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Waitlisted at UW! I will choose UC Berkeley regardless of the outcome, but I'm currently trying to negotiate additional funding.

My perception is that ranking, prestige, and such does not matter at all if : you are interested in working in the same state or local area as your school (i.e. if employers will have heard of your school at all) the program has a decent/good reputation It's all about what you do while you are there. Just be sure to be aggressive for cool internships and other experience. I'm assuming you are going for Masters. If SJSU and CPP are affordable, you like them, and you are looking to stay in the area, you should go for the affordable option imo.

I've had four decisions come in so far, and they have all come with an email or phone call. I check portals occassionally, but I think it's standard for departments to contact you directly about your decision to at least notify you of a change in the portal.

Yay, congrats! Sounds like they thought you'd be a better fit in that program. You'll do very well there, I'm sure!

In at BU and rejected from UVA. Planning to turn down BU in favor of Cornell or Berkeley, but I am sad to do so because the POI I would work with is super nice and cool. Not mad about UVA since they were at the bottom of my preference list anyway.

Sorry, friend! Keep moving forward, and you'll end up somewhere great !

For MA or PhD? For PhD, $0 since all necessary expenses and tuition should be covered by the funding package. For MA, I think it really depends on your existing financial situation, if you receive funding, and how your career goals (i.e. how much you'll make) line up with the debt you'd incur. But the fewer loans, the better, of course!

Via email. It just came through 20 minutes ago. And it seems like a couple others got emails late last week. So something may still come through!

AHHH in at Cornell!

In at Berkeley PhD in Architecture! They have a new interdisciplinary cluster with CED to allow for more cross-department integration and funding supposedly better this year than in the past, although I don't know exactly what that is yet.

Age/Gender/Citizenship 28/F/US Degree/School/Year graduated BA in History / smallish, underfunded, unranked state school / 2014 MA in Public History / unranked state school, but notable in my field / 2017 GPA - GRE - TOEFL (for Int'l students) 3.6 BA/3.8 MA - GRE was Q160/V162/W5, but I'm not submitting. Work Experience: 3+ years in historical and environmental consulting as an analyst/planner; 4 internships in archives, museums, historic preservation planning, and cultural resources management Letter of recommendations: MA Thesis Advisor, MA professor of history and theory, and former boss as historical consulting firm Schools applied to: Cornell is the only one for Urban Planning. The others (MIT, UC Berkeley, BU, UW, UVA) are all architecture/built environment history. In: Out: Wait-list: Awaiting: All Results: