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I just need to vent a little bit/inquire if anyone else experienced the same situation. I got into my 2nd choice school early on and was waiting on my first choice's decision before letting my 2nd choice know if I was attending or not. My acceptance in no way mentioned that the timing of you accepting their offer would influence if you got an assistantship or not. So...naturally I waited about 3 weeks right up to the deadline before letting 2nd choice school know that I will be attending because my first choice waitlisted me. The next day I get an email from 2nd choice school sent that I wasn't selected because assistantships are first come first serve. I just feel like I would have greatly appreciated knowing this info back when I got accepted...that would have GREATLY influenced my school decision because an assistantship was really important to me and the assistantship opportunities at my 2nd choice were what made me excited about the school in the first place. I'm just really bummed now. I mean I know I'm not entitled to an assistantship or anything but if all it took was being one of the first to respond, that makes me a little perturbed. Just means more loans for me to take out and more debt. I don't know...I figured assistantships were more based on merit but perhaps I was foolish in thinking this or at least if they were based on first come first served, the school would at least told me that in advance. Anybody else experience this? Just feeling a little annoyed. Rawr. I am very appreciative of at least having offers though, don't get me wrong.

Yaaay! Congrats!!

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On craigslist, I always go into the apts/housing link and type specifically 'house' in the search so only houses come up..that might help! When I was looking for places that's what I did to find houses instead of apartment complexes. If you're ever in the area, another great way is just riding by the area and looking for 'for rent' signs because they're everywhere. Hope that helps somewhat.

No problem! People in the south are generally very nice, especially in smaller towns outside NC where everyone knows your name, hehe. I'm not too familiar with the communication area in particular, but I do know that the Raleigh area is a booming place for jobs..it's always ranked very high up on places to work/live/be happy so I'm sure that the media world is included and you would be able to find plentiful opportunities here. Sociology is a whole different story since the liberal arts don't hold too many opportunities with just a BA...but you can certainly find something (though you won't be in the Bachelor's boat since you're going for grad school obviously). If you mean graduate majors from sociology, there are plenty of job opportunities in the research field with companies around the area. So in general...I wouldn't rely on my expertise in the specific field you're in, but as a rule of thumb Raleigh is pretty good for having job opportunities available to graduates I hope that helps somewhat! If anything you'll love living here if you've never been somewhere like here before!

I went to NCSU for my undergrad. Anything you want to know I can help you with! I enjoyed my time there, NCSU is a good school with great professors. It is a huge school though so it is easy to get lost in the mix of all the students. I'm not entirely familiar with the communications department, but did take one class in it and loved the professor. NCSU is broken into 'schools' and communication was in the same school as sociology (my undergrad major) which is called CHASS (college of humanities and social sciences). I really enjoyed my professors and the university but like I said, atmosphere wise, you need to be comfortable being in a huge university in a bity city. If that's for you, then NCSU is perfect. Definitely not the small liberal arts type school though...definitely math/science/technology oriented. As for Raleigh, it really is an awesome place to live. I've lived in NC my whole life and I'm partial but if you're not from the US, NC is a great place to be. Raleigh is smack in the middle of nearly everything you could ever want and NCSU is a convenient drive to nearby cities such as Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, Durham, Apex, Cary, etc. My brother in law has a post on all of the food/outings/places to live in the 'city guide' section, his username is Gadheyln or something like that. His post was geared towards UNC Chapel Hill though, but I definitely know of all the good areas to live near NCSU if you do decide to go there. Any other info you would like, just ask, or PM me, I've seriously grown up in this area all my life and spent the past five years living five minutes from NCSU.

Anyone else applied to Wake Forest's masters program in counseling? I figure this is a long shot since most people on here are phds..but I did see someone else had posted an interview invite on the results page right before mine. If you're still on this forum have you heard anything??

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If you do get in *which I surely hope you do!!* and you want any info on the school or the dept just let me know, I got my undergrad in soc from NCSU so I know most of the professors and the ins and outs of the area/best teachers/etc.

I should also note, yes it was the phd program in sociology...my interests changed to education in case I was confusing. I just went back in the results because I posted it last year, it was February 9th, to be exact. Good luck!

I got into this program last year, I got my acceptance late Jan/early Feb by email.

I'm about to go to work...boo. At least it's somewhat of a distraction.

Last year I got into my undergrad institution's graduate program if that helps...

I would just wait I think it looks better to be patient and wait for the formal notification...last year I got too anxious and ended up regretting asking too many questions of my points of contacts that I think I annoyed them. Best to wait it out, even though I know it's painful!

Thanks far_to_go....I've been practicing speaking out loud and definitely keeping the voice low has seemed to help instead of seeming 'overly excited' which makes me more nervous.