WhatAmIDoingNow

I hear of very few students who receive full funding for master degrees. Historically, many people in my parents' generation received full funding. Unless you have a job that pays for tuition reimbursement, a combination of fellowships and scholarships, or stipend from employers that require you work for them for X amount of years (because they cannot get people with master degrees to work for them). Ask the programs if they have any fellowships and paid internships. Many local governments usually have some sort of fellowship/internship opportunity.

I wonder if they didn't meet basic criteria of a first round screen, or UW hasn't gotten to ours yet...

It should be fine for theatre. It would only be an issue if you are trying to run statistical analyses or do design projects that take a lot of power. For writing, lit review, and basic computer use, you should be fine.

If you have a kindle, you can get the program on your computer to access all your books. This allows you to copy and past sections into Word, take notes in the Kindle program, and easily manage your annotated bibliographies.

Usually the portal is maintained by the Graduate school/office and the rejection is sent by the program. So the program submitted the status to the Graduate school/office and mailed the letter, the Graduate school/office has not updated the portal. This assumes your letter was not sent by the Graduate school/office. If the Graduate school/office sent the rejection, then I don't get why they wouldn't update the portal too.

I would take that as a good sign. No news is good news when a program sends rejections first.

I have only seen MPP and MPA acceptances and rejections. I am betting we don't get word until after March 14th. EDIT: 3 PhD rejections via email posted Feb 28th. I checked my email, spam folder, and application. There has been no contact from UW and my application status has not changed.

Cities and counties will have management fellowships. They are similar to internships, but more competitive and more funding. If you are intersted in going into local government, it is a great way to get funded.

The only full funding I heard of for MPP and MPA were through government fellowships that you have to apply for, not through the programs themselves. Ask the schools if they have such fellowships.

Well not I have another site to obsessively check ;-)

It does sound like a PS incorporating a SOP. I would combine what you have to PS and SOPs, incorporate a sentence alluding to how your vision and goals match the school/fellowships' vision and purpose.

Yes, you can do a PhD after a MPP. I finished my MSW and MPA last year and am now applying to Public Affairs and Public Policy programs. So far I have been admitted to 2 public affairs programs. Hopefully Evans will let us know their decisions soon... I also know other MPPs who are getting their PhDs currently. Make the most of your MPP by getting good grades, make connections with your professors, and get a research assistant position. Do a couple quantitative analysis electives if possible. I would make sure that you like research before applying for a PhD, a research assistant position would help you figure that out quickly. During your MPP, work on developing your research interests so you have an area you want to pursue as a PhD student. Having a mix of recommendations from professors you have worked with and had as instructors is a good strategy for applications, professors and associate professors. Research programs that are doing the research you are interested in, program fit is a huge factor in acceptance. You are going to be working for the program for 4-7 years depending on how long the dissertation takes you, so you want a good fit.

Did LinkedIn tell you they were from UW?

Sounds like a statement of purpose to me. Is there more background on the fellowship(s)? Who has received them in the past and what did they do with the fellowship?

Arizona is not liberal, but has liberal leaning pockets such as Phoenix and Tucson. Tucson is a smaller program and is slightly more competitive to get into because of the number of southern Arizonans that apply for the location. As far as rankings, I do not know what goes into the ranking calculations. I do not recommend the PhD program, but the MSW program seems to be good from my experience with some of the students. They seem to have a lot of internship opportunities that other MSW programs do not have. At the very least, it seems like a good safety school.

I only applied to 3 programs. Still waiting on Evans. It has been quiet. I think we have more lurkers than commenters. The results boards have been rather quiet too, although there have been acceptances.

I'll be entering my PhD program as a 30 year old... I'm getting too old for this student shit

That is archaic. I wouldn't trust any of my LORs to get to the program within a month of application deadlines if they had to print and mail them.

Mine finally switched too and I received an acceptance a few weeks ago. In speaking with Humphrey, they only referenced another applicant being accepted and I assumed they were referring to policyphdhopeful. I am sure they have more than two spots, being they admitted 6 or 7 last year. But they are planning a visit day soon. Right now I assume it is probably just a delayed Graduate office protocol.

I have spoken to quite a few people on admission committees. As long as you got all your items in on time, you should be fine. I would make sure to notify programs that you are working on getting the recommender to submit the letter. They are aware of how flaky/over scheduled academics can be, they shouldn't punish you for someone else's responsibility. Funding is for a Master program can be tricky, I don't hear of many people getting full funding unless through their employer. There are scholarships that can help ease the pain of expenses that your will probably qualify for. You should be able to compete for a student worker position on a research projects and paid internships.

I know that feeling, although I applied to a different school at the same university that rejected me a several years ago.

That is pretty close to what I did too. The two schools I have been admitted to, the faculty I spoke to are matched as my advisers now. Still waiting on a school that doesn't send notifications out until mid March.

ASU gave me a stipend guaranteed for the first academic year, where renewal is contingent upon resources and satisfactory progress. No guaranteed summer funding, but there are opportunities to assist faculty and TA. Full tuition remission and health insurance as long as I am registered for 6 credits per term (fees not included). I plan to contact current PhD students to see how that has worked for them.

You can't easily buy in Boulder, but if you live 20-30 min out of Boulder it might be possible. The housing market exploded since pot was legalized. I went to school there and have family living there. I can't afford to move back now... unless I live with family.

Ironically your answer was the condescension the OP didn't want, if you read his/her request.