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Glad to see you are going to UCSD!! I know it was your dream so I am 100% sure you will love it.

Thank you so much! Hopefully one day yes! Did you decide where you will go?

Damn. Congratulations!!! I am glad that at least one person was able to get an increase in their funding. They must really want you go to there if they boosted your funding by $25,000. If you don't mind me asking, how much are they offering in total? Anyways, congratulations on Harris!!! I hope that you enjoy the next two years.

Update on my end. I got an email from them regarding revised aid and they refused to even increase me a single penny!! I was expecting at least a $5000 increase given the massive cost of the program. And even if not that then at least something, but they did not give me a single cent increase in aid. I was very disappointed by that, but honestly I should have expected it given the fact that they are not that well known for being generous. Anyways, I turned them down to accept an offer from UCLA Luskin. Anyone have any updates on their end?

Update on my end. They did not ever really email me back. They are really bad at emailing people back. When I asked if they would even consider raising my aid by showing a few offers they completely ghosted me and never reached back out to me. I tried to get in touch with everyone in the department and did not receive a single response from anyone. I am honestly very disappointed in Cornell given the fact that they love to brag that they are an Ivy League and all, but they end up treating us like they were some random school. Anyways, I turned them down to go to UCLA. Any updates on anyone else's end?

Update on my end. Decided to accept the Luskin offer after a talk with the department director. Hope to see all you guys that accepted Luskin as well come the fall!!

Update on my end. I turned down UCSD to go to UCLA's program since it was a better fit for me. I got a decent financial aid offer from UCSD, so I hope that since I turned that down that means that some of you will be able to get some extra funding come April 15th. I wish you guys the absolute best of luck. I know some of you really want to go to UCSD and a lot of you in here got in. Wish you guys all the best!!

Alright. So I have my own update. They seem to be rather generous with money. For me I got $18,000 in funding when the cost of tuition is $21,000, so I don’t think you can beat them on price. They also seem very open to students taking the initiative and expanding the program into the greater area, but that seems to depend on your own contact network in the county which I think most people attending the program won’t have. Despite this, I have to say that given the other UC programs that have this (Berkeley, LA, San Diego, and Riverside) that Irvine is obviously ranked above Riverside, and depending on what you want to study I’d say even higher than San Diego. San Diego seems to be focused mainly on international stuff so they put so much emphasis on that in their accepted students meetings as well as their website content. While they do have great programs for non-international affairs stuff, it seems to me at least that that is their bread and butter. This is not the case at UCI, which appears to be focused on a very large set of domestic factors and even allows you to make your own concentration, even letting you take classes outside the department to do so. I have to say that the program is better than I thought after going to all of its events and speaking to alumni and current students. I think that it has come a long way since this first thread began.

Well it makes sense. Since I’ll likely turn them down the $15,000 total they are offering me will likely go to another student. So I assume if more people do that that will leave a few tens of thousands on the table for other people.

Is there a history of that being the case? I got $10,000 and a $5000 por the summer to cover the cost of the internship. But even then I got better offers elsewhere.

Damn wow. Congrats. I know you chose not to go there but that is still amazing

Did you get any good news?

I think TA positions is just for second years though. Not for the first. I got $7,500 as well which I think is bad compared to UCSD’s offer ($11,400). I am trying to raise my UCSD offer but UCLA seems stingy

They haven’t even gotten back to me on who I have to contact for it! I emailed everyone I could find and nobody responded even that. Hopefully they do soon since I’d like a revised offer for sure

Is it just me or is the department not that great at answering emails. I am curious to see if they will increase their financial offers but I haven’t heard a reply from ANYONE I’ve emailed despite the fact they keep spamming me with emails about events.