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  1. Still haven’t gotten it yet but other folks/friends at UCLA say it sometimes takes a bit for the grad division email to go out. Hopefully it’ll come soon but I’m not too worried that it hasn’t yet.
  2. Also in at The New School, Parsons for their MS in Design and Urban Ecologies with a 75% tuition offer, ending my grad school application process! My goal is now to try to get more funding from UCLA but in any scenario I think it'll be UCLA for me! Congratulations to everyone, it feels good to not be waiting for any more decisions.
  3. Anyone have any advice for leveraging funding? Am hoping to maybe use my Columbia offer to ask for more funding from UCLA.
  4. Wow, in at Columbia with the $40,000 annual Avery Scholarship. UCLA has been my dream and top choice but damn if this doesn't make me think a little bit!
  5. Folks who were interviewed by Columbia: did you apply to the MSUP or PhD program? I applied to the MSUP and didn’t get an interview lol so I’m wondering if that’s not a good sign. I’m 99% sure I wouldn’t be going if I got in anyways but it’d be nice to get in!
  6. In at UCLA! Not gonna lie, I happy cried a bit. This is my top choice by far and I'm going to submit my SIR asap.
  7. Also took the L at Harvard haha, looks like I’m in good company.
  8. Looks like someone has heard back from Harvard already, and given that last year’s decisions came out during the first week of March it seems like this week will be the week. I’m not expecting an acceptance but it would sure be really nice!
  9. Aww man I'm sorry, it's their loss. Still nothing from Cal for me/status is unchanged, I wonder how they're rolling out decisions.
  10. Wow congratulations! Still radio silence from Cal for me but I'm not expecting an acceptance haha, would be nice though!
  11. The waiting game is starting to drive me crazy, especially since we probably won't hear back from most masters programs in planning until late February/early March. How are y'all holding up?
  12. I feel you on being in school full time and working full time and trying to get grad apps together! It's been stressful for sure but definitely better now that the semester is over and I have a few weeks off work for the holidays. I also feel you on the low acceptance rate stress. UCLA is my top choice and even with a relatively large cohort size (60ish) because there's sooo many applicants the acceptance rate has been getting even smaller.
  13. Also I thought I'd get the ball rolling with sharing stats/schools/etc. I copied the format from last years thread. Age/Gender/Citizenship 21/F/US Undergraduate degree/School/Year graduated BA in Urban Policy / top 40 LAC / Expected May 2022 GPA - GRE - TOEFL (for Int'l students) 3.70 cumulative / 3.93 major / 3.96 upper division, no GRE Work Experience: 1 year as a research assistant in a multi-university urban planning study; 1 year as a student researcher doing original research on military urbanism for senior thesis; 2 research internships with community organizations; 2 internships with local government agencies; 2 years doing paid work on local campaigns; and 4 years of experience as a housing justice organizer (founded an activist collective with a pretty sizable following). Hoping these experiences will be impactful on my application since I'm applying straight out of undergrad. Letter of recommendations: (from whom) Research advisor, academic advisor (and chair of department's research institute), and another former professor. All three are in the urban planning/design space and should be pretty strong since I'm fairly close to all of them. Schools applied to: UCLA, Cal, Columbia, Harvard, The New School In: Out: Wait-list: Awaiting: UCLA, Cal, Columbia, Harvard, The New School Results:
  14. UCLA and Berkeley MCP/MURP deadlines are tomorrow! Did anyone else apply?
  15. Since they're both professional degrees that usually lend themselves to jobs in government, policy, or advocacy my best guess would be that they're both equal as credentials and have similarly good job prospects. I think you'll probably just have to decide if you are more excited about working in the policy space which is much more quantitative and less theoretical, as opposed to the planning space which can be both practice oriented and very interdisciplinary with mixed methodologies.
  16. Hey @planningapplicant! I'm applying to Columbia's MSUP too! My 6th edition Planetizen guide to graduate urban planning programs only has stats for Columbia as recent as 2017 where it says 214 applications were received and 184 were admitted, so about an 86% acceptance rate. Not sure how much this has changed since then with all the craziness of COVID times but I imagine the 70-80ish% range is an accurate ballpark.
  17. Lol I am in the exact same boat. Got all my GRE prep stuff ready but have been dreading studying and hoping it gets waived everywhere! As of today 10/11 of the schools I'm applying to have waived it so I don't think I'm going to take it. Harvard just announced that GRE scores are optional for their MUP program, and I think now have the same GRE optional (but accepted) policy that Berkeley, UCLA, and MIT have.
  18. Thought I'd start a thread for folks applying to planning programs this fall to discuss applications, share advice, vent, etc. We're still several months out from application deadlines, how's everyone prepped so far?
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