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Hi Chriskyk, Last fall, I came across an article in the SP2 Newsletter (at UPenn) where the dean visited China to help establish social work education, as China is delving into providing more comprehensive social services due to heavy migration from rural to urban areas and the lack of social services this population encounters due to constraints in social services ties to where one is from (heavy paraphrasing here).Here's the article in case you or anyone else is interested.

I am back from the dead!!! Kinda...I received an email from SSA today that I am on the wait list for the MA/PhD and I was admitted to the MA with full funding and an RAship. I nearly fainted when I received the news. I know the PhD is a long shot, but WOW...I am walking on sunshine in my limbo status!

I just posted my rejection to the MA/PhD at SSA on the results page. I will receive a letter in the mail soon. I am just glad the wait is over. They have known since Feb. 4th, so I don't understand why they want to wait so long. Good luck to everyone still in. I will go ahead and apply for the MSW here and will apply for a PhD to several schools in two years. I may be out now, but I'm not done.

To finish the decreases for the yoke of the sweater I am knitting. Then on to steeking!

I am totally desperate. My daughter has a preschool appointment on Saturday at the school of my choice (different state), but I think they have sent out their admits already; I have not heard anything. Of course this is based off one person on the results board saying they were accepted last week. Any suggestions for me? It's an 8 hour drive.

I don't know if they have made all of their calls. There are at least three of us on GC that have applied to the MA/PhD option and they only take 1-2. The DGS made that very clear at the doctoral information session.

Hi Willschn, the SSA acceptance was to the PhD program. Did you apply for the PhD as well? I spoke with the asst. admin coord, and she said they had an unusually high number of applicants. Last year, they had about 100. But I do know decisions have been made.

Hi Pumpkincake, I don't know. I emailed the asst. admissions coordinator (whom is a sincerely nice person), but I think with her traveling for recruitment, it got lost in her sea of emails. An SOP is a statement of purpose/interest. Thanks for the luck! Although I think I'm out. Someone posted acceptance to SSA yesterday (although strangely, did not come here and report it as well...hmmm...) and I did not receive a call. But these are the "internets" so you never know. I thought I was a great fit for the program, but I have learned my lesson--I am applying to more than one program next year!

We actually work with the interviewee and purchase the plane ticket and make and pay for the hotel reservation. Meals are paid or supplied by the faculty/dept and they are reimbursed later. As our guest, they do not pay for hardly anything (that has to do with the interview and being on campus). We also arrange pick up and drop off from the airport.

I also applied to only one program. At the time it seemed like the right decision, now I'm not so sure. Next year I'm applying to at least 3 programs.

That sounds so incredibly, freaking wonderful! Congratulations!

Congrats to all the new acceptances! I'm so happy it's another Monday..that means 5 more days of waiting impatiently for any kind of response. I just know the snowstorm last week affected adcomms from meeting. Ugh...snow...

Hmm...interesting. Are you taking into account the snowstorm that hit the midwest and east coast?

Yes, it's Monday again! Another week of obsessively refreshing the results page, and appropriately-obsessively checking phone/email/mailbox.

This thread/forum has really affected my dreams--I did not dream about admissions when I applied for my M.Ed. So, last night I dreamt that I was conditionally accepted. My application was a mixed bag of great LORs, SOP, and graduate GPA, but my UG GPA and GRE scores were less that they were accustomed to rceeiving, so they offered me funding, and acceptance for 1 year to prove that I was worth the investment. It felt so real-I was so emotional, I couldn't even speak. I don't know if I accepted or not. But now I'm worried that I'm so over confident I will be accepted...

I have been turning to my good friends Ben and Jerry....nearly a pint every other day. This week I resolved to give up ice cream and have since returned to knitting.

I hope you are for reals too...I went skydiving last summer and it was awesome!!

Congratulations!!

I was looking for this post this morning--thanks for bumping it back up... Last night, I dreamt that I was accepted. I received a handwritten letter in the mail from my POI and scribbled calculations that told me how much I would receive. Then I met up with husband and we talked about what we'd have to do to move, while drinking a beer at an outside table in a restaurant. It was a pretty awesome dream. And so different from my usual rejection-filled daytime anxieties.

Email for both. I am freaking out keeping track of when the postage mail arrives, email, and phone calls. I think I would be a nervous wreak if I received a phone call either--rejection or acceptance. At least in email, I can choose when and where to open it, yet know it has arrived. My M.Ed application was through the ApplyNow system and I was at home when the email arrived that said to check my decision status online. I waited a good hour to build up the courage to actually check. When I found out I was accepted, I called my husband, my mom, my MIL, everyone--I was crying, woo-hooing, etc. But all of these shananigans were on my terms.

Is anyone else excited that tomorrow is February??

I regret thinking I could actually be a contender this season--besides being a non-traditional student, and not having a masters in the field I want a PhD, I think the adcomm will look at my application and think I haven't proven myself yet--and they would have a point. I think next year I will be a stronger applicant. But this year, I just had to try, kwim?

It's nice to see some more SSA applicants! No word yet, but taking classes have taken my mind off of the waiting. Somewhat

Yes, I am fighting the urge, but no, I will not contact them. It's still way too early in the admissions process (for most of us anyway).