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They should waive/pay for the rest of the tuition over 18,000. It's part of an agreement that the school has with the government in order to qualify for FLAS funds. If they aren't following the FLAS regulations they could lose their funding eligibility for next year. I doubt they would risk that, so you should be fine.

I didn't receive my OSU FLAS decision ever actually, because I accepted to Kansas before they told me, so it was close to the notification deadline for Kansas. I only know that they were going to offer me the FLAS because someone emailed me and said that they were sending them out the following week and that I was on the list of accepted. FLAS decisions for KU went out today. I know three people who go them and will definitely take them, so that leaves a few more slots that will probably be offered to incoming or other students and it depends on their acceptance whether they will offer them to the alternates. The deadline for PITT isn't until March 15th, so you might have to wait a few weeks, but they notify quickly. I did the 4 weeks in Montenegro. My KU summer FLAS covered 5000 plus the 2500 stipend and a small airfare stipend and then PITT waived the rest of the tuition and fees that FLAS couldn't cover. 2500 isn't very much if you have to buy the pricey plane ticket, rent an apartment in Pittsburgh, and travel around MNE though. I'm pretty sure that If you are at the beginner level, you should be covered through funds from ACLS for BCS. That will go towards all the fees for the PITT portion, but I don't think it covers fees from the study abroad portion. Email Chris or Ljiljiana, they're really helpful and nice.

Also to everyone who applied to OSU or Kansas...I didn't get any of the FLAS funding decisions until really late. OSU for example only accepts people as alternates and then once they have a better idea of who will be enrolling and you know how many fellowships will be available then they give you the official acceptance. I enrolled in the CREES program at KU before even hearing from OSU and then found out from my advisor that I had a full fellowship. Even so, I'm happy that I arrived at KU. If you are interested in anything to do with BCS and linguistics we have Marc Greenberg and Stephen Dickey, who are simply the best. Dr. Dickey has done a lot of computational type stuff and has translated numerous volumes of Balkan lit. On the other hand, OSU has some pretty big names that you should know. Jessie Labov, Andrea Sims, and Brian Joseph for the S. Slavic and linguistics interested people.

I was in the Slavic and Linguistics department at OSU for my undergrad. Message me if you have any questions. I'm still really close with my professors there. The reason the program is small is that most of the grad students are only accepted as PhD students. It's really one of the best Slavic Linguistics programs that you will be able to find. They have so many resources because they are such a large school and I'm assuming you would be heavily involved with the linguistics department, which is also one of the best.

Also, you should seriously consider a summer language program. Pitt's SLI is what I did. It is absolutely the best program I have ever done for language study. The deadline for the Pitt programs with a study abroad component is March 15. Otherwise the Pitt-only programs will still be accepting for a while. They are really good about trying to get grad students as much money as possible and as long as you have accepted to a grad program you are eligible as a grad student.

Hey, I saw that you got into Kansas CREES. I'm in my first year here doing the MA/JD program. Ask me any questions you like especially because I am also doing Balkan Studies. I can also probably answer some limited questions about the OSU program, because I did my undergrad there and I still have close connections to the students in that program.

Yeah, I've actually been hearing more and more good things about Kansas! I just started this Summer Language Institute at U. Pitt and everyone is saying good things so far. Happy to have made a good decision!

Thanks for the information! I did set up my email today and everything seems to be running smoothly. I guess I'll be looking at apartments on the weekend of the 24th of June, so hopefully I get a sense of the area and can more easily figure out my living situation and maybe find a place to live around that time. My only other worry is that I'm on a fellowship this summer, so I have practically no money for a deposit and I don't know when student loan or fellowship checks come in. I think if I find a place my parents will help me out with the deposit and I'll have to pay them back. That's the only way that I can figure out how to secure a place before I actually move there. I had another idea though. I thought that maybe I could find a sublet for the first month or two and then move into a more permanent apartment. The downfall to that would be that I would have to move in the middle of the first semester and that I would be on an off rental schedule. Eh, I'll pull my resources and figure it out soon enough!

I'll be going to University of Kansas for an MA in Balkan Studies (under the auspices of CREES) in the fall. Kansas and Duke/UNC were really the only two schools that I found had a strong faculty for the Balkan region. I decided to go to Kansas for this reason and because they offered funding. I'm happy about my decision, but looking through this forum makes me wonder whether I should have gone to a program like American instead (though without funding).

Did you decide to go to Kansas or not? I'm also heading to KU for an MA in CREES (Balkan Studies). Does anyone have any tips about moving to Lawrence in August? I'll only have like 10 days to move between August 12, when I get back in the States from overseas, and August 22 when class starts. I have no idea how to find an apartment and when I'm actually going to schedule my classes!

I'm fairly certain that your fellowship will not make you ineligible for the subsidized student loan, nor will it reduce the amount of the loan. I am taking out a small amount of loan money on top of my fellowship to cover living expenses. Also, my brother-in-law is ABD at Case Western and he had to take out student loans in addition to his fellowship for most of his grad school.