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I received an offer of funding from The University of Tennessee today. I declined that offer, and I have decided to attend UC Santa Cruz. 

I received an offer of funding from The University of Tennessee today. I declined that offer, and I have decided to attend UC Santa Cruz. 

I received an offer of funding from The University of Tennessee today. I declined that offer, and I have decided to attend UC Santa Cruz. 

I'm just here to scream into a virtual pillow:
I hate these unfunded master's offers. I recently got an email that stated there was very little chance for even university funding on my behalf because they treated master's students like "paying customers." This was from a highly ranked and very prestigious program. I'm a poor guy from a indigent family, and it just feels like I'm being exploited. One of my primary motivators -- freedom from poverty, is being dangled in front of my face with the catch that I must endure greater poverty to achieve it. Something that just wouldn't be the case were I from a higher class. If I was from a higher background, the headline for me would be "Boy gets into great school and loves it" not "Poor douche bag gets poorer trying to claw his way out of the grave." It just sucks. However, one of the main parts that sucks is that if I was truly a great student, I'd have more funded offers from better or equivalently good places, and so ultimately it's my own stupidity I have to blame. Which also sucks, especially since I know I slacked off at times (like all the times) mostly because I didn't understand how competitive I was suppose to be until the end of my undergraduate career, and I didn't appropriately study for the GRE. I feel like I'm so close to something yet so far away, and my dreams are being used to extort money from me, which seems egregious since I'm already at the bottom of the totem pole. (Why can't they pick on people their own size? Lol). Couple this with the fact that even if I had the money, I'd have to deal with trying to impress the faculty for attention when they have better qualified and funded PhD students in front of them jut makes the situation harsh and unpleasant. 
I do have a funded offer elsewhere, and am wait listed for funding at some places, to which I am very grateful and happy. However, the place that sent the message is quite a bit more prestigious and has a better placement record, to which they know, and which is why they can be charging these exorbitant prices in the first place.
Anyway, everyone carry on now, just had to ragesadblog a bit.

10 points to Gryffindor!! 

I think you need to screenshot your offers from Brown, MIT,  Yale and NYU and send them directly to the DGS at Harvard  

Accepted to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, but wait-listed for funding (so….wait-listed?). 

hi everyone, i am new here. i can claim one of the villanova interviews. the e-mail was personalized. mm.. i'm not sure what else to say! good luck to everyone. 

My thread. My beautiful thread...

Accepted, with funding, to UC Santa Cruz yesterday. What a relief to know that I'm going to continue studying philosophy for the next 5 or so years. 

Accepted, with funding, to UC Santa Cruz yesterday. What a relief to know that I'm going to continue studying philosophy for the next 5 or so years. 

Accepted, with funding, to UC Santa Cruz yesterday. What a relief to know that I'm going to continue studying philosophy for the next 5 or so years. 

Accepted, with funding, to UC Santa Cruz yesterday. What a relief to know that I'm going to continue studying philosophy for the next 5 or so years. 

Plot twist: you then roll up your sleeve and reveal a tattoo that reads "1. The world is all that is the case. 1.1 The world is the totality of facts not things ..."

Accepted off the wait-list at Indiana for their History and Philosophy of Science program. 

Wait-listed at the University of Georgia. 

Wait-listed at the University of Georgia. 

Wait-listed at the University of Georgia. 

There've been a lot of rejections posted today. Stay positive everyone! 

Wait-listed at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville today. 

There we go.
 
I just got accepted to Texas Tech for their MA, with TAship, tuition waiver and stipend.

And so it ends...
 
With the Rice acceptance posted today, I'm now 99% percent sure I've been shut out.  Official rejections from 9/15 schools, strongly inferred rejection from 4/15, and weakly inferred rejection from 2/15 (they haven't sent out waitlists yet).
 
Unlike many, I have a pretty good idea what has kept me out (just look at my stats).  It is frustrating beyond words to have dedicated the last three years of my life to philosophy, earning A's in almost 20 philosophy classes at both the undergrad and graduate level, and picking up two additional degrees in the process, not to mention TAing and running my own intro sections, and knowing that to admissions committees none of that is as important as having blown off a handful of non-philosophy classes almost a decade ago.  

Accepted to Rice!  

Every time I see that you've posted in this thread I think "man, I hope he/she got in somewhere" (that goes for a lot of you folks!).