magnanimous
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Hi there!
After accepting an offer from the school that I'll be attending, I emailed my waitlisted schools to ask to be removed from the waitlist and my other acceptances to let them know that I would be declining the offer. All four waitlisted places asked where I am going and I told them, but my other acceptances did not. I think in academia, many schools and programs want to know where they stand among students and in comparison with competing schools, so I don't think it would hurt you any if you told them (nicely) where you're going, but you're certainly not required to.
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On 4/8/2016 at 10:27 AM, marmend said:
Hi! Thanks @magnanimous so much for all the helpful info!
So I'll be a grad student at UM starting Fall and I know orientation begins sometime in August. Although, a bunch of the leases don't begin until 9/1....what do we do?
For some of the leases, you could ask the landlord whether you would be able to move in sooner (which would cost some portion of rent, depending how far ahead of the lease you'd want to move in). There is also UMich short term housing that you could look into as well.
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1 hour ago, marmend said:
Does anyone have a map of the areas & a list of landlords associated with each area? Sorry, I'm so lost on looking for apartments. It'll be my first time moving away from home. Coming from Texas
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Hi @marmend! I tried searching around and couldn't find a dedicated off-campus housing map, but here is a list of all of the off-campus neighborhoods, and if you combine that with the interactive campus map, you might be able to go from there! Also, I don't think there are landlords dedicated to any specific area. . . They tend to be focused right on central campus in a variety of places (probably so they can reach as many students as possible).http://housingannarbor.com/ and http://www.johnwcooper.com/annarbor/offcampushousing-universityofmichigan.htm might be helpful for a starting point since they're collections of many of the housing companies and landlords in Ann Arbor, and you could probably compare the addresses of any houses or apartments you're looking into to the neighborhoods and points on the map just to get an idea of distance. Those neighborhoods are also searchable on the off-campus housing website, but the selections there are a bit more limited.
Hopefully this helps a bit, and feel free to PM or let me know if you have any other questions!
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How many LORs would you need? Do you have other people in place already writing some for you, or are these your only options (not saying that these are bad options, because IMO, you have some really good choices here!)?
Assuming that you'd need three letters, you probably want to have different people that can comment on different aspects of your education/work life. I'd say you definitely want a letter from Professor 3. They know you the best, are closest to your field of interest, and have taught you in three different classes. I don't know how their position at a CC instead of at a 4-year would weigh in, but they seem to be the one that can speak the most to your abilities (in class at least).
I'd rank Professors 1 and 2 about the same, and both work supervisors about the same, and if you need three letters, then I would ask one of both along with Prof 3.
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@ciistai Glad I was able to help! I'm used to thinking that housing in Ann Arbor is pretty expensive, but I guess that's because I've never lived outside of the Midwest! There are some pretty good deals around A2, so good luck with the hunt!
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14 hours ago, ciistai said:
Hi all! Thanks to everyone who's contributed to this thread so far - very valuable info all around! I'll be moving to Ann Arbor this fall to start my PhD, but I'm currently in Toronto. I'm not far from AA but obviously it's quite a faff to get over there, especially given that I don't drive, and I work full-time during the week, with no off-time available to me (I have to save what I have left for fieldwork this summer). I do expect that I will have to go over there to find an apartment, but I want to kind of figure it out in one weekend.
My questions are: is it possible to wait til late April or May for this, or will all apartments be taken?; and, are there any notorious problems with housing specifically in AA that I should look out for? (for example - I did my Master's in Oxford and a few of my friends wound up homeless when we had bad flooding in January 2014 - they had no idea their neighbourhoods tended to flood, and rented basement apartments there!!!)
Also can anyone share recent experiences with finding a roommate through the off-campus housing site? I'm a woman and graduate student in my mid-20s and am hoping to room with another graduate student (preferably not a man) with a similar schedule to mine. I'm kind of hesitant to reach out to the rest of my future cohort - I get kind of concerned about living with colleagues in case there's a roomie spat! Likewise though I'm just a little worried about rooming with strangers due to some bad past experiences which were fine for dealing with as an undergrad but I'd rather not re-experience as a graduate.
Thanks in advance!!!
2 hours ago, BellaBendrix said:Hey! Hi! I'm also moving to Ann Arbor this fall, though from a bit more to the south (aka, Chile). I'm also looking for housing options, so if you have any ideas, insights, or whatever, just PM me :D!
Hey! I currently live in Ann Arbor as an undergrad and have lived off-campus for the past two years. The off-campus housing website is a decent place to start, but I've found it to be pretty limited since not every landlord or company in A2 posts there. I've used this website (http://housingannarbor.com/) to look through a wider range of housing companies, and I think it's pretty helpful.
Some people find/sign their leases as early as September, but October/November seems to be the standard, at least for undergraduates (I signed my first lease for a house with my roommates in January - so wayyyy after a lot of people had signed theirs - and then in November the next year). Surprisingly, with the first lease I signed, there seemed to be a good of options still on the market all the way into February, and sometimes landlords will lower the rent once it gets that late because they want/need people to rent from them, but I don't know how much things have changed in the past couple of years. There are also a few places with leases that would start in May if that's what you want.
Hope this helps!
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I don't think it's necessarily a huge problem that you don't have undergrad experience in Education, as long as you can discuss in your SOP why you want to pursue the degree, what about the field you have particular interests in, and how you think the coursework that you've had already has led to that. I would suggest getting a letter from either 1, 2, or 4.
In the case of professors 1 and 2, did you have extensive contact with the TAs? I've heard of professors and TAs writing joint letters and both signing (because oftentimes students get to know the TA of a large class way better than they get to know the professor, and vice versa), or the professor having the TA write the letter since they know you and your work better and then just signing off on it.
For professor 4, I feel like they might be able to write you the best letter because, as you mentioned, they know you best, and you wouldn't have to go through TAs like I suggested in the other two options. Since it's been a few years since you asked for the last LOR from them, I don't see why they would be annoyed by you asking for another one, but then again you never know. If you feel like they would be able to speak positively about your work ethic and academic strengths regarding the program, then I would definitely ask this professor.
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Has anyone heard from UVA's clinical program post-interview?
Edited to specify: not the Curry school program!
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Has anyone who applied to the clinical psych program heard anything back yet? We were told that we should expect to hear back about a week and a half after interviews about decisions, and it's coming on three weeks now, so I'm super anxious to hear something!
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52 minutes ago, neuro_queen said:
Do you know if the other programs have sent all invites out?
I had a phone interview with my POI and was invited afterwards to the recruitment weekend for the Clinical Psych program as well (same dates).
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Another 20 year old here! I'm also a senior in undergrad (4th-year, started at 17) and in the middle of my app season as well. Thus far, age doesn't seem to have been a big factor for me, at least as far as I can tell. In fact, no one that I've been in contact with has asked about my age (although I'm not sure if this will change when I actually start going on interviews).
I was also relatively concerned about being so young in a PhD program and voiced this to a current graduate student in one of the programs that I applied to, and they let me know that age isn't necessarily a factor after you get in, since ages of grad students can range (in that program, they said that they're one of the "older" students at age 30). Also, I'm not sure which field you're in, but if it's common in your field for people to apply to grad school straight out of undergrad (it is in mine), then you may not be looking at that much of an age difference to begin with. I agree with what @pushkin_the_cat said, and I think it's mostly about how you carry yourself. If you portray yourself as mature and up to the challenge, then you shouldn't have too much of a problem!
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Seconding this! Trying to find a place to live has been so overwhelming! Any advice would be welcome!