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LOL well my degree is in Sociology so it’s pretty much relevant to everything! ?

It me, friend. IT ME. I am really struggling with the potential cost in relation to taking on an opportunity that will likely never happen again in my lifetime...on online degree? At Harvard? WITHOUT the GRE? And I can choose all of my own classes? And also go to MIT? I just don’t know if that is worth $50K (well 50K minus 19K I guess). I’m 45 and am pretty set in my career, it’s not like I have to do this— but I really really want to! Best of luck to you and maybe we will both win the lottery! If I win I promise I got u covered lol

Wow that’s intense!! Do you also work?! I could not even imagine! I also can’t imagine my “EFC” from the FAFSA being so ridiculously high. I mean yeah I have a full time job but jeebus mine is like 20K...that’s pretty much impossible for me so I’ve been looking at Plan B’s...Columbia is looking good! Harvard is like my dream though so I might be willing to take out some loans and hope that someone gets elected who can then give us all amnesty lol

Anyone else applying who already has an advanced degree (Masters, Doctorate, MD, etc.?). I don’t really know if that is helpful or harmful. Maybe they will think I have already “had my bite at the apple.” I have a Ph.D. in a different (but related) field from a “Big Ten” university. I thought it might show that I have the discipline and motivation to complete the Ed.M. program successfully, but now I’m not so sure. Especially because my undergraduate GPA was not so great (3.5 overall, 3.8 last 2 years), but my graduate GPA was a 4.0. I do feel my SOP is really strong, I had several colleagues look it over who got into top-tier schools and have served on admissions committees and they loved it. One even said it was the most passionate statement of purpose they had ever read, which felt great (because I got news for y’all, imposter syndrome is real and doesn’t go away just because you have multiple advanced degrees). I guess I’m just waxing because I have so much anxiety about it and the waiting is killing me. Good luck to everyone else in the home stretch! I look forward to hearing good news from everybody!

Specialized Studies! *jazz hands*

Are you wedded to the East coast/midwest? Highly recommend U of Michigan, and highly NOT recommend CUNY. They are really horrendous to their adjuncts and faculty (and graduate students). California has some very awesome social justice/applied schools. My background: BA, MA, PhD in anthro and tenured faculty member for the past 10 years. Yale anthro is wonderful. If I had to do it all over again, I would honestly choose either Univ of South Florida (excellent faculty invested in social change), Duke, UNC Chapel Hill (I did post-docs at both places and they were wonderful), or Columbia. UMass Amherst is great too. So is Vanderbilt If you’d like to share more about the work you’d like to do I can better advise— good luck to you whatever choice you make!

Did you get accepted? I am applying for admission for the Spring 2021 for the online Counseling degree.

Same to you! Are you still in Berkeley? I live in Orinda. If we both get in we should be study buddies lol. I am also applying part time, and am anxious about whether or not it is worth the $$$.

I applied, but I am not optimistic. I did not submit GRE scores (I have been an educator for almost 20 years). I chose to apply because of the “once in a lifetime” opportunity to do a distance ed master’s at Harvard. There’s no way I would be able to travel to Cambridge.Haven’t heard a thing.

Hay another SSP applicant! I was wondering if I was the only one! Have you noticed that the SSP track is not going to be available for new applicants past 2020 (it’s not a separate track in their new program debuting in August for Fall 2021). I hope that doesn’t mean we are at a disadvantage. I am a “July” applicant too and I am truly bummed out that we are not eligible for merit based aid especially since we are paying the exact same tuition as continuing students. But, I guess we kinda knew that going in. It’s killing me to have to wait this long! I hope we both get good news...