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Hi! I have a nice-ish possibility of moving into a house on Miles St. Would anyone have a sense of how safe the area is?

Sorry to hear about that ZahP, were you visiting or studying there?

Is it 19800 before the student approved fees? I haven't accepted yet but probably will soon. I bargained a bit because Amherst was giving me an awesome fellowship and so UCSC offered a bit of summer/setup money which I'm hoping to use for flight tickets over the years! (I'm planning long ahead and I have no idea how that'll work out)! No I have no idea about housing yet. I was thinking of going for campus housing in the beginning to make it a little easier for myself to settle down. I guess that might mean I'll get ripped off in the first year, but I figured it'd be much easier for me to find a place and roommates once I've been in the city for a while. I'm not decided on this though. But I was told in one of the emails that when you accept the offer you're put on the listserv, which makes it easier to find other students looking for/offering a place. Did you figure that out?

Hey Mike! Thanks a lot for this reply. Not three years, but three quarters, so basically every year I get 20+. The program will go on for more than three years, at present I only have information about the first. I've heard about the high rent earlier on the forum too, and it worries me a bit. The campus housing isn't that much better: it's around $ 1100 a month from what I can understand! What's funny is that their funding falls short or barely meets the cost of living estimates on their own website! My problem right now is that I have no bargaining power. My other offer is from UMass Amherst where I'm getting almost the same amount. I'm wait listed at Brandeis and Minnesota and I was really wishing I had something from those places so I could compare before making a decision! I would love it if you could tell me a bit about the city: the weather, the culture, the security, etc. I know my questions are vague but I'm new to this nafizamin, have you applied to UCSC too? What's your offer like and what are you thinking about it?

Hi! UCSC finally sent out their offer letters and I got one. They're offering me 20,668 for three quarters, and the student approved fees is 364 per quarter (for three quarters?) so I'm guessing I'll be left with about 19+ for the year. This is already not fantastic because I'm from India and I was hoping to be able to visit home every year. Can someone give me a sense of what the living expenses are like at Santa Cruz, and how I'll fare with this much money?

@Feanor thanks a lot for your very helpful reply! I had heard that BoGS takes very little time which is why I'm perplexed as to why mine's been there for over two weeks now. The website says that you can write with appropriate reasons, requesting them to expedite the process so maybe I'll do that. Once I have an acceptance then maybe I can write to the department.

@kekology4 thanks a lot! I actually managed to get a response from the professor that I had contacted before the apps, who assured me that the official letters will be sent out very soon. Congratulations on your acceptance at Stony Brook!

Guys, I applied to the Lit department and I got a phone call on the 27th of Feb from Professor Camilo Gomez-Rivas who told me that I'd been recommended. So I asked, does that mean that I've been accepted, and he said, yeah, well, we're supposed to say recommended. I'm assuming, since I heard a bit late, that I may have been on the wait list but that they don't really notify about that. But the problem is now it's been almost a week and I haven't received an official acceptance letter or information about funding. I did receive a mail about the orientation though. Should I contact the Dean? Super anxious here. Wondering if it may have had something to do with mentioning on the phone that I'm also waiting to hear from other places! But then I was asked!!

Hello! I applied for PhD English and after a skype interview my status has been Awaiting decision from BOGS for about a couple of weeks now. Although at the end of the interview with my potential supervisor I'd been told that I'd hear from the BOGS "in a few weeks", I'm still a bit nervous considering everyone here seems to say it took just about a day for the status to change to acceptance! But my primary cause of concern is, what happens to my funding possibilities if the BOGS takes so long? From what I've been reading around here, funding decisions are mostly made around March and April. I'm aware that the timelines are different for different scholarships. Going by the information on the University website, according to which certain scholarships may be announced by June, I have another problem that crops up at this point. Because of the difficulty of receiving funding in the UK, I had applied to a number of US universities as well. As of now I'm waitlisted at one and have received unofficial acceptance at another (ugghh) and am waiting to find out about funding in a third. In the US, acceptances need to be made by April 15th. Now if Cambridge simply does not tell me, first about the acceptance, and then about the funding, what should I do???! Have I gotten myself into a hopeless situation where I might have to do something utterly unethical by accepting a US offer and turning it down after April 15th, when I know something about Cambridge? Or is there a ray of hope here? Will it help to contact their admissions office? So anxious and worried here, any help would be very welcome.