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For those interested in joining the Facebook group: - if you have already sent your contact info to satellite2014, she has sent you a friend request on FB. Please 'accept' her invitation, and she'll add you to the group. - if you haven't yet sent in your details, please either DM me with your email address (not FB name) *or* please find the group "NPSIA 2016" on Facebook and send a request to be added (note: if you're going with the latter option, maybe just include a few words to tell me that you know about the group from the forum... While I don't think there will be a rush of people from the interweb trying to join the group, it would probably be helpful to keep it to those who have been accepted to NPSIA for this fall. The group is only 'closed' not 'secret', so anyone doing a search for NPSIA should be able to find it.) Thanks! See you on there.

Yup. Should we DM you our contact info?

So I was offered a CGS-M for the school I'm not planning on attending, and have not even made the waitlist for the school I AM planning to attend. (The latter was my first choice of program, and also offered more funding in the way of entrance scholarships...) What do people do in this case? Can you try to negotiate for more funding at the school that didn't offer you SSHRC if your application was good enough to receive it somewhere else? Ugh. I feel like a true April fool.

Did anyone apply for a CGS-M?

Question: has anyone rejected any offers yet? I'm just wondering how Munk, NPSIA, or GPSIA respond (if at all) when you decline an offer.

@strombone1: Thank you so much for this. It's certainly the strongest case for Munk that I've heard on any of these forums. What I take away from your argument, and from my own research, is that Munk is an excellent choice for someone interested in anything in the field of international affairs other than being a civil servant/diplomat/foreign service officer. Particularly with the Citizen Lab and some of the faculty, it seems like it may be the more innovative and exciting option. Personally speaking, I've been trying to get into DFATD since their last recruiting campaign was held in 2011 (though I'm not sure if they ever used any of those candidates because of the job action, collapse of CIDA, etc.) While I may very well be delusional for thinking this is a possibility (this is exactly what the NPSIA blogger said about anyone trying to get into the Foreign Service, in the post that @GabrielleBishop linked to), it's still my first choice. I'm thinking that NPSIA is my best/only/last option for trying to get in, even though I know I'll have to compete for a co-op position there. Also, I really do think that Ottawa can be like a small town in some ways and, though you note that the "Ottawa advantage" is being overemphasized, I can't help but feel that moving yourself there and making contacts, networking - even just meeting friends of friends - may help in some ways that can't be discounted. My thinking is: do an MA at NPSIA, do everything in my power to get into DFATD, and then - if I still don't get in - accept that the universe has made it abundantly clear that it is simply NOT going to happen for me. lol Will you be going to Munk in Fall 2014?

Congrats, @grog01! Munk and NPSIA are the only two schools I applied to, and I was also accepted to both. I'd be interested to hear what points you have in Munk's favour as you try to make your decision. Since this forum has mostly been about NPSIA (with a side of GPSIA) and what the advantages are in terms of getting placed with the govt for co-ops, National Capital Region, networks, social aspects, etc., I haven't heard too much about Munk but am very interested to hear what more of the positives are.

I also finally (!) received my offer this morning. Like @satellite, it also took 9 days, and my status also went back down to "Review in progress", then to "Review in Progress by FGPA" on Friday afternoon, and finally today I got an email telling me to check my status again, where it indicated that I had been accepted. I suppose in the grand scheme of things, 9 days is pretty quick, it just reallly doesn't feel like it when you're in the middle of it! : )) I guess the next thing to look out for - in terms of funding - is SSHRC and OGS (for those who applied) and any in-program funding options during the fall term. Thanks for the support and information!

@marika (and everyone else who has been talking about funding here), apparently there are more funding opportunities in-program,from both NPSIA and Carleton. These are ones where you get into financial need, etc. So there's still some funding to hopefully look forward to!

Is anyone else still waiting for the official offer? I'm an "S" (for my last name and 'S'tress.)

Well, I guess this just confirms what I learned in elementary school. It kinda sucks to have a last name that starts with a letter close to the end of the alphabet. lol

Is anyone still "Recommended for Assessment" in Carleton Central? I've come to really dislike those few words over the last month... lol

Can I also ask - was this divided up over two years? Or is this funding for your first year?

@Gabrielle, thank you for providing such a thorough response!! Wow. Just.... wow. I now no longer wonder what kind of funding I might be getting, but how I got into the program at all! lol It'll be great to meet everyone in September and put faces to the names.

Oh geez, there goes that theory... lol