bluemuffinfairy

I'd defer to the school's website/application. The one I applied to was pretty specific about how they wanted things presented and what they wanted me to talk about in my letter. You might need to contact the department if they do not give specifics, like word-length for a statement or number of pages for a CV. Good luck!

You might want to try contacting the school's financial aid office. Even if they can't do straight-up funding they might be able to tell you how to apply for work-study/assistantships. Hope that helps!

Thanks so much for the response! I was worried it might seem pushy if I tried to talk myself into a regular admittance, and I didn't want to offend them since I'm rather grateful they took me in the first place. Luckily my current part-time job is flexible enough that I should be able to go to school and work, which will minimize the amount of aid I need. Then I can try again for an assistant position next year. Thank you again! And good luck to you too!

I was accepted into my 2nd choice grad school for an MA in English Lit program on Conditional Admittance (rejected from 1st, but oh well). All I need to do to make it Regular Admittance is get a 3.0 or better in one of the required English classes. I don't feel like that will be a problem, as my goal is to eventually work towards a PhD and if I can't get a 3.0 or better I'm pretty sure that will kill my chances of getting into a PhD later. The issue, though, is I had applied for Graduate Assistant positions, but as a Conditional Admit I'm now ineligible for those. In anyone's experience, is it an option, and a wise one at that, to contact someone in the admissions department and see if I can be admitted under Regular admission to remain eligible for an assistantship? On one hand, if they didn't feel strongly enough about me to give me regular admission in the first place, they might not have granted me an assistantship anyway. On the other, I felt like I was a strong candidate for the assistantship because I had spent almost two years working as a teacher's aide for a professor in undergrad who wrote an excellent letter for my application, which I thought would be strongly in my favor. What are your thoughts? Also, I did get regular admittance to my 3rd choice school, but that is also no funding, and it's more expensive per credit hour. So I'm thinking the 2nd choice on Conditional is better than Regular to the 3rd choice, but am I totally wrong in that?