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I will be 27. I'm especially grateful I didn't invest the time/money in any of my prior professional interests at the graduate level.

Hi there. Full transparency, my mom went to our state college for a trendy program in business/retail management (when these were good jobs in the late 70s and early 80s) and my dad went to diesel and autobody school. My parents are largely supportive but I've had the experience of not being able to talk about what I'm reading/thinking/doing with my parents for many years now. I think I struggled with jealousy for a long time, especially in art school and really liberal environments where people tended to try to obscure their privileged backgrounds. I came to expect this of wealthy people in my life and for a long time really distrusted people from privilege even as I got much, much better at reading it. Now I tutor privately and some of my students are extremely well off. I couldn't help for a long time to think if I had had a tutor for the SAT, where I would've ended up. Those "what if" situations are especially painful. Honestly, I'm still less likely to relate to someone who has a lot of class privilege, but I try to remember that working people don't have a monopoly on suffering. It could very easily be the case that someone with wealth knows something of struggle with health or mental health, familial trauma, etc. Also, I try to turn it around some and remember how wonderfully resourceful I am and was raised to be as others may feel like they are helpless to fix things around the house or on the car, etc. We're all actually probably going to be just fine as grad students with limited resources, we know how to do more with less. I think its a good idea to seek out a peer or stay connected with others who are from a similar background, including maybe "Back home" people who didn't go to school/grad school as well as connections in school.

I moved across country once by Amtrak freight + flying. It's extremely affordable and sends your stuff from Amtrak station to Amtrak station (you have to be there to pick it up or they'll charge you storage). I'll likely do it again w this move and drive furniture out w our parents' cars, fragile stuff in my compact.

Reviving this thread for the 2017 season! I'm planning my move from Denver and am having a whole lotta nonsense with the UChicago Grad housing people. It appears they're using two systems right now to determine apartments. If we don't get university housing we're planning on flying out end of June for showings for an end of July move date. Are apartments typically on a 30/sub30day cycle here? I know in more "college towns" it can be way more seasonal to college schedules.

Hi there! I started another thread earlier in the cycle that must've just slipped off the first page:

I believe it would just be calling and maybe theyll ask you to write something/email to confirm in writing. Congrats!

I saw that in the manual when I was late-night creeping and set my funding goal as an amount I would feel comfortable with alone or with an additional 5k, not more. I applied to mostly 2-5k awards but I do have one scholarship I'm still being considered for that's "last provider" funding, so I have no idea how'd they balance that should I be so fortunate to receive it. Have you found the budget to be reasonable? Like books are 500 a quarter, room and board is about 14,000 (not looking at the site right now) for the 9 months, etc? I was able to take out less loans than I was offered in Undergrad by keeping expenses lower than anticipated but this time I'm moving cities and want to be sure that's feasible. My partner and I plan on continuing to split expenses as though we're roommates.

Was hoping we could brainstorm good off campus part time jobs for my and other's benefit. I worked at my university library throughout undergrad and was able to schedule shifts around classes (even like 45 minutes of shelving between classes!) and take extra hours in the summer without fear of running out of work study funds. I also worked for the large test prep company in undergrad and for years following- high hourly with relative autonomy was also very workable in school. Right now I'm looking at moving to a new city and considering potentially upgrading my car early to make it a Lyft-mobile (though It may be more profitable to just keep it no-frills through grad school instead). Also considering other sharing economy gigs like Handy or Rover to fill in my schedule with a little flexible $$. I'm going to an MSW program and will be in field work as soon as I begin so I want to avoid work that is too emotionally/intellectually draining, like at this point I'd rather walk dogs or shelve/file than teach extensively. What options am I missing? How about the summer break? Back when I was more punk people would do all kinds of things like harvest corn or work other agricultural short-term jobs or medical sleep studies. Now that I have the bachelor's degree I feel like it should be a little more lucrative out there, even if I'm looking for temp work.

I have pretty significant funding for my graduate program and am applying for outside scholarships. Though my case is not as extreme, I try to leverage this so-called "Cost of attendance" in my favor for the "unmet need". I also am trimming the heck-all out of my budget and may not pay interest on my student loans. You will likely need to report your package and a budget for any significant funding opportunity. I wouldn't think of it as selfish so much as you do have "unmet need", even if the amount is smaller and includes those expenses beyond tuition.

