Great question, wish I had an answer to it. I'm considering going part-time and working, or I'll try to figure out how to make schools like me more and reapply next year.
I got the same wording. In another thread (the acceptances thread, I think) it seemed that there was an "alternate" list for assistantships, so maybe there are three tiers of accepted students? If that's the case, I wonder exactly how far down the list we are for funding
Thanks for the information about Georgetown!
If anyone else is waiting for news from SAIS (PhD), they said this afternoon that they would have all decisions out by Friday the 8th. Only a week late!