SAgal

Invited to interview at the University of Rhode Island! Finally some good news for me!

Welp, just received my rejection from University of Maryland.

Has anyone heard from UMD's master's in student affairs? I heard a rumor they called students whom were invited to interview last week...

All of the effort I put into my personal statement for that program is what is really tearing me up right now. I do want someone to look at it, but I also don't know if I want to the M.Ed. program. I'm going to email them some questions to see how this would impact my chances of admission, because my personal statement was tailored to the M.S. program.

It's leaving a bad taste in my mouth. I don't want to judge a book (well, program) by it's cover but I'm seriously questioning if I even want to bother forwarding my app to the other program.

I just received an email from Penn State that they have decided to discontinue their M.S. in Higher Education (student affairs emphasis). They are offering reimbursement for the application fee, or the forward of my application to the M.Ed. in Higher Education. All I can say is, wow.

CONGRATS!

Did you hear anything back from them? I'm assuming they sent out invites yesterday and that I didn't get one!!! You win some and lose some I guess, but I wanted to be absolutely sure before confirming with UVM as well.

You're probably right! It has to be the nerves!!!!

Mind if I message you too? I'm full of questions as well!

I'm most likely going to have to fly as well! And yeah I saw they said we would be contacted by assistantship sites soon so we know who we'll be talking to! Also, my assistantship application wasn't as strong as I would've liked it to be

I thought I'd put this here for any higher education and student affairs applicants out there who are getting ready for interview/preview days! Where have you been asked to interview and what are your concerns going into preview days?

I was wondering how they decide too! The current students I talked to had a pretty even mix of which weekend they attended (1st or 2nd), so it might just be random. The first weekend would work better for me haha!

Not a clue! It makes me so nervous! I've heard similar, that there are a lot of interviewees! But that might be why UVM splits the dates--to get a better idea of each and every candidate. I have heard that some programs invite upwards of 70 students to interviews (and of course some will decline the invitation).

Awesome! And yeah there's another weekend, February 7-8th I believe.