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From my understanding, you will still receive a salary for your work, but you will not receive additional tuition credits. Taken from their website: "Beginning in 2018-19, assistantship salaries per semester will be as follows: Teaching Assistant (TA): $12,000; Reader, Program Assistant-faculty, Program Assistant-administrative (PA): $6,000 Course Assistant (CA): $3,000"

I spoke to someone from admissions last week and was able to clarify some things about their new funding process. While it's sort of stated in their blog post, the staff member that I talked to confirmed that SIPA will no longer offer tuition credit for assistantships. I took this to mean that the funding that you get your first year is pretty accurate on the amount of aid you can expect from SIPA throughout the whole program.

I got in as well. No funding though.

Accepted as well! I can finally stop stressing and go back to work. Congrats to everyone.

I received the email today!

Thank you for your response, Yelina! Reading it helped in calming my nerves. I will look further into CUNY to see if it's a good fit.

Program: MPA Schools Applying To: NYU Wagner (MPA), New School Milano (MS in Public and Urban Policy), Chicago Harris (MSCAPP), Columbia SIPA (MPA) Interests: public communication, digital policy, tech and social innovation Undergrad Institution: flagship state university Undergraduate GPA: 3.65 Undergraduate Majors: economics, journalism GRE: 159V, 155Q, 4.0 W Quantitative Courses: calculus (I-II) macroeconomics sequence, microeconomics sequence, econometrics sequence, developmental economics, international economics, economics of globalization, public economics, monetary policy, resource and environmental economics Years of Work Experience: 2 Work Experience: UN internship, public information assistant at NYC law enforcement agency (still consult for them), public involvement consulting at private company (current), 4 undergraduate community-oriented internships, undergraduate research assistantship in communication law and digital policy Age: 24 Languages: Vietnamese (native) LOR: one from my manager at the NYC agency, one from an economics professor (I took multiple courses with) and one from a journalism professor (I was his RA) Concerns: My low quant score. I'm hoping my undergraduate quant background and relevant work experience will make up for it. I already turned in my Wagner application, but I'm debating if I should retake the GRE for SIPA and Harris. This would mean I will miss SIPA's application deadline with fellowship, but I'm almost certain that I will not get any $$$ with my limited working experience.