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(1) $0
(2) Hoping on as much FinAid as possible (of really any kind) through the University, but might be looking at ~$20k/yr for two years as a worst-case scenario.
(3) Less than $500 debt on my card, a little more than 4k savings
(4) Average entry-level with MA is 40k but the national average as of 2010 was 87k.
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Bumping this! I think it's a great tool that we should use.
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Anyone want to claim the recent Roosevelt Interviews and acceptances? I noticed some more since my posting early this month/late last month. PM me if you're comfortable with it! Just want to compare notes.
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Just now, artsy16 said:
Same here. A couple of schools I applied to assign applicants actual student ID numbers (and email addresses but we aren't told those, I only found out by happenstance from a secretary) that then transfer if you attend. Seems like a waste/extra effort on their part. And it does get your hopes up haha
I have to admit... I got the Tech HelpDesk at one University to unlock my student accounts, totally by mistake! I thought I had my login info wrong so I called and they just unlocked it. I have access to my student email and could use it if I wanted to, and I have access to all the student service pages like financial aid, personal info, grades and holds, schedule... everything. It's all blank right now, because I haven't actually accepted their offer. But unlike Elmhurst, I don't think I was meant to be able to use all that yet. Oops!!
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4 minutes ago, magnetite said:
Got my second rejection today. Figured this would be a good spot to whine about it. I'm slowly losing hope in my other applications.
At the same time, I'm almost excited in a way to get another chance, should I get rejected everywhere. Another year of refining my interests and actually applying for the GRFP would be helpful.
Rejections are not always as negative as we all think. While I am rooting for you and hope you get some acceptances, I'm also happy that you're able to see the brighter side. It's not the end of the world, as we so often think it is. It's just a change of plans if it happens, and I like to think that those who can survive the application process (and interviews, and emails, and blah blah blah) can certainly do so more than once! After all, we've got to be pretty tough to do all this.
I forget sometimes how abnormal it is, to go to grad school. We're not the rule-- in many cases, we're the exception to it even before we're accepted anywhere.Whatever happens, I think you'll find support here.
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2 hours ago, hippyscientist said:
Okay I'm confused. One of my schools asked me to make an ID login thing so I did, and now I can access everything - like register for classes kinda access. But I've had no email saying we've accepted you. But all my details (DOB, nationality, degree programme etc) are on the current student portal. And now we wait...
Same thing happened to me with Elmhurst. Turns out, it was just a way for me to access my application file-- and becomes a student portal if you actually become a student. However, I too APPEAR to have access to class registration, events, etc. I don't, actually. Like everything is there but when clicked I get errors. I'd advise you to email the program director or office of admissions at that school. That's what I did, and I was told that my confusion was common and then everything was explained properly. The person I contacted expressed that he actually hated the current system because it confuses applicants so much, and he's been lobbying for a change.
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1 minute ago, rhombusbombus said:
YES to NYX! It was the makeup they used on the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race and I decided then that if you could turn those men into beautiful ladies it could make ME a beautiful lady too!
Oh my gosh, I had no clue! That's really cool, thanks for sharing.
I have skin issues that change with the seasons, and NYX has so many affordable options that are very kind to my skin. Their BB cream is one of my must-have products because it's so lightweight and it really looks like you're not even wearing any makeup. I'd love for people to think my skin just looks this great naturally.@raaawr I just can't handle gel eyeliner! I've tried SO many types, but I've gotten so good with the super thin brush NYX liquid liner has that gel feels clumpy and heavy. It looks great done right, though. Very striking on you, I'm sure!
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4 minutes ago, hippyscientist said:
Yikes I don't even know how to put fake eyelashes on or what the heck contouring even is (like I know but wouldn't have the first clue about where to start).
I miss my pink hair, I wish it was acceptable in my field. I recently went from "surfer blonde" to chestnut brown as it doesn't cost as much to maintain.
This is making me miss my blue hair! I have really dark curly brown hair, but I used to have neon blue and purple streaks all over while I was in high school. It looked so awesome and was tons of fun, but I was having trouble finding a job. I was told straight up that I would not be hired unless I changed my hair. After a few awful waitress/bartending jobs, I gave up and dyed it back- and immediately got a job outside of food service. I miss my fun hair so much!
