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Most of the MS places I applied followed the April 15th deadline for both and quoted the DGS agreement.

Google knows about the Bobs... Seriously though, as stated in the post you quoted... I'm bashing someone who chose a major with low financial prospects and thinks if it was a waste of time and money for them then it will be a waste of time and money for me. If someone tells me I'll never pay off my debt and my time is better spent continuing to work yet they aren't in my field or a similar one (where I will at least double my current salary when I leave school) and they are in a field that perhaps isn't paid well (like Bob Studies) I will dismiss their assumption that my choice of grad school is the wrong one. Yes for some majors 50,000 is a lot of debt to accrue and difficult to pay off once you graduate, but for others it just means the M3/C63AMG/etc comes to the garage a little later. So a Bob major has good advice for other Bob majors, but not for others. I had a boss that questioned me for not working on a weekend because I was spending time with my dad before he was deployed again. It is better just to take care of you and your family and whatever happens happens. You know what the right thing to do is.

As I would expect from programs that understand your potential to do well in research and grad school is not tied to your ability to do geometry on a timed test in a small room with sticky keyboards.

I can see GRE mattering on judging new admit vs new admit funding, but once you are there for a few years if they are still looking at standardized test scores and not the actual work you've done at the university, with your professors, etc... I don't know about that decision... I feel bad for the guy who has 30 publications and a nobel prize but can't get funding because he has a 60% quant...

Unless you remain at the same university where you can get 2 years off.

Maybe not intelligence but when someone is talking about the merits of spending money on an education and says it is a waste of time and money I always consider their major. Yes your degree in general studies or a study of the people named Bob between 1502-1503 AD is a waste of time and money, it doesn't make STEM the same.

I will probably still apply to multiple schools for PhD after my MS (in case funding issues, etc might make me want to move on to a new place) but will also be petitioning to continue on to PhD at the same school I do my MS at and will have it as my number 1 choice for a few reasons... 1. I'll know my adviser already, know how we work together, and know that they like me enough to want to spend another 3 years with me (you need their recommendation to continue). This could lead to getting RA/TA easier than some external candidate since you will have relationships with several professors already. 2. I'll know the work I'm doing, that might have to change at another school (while staying might let me just continue on in the same problem). This could be a good thing for leaving though, if you wanted a change. But I don't see doing a thesis for 1 year burning me out on a certain topic. 3. When looking at professors at different schools that would be great to work at (profess at?), a lot had either direct PhDs from BS, or MS and PhD from the same school. So if tenured professors are doing it, it must be a good idea. 4. As isilya mentioned, coursework. NCSU in particular allows you to use up to 36 credit hours of work toward your PhD if you just got your MS there. If you are from a different MS? Only half that. 4 semesters of work done rather than just 2 so you can quickly move in your PhD is a good advantage.

Strange, usually if you need prereqs you get a conditional admit on the condition you complete your prereqs by the end of the first year. Or even better, schools like NCSU have prereqs for graduate study but it isn't like you need 10/10. They just look at your experience and if you cover most of it (say 8/10), it is good enough for admission. But to deny someone outright when they could just take the prereqs their first semester? Maybe because it is Distance Education and not on campus? I only had one school that said I needed to take any prereq classes (as mentioned, by the end of the first year), but I quickly said no to that offer since 1. I already took similar classes during my BS, and 2. Higher ranked schools already accepted me without conditions.

I have a messenger bag that I used for a flight bag while getting my PPL that I will probably use. With only a maximum of 3 courses per semester + laptop, I doubt I will have too much to carry to make it uncomfortable to do so. As far as you saying a backpack is "less snatchable". Where are you going that requires planning to be mugged?

Most schools I've looked at just require your adviser say yes to continuing on with some needing a recommendation to do so from your committee. It isn't the same as the external process of letters + scores + gpas. If your adviser is wanting you to do it, go talk to her. She knows the process.

Is your husband not signing the lease? Weird when there are lots of single income families in apartments.

To be fair, I don't think the last name Schwarzenegger is really as common as you think it is...

Each school is a little different. Some you reply to the graduate admissions coordinator for your department, some have a form you fill out w/ a deposit, etc. They should have told you in your acceptance letter / email after you were accepted.

Depends on the program, check the results search for the usual time that department does their accepts and rejects. I applied to all of my schools in October-November and notifications went out from March 1st all the way to still waiting for UMN-TC.

I guess this love has taken it's toll on you. I'm from a Cajun family so I always get the "Do you know any of the swamp people from Swamp People?" when people find out. It doesn't help that my uncle knows several...

Interestingly enough, a fortune top 20 company I work for pushes those online colleges that do commercials on daytime tv for some reason (they let them set up in lobbies and talk to employees). Though they might be targeting the call center in one of the buildings on campus. Anyway in my field it isn't looked on as a positive (though there are people who are very successful programmers without any college degree as well as someone who has risen very high here with just an associates, so if you are good it doesn't seem to matter for us if you went to The Fake School of Fakington). In a field that requires all kinds of licenses and that is very competitive I would think you would want to be very careful about the programs you pick. If you had to do online courses I would aim for Distance Education from a non-profit or state-owned University (for-profit is yucky).

I asked about status to one I haven't heard from and neither the admin assistant in charge of graduate admissions nor then DGS responded. Not sure if this is a silent wait list or silent rejection. Either way I'd rather them be not so silent.

This doesn't sound correct though. So if I make a thesis called "A Study of Hello Kitty Island Adventure... The WoW Killer" I will automatically get my thesis accepted and receive my MS?

NCSU has some funny ones in CS, lots of people going "you can't get in with less than a 165 Q score"... <- guess who got in with something much less than a 165 Q...

They offered a service called PPI. No one uses it so they are discontinuing it. Everything else from ETS proceeds as normal.

No you had to accept the test as valid. You have the ability to invalidate the test so the score doesn't get attached to your list of scores (but with score select this doesn't matter and there is no reason to not accept the test as valid). Then you are able to send the free score reports after they show you your scores. I took it last fall and saw my scores before doing the search for each school to send my results to. From ETS: As for OP, as others mentioned that is for the PPI which is another score they calculate that isn't your V/Q/A scores.

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Emailed the 3 remaining schools, one said the decisions will go out "around April 15th" (uhh, thanks?), another hasn't replied in a month so I sent an email to the DGS instead (still no response, if you don't want me just say it and I can move on and make my decision), and the last one just replied with "you can check online as directed" (Really? Because I'm pretty sure a status of 'pending' doesn't help me get my decisions in before the deadline of accepting offers)... WTB standardization of graduation admissions.