GradSchoolTruther

No. Often schools want your money if they believe you are qualified and have he space, as well as allowing for part-time enrollment. I'd email the department to find out what's going on, but the fact you applied by the standard deadline didn't hurt your chances.

Think it's common in the area to ask for first and last month's rent, and a security deposit.

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Depends on the program and school. For a professional master's program, funding isn't usually available. In fact, I didn't see any mention of assistantships for your program on the department's website.

Depends on the Christian school. Some schools require you to attend religious services. Make sure you understand and are willing to follow a code of conduct, if applicable, before applying. Some schools try to integrate the sponsoring faith's doctrine into coursework.

Keep in minds MAPPS encourages Ph.D. applicants to apply for now-ranked schools, so you can't infer what types of programs students are getting accepted to.

Canadian graduate programs are more similar to U.S. programs, which provide a broader education than he U.K. Look for faculty members whose research interests involve networks.

Exp, I'm sure you'll have a fine career at Starbucks or Barnes and Noble.

When was the last time you contacted the DGS about funding?

Buyer beware. Always look up costs of attendance.

I don't know what to tell anyone if they think GPA and GRE scores aren't the first items reviewed. Your file may not even be read if you don't make the cutoff. Also, master's is not capitalized.

What is the issue? If the department is funding you, you need to state that. Tuition-waivers and stipends have a numeric value. If you don't have departmental funding, then you have to provide info on how you will pay for tuition and living expenses.

What's your dependent variable, which establishes causality in your models?

The writing sample probably is one of the last things departments look at. Grades, GRE scores, LORs, and the statement of purpose have more weight.

If you ask a department if they are going to weed out students the first year, do you think you'd get an honest response? Common sense would suggest you would not.

What type of offer did you think you could get by waiting? I doubt they could have offered more money from stipends. What could happen is that professors may have research funds that can be used to pay you for a summer project. Happened to me for a couple of years.

Don't rely on vague offers of funding if you need that funding to attend.

You have to ask yourself how likely you are to receive tens of thousands of dollars within the next year before you defer. The other one is not a deferment, since you can attend anytime within a year. It's not a nice move to hold two offers, especially if others would take your spot.

The April 15 deadline only applies to deciding whether to accept funding. It does not apply to those who receive just an offer of admission nor does it mandate when departments need to make admission's decisions.

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Does your chair have any ideas? He/she should be getting other faculty to help, as they are supposed to be your advocate in the process. Seems odd a committee member is not a part of the defense. As for your hypotheses, you need to simplify them. States with higher levels of gun control have lower firearms homicide rates. How did you develop it if the literature states it's inconclusive? Also there are questions of causality when analyzing the models. Are firearms laws driving Brady scorecard grades, or vice-versa? As for your second hypothesis, age is an interactive term. Firearms homicide rates are higher among older individuals than younger individuals in states with low levels of gun control compared to states with high levels of gun control. I assume you are using OLS regression to test the hypotheses.

I know you'd be applying next year. I wouldn't count on being published within a year, especially if you don't have prior publishing experience. It takes a few months to even hear back from an editor, which means you need the paper submitted in 4-6 months to even be close to having it published. I also understand that a professional master's degree is graduate-level coursework. I wasn't arguing that point. You need to do well in a professional master's, which means a GPA of 3.7 or above.

It doesn't matter if you have funding or not. I was just giving the benchmark of what is generally considered to be the minimum standard in many programs. If you can't get your graduate GPA to 3.7 or higher, I think you might struggle to get into a Ph.D. program.

Don't think too many committees would blink an eye at two Ws on a transcript.

Don't sign a lease with a landlord you already know is going to be a pain in the rear.