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I know that Georgetown does have an official waitlist, I was on it last year, but they're sort of majorly terrible at communication in that I literally never heard from them again

I'm not on the waitlist to be accepted but I am on the waitlist for a TA position at UNH. They said I'm 4th on the list, so it's not impossible but I'm not feeling super hopeful. And without the TA position I won't be able to afford to go so I'm feeling panicky.

I know UNH is sending out at least some MA acceptances today, so if you don't already have your MA you may be hearing from them shortly.

Has anyone else heard from BC?

Yeah I know, things are just a little weird to me because I had originally applied for Spring admission (and ultimately deferred to Fall because of funding, though for them deferral is not automatic admission just consideration again) and heard from the department several days before I heard from the Graduate School, but this time I haven't heard from the department at all.

Has anyone heard an actual rejection from BC yet? I just saw that someone posted in the results forum that they contacted the department and were told their application had been forwarded to the MA program so I'm wondering if it's likely that's the case across the board or not. Unrelated - how long should one wait between receiving an acceptance and contacting the program to ask about when funding information will be coming? I heard back from a school - but not the department itself yet - and so have heard nothing about the TAship I applied for and like. I'm not a patient person by nature so I'm never sure when is appropriate to just ask such things directly.

Not gonna lie I read this and immediately started laughing. I'm sorry you're cold.

I would also pick place A. Between funding and consistent placement they seem like the better place over all and like you will have more opportunities there. If they fund visiting day for everyone they accept I would guess that they also have substantial travel budgets for their students to go to conferences and the like. Quality of life is important though. If you visit place A and feel like you could never live there, it's not like you couldn't decide to go to place B instead. But place A sounds like the better choice academically and career-wise.

Anyone want to claim that Harvard acceptance?

It's possible. Until we know for sure I think we'll all be holding out that tiny bit of hope. But according to previous years timetables rejections should be going out any day now.

Right there with you guys, and the anxiety is killing me

@ProfessionalNerd that's amazing! Congratulations!!!

Well that actually makes me feel a bit better, that they spread their calls, I didn't know that/notice that, like all hope is not yet lost (I'm hanging on to a very very tiny bit of it but lbr I'm fully expecting for it to be crushed). I know exactly that feeling, like always thinking like you applied because you believe in yourself and that you're good enough and yet at the same time being like lol yeah right

You should definitely feel free to say where, you're allowed to be proud and excited! Plus the only recent over the phone results are Princeton so I kinda just assumed anyway. Also, same Caien, like hot mess doesn't even describe it

Thanks guys, this gives me a little bit of hope. I'm definitely going to look into UMB. As for BC, I know they give $10,000 scholarships to a number of MA students but do you guys know if they ever offer full funding/TAships or packages that cover more than that?