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I signed the lease for a sublet in New Haven from a distance. But before doing so, we made the lister skype with us and walk around the apartment and show us outside. We told them this was because we wanted to see the place, but it was mostly to make sure it was actually an apartment where it was supposed to be. The internet is full of bullshit and scams, tread with caution.

Wow, I wasn't even aware that you could still be taking classes when you are post dissertation/comps. Best of luck next semester/quarter.

Is a PhD really what you want if you have no interested in an academic job?

The issue you will likely run into with jobs is that if you aren't employed when you graduate your visa will expire. So you do not have the same amount of time to search for a job that an American student has. I had friends who tried to get jobs but couldn't secure them before their student visa ran out and they were sent back to their home country.

Good question, I am also interested!

6 A's to finish out my final semester. Another 4.0 woo!

Yeah, you are misunderstanding that. You cannot live in Grad housing longer than 2 years. It's still only 30 day notice, i.e. month to month. SHORE allows you to stay throughout your degree completion "This program guarantees you on-campus housing atMesa Residential Apartments (Mesa), One Miramar Street (OMS) Rita Atkinson Residences (RAR),or Single Graduate Apartments (SGA) for Fall 2015, continuing through normative time to degree plus one year." But for non-SHORE people the limit is 2 years. Because of the ability to leave every month, you could be taking over the apartment of someone who lived there for the last 4 years, or the last 2 months.

I was basing it off that, and the fact that grad housing at UCSD is a month to month lease, not an extended lease. There is really no way UCSD could hold your apartment for months waiting for you to move in. The ARCH office told me that I should not expect to hear any sooner than 30 days before my move in, but most likely 2 weeks prior to the move in date. Your apartment will be available the day you requested to move in. I guess I don't know how leases work around the world, but in the USA you don't start paying for the apartment until the day you agreed to start the lease. It is a legally binding contract, for both parties.

3 (4 credit) grad-courses per quarter. I was under the impression that UCSD is going to offer priority housing candidates their housing choice around 2 weeks before the move in date put on the applications. I've got a move in date of August 1st and I don't expect to be offered housing until around July 18.

Private schools aren't obligated to release anything.

During the negotiation process you could have worked it into your offer if you were one of their most desired applicants. I was able to get priority housing through negotiation.

For example. UT Austin: http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/prospective/stats/pdf/counts-by-major2012.pdf in 2012 Middle Eastern Studies was a 42.5% acceptance rate. Latin American Studies was 39.7% acceptance rate.

All public schools do. It's just a matter of finding them, they aren't always easily found.

Acceptance for funded masters in Latin American Studies were like 20-30%.

Is that a canadian thing? Retakes are allowed for us regardless of what one earned the first time around. Retakes allow GPA to be increased, but do not count towards honors status. If you got a C the first time, it will always be a C as far as being Magna Cum Laude is considered, but your actual GPA will reflect the retake.

Full time is 3 courses.

**Crickets**

So I've leased an apartment for the summer on Dwight and Chapel. How safe is the immediately surrounding neighborhood? I've heard nasty things about that side of Yale. I will primarily be walking toward Yale from the apt, and I will have a car that is parked at the apt. Will the car be vandalized? Am I likely to be harassed/robbed walking home at night? Do I have nothing to worry about?

I was going to say, I just saw this laptop from a tech dealer on eBay (with like 350,000 positive reviews) for $499, except it had the touch screen and more ram. http://www.ebay.com/itm/391131086273?rmvSB=true

I have 7 W's and it was of no consequence, I was still accepted to the #3, #5, and #12 programs in my field/subfield. I guess everyones situation is different, but I'm not sure they matter that much. One of my W's was even a retake of an intro course that I got a C in back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. I took it with good intentions as my 7th course that semester, I ended up putting hardly any effort into it and as a result was only going to get about a B in it anyway. So I dropped it and concentrated on getting A's in the other 6 classes. Though my field is different, my cumulative GPA was about a 3.6 when I applied, and my two major GPAs were closer to 4.0s. I don't know if that helps you, but I would say whatever you do focus on getting perfect scores in your remaining upper level major specific courses.

Interesting. UCLA accepted like no one. When I visited I was told there were 8 accepts, at least one of which was a student who was completing their BA at UCLA. It was a very small program. The two other incoming students at UCLA's visitation day were LAS+Public Health and the people in the cohort that I met were LAS+urban planning, I think those are the more common admits like you said.

I wasn't that clear I can see how it was a confusing question. And oh wow. I wonder what their admittance rate (people who are let in, then ultimately go there) is like with an acceptance date so late.

I mean in the US.

Is it an american program?

Wow, how would they ever get a student when all the other universities required a decision weeks ago?