msgirl23

Me too! Have you found where you're going to live? Or heard any suggestions based on where the school is and good places to live?

Just got accepted to the New School for International Affairs (MA). Definitely nerve racking. Let me know if you find out any good resources and I'll do the same. Now that I've gotten in, it feels like I've traded one horrible anxiety for another!! P.S. I'll be moving with my boyfriend and 3 cats, it looks like we are in similar boats.

I looked into NYU but found that they did not really offer what I was looking for, which was a concentration in economic development.

I actually used to go to Ole Miss. I'm from Mississippi, my sister used to live in Oxford, and my mom lives there now so I am quite familiar with it. What would you like to know?

That makes me feel some what better to know that I'm not the only one going through this. Its leading me to believe either my application is really unimpressive or they are really slow in letting people hear back. I feel like it might be the latter, knowing that they have changed the dealine and told me 2 different timelines in which I should hear back. Let me know if you hear anything.

Well, I know its against all sound advice, but I only applied to one school. I had my reasons for this, one of them mainly being that I am freshly graduated from undergrad and need more work experience to even think about applying to other schools, such as Columbia's SIPA program. Ideally, I would like to do sustainable international economic development. I figured my best bet would be to try to get into grad school, have a sound reason to move to NYC, and be surrounded by the kind of foundations and companies that are making things happen. However, I never anticipating living in limbo for 3 months, or else I might have expanded my net more thoroughly.

I need an opinionon my current situation. I am currently waiting to hear back from the New School for a MA in International Affairs. Here's my situation. When I first applied,the deadline was Feb 15. I had all of my documents in by then and was told I could expect to hear back around mid March. When that time came and went, I emailed Admissions and they told me that: "The first wave of letters went out on the 15th. That being said,you should receive a decision within the next two weeks." Okay so fast forward to April, I don't hear anything so I call and ask Admissions for an update. Eventually, what I find out is that they did not send my application tothe department of International Affairs until March 9th. The school was on spring break 3/15-3/21. So I'm looking on their website for any morsel of information,and see that the posted deadline for admission has been changed to March 15. Frustrated, I tracked down the department's number and called them to ask when I should expect to hear back. The woman who answered the phone told me "not to expect to hear back before the end of the month [April]" and led me to believe it would be closer to beginning of May. This is semi-ridiculous and really driving me nuts. Any advice or tips?