jnewcomb08

Tough call. You would hope that it would still be reviewed. I'm not sure how harsh they are with these things.

admission to vanderbilt! yessss!

rejected from columbia (american subfield). oh well.

hey, just claiming an acceptance at university of florida.

although i have not gotten any notification from maryland myself, your post made my day. i know what kind of mental space the rejections with no acceptances can get you in and to notch one in the win column takes away all the pressure and doubt that creeps in. i'm very happy it worked out for you.

waitlisted at iowa.

500k for entertainment, huh? you take the party to the next level.

thanks. you're right. i'll reach out to riverside. when i go to davis at the end of the month, i will ask again about the out of state fee.

who did you interview with?

i interviewed with vanderbilt on friday. had a good time as well afterwards of picking myself apart about all the things i could have said differently, lol. oh well, hopefully it was more a chance for the department to see if i was not crazy and i have a great shot of acceptance.

well, i got into uc riverside last night and they included my funding package. i also got my funding package from uc davis yesterday as well. i guess in california they have a non-resident supplemental tuition charge that is like $15,000/year. i can become a resident after a year and not have to pay that, but the first year it will apply to me. the good news is that uc riverside has given me the money to pay that fee and davis said that "at this time, the department cannot cover your first year of Nonresident Supplemental Tuition." do you guys think this is more of it's not that they cannot, it's that they have decided not to for me specifically? also, both schools gave me a stipend for the first year and notated that i will be working for pay as a TA the second year, but riverside didn't mention anything after that as far as TA/Reader potential income. is this the usual way this works, or will i be up a creek after two years of schooling at riverside? davis said they are "committed to funding your graduate work for five academic years so that you can concentrate on your Ph.D. studies at UC Davis." which i found encouraging.

Claiming a Vanderbilt interview to be done in the next couple of days. American politics.

no emails for me!

i also went from being homeless to earning the outstanding scholar award at UF as well, lol. i wrote that in my statement to show the ability to overcome hardship. who knows...

i applied to 11 schools and have one acceptance so far out of 6 responses. i got a 4.0 gpa at university of florida and graduated magna cum laude from the honors program. i had 3 great letters. my gre was 160/160/5. i really don't know what more i could have done. bottomline: there is a lot of luck involved...or the gre must carry a ton of weight which i absolutely cannot stand. you will get into a school. find something to do keep your mind off it. (i also agree that after years and years of hard work, a generic email is pretty cold...especially when you have waited many years of your life for this moment. for ucsd to send them out in the middle of the night is absurd.)

hang in there. it only takes one.

rejected from ucsd at 3am EST. that's pretty low class coming from a top 10 school. still though, i'm just happy i got into uc davis right now.

princeton rejection...but probably to be expected as i mentioned how badly i wanted to work with a professor who is no longer there, lol. oh well.

there truly is a website for everything.

is there a resource on this site or elsewhere that shows what average funding packages will be for various schools?

i'll be going!

i also was offered admission to uc davis! after rejections from madison and emory, i was getting really down on myself. i'm so happy. american politics here.

i would say: GRE to get past the initial threshold, then personal statement, GPA, LOR, Writing Sample

The GRE and other standardized tests have been shown to do the exact opposite actually in regards to it creating a wider gap between rich and poor/minorities and whites.

one 3 hour test that bombs can ruin anything you did over 4 years. yep. standardized tests are great, aren't they?