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  1. On 2018-03-29 at 7:08 PM, Wannabe Historian said:

    Hey, so this is what I received. Have I been rejected?

    Thank you for being available for interview with our panel in Cambridge this week.

    We very much enjoyed speaking with you but unfortunately you are not on the list of students being offered a Gates Cambridge Scholarship immediately.

    The Trust will be reviewing your interview panel feedback next week and I will be in contact again on Wednesday, 4 April 2018 to give you a further update on your status. 

    I know this will be disappointing news but please know that everyone involved with the Cambridge selection process thinks very highly of your application and it is a great achievement to have reached the interview stage of our competition. 

    With best wishes,

    Luisa

     

     

    I got this as well. No clue. :(

  2. 23 hours ago, mg878 said:

    i just noticed something and thought i would share here and get your views:

    i got accepted to the phd genetics programme in early feb.

    it looks like the gates has a relatively predictable trajectory of how many geneticists they support every year (avg ~1 and sd ~1). is it the same in your programmes too?

    I looked at this as well and found something similar (Gender Studies). No one from the US was from the program, so I probably have my hopes (unreasonably) high. But yeah, tends to be 1-2 for me too.

  3. Having a moment of anxiety and desperately seeking affirmation from anyone who can provide it:

    1. I just found a typo in my Gates statement (why would I review it at this point????? There is nothing good to come from this gah) where I wrote "rules" instead of "roles." Thoughts as to how awful this is???

    2. I'm also just generally panicking because I'm still under department review and am worried that any international Gates' nominees would already have been accepted by now. Can anyone debunk this, or is there any truth to this freak-out??

     

    Ok, sorry for this, but grateful for thoughts/advice.

  4. 7 minutes ago, Shulfer said:

    Agreed! keep me posted if you hear anything!! and i will with you!

    Absolutely will do!! FWIW, found this timeline for international applicants on another thread:

    3 February: department offer
    26 February: invited to Gates interview
    22-23 March: Gates interview
    24 March: Gates offer

  5. 1 minute ago, Shulfer said:

    Thanks for the response! What program did you apply for?

    MPhil in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies - quite different than yours, I'm afraid!! Lots of people on here from the US so nice to have someone else going through the international process!!

  6. 2 minutes ago, Shulfer said:

    Hi all! Did anyone apply from internationally (i.e., im an expat now living in Austria)? Any feedback if so! And did anyone apply for PhD in psychiatry (if so, what happens after under review with department)?

    I applied internationally (Canada) - but not expecting to hear back until probably March or so, from what I've read. :( Eep!

  7. Happy to have found this thread!! I'm an international applicant (from Canada) so am not expecting to hear back either way for a few months yet. I'm also still at the "under review by department" stage, so anxiously awaiting..... good luck everyone!

  8. 1 hour ago, Nirenight said:

    Hi guys,

    I've been creeping for a while and I saw that some of you guys got into Carleton's MPPA a few days ago. I got in yesterday evening with a $15000 scholarship! I'm soo excited! It's my top choice.

    I'm still kinda worried about the cost though. I didn't get a TAship or RAship -or at least I don't think so. The Offer of Admission letter mentions them, says my funding package "may be comprised of a Teaching Assistantship and Research Assistantship", but it isn't mentioned in my statement of standing. So I'm 99% sure that means I didn't get it. Do you know if there are other ways to get a TAship? To apply separately for one somehow? Or get on a waitlist? Or to get it in the second year maybe? I'm slightly disappointed because my GPA surpasses the minimum requirement of a 10 point GPA for a TAship in order to qualify by quite a few points. I got a Domestic Entrance Scholarship, which required a 10.5 GPA. So that's surprising I got one but not the other. I think I'm going to email them and as politely as possible ask if there is any alternative way to get a TAship. 

    Also, do you guys know if the co-op is ever paid? At other schools it is, but whether or not it is paid is very pointedly not mentioned on the website. That makes me think it is not.

    And then there is the 21 days to accept. I won't have heard back from all my schools. What happens if you accept but then later decline? Does anyone know?

    Sorry for all the questions lol. You guys may not know. Just thought I would ask.

     

    Hi, I can't help with all of this but from what I have heard Carleton is usually quite accommodating in granting an extension on the 21 days if you explain your situation and ask for it :)

  9. Hi @TakeruK - thanks for the quick response! I am definitely in the second camp I would say. It would be a struggle but I would try to make it work. And like you said - if I asked it would definitely be in a really tactful, polite way. I was more thinking along the lines of thanking them for the offer, sharing that I was a bit anxious about the $ situation given a really appealing funding offer closer to home, and asking if there were any other scholarship/research positions/etc. etc. that they might know of. Because the UK school is definitely on the more prestigious side, I don't want to come in sounding like I think I deserve more money when I know that other applicants probably have pretty impressive profiles. Sigh. 

  10. Hi all, 

    I've found myself in a position for which I am very grateful, but which has also made me super super anxious. I've been accepted to two Master's programs, one in my home country at my undergrad institution (in Canada) and one at a top-tier school in the UK. My undergrad institution isn't super well-renowned, but the program is generally viewed as one of the best in the field in the country. Both schools have offered me funding, along the lines of this:

    School A (Canada) - $30K for one year; tuition is $11K and cost of living relatively low

    School B (UK) - $14K for one year; tuition is $30K and cost of living very high

    In Canada and the US, it's pretty common (from what I gather) to straight up ask for more money for a grad program. I have no idea if this is acceptable or ever done in the UK, and would really, really appreciate any insight from anyone who has done this before (successfully or otherwise) or really anything along these lines.

     

    TLDR: Can I negotiate my grad school funding offer from a top-tier UK university? 

    Thanks all!!! :)

  11. 2 minutes ago, sonsofeasterly said:

    That's fantastic - is that just internal or OGS + internal?

    Just internal (missed the OGS deadline), and thank you! This makes decision making way, way, way harder. I'll be super honest, LSE is where I really want to go because of the program, and they did offer me funding...but it is literally half of this (with the tuition basically twice as much). I'm super grateful but also way more stressed than I was this morning LOL.

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