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@MarineBluePsy I was accepted to the other program, I'm just on a wait list for the TAship position for it; the POI told me that I had a "good chance" of getting the position, but I guess that's a vague answer. Even when I pressed her for my position in the wait list a week ago I was still given a vague answer that I have a "good chance" and I should check back in on April 15th. I never thought that maybe I was really low on the wait list, but now I can see that I probably am, especially because they have a lot of second-year students who are given preference. I thought it was perfectly okay to ask other universities if I could have an extension on my decision, but I'm definitely seeing now that my email was very poorly worded; also, since I'm waiting on something that will probably never materialize, I'm also wasting everyone's time. At this point I've woken up and smelled the coffee; I'm going to accept my position at the university that already offered me funding. I'm just not sure how to proceed. I still haven't gotten a response from the other CC'd professors about the extension, and I feel like it might be hasty to just accept the admission before they even send me a response. I owe the department an apology as well.

@ETRXRock We had been emailing before this, so I did state my interest before this deadline extension request. Granted, I should have reinstated my interest in their program in this email. The professor did read my entire email because he responded to it line by line. I definitely agree with you, I should have been more direct.

Welp I just asked for an extension on my admission/TAship deadline (because I'm still waiting on the April 15th wait list results from the other uni) and it went about as horribly as possible. I definitely feel like I offended the department, not to say that they were conspicuously upset about my request for an extension, but they certainly weren't thrilled about it. I just feel like I'm being a giant nuisance, and I think I'm frustrating them with the amount of emails I'm sending out. Curse my indecisive nature...I think I'll just accept their offer, but now I feel like there's this "bad energy" and that's exactly what I wanted to avoid when I was trying to decide whether or not to ask for an extension. Honestly I just feel terrible. I love the program I got accepted to, I just wanted to see if I'd get into the other program because it's a little bigger. Also I misspelled the initials of the university twice (I have no idea why), so that definitely didn't help.

@Euler Very good advice! Thank you. I'll still feel weird asking UCF for an extension / if April 15th is a hard deadline, but I gotta do what I gotta do.

I got in to the MA TESOL/Applied Linguistics program at NAU, but I'm still waiting on funding. They told me that they make offers "throughout the spring" which makes me believe an offer could take until May/June. I have to make a decision for my full ride to Central Florida by April 15th. I prefer NAU by far, but I obviously am not going to choose NAU if I have to pay for it. I'm just afraid that I will accept my funding at Central Florida and a month later NAU will give me an offer. What should I do in this situation? Should I ask for an extension from Central Florida around April 10th if I still don't have a response from NAU? How would I go about asking for an extension? Also is it too forward of me to ask my contact at NAU exactly when I should expect a response by? I'm aware they do it in waves, but I want to know when the very latest TAship offer would be... It sounds dramatic, but all this waiting is seriously affecting me mentally. I literally cannot focus on anything, worse now that I'm on break and have time to think. The frustrating thing about when they give awards like this in waves is that you don't get a straight up rejection, it's like a rejection dragged over 3 months. Even then I don't think they give actual "rejections" for TAship offers. :/