Well in that case, it's certainly not over until its over. I work in customer service, so I often expect everyone knows "Underpromise, over deliver" but I wouldn't even call until Friday. From what it sounds like to me, they're running early = March 1st, not running early = before March 1st. If you don't end up at CSU- they have a fellowship program too after you graduate. I'm a colorado native, but I've never been to Fort Collins. Best of luck!

Have you asked Fordham to give you more time?

I'd look at people who do the work you want to do and look into their backgrounds- do they have Phds? Do they speak from work experience? What kind? It's a very expensive and time consuming assumption (even if you're funded you're losing out on earning years/opportunity costs) for the goal's you're describing.

Also want to point out you can always calculate what your payments will be at https://studentloans.gov/myDirectLoan/mobile/repayment/repaymentEstimator.action When I add the worst case- 41,000 of Stafford loans (the max over two years) and an extra 12,000 in Plus loans, I'm looking at 30$ more a month on PAYE with a similar salary to what I'm leaving to go back to school. That I can handle.

I've heard you shouldn't take out more than your median target career salary. That would put most social workers between 40-60k for a cap for both undergrad and grad which is pretty low for some of these private schools. I'm aiming for a total of about 70-80 with undergrad included. My personal goal was to take less in grad school than the 50k NHSC repayment- so I would "come out ahead" by going to school. I went to public schools and took one foolish year at a private arts college in undergrad that cost me more than 50% my total debt to date. I wanted the expensive school this time because I want the resources. I want the funded summer internship, the alumni network, the midnight library, the movie screenings, the free workshops and professional development experiences, the connections in social science academia, the clout, etc. My goal is to feel like I got what I paid for at the end.

Got an additional award after review of my FAFSA. They also let me know if I was eligible for federal financial aid I would get work study of up to 4,500 per year and loans for the cost of attendance remaining. I had a goal in mind for funding and they just barely exceeded it! I deposited today and am focusing on my outside scholarship applications. Glad this part is over.

Theres two ways as far as I know: Leverage an offer of financial assistance from another school (hopefully something similarly ranked)-- there's a lot of posts on this in The Bank if you search negotiating financial aid / negotiating fellowship. Politely ask for reconsideration -- if you have additional financial circumstances you would also include that information I would advise keeping either request short, sweet, and respectful. That being said, there's no harm in asking. A million years ago I worked in financial aid at an art school. Most people who asked got an additional 1-3,000.00 just cause.

Will you attend? we will get an additional letter with the financial aid package, right? i got the deans distinguished leadership award but of course I'd really like more help where I can get it...

I got in!

I have it too! Well this didnt help my day job productivity.... Edit: This post from Harris last year notes that most people got decisions after business hours the same day they saw this documents icon. Fingers crossed!

It does seem pretty high correlation to Fridays, though not exclusively. Apparently priority deadliners should hear "during the first week of February." That's basically starting Wednesday, right? A million years ago I was going to apply to Law school and I found that prospective law students are by and large, very anxious and also, relatedly, very good at gathering information on that which stresses them. I'm sure our JD equivalents have a graph, a searchable database and an admission prediction modeler for UChicago where we have a hunch that Friday is the day.

So on the spirit of anxiety based research: Looks like based on the result board that batches of decisions come on Fridays... Im guessing early deadline admits will come out between the 27th and the 3rd? Maybe as early as the 20th and as late as the 10th? I'm trying to prepare myself to check my status and find out after work so I don't give away my plan (or failed plan) to quit in a few months out of excitement/disappointment.

It makes me extra mad about the shift to the right too! But Trump is maybe his own club apart from the Kochs? I need to research this more and see what the author has published since the nomination and election. Now im reading Conflict Is Not Abuse by Sarah Schulman, one of my favorite non fiction writers, about the difference between conflict and problem solving and violence and victimhood. Examples span political to the personal and back and overall just a lot to chew on. My shelf to read from the library is a lot of non fiction winners of 2016 about race and mental illness. I finally realized I simply don't have the taste for fiction anymore...

I'm out of school so I have no finals to throw my anxiety into as I wait for decisions. Instead I checked out a few library books, currently reading Dark Money Jane Mayer. Helpful to panic about the state of election financing instead of my school/career choices. What about you? What's everybody reading to keep their brain busy?

Didn't see one of these yet for this cycle. Anyone else Apply by December 1st? I'm starting to get extra nervous. I have a pretty high GPA but am coming from the Humanities with a background in community organizing/activism. Shooting for clinical, to boot.

I'm diggin into outside funding applications and putting energy into other projects (getting fit!) to distract myself until decisions.