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In all honesty, I had originally planned to take a year off anyway (between MTS and PHD). I just decided to change my mind last second (well, I decided in August to give it a shot) and simply apply to my number one choice in order to see what would happen (religious pluralism is a lot of what I've based my entire MTS degree off of, I worked for the Pluralism Project, etc.). It was an almost perfect program, back home, and the like, so I figured I'd try.
 
It's all good. I'll just revamp my GRE studying (I'm sure a lot of my rejection had to do with my scores... they are abysmal), get married (NOW I HAVE TONS OF TIME TO PLAN FOR MY WEDDING! YAY!!!), study the crap out of Arabic, and go with my original list of 5 or so schools.

So, that's why professors were acting odd. In at HDS.
 
Edit: I'm Religion and Society and a masters student there currently. 

So, that's why professors were acting odd. In at HDS.
 
Edit: I'm Religion and Society and a masters student there currently. 

So, that's why professors were acting odd. In at HDS.
 
Edit: I'm Religion and Society and a masters student there currently. 

So, that's why professors were acting odd. In at HDS.
 
Edit: I'm Religion and Society and a masters student there currently. 

So, that's why professors were acting odd. In at HDS.
 
Edit: I'm Religion and Society and a masters student there currently. 

Congrats to the new admits to TST. I graduated from the PhD program this fall, under the old rules of having to graduate from St Mikes, even if you weren't registered there. I was registered at Trinity, but took classes throughout TST and had comps and thesis examiners at other colleges. Toronto is a great environment to study and live. Each college is different in terms of how it handles financial aid. Emmanuel has a $20k fellowship (or maybe more than one) that I believe is used to cover tuition, fees, and living costs. Wycliffe has at least one "fully-funded" scholarship that stays with the student for 4 or 5 years. Trinity offers a combination of fellowships and bursaries. Because of the complicated admissions process--to TST, department, and college--admissions are offered without consideration of funding.Then, the colleges make separate financial aid offers, often need-based or after a separate application. It's different from the US system because the tuition is so low, particularly for Canadians, who are encouraged to apply for federal and provincial grants. For Americans and others the fees are twice as high, so the fellowships don't go nearly as far, but sometimes the colleges are more generous as a result. I'm American and Trinity was (relatively speaking) very generous to me, always covering my tuition and fees, plus some living expenses. But nothing like some of the better-funded US grad programs. And every year was different. That was honestly the most stressful thing about the program, especially in the first couple years. However, the extraordinary environment made it well worth it, and in my day the fees dropped precipitously after the first two years. Now, they stay the same all years. I'd add, though, that the new conjoint PhD as designed is much less onerous in terms of requirements (fewer courses, comps, and languages), so completing in a timelier fashion should be far more possible.  

I was just accepted to Wycliffe in Toronto. It says finances are given by the individual colleges in one of the PDFs they sent. I guess we will have to wait and see on those.
 
After getting rejected to every school last year and to one this year it feels so good to finally get in!!

Harvard Committee on the Study of Religion decisions are being made on Thursday, no one has been officially (or unofficially) admitted to the PhD program yet.

In at Baylor. Church History.

In at Baylor. Church History.

In at Baylor. Church History.

In at Baylor. Church History.

In at Baylor. Church History.

Just wanted to throw this out ya'll - if you you applied to a ton of Mdiv programs ( as I did), be sure to negotiate a little. In some cases the top places are very amenable to matching offers from candidates they really want.
 
Blessings and peace as you apply, and feel free to PM me if you want any help thinking that part through. 

Don't lie.

Pigs will descend from the sky before anyone's funding is worse than GTU's.

Take your mind off the agony by picking up one of these books:
 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aag/main/ref=olp_merch_name_1?ie=UTF8&asin=9004234764&isAmazonFulfilled=0&seller=ANWWW1OM2PADZ

Haha, my bad. The "results search" tab on this website. Then, just search "religio*" in the search function. Two people have posted that they are in. 

Yes; who's so ready to hear back that you don't really even care what the results are anymore?

My understanding is there's no wait list at UNC, and that once the offer's out, it's out. 

The HB one was me.