Because my hair is so dark/thick, it would take AGES to bleach it light enough to hold a bright blue. I'm really glad I did it, though. Love all the pics everyone is posting!I wear full face makeup every day. It's sort of my morning therapy. I find it very relaxing! BB creme, foundation, concealer, contouring (but I use powder), eyebrows and full eye makeup with winged liquid eyeliner. I love dramatic eye makeup, but I try to keep the rest of my makeup soft and natural. I grew up in theatre so I'm great at applying false eyelashes, but I hate wearing them!
One of my favorite brands is NYX Cosmetics, and I'm in love with Smashbox's Photo Primer Water. Anyone else have some favorites? -
14 minutes ago, pterosaur said:
There are definitely trolls on the results posts. I know some.
Man, that's really sad.
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12 minutes ago, sjoh197 said:
A nice manchego with a sweet grape or apple is the way to go.
To show how lame I am, I legit had to google that. It's definitely going on my grocery list! Thanks!
I do keep to the sweeter, brighter wines. I just haven't gotten my pallet to a place where I can appreciate dry wines yet! -
I've very suddenly-- like within the past month-- developed a love of cheese plates. I've never been very adventurous with cheeses, which as a vegetarian is probably some sort of crime.
My definition of a "cheese plate" is currently gouda, colby jack, mozzarella, and whatever else I have on hand. And lots of crackers! It's really hard to find wine pairing guides for vegetarians, so I'm experimenting with that as well.
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Hey everyone!
Looks like I'll be moving to Chicago to attend Roosevelt University in the fall. I'm from a small rural town, and I already know that I may experience some culture shock. I'm hoping to get this thread to be a little more active, because I need all the help I can get as far as advice, tips, resources, personal experience... anything that could help me out!
I'm looking for a one bedroom apartment-- if it allows small dogs that would be a huge bonus. I'm fine with commuting but hope to keep my commute at an hour or less. I've been trying to learn about the neighborhoods around Chicago, but since it's pretty overwhelming I figured I'd just bump this thread. I'm hoping that my SO will be able to move with me, which depends on whether he can transfer his job to Chicago and if he can find a nearby school to continue his undergrad in Secondary Ed.
We're visiting Chicago next week so I can tour campus and meet faculty, but we'll have time to explore the area a bit as well.
Anything at all would be helpful and highly appreciated. Thank you!!
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School Name: Elmhurst College
Interview Invite Received: 2/19/16
Degree: Masters
Type: Industrial Organizational
Notified via: Email from an Admissions Counselor
Interview Date: 2/26/16 via Skype
Additional Info: I was told a couple weeks ago by the Asst. Director of Admissions that I'd be asked to interview, so this was not surprising. -
so, my rejection letter wasn't even sealed when it arrived. My dad read it before I did because it was open.
I mean, I think I knew I wasn't going to be accepted there after I found out they were only accepting 3-4 people, and I've already been accepted to my top choice, but it still kinda sucks. But hey! now I know! No more waiting for that school.
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Rejected from Western Michigan University's I/O Psych Masters.
They're only accepting 3-4 students this year, and I was among 14 applicants who were invited to interview weekend out of a couple hundred applicants. They seem to give WMU undergrads priority consideration, and I both hate and kind of understand that. Interview weekend was ridiculous- see my blog about it. They put us through a lot.I'm a fairly competitive applicant, but this rejection wasn't that surprising after the interviews.
I already have been accepted to my top choice, which certainly cushioned this blow.
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Just now, pterosaur said:
Nerve-wracking, but must have been a relief once it was sorted out!
Mail? Mail? Who sends these things by the postal system anymore? We have fancy instant communication systems now, and have for decades! Since I'm overseas, I think I would die waiting. Also, glad your district manager is keeping your rabid manager at bay, at least for the time being.
Okay, for context: literally everything else at this school has been hosted online. I couldn't even send my LoR by mail, they too had to be uploaded to the school's application portal. Other programs at this school seem (looking at results search) to notify applicants through email that a decision has been posted in the message center of the application portal. The email from a faculty member told me it'd be through the mail, and I was really surprised. Plus mail takes a long time to get to me as I'm in a pretty rural area, so it's basically guaranteed that other applicants will find out before I do. I told another applicant about watching their mailbox and he mirrored my reaction: "It's 2016. Do you think they realize it's 2016?"
2 minutes ago, FoxAndChicken said:Dude. The FAFSA gives me anxiety. I think I've been late filling it out every year, on account of my mom refuses to give me anything financial, and then tells me to fill it out.
