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In with 1/3 funding!

No, I'm pretty unclear about how all of it works. I was pretty sure I wouldn't get into Harvard, let alone get a fellowship, so I feel like I'm catching up on learning this.

Ahhh. Okay. In that case, I'll allow it.

You already got an invite for CPL! Save some funding for us plebians!

Congrats!!

Same question but for the Public Service Fellowship and the Scott and Isabelle Black Fellowship.

Aww. Boo. Didn't get an email. Wasn't really expecting too, though. Congratulations @Palolem!

Just got accepted!! Holy fucking damn!

I didn't even know this was a thing. It will certainly soften the blow when I am summarily rejected from Harvard.

I got accepted to Harris (with funding) and Goldman (without funding). Still waiting on Ford, HKS and (strangely) LBJ. I need to get work done today because I really got none done yesterday and I have deadlines to meet. This is getting problematic.

I feel you, @santiis2cool. The amount of stress that I feel about this decision is insane given the small likelihood I will be accepted.

Do GradCafe points count if earned in GradCafeGW?

If I get enough Grad Cafe points, Harvard has to admit me, right?

Twas the Day 'Fore Admissions 'Twas the day 'fore admissions, and all through the forum, Not a person was working, they'd built quite a quorum. Their essays were written, with pride and with care, But would they get in? Not a one was aware. They paced through their offices and homes oh so stressed, While their little hearts beated away in their chests. They gnawed at their nails and rended their flesh, They rapped on their keyboards, and tapped at refresh. An email arrived! The time! It has come! Oh, no, wait, it's just a letter from mum. "Ugh, Mom!" they did shout. "Can't you see that I wait? For a letter from Harvard to come on this date?" And far off in Cambridge, the admissions committee, Laughed and sneered and guffawed without pity. They sipped on their mai tais and laughed at the plebs, "Having fun waiting, you dorks and you dweebs?" But at last they decided, long enough they had waited, They'd read and reread, discussed and debated. They gave off a shout and it rang through the city "Behold a decree from the admissions committee!" They turned to the students at The Grad Cafe Who'd fretted and talked, and stopped working all day, "We think you're quite swell, and you're so very cool Welcome to Harvard's John F. Kennedy School!"

David King is the Chair of the Admission's Committee.

If we stop constantly questioning this and start accomplishing things at work, they win. Once more unto the breach, dear friends! Once more!

But if it doesn't happen today, you've just reminded us that you were the first to be wrong.

Watch them not tell us for another week, just to see us squirm. They post a picture of them all on the beach sipping Mai Tais to the HKS Admissions Blog. "See you next week, plebs!"

Do you suppose that the admissions committee is reading this forum and giggling?

Some MGPS people have heard. Did anyone applying for the MPAff program hear?

@tinpants12, you can register for a campus visit on their website. It's on April 5th. Maybe I'll see you there! https://apply-harris.uchicago.edu/register/?id=0da69bc4-1e73-4ebf-92f2-58223f44e873&c=Chicago+Harris+Campus+Visit&f=calendar

@Fall007, I'm in the same boat. I am fine waiting (that's a lie. I'm useless at work right now as I wait to hear back from HKS and Ford), but it's the lack of transparency that is killing me. I have no idea if I'll hear today or on April 10th. I have no idea if my not hearing yet means I was rejected or waitlisted. Meanwhile, I keep hearing from schools I got into and just keep getting open house invites from LBJ, despite the fact that I already attended an open house.

Seconding this. What were everyone's thoughts? I'm not able to make it out there until early April, but will be attending an open house then.

Feeling the same way. I'm getting decisions from other schools and my esteem for LBJ is dropping as I keep being put on hold for it.

Because, @congoAppMCMPA, there is solidarity in all having our blood pressures raised together.