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Such a creative applicant shouldn't be in the rejection stack, atleast in my opinion.

I am just wondering as if no answer or a delayed answer should be treated as a rejection. One of my friend studying at Victoria University Melbourne shared that when she got scholarship she was informed after 3 months plus 3 weeks. And one of her friend's who got scholarship at University of Tasmania was informed after 4 months. When I had applied at ANU, I was informed after 3.5 months. Another colleague of mine shared that when the program is good, it always give funding to all applicants so if your academic profile is strong but still you have not been awarded fully funded scholarship then that is sure sign of program's being incompetent -- the university actually lacks basic resource to make the program strong or its not designed as per the standards---

LOLZ may be

WOW congratulations! Its ranked 32nd in the world so definitely a great achievement! Best of Luck!

Guys! I have a question. Are those who received acceptance got fee waiver and funding both or just offer of admission. Please share someone. Thanks.

Seriously. I mean when I had applied to my school, I used to check my online application web portal every other day if anything has appeared... But what really surprised me the fact that I only had received emails and was notified of my application process, admission and scholarship .... and my web portal was actually never updated... The main reason of a jammed web portal is because a school receive massive applications that its difficult for them to update their system for each applicant...

As per my experience, if you are targeting competitive schools then their ways of looking at your application is not standardized, its rather done in comparison to other applications they have received. At least one component in your academic/career profile should have high ''general'' relevancy with the program you are applying to. For example, if you are not a masters in the field you are applying, then you should demonstrate that you have been employed into some civil service job before; any job which shows general relevancy to your program ''political science'' and ''specific'' relevancy i.e. area of interest which means your ''research proposal''.... Competitive schools can ignore ''specific relevancy'' but its difficult for them to ignore ''general'' relevancy.... If you present a research proposal with ground breaking idea then there are high chances of you being considered by your professor -- There are professor's scholarships too since they receive massive funds from industries -- I know an applicant who had applied to kings college London and had two gold medals -- one for his masters and one for M.Phill... I had only one gold medal -- his application was refused for scholarship but was given admission and I was offered full scholarship -- we both had applied in different intakes test scores are considered by schools but not all of them -- if your application lacks a basic component of consideration then test scores cannot rescue an application going into rejection stack

Thehopefulgrad -- I am not sure how long you have been waiting but as per my experience, the more competitive schools (those high in ranking) take considerably more time in assessing your application. And if your application is taking more time than average then its a positive sign because you are being shortlisted for fee-waiver and funding.