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TC does not fully fund PhDs for a certain number of years. You get financial aid from the TC fin aid office (must complete the scholarship application online) and/or from your department. The department I was accepted to offered me a one year tuition fellowship + $5k stipend. Not a whole lot of income, but it's much better than someone I read on this board a while back who said they were offered no funding from TC whatsoever. I probably don't qualify for need-based aid, but haven't received anything from the actual TC fin aid office yet. After the first year of funding is up, most students in my potential future department take jobs at TC that offer tuition credits as part of the compensation. People also look for external funding, or profs with grants to work with. All in all, the message I'm getting is that working out funding is much more difficult than some other schools, but often doable.

I got accepted to UW-Madison's Ed Policy PhD about a month ago - the status changed online, then I received a letter in the mail. No funding, though - think I saw a couple other acceptances on the results page to Ed Policy, at least one with funding. So it seems that each of the different tracks is on a different timeline.

Thanks for following up on that! Haha, "purposefully general" = cryptically nonspecific , in my opinion And also thanks for the congrats. Hope things work out for you, too!

TSL, my letter was the same, and I also applied to both Ed.D & Ed.M. I don't know if we're rejected from both. The letter just says "graduate study," which could either mean we're rejected from both or that they simply have one generic letter that gets posted as soon as you're rejected from anything. I don't really care about being admitted to Ed.M because I'm attending another school instead (just checked the box as a backup, in case I didn't get into any doctoral programs), but if I were you I'd probably give them a call.

I just logged into my application and the rejection was there. I had NOT yet received an email directing me to log in. It said decision available as of 2/25, but I really don't think I overlooked it yesterday... No worries, looks like I'm headed to Columbia. Best of luck to all. Editing to add - my HGSE track was Education Policy, Leadership & Instructional Practice

Hi Albert, As it just so happens, last week I was accepted into the TC PhD in Philosophy and Education. I have a BA in philosophy and have spent 3 years doing work towards a PhD in philosophy, which I'm not finishing for a variety of reasons. I have an undergrad GPA of ~3.8, grad GPA of 3.9, and three strong letters from professors who know me and my work fairly well. Sounds like you're on the right track, application-wise. My personal statement was about 2 single spaced pages, and consisted of straightforward and fairly detailed paragraphs about my background, interests, career goals, and why I wanted to change graduate programs. Good luck to you! P

Yep, I got the Stanford email, and two people posted it on the results page. There was no indication that it was sent to a special group - it did scare then confuse then annoy me, though!

Who else just got this confusing email? I posted about it in results. "Trying not to read into this cryptic email. Since I indicated that I would like to be considered for EdM if rejected from EdD, I've been invited to virtual info session regarding EdM. But, it still says I need to submit financial aid app in accordance w/EdD deadline. "Admissions decisions will be available by March 26. We will send you an email to let you know when your decision is available through your online application account." - but apparently accepted EdD students usually receive a phone call in February. Is my app doomed??"

I applied to schools of education offering programs in the philosophy of education, social & cultural foundations, or similar. The final list was: Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Penn, Ohio State, Michigan-Ann Arbor, Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Washington, Wisconsin-Madison, & UNC-Chapel Hill. I was accepted to the philosophy of education program at Ohio State with a nomination for a fellowship. I was invited to, and will be attending, the expenses paid "PhD applicants' weekend" at Penn next weekend. Most recently, I was accepted to educational policy studies at University of Wisonsin - Madison (status change online, & received letter via USPS). No funding though.

Hi, b_bstevie! Just wanted to say welcome, and that we're in much the same boat. I am also young, with little work experience, but academic experience within a niche sub-field of education (philosophy). My GREs and GPAs are similar to yours, too. Best of luck to you!

Hi everyone! I was planning just to lurk, but you seem like a nice, small, friendly bunch so here goes :-) To make a long story short(ish), my background is in philosophy (I hold a BA and am a few formalities away from an MA). My philosophical interests somehow all shifted to education: character/moral education, arguments for/against school choice, moral status of homeschooling, feminism & education, etc. So, I decided to make the move to a school of education in order to complete my PhD with advisors & colleagues whose interests were more in line with my own. I'm also under the impression that academic job prospects are somewhat better in schools of education than in departments of philosophy. I look forward to catching myself up on the history & theory of education with guidance, instead of trying to do it on my own while enrolled in a philosophy degree program. Won't bore you with the details, but my application is decently strong. I think my letters are the best part, undergrad GPA is definitely the worst (I started off with a different major at a different school than the one from which I earned my BA, and it was 2 years of academic disaster). But my graduate GPA is very good, so hopefully that compensates. I chose to apply to schools of education offering programs in the philosophy of education, social & cultural foundations, or similar. The final list was: Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Penn, Ohio State, Michigan-Ann Arbor, Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Washington, Wisconsin-Madison, & UNC-Chapel Hill. I will be attending the Penn PhD applicants' weekend (I applied to the Education, Culture & Society program there).