Theevidentevaluator

I will be attending the Josef Korbel school at the University of Denver with a full-tuition Sie Fellowship.

I'm in with the MIA! Half tuition reduction and half living expenses scholarship.

It's a no for me for the Sie Fellowship.

Over the course of the year.

@publicpolicy2019 You get a $6,000 stipend for being part of the program; no aid is associated with it.

By the way, I got confirmation from the International Fellows contacts. If you didn't receive note of getting into the program in the acceptance letter, you weren't selected for the cohort.

I second @iamemily03. Although first off I don't even know how I'd go affording the first year with no funding, even if I bet on getting an assistantship in my second year. In the best possible scenario maybe I'll receive the $25,000 federal unsubsidized loan and a $62,395 graduate PLUS loan. But $87,395 is a lot of money to ask of someone, even if the Columbia name is attached to it. Given that I want to go into the public service (like most of us), I don't even see myself making $87,395 until mid-career. And a TA position in the second year only takes off $12,000 in tuition. I feel like it would be a burden I would probably be carrying around with for the rest of my life. So definitely up for negotiating, and if I don't get any money from that, I've received much better offers elsewhere. The whole point of graduate school is to open up your career possibilities and if my options are limited to careers that I don't feel passionate about (even if they're high-paying) in order to pay off my debt it's not worth it.

I am thinking that sentence means that we didn't receive funding. But I'm going to email the financial office about my specific case for clarification.

Sie interviewees ( @cowsgomoo et al.): Hear anything back from the Center yet about the Fellowship? I was told by the Director that Sie awardees would be notified some time this week.

Based on the confusing language in the welcome portal, I'm also wondering this. I'm assuming we didn't receive scholarships if we weren't notified yesterday, but I don't know why they would say we would be contacted separately in the same sentence as info about scholarships. The people who received scholarships yesterday were notified of them alongside their acceptance letter.

Regarding financial aid again, does anyone know what these lines from the welcome portal mean in relation to the decisions we received yesterday? "We automatically consider all admitted applicants for scholarships and we will contact you separately with more information about financing your SIPA education. Please note that most scholarship decisions will not be released until March 2019." So I'm inferring from the second sentence that scholarships were likely all given to people yesterday with their letters. Reading the first sentence though, I'm confused as to what they're contacting us separately about - I'm guessing PLUS loans and work study?

Did any of you apply for the International Fellows program? If so, did you notice any mention of it in your acceptance letter? According to some forum sleuthing from 2017, some first year students were notified about being chosen in the letter. But, the IF page on SIPA's site lists the application deadline as the end of April. So if both first and second years are considered at the same time, that would leave me to believe that we wouldn't hear back about IF until May or June. I sent an email to the IF contacts on the site, and if they provide me with any more information about IF decisions, I'll let you know.

IN (holy crap)!! No funding information either. I will probably go lurk in last year's thread to see when that cohort received their funding.

Any predictions as to which day this week we'll be notified of our decisions on? Every day lies in "mid-March".

@iamemily03 Thanks for letting us know!

@maddie92 I was able to access the admissions blog around noon actually but can no longer load it now. Fingers crossed that it's a sign!

@twenty-seven It looks like they might - but according to the results page from last year people recorded either receiving the email to check their application portal on the 9th or 10th. Their office isn't opened on Saturdays so maybe they automated the emails to be sent staggered? I will probably be checking my application portal once an...hour...until that email comes though...just in case... #anxious

Today's possibly the day...let us know if you've received a decision, please!

Hi @BroadwayBetty! I was recently accepted into UVA for their MPP. I really like their program because of the leadership focus and the rest of the curriculum's comprehensiveness. They also have a 100% job placement rate and the average income after finishing the program seemed high to me for public service - about $55,000. I also received a good financial aid package - I'm an in-state student and I received a $17,500 scholarship to cover the ~$28,000 tuition. In addition, the Batten School just received one of UVA's largest charitable gifts and they are aggressively trying to move up in the US News and World Report rankings, so a degree from their program will become more valuable. I went to school in the DMV (American) and stayed here for 4 years after I finished my degree. I am in an interesting position in that I actually want to move elsewhere now, as I want to experience another place, so I didn't apply to any schools within the Beltway. However I applied to UVA because it's far away enough from DC to feel different but close enough that I can network and see friends frequently. I did look at a few GMU's programs last year when I was thinking about going to school part time and heard very good things about their MPP. I see the Schar School's faculty on TV quite frequently and generally think you would get a lot of bang for your buck as an in-state student. I have a friend who is in UMD's MPP program and they've been very flexible in letting her pursue multiple different internships during her time there.

Hi all! Wanted to start a thread for the regular deadline and postponed early bird applicants for IHEID/Graduate Institute, Geneva in this forum. Looks like we have a little more than a week left of waiting. If you get accepted, can you let us know what your stats were and tell us if you received a scholarship? Good luck all.

Just got a call from the admissions office - I was accepted! I was told I will receive detail about funding in the official notification email on Monday.

Just got a call from the admissions office - I was accepted! I was told I will receive detail about funding in the official notification email on Monday.

Apologies for spamming this thread a little, but I just (15 minutes ago!) received an invitation to interview for Sie! I'll be interviewing during the first week of March.

I was accepted into the International Studies program and received a $25,000 Founder's Recognition Scholarship (I'm sure this is just a fancy name for a scholarship of a certain denomination from their general award money but I will happily put it on my CV now). Stats: Undergrad GPA: 3.67 Undergrad Degree: BA in Intl. Studies from American University GRE Scores: 158 V 153 Q 4.0 AW (These scores are the weakest part of my application but I think they are still around or above Korbel's average scores) Work Experience: 4.5 years combined internships and postgrad work, one internship with the State Department, one internship with a U.S. Representative, one internship with the Executive Office of New York State (governor's office), and 3 years postgrad as a State Department contractor. Other Skills: Tableau, STATA, and Excel proficiency. Intermediate Mandarin, intermediate French, and basic Danish proficiency

Oh that's odd. I did receive a merit scholarship that was detailed in my acceptance letter but no info on unsubsidized loans, federal work study, etc. I contacted DU's Financial Aid Office and they said I would be able to see my award soon, but I checked my PioneerWeb account and it's not there.