I'm filing it myself for the first time- my parents are pretty hush hush about their finances even to me, so my mom has always just done it for me. But now that I'm filing independent and don't need to factor my parents in, my EFC is really low. I think that seems to be a good thing? I think it means I qualify for more... help? I filed it a month ago when I did my taxes. I don't know. I don't know anything.
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I just... I just want to KNOW. I interviewed eleven days ago and I know the faculty (AdCom) met this past Friday to make the decisions and they're sending notice through the MAIL that I was told to expect this week or maybe next week and I'm SO ANTSY. I'm just going to melt into a puddle of stress if the weekend comes without a letter. I was totally fine until this morning. I am no longer totally fine.
And I have literally no experience with loans or finaid so I have a constant underlying crisis about how unequipped I am to deal with all that. I know this isn't the thread for finance, but really I'm whining about how I somehow have to figure all this out on my own and it's very confusing. (Yeah, I did the FAFSA and I've applied for assistantships. I just don't know what happens now with the FAFSA tbh.)
Plus my manager keeps trying to open my position at work! My district manager came to our office yesterday to kinda scold her, because I'm not leaving until probably August-- yet she keeps saying how I'm "about to leave/ about to be gone" and how they're "going to be short staffed any time now since I'm leaving." It's honestly nerve-wracking because she's always talking about my departure as if it's days or weeks away.
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Wow, thank you for your replies.
@TakeruK: Good idea on what my SO and our friend could do while I'm busy. I have a tour scheduled for the three of us through the university, but I'm also going to be meeting with the program director, the founder of the program (thank you, connections), and a current student or two. It'll be at least a half day on campus, but no other activities have been offered or brought up.
I've been a bit lost on what my friend and SO should do during that time. We'll be in downtown Chicago for the first two and a half days and my SO has never been there before, so hopefully our friend can take the lead on activities without me-- and then we'll check out the museum and aquarium and fun touristy stuff!
I have amazing rates at both hotels I have booked, but I hadn't thought of asking about student or university discounts at local attractions! Thanks!@rising_star: My contact for the school with late admissions is actually the assistant director of admissions at that school. He said he'd personally give me a tour of campus and set up a meeting with a current grad student in my program. Like the first school, that's the extent of the plan for now.
I haven't specifically mentioned my two-person fan club that will be with me, because I don't know how to bring it up without it being really weird .
Cost of living is going to be higher than I'm used to at either school because both are in the Chicago area. I'm planning on asking for advice on that while visiting, especially from current students, because neither school assists students with off-campus housing and my SO would hopefully be moving with me. -
26 minutes ago, TakeruK said:
I would personally advise against the PDF attachment thank you note. Few things are more annoying, to me, than to have to open an attachment just to read a message (especially if that message could have been in the email body itself). Just write the brief thank you note in the email body so that the busy reader can just see it, feel a brief moment of appreciation that you took time to thank them, and then move on with the rest of their inbox.
Of course, you should do what's normal in your field. It sounds like the PDF attachment thing might be normal in Psychology as other students advised @bugabooo to do it this way. It would not be a good idea to do this in my field, mostly because we don't have interviews for grad school positions. But we do interview for post-PhD jobs and the norm is either a nice email or a handwritten card, not a PDF attachment.
Honestly, I thought the same thing about the PDF. I still find it super weird, but after a handful of current students separately all told me the same thing, I did it their way. I guess it protects against formatting issues, and a .pdf can be opened on nearly any device, but it's a lot of steps to go through for one simple act. I got really positive responses from each one I sent (a total of five), so I guess it was the right thing to do. Really involved and I think too complicated, but it seems to have gone over quite well. Personally, I think a nicely composed email would/should have been fine. A handwritten note is probably nicer as long as you have good handwriting!
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1 minute ago, FoxAndChicken said:
Ohmygosh. When I went to high school I signed up for Spanish and went to the teacher and was like "Uh. Can I be in Spanish 2?" And she was like "Conjugate bailar." And I was like ". . . I don't know what conjugate means." And she's like "Like, bailo, bailas, baila, bailamos, bailan?" And I was like wut. So I was put in Spanish one. But the only thing I learned in Spanish one was some new vocabulary and what the word conjugate meant. (Because dude, I knew that I would said soy and I would say to you eres, but like I didn't know that was called something fancy.) So, like, eventually I started working ahead. By like the second year of me taking Spanish I was like 200 pages ahead of whatever my classmates were doing and she hands me a quiz on like the preterite or whatever and I fill it out and then the class scores like 12 percent average on it, and I got like a 98 or something. They were super upset and the teacher is like "Well, FoxandChicken managed to do it, why can't you?" And then they all hated me.
