jeangabin

I got (positive) word yesterday from Yale's joint program with EALL––I definitely think FMS accepts students based on the admissions timeline of the home department.

I did get an offer officially today from EALL at Yale (I'm in the joint program with Film & Media Studies), so presumably decisions are out for everyone.

I'm very unsure of what I should do––wondering if anyone has any insight. I have two MA offers, both fully funded. I don't really want to name the schools for anonymity's sake, but one from my alma mater, with a smaller stipend but no requirement to teach. The other from a west-coast school, with a program that's maybe a slightly worse fit for me and the funding is contingent on teaching, but a bigger stipend. My undergraduate thesis advisor (who would probably advise me again?) suggested I'd benefit from learning from new faculty. Both are fine schools, but my alma mater is significantly more famous and one of the richest universities on the planet. The other school is in a much better city (for me), but the cost of living is higher. I'm just not sure how much stuff like teaching vs. not teaching should weigh in, the degree to which learning from other faculty matters, etc. I'm very much on the humanities side of things, if that context helps at all.

I just heard back (positively) from Harvard's RSEA MA, so presumably decisions are coming out.