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One year a long time ago, there were penguins who didn't wear hats when swimming. This made their mothers livid. "Unacceptable!" Frightened, they screamed, "Bears!" Nobody seemed convinced so instead of going swimming they tried juggling. Their mothers tried everything they thought would teach her a skill. However, she couldn't even make oatmeal without disastrous results. So, the penguins gathered money (obviously) trying to purchase a bear. Towering over them, a grizzly beast danced, devouring all bears with such ferocity that even God enjoyed it. Afterwards, God congratulated the penguins and applauded them. "You did it!" Suddenly, the grizzly beast started dancing vigorously. There was an acromantula nearby. It challenged the preconception that magical mushrooms were magical. Sparkling, the magical mushrooms were spreading throughout town. Nobody with pyromania thought grilled cheese would spontaneously erupt into nine identical squirrels! Nevertheless, the penguins elucidated the benefits of sparkling water from Iceland. Suddenly, Iceland exclaimed, "Enough!!! No more penguins. Kill all of the arcades on Monday because King Arthur suffered from sphenisciphobia." Tragically, everyone forgot lasers cure bug madness, meaning none of them stripped the violet beast of his powerful jaw bones. So while some arms spouted Kool-aid, others chopped nuts. This phenomenon halted commerce. Together twenty-five yellow dragons danced sporadically inebriating all anger gods, while academics drank champagne profusely. Who were they? Snotty undergrads eating free Tetrahydrocannabinol Chlorate. Homicidal kittens emerged from congressional hearings purring rhythmic improvised melodies, infuriating the associate professors who stripped them intermittently of all credentials. The incredulous kittens meowed like dragons farts. Except Bruno, who mewed like tinkling bells. Understandably, one chicken farted. Then, surreptitiously, two giraffes killed the conspicuous dragon. Audaciously, someone belched "RAWR!" Startled, four punks flew down from the Appalachian, a bit wide-eyed, and jumped into a brobdingnagian beam of protons, flipping fingers zestfully. Meanwhile, the paladins prophylactically committed themselves to diabolical plots. Therefore, lemonade became the de jure punishment for audacious acts. Worms squirmed and dug tunnels

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this is exactly the situation I am in too and you're right that sharing stories helps. I actually flew in for the interview day, things went well but I know it's super competitive and I keep going over in my head all the things I could have said differently. I can see on the results page that they accepted someone on Friday but I am still in the dark and that's making me extremely miserable - I just want to know even if it's bad news. I emailed the admissions officer who organised everything to ask when I can expect to hear but have not got any response at all. I know that he will have seen the email by now but is not replying for some reason. I don't think silence bodes well in this case.

Fingers crossed for both of us - at this point just knowing one way or another would be enough for me I think.

Well I am also crazy because I refresh my email all day despite being on the other side of the world and know that everyone in the US is sleeping, but just incase I check. My second favourite hobby is checking what time it is in various cities in the US to count down the hours until admissions officers will come in to work. I have actually tried to call/email Steinhardt today but I just get put through to an answerphone and have had no response to my email.

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I completely empathise with you on this. I keep trying to distract myself but honestly I feel I am only half present most of the time as my mind is worrying incessantly about what to do if I don't get in. I found that going to busy places helps a little as it means you can't drift away to easily (I live in a big city so that makes it easier) but mostly I think I manage about 10 minutes tops before frantically checking my email again.

My understanding is that the interview weekends were some time ago, but I could be wrong. I think the best bet is to call the admissions office and ask.

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I already work abroad so my crazy back up plans range from taking another international teaching job to volunteering to teach refugees in some of the less safe regions of the Middle East. The most mundane one is go home to my parents and cry.

I am similarly admitted somewhere who have not offered me funding and told me that usually they don't fund first years. Ultimately it will mean I can't go and is as good as another rejection.

Has anyone heard from the PhD in international education? I haven't heard a peep yet but it sounds like most programmes have.

Catching fire

Thanks for your advice, I have kind of realised that an offer without funding is equivalent to a rejection since it certainly means I can't accept it. I will follow your advice and contact the department directly too. For clarification, the offer letter I received included details about who my supervisor would be should I accept the PhD offer, this is how I know who to contact.

I know there are threads about the amount of funding people have been offered etc. but I have a quandary. I have currently been rejected from 3/6 PhD programmes and accepted to 1. I am trying to wait patiently on the final two (which both guarantee funding) but all the rejections have knocked me a bit and I am not feeling super optimistic. I would be happy to attend the university I have an offer for, but they haven't offered me funding for the first year and the admissions officer told me that they don't normally offer TA/RAships to first years and only 50% of people get one in the 2nd year. I am not sure whether this is because a lot of people are part-time in my field and therefore don't want one or if there are just very few available - I fear the latter is more likely. At present I have spoken to admissions and explained that I am unable to attend without funding and the officer has said he will speak to the department. My questions really are: 1) Have any of you had to negotiate funding and what did you find was the best way to do so? I don't really feel like I have a strong bargaining hand since I don't have funded offers elsewhere and I really can't go without funding. I am an international student and couldn't possibly afford the fees (even if I wanted to) and I surely won't get a visa without proof I can afford the first year (including living costs as well as fees). 2) I now feel that it would be rude to speak directly to my proposed supervisor in the department about this, since the admissions officer said he will speak to the department and this may come across as overstepping him. However, was I wrong to speak to admissions rather than my supervisor first? Do you think I should still contact my supervisor and explain that I am excited about attending but concerned about funding? To be honest any advice you can give would be helpful.

I likewise am down to the wire as the only acceptance I have thus far has not come with funding for the first year and unless I get it I can't accept. So I am waiting on the last two with fingers and toes double crossed. Good luck to you too!

I also got my rejection for the PhD :-(

In addition to my general anger at this, I would like to correct his/her grammar, I would suggest that the following two options both sound more eloquent: 'who can't even write grammatically correctly' or 'who can't even use grammar rules correctly' Perhaps if he had spent his years of speaking English as a first language learning every rule pedantically and reading more widely he/she would know this.

Forest Fire

I was similarly confused by an email I received saying I was recommended for admission but the graduate school had to make the final decision. I contacted the person who sent the letter and they explained that it was a formality and they had never heard of anyone being turned down by the graduate school. Of course if there is a minimum requirement then not meeting that means you haven't met your side of the bargain, but it sounds like you definitely will so I think you can assume you're in. You could also contact the programmes if you want to alleviate your nerves for certain, when I asked they were very polite and understanding about the confusion. Congratulations on the acceptances!

I was admitted to the MSEd programme after applying for a PhD and given a 13,500 merit scholarship. I definitely won't be accepting since I already have an MA (and from a higher ranked university than Upenn), so i hope this helps out one of you on the waitlist or someone who has been waitlisted for funding.

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No, my question to them was about whether or not they conducted interviews and the response said no and that they hoped all decisions would be out by next week.

To anyone else waiting, the GSE emailed me to reply in reply to a question I sent a month ago. In it they said that they hope to have all admissions decisions out by next week. I don't know if this only refers to PhD (since this is what I enquired about). good luck everyone who is waiting !