deelite

Thanks for your concern, but no worries...I have full funding at two other schools, wait-listed with full funding at two additional schools, and still have yet to hear back from one. Without funding and tuition waiver, it's too much of a gamble whether or not I would get an assistantship at UNCG, and plus I think teaching experience is incredibly important and don't want to waste a full year or more doing admin work (no offense to anyone for whom this applies!).

Suspicions confirmed...I just received a follow-up letter telling me that they have no assistantships or tuition waivers to offer me. As MM suggested, the alternative is to apply for administrative graduate assistantships or pay OOS. Hey, at least now I know.

No, I haven't heard anything about funding yet, either. I am also several states away, and I'm ready to clear up this nonsense about out-of-state tuition rates. Since it sounds like you're an out-of-stater, too, did your acceptance letter also say that you'd be coded as an out-of-state resident for tuition purposes?

I couldn't agree with you more on the discrepancy between the way you're treated amongst different schools. After the invasive, tortuous, protracted application process in which we are asked to bare our souls and empty our wallets, the least they could do is answer some basic questions with even just a modicum of enthusiasm and/or return calls or e-mails within a reasonable timeframe. At this point, I'm still waiting on a few schools to notify me of my status (!) but I am heavily leaning toward going to a program without a big name behind it because the DGS has spent a total of 2.5 hours on the phone with me over the course of 3 calls and gushed enthusiastically about my future in their program in specific ways, among other reasons (great faculty, decent fellowship, and seemingly good pedagogy going on there). As you said, it's a good sales pitch for how the program operates and how you will be treated as a student. If we're going to spend the next 5+ years of our lives somewhere, it matters. Thanks for the 411 on UNCG. I have pretty much scratched it off my list due to other factors anyway.

Thanks for your thoughts...if I decide to go that route, I'll take you up on your kind offer to help me avoid the housing nightmare!

That's what I was wondering. Why would they make that designation (out-of-state) only to then pay for it? What else would "out of state" signify other than tuition rates? I figured that being classified OOS meant "we want you, but just for your money." As you can see, this process has made me rather cynical.

No...I got an acceptance yesterday, but no funding info, no tuition waver, and would have to pay out-of-state tuition. No thanks.