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Thank you. This is a perfect answer. I didn’t know if it was the same for every school because it’s from the federal government or if each school did this separately.

When should I expect to receive a financial aid award letter from my school with all federal financial aid that I qualify for? Im having a hard time planning for the fall because I don’t know how much money I will have.

Program Applied To: MDP, MGA, MA Schools Applied To: Emory University, Fordham University, University of Notre Dame, American University Schools Admitted To: Emory ($), American ($$), Notre Dame (waitlist) Schools Rejected From: Fordham Still Waiting: none Undergraduate institution: medium sized urban state university Undergraduate GPA: 2.97 Last 60 hours of Undergraduate GPA (if applicable): Undergraduate Major: International Relations and Affairs GRE Quantitative Score: 150 GRE Verbal Score: 162 GRE AW Score: 4.5 Years Out of Undergrad (if applicable): 3 years Years of Work Experience: 3 years Describe Relevant Work Experience: Peace Corps Volunteer, Study Abroad Advisor at University Strength of SOP (be honest, describe the process, etc): I think my writing is a strong point and I’d like to think that this was reflected in my SOP. I mostly described by experiences in Peace Corps and how it’ll hopefully affect the direction I take in grad school. Strength of LOR's (be honest, describe the process, etc): Definitely a strong point. Department Chair of PSC from my undergrad institution, Country Director from Peace Corps and my Program Manager from Peace Corps. Other: Congrats to everyone who got accepted and don’t hold your head if you didn’t, this was my second time around applying.

Still nothing either way. Everytime I’ve contacted them, they tell me that no decision has been made and that I’m still on the waitlist.

Has anyone who is on the waitlist got a decision yet?

sigh ?

You heard today? I still haven’t got anything either way. I guess I assumed I was waitlisted, because no rejection or anything. Congrats on all your acceptances!

Just got an email saying that I'm on the waitlist.

I think they do more than one wave of decisions. They don't appear to disaggregate based on concentration. The first decisions went out on wednesday two weeks ago, so maybe this wednesday the next wave will come out. Apparently people have received rejections, so maybe they're waiting for people who don't accept the first wave of decisions.

I'm ARGHing real hard today.

I haven't heard anything yet. No update on application portal either.

Still nothing yet from here. Either way.

Yeah, that’s what she said. Seems like a lot, but who knows.

I called Judy who said that they received over 400 applications this year and will send them out in the next two weeks. She sounded stressed. It is frustrating how little communication there’s been with applicants.

The least they could do is just tell me that I'm rejected instead of making wait around in supsense. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!