blanciblau

Thank you! My acceptance letter states, "If you do decide before [4/15] that you will not be joining us at Penn, we would appreciate it if you could please inform us as soon as possible. We have a few admits who are on a waiting list for funding allocations, and we cannot complete their offers until we have clarity on our overall enrollment numbers." It sounds like the committee has a list of students that they are hoping to admit, but that they don't have funding for. It's very possible that they are withholding those notifications until a later date, when they have a better idea of who from the "first wave" will be committing. I will most likely be declining Penn, as I've also been accepted to a better fit program and offered extremely generous funding. I am going to be withholding my final decision until after visit days, but I will let them know as soon as possible should I commit elsewhere!

I was admitted to Penn -- received an email from their grad chair a few days ago.

Were you contacted for an interview? Who would we be speaking with?

MaxWeber, would you mind me asking which fellowship the graduate coordinator mentioned? I've also been accepted to UCLA, and I want to try looking more closely at what fellowships they might offer (I'm not that optimistic about how funding will work out, at least from what I've heard in the past). I remember indicating one of the fellowships on my application, but I haven't heard anything back. Also, if anyone wants to message me about UCLA, feel free!