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At this point, I would just send a thank you email.

Thanks, everyone for your responses. It's slowly becoming more of a reality and I will be speaking with my current mentor tomorrow about the offer. Hopefully she has encouraging words to say!

Hello All, I received acceptance to my very top, dream program. It's a JD/PhD program. Right now I have a generous scholarship to the law school, but if I retake the LSAT and score 2 points higher I'll have a full ride. On the PhD end, the program is fully funded for all 6 years plus my internship year with a guaranteed stipend for at least $13,000, and I've been nominated for "several fellowships" that will boost my stipend. I've also been told there are numerous earning opportunities as I go through the program such as working on grant funded projects, etc. The graduate school will also pay for my insurance premium all 7 years. This is my dream program - but I'm hesitating to press send. I'm worried about the financial aspect because I will have to take out loans for rent and such, and I do have some undergrad debt I'll be carrying with me. I should also say the PhD is in clinical psychology. What do you guys think? Should I just press the acceptance send key?

Thanks for the replies, guys. Unfortunately the weather now might impede on the interview weekend, but hoping it all goes well... I am staying with a graduate student under my POIs the night before the interview, and will be attending the social event the grad student are hosting. I would hope that they would understand that compounding with a 10 hour bus ride and a very important project meeting the next day that I will need to leave.

I'd just like to chime in here. I spent a lot of time ruminating over my mistakes (I'm applying to joint programs so law school and grad school) and the law school applications are seemingly much more cut throat. I applied to a law school and actually wrote the wrong law school name in my personal statement. Usually that's a kiss of death, but I got accepted with a generous scholarship. It's important to know when something is "good enough" and not perfect and to just press the send key and don't look back.

This, 100%. Only difference is I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and during school I was swamped with extracurriculars, research jobs, and my honors thesis. However, I still found myself pressed for time with another year. The work experience though, is extremely helpful and helped me realize that I really love school and want to dedicate the insane amount of years it takes to get a PhD. Student loan repayments suck, but it's helped with money management which is something that will be needed when going through graduate school. Luckily, I found a job in academia so they are very supportive of me having interviews and working on applications. Another interesting part of taking a year off: I thought I'd settle into the working world and wouldn't want to get out of that comfort zone. However, in my research job I find that working with these populations I have a LOT of questions of my own and get frsutrated that I can't do that much with my bachelor's degree. So in a weird twist, it has motivated me to go back that much more because I realize just how much I need PhD to really do the research I want to do. It's pretty reassuring to have that happen, as it solidifies the decision to go back. But this poster above lays out the pros/cons really well.

My Quant score was pretty on-par with my practice exams, however I scored 10 points higher on the Verbal than I had been during practice. I used the Princeton Review. I would have retaken because my Quant score was low, but the chances I would do so surprisingly well on the Verbal convinced me not to retake. I guess I stepped it up a bit on test day?? Who knows.