Strangefox

Well, if a school interprets a perfectly innocent post in some twisted way, I just would not want to deal with such paranoic people

Being waitlisted is not bad at all. People get off waitlists quite often.

They will use Google translator!! :lol: Well, I hope they won't, first of all because Google translator is a devilish device that seldom translates things correctly

I agree with Newms, I would ask them right away! Don't wait, ask now.

You applied to 13 places so I am sure some of these programs will accept you. Rejections suck, I know that, but they are an inevitable part of the process, I guess. Cheer up! It's too early to be worried

The first picture is so cuuuute!

Have you received an official admission offer and an official funding offer from this program? If you have not, you can write that you are still very much interested and that you will most probably accept (which is true, right?) but that you need to have their offer and funding details on paper before making such an important decision.

Well, I guess they are saying it because it's true

I've just figured out that I was rejected, wait-listed and offered funding on the same day! That is funny

So now I am wait-listed for University of Washington! I've been accepted, rejected and wait-listed - I've seen all of it But seriously, these are quotes from their letter: In way of an explanation, you should know that we received a very large number of applications this year – more than 140. Also, the department has decided this year to only admit students when we can guarantee that the funding for them will be available, and since there is less funding to go around in the current economic situation, the competition for the funding slots that we currently have is particularly fierce. For you to have made it onto our waiting list means that you are in the top 15% of applicants to our program; 85% of the applicants have already received rejection notices from us. We are very excited about your scholarly record and fit to the program, and we are frustrated that we do not currently have the resources to immediately accept you into the program and offer you funding. And: Since our goal is to create an incoming class that is diverse in its intellectual interests and will not overtax faculty resources in any one particular area, we have linked certain people on the waiting list to certain people on the acceptance list. So if funding resources become available because an applicant who has been offered admission and funding decides to go elsewhere, we will make an offer to the corresponding person with similar research interests on the waiting list. As a result, the waiting list is not ranked and I cannot give you an idea of what your chances are. I would just request that you keep us informed of your status as an applicant, letting us know if you decide to take an offer elsewhere.

Oh yes, American taxes, - soon I will learn so much more about them!

Doomed to be admitted!

I have to agree with LJK. At least for me enduring hell is not an option. I guess there are some thick-skin people who don't care if their advisor is brutal or not but I am definetely not one of them and I would choose Professor B. If you are actively networking and publishing you will have no problem searching for a job, I guess.

Oh, so if post-docs get an amount that is a grad student's stipend + tuition - then they are paid more than grad students because the latter do not actually get their tuition, they just do not have to pay it! I like that!

That's really sad

To answer this question I must know how brutal Professor A is exactly. May be he/she is strict but supportive to those who work hard. Or are they just brural brutal brutal and tell you bad things and make you want to go shoot yourself??

Do they really? I wonder why...

Thanks, Gooner!!

Thanks!!!

I've just received a letter from the director of the doctoral program at Temple which basically said that I will have funding!!! In the best case scenario it will be a four-year fellowship. The department have nominated me and are now waiting for results. In the worst case scenario, which is not bad at all, I will have a three-year teaching assistantship with the possibility of additional funding when I am working on my dissertation!! Strangefox happy

Thanks!

I have an off-topic question but it certainly does not deserve a separate thread Fellow Communications people, tell me - is Communication studies a social sciences field in the US? And if not, what is it? It is certainly not Humanities nor Sciences. And what about Media Studies?

Yes So there is not so much outside STEM fields, I presume? Humanities? What else? Does "Science" include social sciences?

Could you give me the link?

What is a STEM field?