself, I will wallow in irritation and self-doubt =P), and I'm just focused on making it through the next few months. I can't WAIT to start my program. Best of luck to you in your decision, mate!!
  3. I can assure you that if the emails were the only factor in my decision, I would not be nearly as concerned with it. The program who has been (and continues to be) incredibly helpful and friendly is well-ranked, well-regarded in industry, consistently publishes high-quality papers, and is giving me significantly more money than both programs who have ignored me.
  4. I've been accepted to 6/7 schools I applied to. Of my top three choices, two completely ignored my emails asking for some more, informal questions I had about the program and my request for some current-student contacts. The third school answered every single damn one of my emails within a few hours, and seemed genuinely interested in helping me out on my decision as well as providing me with 9(!) students who said they would love to talk to me about anything regarding their experiences. One of the two ignorers is the top-ranked program in the nation, but I'm going to the friendly school because I place a very high value on a collaborative/cooperative climate, and I just wasn't getting that from the other schools.
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