TheCheat_IsMyHero

I have decided to accept my offer from University of Minnesota.      After giving it considerable thought, it really was my first choice and there was no other offer I could have gotten that would have made me change my mind. 
 
I've let Michigan State, Akron, and Penn State know to take me off their waitlists, so if anyone else is on those waitlists, they just got a little bit shorter!

Penn State here!  Congrats on deciding.  I know for me, it was great to finally clear away some of the question marks hanging over the future...

No need for that here. You could have explained that in a different way. Now it just seems like u mad...

He is in the business school at FIU and has ZERO affiliation with the I/O psych department. Maybe you should get your facts straight before you start spreading rumors about things you know nothing about.

Is there money involved?
 
I go to Columbia and the School of Continuing Ed is just the administrative house of the bioethics program.  The professors are all from other units at Columbia (med school, Mailman, law school, nursing, SIPA, so on and so forth).  The enrollment in your core courses is likely to be mixed - mostly bioethics students but also students from other biomedical sciences and possibly the med school, and also some advanced undergrads since they're listed at the 4000-level.  So basically the fact that it's in SCE doesn't affect it at all.
 
On the other hand, though, don't get starstruck by the Columbia name.  NYU is also a very well-respected school and you need to go somewhere that will support what you want.  The bioethics program here is very much medical, and more administered by professors in applied/professional units and a lot of professors from the medical center campus.  Only one of the full-time faculty members associated with the program are philosophers.  If you want a more philosophy-based bioethics program you may want to go to NYU (although you could certainly take relevant courses in philosophy as a bioethics student at Columbia).  NYU also has some more buy-in, it seems, from professors from more traditional departments like psychology and anthropology.
 
Also, you may want to ask what placement is like from these programs, depending on what you want to do.

"Dear Sally,

I am unable to personally fund (though loans or otherwise) a doctoral program. I thank you for the offer, however I will have to decline your offer of admission."

The same way the universities phrase their rejection letters: be vague, impersonal, and feign gratitude and respect.

I too got the CSU rejection. BUT, also just got an FIT acceptance.

Anyone heard from Colorado State?
 
I saw someone was offered a flew-in interview last week, and another person was rejected today. I haven't heard anything from them so I called the department. They told me there's no interview or open house so far. 
 
Can anyone tell me if you have any news from Colorado State, Virginia Tech, or University of Connecticut?

Thanks Bren, Tanner, and Swkmjjj!
 
I am still holding out to hear back from the rest of the schools I applied to (10 more), but I do like the sound of the direction that they intend on taking the program. To answer your question swkmjjj, after following up with a few schools last year I was told that my GREV score was what was really holding me back. After retaking the GRE, my verbal score stayed the same but my quant score went up. Honestly, I think a lot of it just depends on the program and in some cases just the professors within that school. I know at Wayne State you have to have a minimum of 5 faculty votes to receive an offer. Some of the faculty will look at the GRE first and others will look at the entire application. Personally, I don't think the GRE tells the whole story of my ability to succeed at the doctoral level but oh well.

Interviewed/received an offer from Roosevelt today

Got accepted to Saint Louis University this past Tuesday!
 
Anybody hear anything about Colorado State or Rice yet? 

The latest drinking game:  read over your personal statements and take a drink every time you read the word "interest" (in any form) or "research".

Are you sure that's not a euphemism for something worse?

People keep telling me, "You'll get in somewhere."

For some reason that just makes me more frustrated and doesn't comfort me at all.

So since I have no time to make a video about this. Plus there like a million videos about what "people say" on YouTube. Care to share what people have been saying to you? Just for humor folks