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I just did! 

Anybody interested in a final decisions thread listing where we will enroll in the fall? 

Anybody interested in a final decisions thread listing where we will enroll in the fall? 

Hey there! I wanted to start a thread where 2022 applicants could list their final decisions for where they will enroll in the fall! 
 
I will kick it off by saying that I've just accepted my offer at University of California - Davis !!!

Hey there! I wanted to start a thread where 2022 applicants could list their final decisions for where they will enroll in the fall! 
 
I will kick it off by saying that I've just accepted my offer at University of California - Davis !!!

Hey there! I wanted to start a thread where 2022 applicants could list their final decisions for where they will enroll in the fall! 
 
I will kick it off by saying that I've just accepted my offer at University of California - Davis !!!

I just did! 

Anybody interested in a final decisions thread listing where we will enroll in the fall? 

Accepted off the waitlist at UBC!

Accepted off the waitlist at UBC!

Accepted off the waitlist at UBC!

This happened to me when I was applying for MA programs. Once was for a fellowship that I had to accept by Feb. 15th!!! I was no where near close to hearing from all my programs at that point so I simply declined the fellowship.
I also was waiting to hear from some waitlists when the April 15th deadline came. I kindly asked my top program for an extension and explained I was waiting to hear from waitlists. They seemed to have no problem with that and gave me an extra two weeks. I am not sure if that would be true everywhere, but I think sending an email asking for an extension would be the best path!

In my experience, generally you can negotiate your stipend IF you have more lucrative offers from other programs you can use as leverage. I guess think of it less as a negotiation and more of a "Can I get more funding to match my other acceptances?"
I did this with many of my MA acceptances and was able to get significantly higher funding at the school I attend now. Basically, I reached out to the DGS at the time and explained how excited I was about the program but that their financial offer wasn't as high as others. The DGS requested that I send them the official funding letters from other schools. After that, I was awarded a higher base stipend and summer funding. I have heard there is a similar practice at the school I will most likely be attending this fall.
If you have higher offers at other places, go for it! While you might feel unprofessional doing it, it is a normal practice in our field. There isn't a worst case scenario as you've already been accepted and the upside is potentially high. Not every school may be able to offer a higher amount, but it is totally worth trying. 
 

In my experience, generally you can negotiate your stipend IF you have more lucrative offers from other programs you can use as leverage. I guess think of it less as a negotiation and more of a "Can I get more funding to match my other acceptances?"
I did this with many of my MA acceptances and was able to get significantly higher funding at the school I attend now. Basically, I reached out to the DGS at the time and explained how excited I was about the program but that their financial offer wasn't as high as others. The DGS requested that I send them the official funding letters from other schools. After that, I was awarded a higher base stipend and summer funding. I have heard there is a similar practice at the school I will most likely be attending this fall.
If you have higher offers at other places, go for it! While you might feel unprofessional doing it, it is a normal practice in our field. There isn't a worst case scenario as you've already been accepted and the upside is potentially high. Not every school may be able to offer a higher amount, but it is totally worth trying. 
 

In my experience, generally you can negotiate your stipend IF you have more lucrative offers from other programs you can use as leverage. I guess think of it less as a negotiation and more of a "Can I get more funding to match my other acceptances?"
I did this with many of my MA acceptances and was able to get significantly higher funding at the school I attend now. Basically, I reached out to the DGS at the time and explained how excited I was about the program but that their financial offer wasn't as high as others. The DGS requested that I send them the official funding letters from other schools. After that, I was awarded a higher base stipend and summer funding. I have heard there is a similar practice at the school I will most likely be attending this fall.
If you have higher offers at other places, go for it! While you might feel unprofessional doing it, it is a normal practice in our field. There isn't a worst case scenario as you've already been accepted and the upside is potentially high. Not every school may be able to offer a higher amount, but it is totally worth trying. 
 

In my experience, generally you can negotiate your stipend IF you have more lucrative offers from other programs you can use as leverage. I guess think of it less as a negotiation and more of a "Can I get more funding to match my other acceptances?"
I did this with many of my MA acceptances and was able to get significantly higher funding at the school I attend now. Basically, I reached out to the DGS at the time and explained how excited I was about the program but that their financial offer wasn't as high as others. The DGS requested that I send them the official funding letters from other schools. After that, I was awarded a higher base stipend and summer funding. I have heard there is a similar practice at the school I will most likely be attending this fall.
If you have higher offers at other places, go for it! While you might feel unprofessional doing it, it is a normal practice in our field. There isn't a worst case scenario as you've already been accepted and the upside is potentially high. Not every school may be able to offer a higher amount, but it is totally worth trying. 
 

This is my understanding as well. The only reason I can negotiate with Austin is because I have other substantially higher offers. With that said, some programs are really not flexible about money. Columbia, for example, is offering the specified minimum in the union contract that was just negotiated last month. If it took a year long + strike and a union to get them to offer just that, I expect that they don't have the resources to offer any more. Cornell also offers exactly the same to every applicant and they were pretty clear that they were offering all they could. It's complicated; departments don't directly have power to change stipends that are decided by the admin of the graduate school, but they can try to get you more fellowships etc. Austin seemed flexible to me because there were various fellowships they offered for some years and not others that were in addition to the base TA salary. But maybe it's not. I'll let yall know.

This application season sucks. I know I had a really strong application, and I started off with a really good acceptance--personal, told me to send them all my offer letters, etc. But like, then all the rejections just kept coming, and today, just two hours apart, rejections for my top two schools came in. I knew Cornell was a long shot, but University of Michigan is such a perfect fit and I'm honestly devastated. I don't know if I can even afford to move to my first acceptance, but I really don't want to stay at the same university where I did my BA and MA. I know this doesn't really accomplish anything, but I just needed to put it into the void.

When you thought that the midnight rejection from UCLA was ruthless and then USC windmill slams a rejection at 3 am! Haha

Just got the email that I'm in at Columbia! Ahhhhhhhhhh 

When you thought that the midnight rejection from UCLA was ruthless and then USC windmill slams a rejection at 3 am! Haha

Let's start one! I think it may be helpful to folks, especially those who may not post regularly on this forum but are still interested in the information. 

Thank you for starting this thread @thursdaysnext. I am an early modernist who has been waitlisted at Arizona State University. I will most likely be removing myself from the waitlist in the next few weeks and will post here when I do!

On it!

I emailed the DGS at Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He confirmed what someone said on the results board a few weeks ago -- they're finished with their deliberations, and if you haven't heard from them by now, you've been rejected.