Note: I can't actually speak much Spanish these days.
I'm laughing so much (in a Starbucks, where people totally saw). I had a very similar experience as a freshman in high school, but my teacher knew my situation and kept quiet about my progress. He just gave me more advanced work on the sly. My older sibling was nearly a teenager when we went to public schools, so they retained much more of the language. I'm definitely jealous of that. Then add in the random differences in my family's language style and what I was being taught... Yikes. The vocabulary was helpful, but even my dad can't always conjugate words "properly" and Spanish is his first language. That's just not how language is learned naturally, I think.
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I've scheduled visits to two campuses in the same area. One has already accepted me but hasn't made any funding decisions yet. The other hasn't even finished processing my application, because they have a ridiculously late deadline (like not until early summer). Both contacts have enthusiastically agreed to my proposed visits.
So, now what? I feel like the dog that just caught her own tail: I didn't think I'd get this far... now what?
My SO and a close friend are coming with me for my 4-day trip, and we're staying really close to each campus (switching hotels partway through).
I want to open up a thread for discussion about visits that are not interviews. I'd really love advice or just to learn about the experiences that others have had.
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Just now, FoxAndChicken said:
Hey! Another Latina in Michigan! Woah! How is that? I grew up in a small town in Michigan surrounded by corn, but my dad is from Mexico. It was weird. Like, people always tell me I'm basically just another white girl from Michigan, but then I go home any my uncle is watching telenovelas or listening to mariachi music. (Seriously, he does both of these fairly regularly and when I tell my friends they think I'm kidding or something.)
Yeah, I was the ONLY Latin@ in my high school. Diversity basically... isn't a thing here, which led to me losing most of my (spoken) Spanish language abilities during my years in public school. My abuelita doesn't really speak English, so I speak English to her and she speaks Spanish to me and it all works out! I get the "white girl from Michigan" thing a lot, too, and it can get really frustrating. Like, I know I have light skin, but no one outside my family gets to dictate my identity!
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Just an update: literally no one asked about anything related to diversity during my interviews. However, questions related to my original post were frequently asked outside of the formal interviews by other applicants and current grad students. A lot had to do with the rural area I'm from.
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To start, it was well below zero where I live yesterday, so I know cold. I interviewed somewhere slightly less, uh, terrifyingly frozen. Also I hate the cold!
If wearing pants: leggings (such as under-armor type) under slacks OR jeans are a great way to keep warm without looking lumpy! A good coat goes a long way, and as long as it's clean no one will really care what it looks like. It's cold. People know that. Have a scarf and a pair of gloves that could be stuffed into pockets for storage. Hats almost always look unprofessional, but if it's cold enough to need a hat, for goodness sake wear a hat.
If you're going to wear jeans, make sure they're not frayed at the bottom and have no holes. I'd go for a darker wash because I personally think it looks a little more professional. Thick socks are SUPER important when trying to keep warm! I'm obsessed with SmartWool brand socks, but anything similar will do. Other replies are right about shoes-- you'll need something more substantial than the normal dress shoe.I know OP isn't going to wear a skirt, but for anyone else who may be reading this:
If wearing a dress/skirt: thick tights and/or leggings are wonderful. I wore a very professional dress with nylons, but had leggings and thick socks+boots on over it all for the outdoor campus tour. Other people wearing skirts were shivering, I was fine. I just threw my leggings and socks into a backpack and slipped my heels on when we got settled into our waiting room for interviews. Tights + knee socks + riding boots is a great and warm style for dresses and skirts, and can definitely look professional if done right.
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Same! Now that I've gained a better understanding of how I stack up to other applicants in my field, I'm wishing I'd just paid those extra app fees. That was the biggest thing for me when I decided how many schools to apply to-- but now I'm wondering what would have happened if I had applied to UPenn or Harvard. Still, I'm going for an MA right now and there's nothing to stop me from applying to PhD programs at "elite" schools in two years. (I mean, I know that's a bit messy sometimes and all, but I think you all get what I'm saying.)
I definitely don't regret cancelling my application to my current University's general psych masters, though! Even as a last resort, I would have been miserable.
Like you said, it's a good problem and maybe even silly.