hoskie

I accepted admission into UIUC. I'm still working out some of the details before I can be sure of my attendance though. I got into all the schools I applied to (CUNY Queens, SUNY Buffalo, St. John's), so I'm pretty happy about that. Congrats to everyone!

I'm going to be at iSchool in the fall as well (... hopefully). I was thrilled to get into the program based on it's reputation and I would love to be able to attend. I tentatively accepted admittance, but I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to pay for it. I'll be coming from out-of-state, so the tuition is... formidable. I'm planning on putting in applications for assistantships (I already tried applying for a FLAS Fellowship, but didn't get it). I'm filling out a FAFSA, but I don't know how much good that is going to do me (my parents still claim me as a dependant on their taxes, but they are not helping me pay for school - I don't know how that's going to work). FAFSA worked out okay during my undergrad because I went to a state school (much cheaper!) and I was able to get a large portion of my loans subsidised (I still racked up nearly $17k all told). I don't even know if anyone will be willing to lend me the amount of money I'm going to need to cover tuition costs (which is ~$10k per semester). ... that being said, I'm going to do whatever I can to get there! I'm vaguely interested in their Data Curation specialisation, but I'm not entirely sure what I want to focus on yet... I'm very pleased at the variety of courses they offer (a lot more than the other schools I applied to) and I'm having a hard time narrowing down what I would like to take. It's great that there are so few "required" courses... it allows a lot of room for exploration. I'll probably test the waters on the technology side of things first. If I do attend, I'll probably take "Intro to Network Systems" and "Foundations of Information Processing in LIS" (in addition to the core "Information Organisation and Access") in my first semester.