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I received the notification that I was rejected late last night, how ironic haha

Nope, not yet! Have you? It's really frustrating that they've probably rejected me but they still haven't let me know so I can have that closure...

I haven't heard back either so I don't think it's looking good, but fingers crossed and good luck to you too!

Hi everyone! Ive applied for several masters in top universities hoping that I would receive assistantships or fellowships to fund my degree, but so far the ones that have accepted me have not given me any/insufficient funding. I realise now that since there isn't a lot of funding for masters, I should've probably applied to several scholarships, but I think that the deadlines have passed for most of them. Does anyone know of any scholarships pertaining to the field of development studies/merit-based that are still open for applications? Does anyone know of any other possible solutions to get funding? I really don't want to take out a loan and finish my master immensely in debt. Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi! I have also applied to the Berkeley Development Practice program but haven't heard back yet, although I emailed and they said they would send out results by early March, hopefully before. Have you both heard back from them? I have also applied to the Oxford program. According to several rankings of universities for development studies, Oxford is placed above Berkeley (http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2015/development-studies#sorting=rank+region=+country=+faculty=+stars=false+search=) (and Cornell isn't shown, but maybe this is because they teach 'development sociology'), but I guess it depends on what you want out of it. If you're looking to continue studying and do a PhD in the field, Oxford would probably be the better choice because they offer a PhD in the area (and I guess the same goes for Cornell, although obviously the focus there is more on sociology - and maybe it might be better than Oxford because there are much more opportunities for funding in the US than in the UK, and a Master's in Oxford is extremely expensive), whereas the program at Berkeley seems to me to be more oriented towards actually going into the field and working in consultancy afterwards, as opposed to academia. Hope that helped somewhat... Please let me know if you have heard back from Berkeley since I really want to know whether I've been rejected/ still have chances of being accepted!!!!