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Sorry to hear about your funding, but it's nice that they want you and your potential advisor is excited about your work. I still haven't heard one way or the other on my funding situation there. I'm planning a visit to check in with faculty members and get a feel for the department and town.

jm- I'm listed as accepted on the website as well, but haven't heard anything directly or about funding either, so you aren't alone. -cd

Welcome to the FastLane Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). The list of Award and Honorable Mention recipients for the 2012 GRFP Competition is available below. All applicants are being notified by email of the results, and the reviews will be available on Tuesday, 04/03/2012 through the FastLane GRFP website.

Thanks, but I think I'm about out of options there. I'm not entirely sure if the funding decisions included RA positions or just TA, but I think it was for all positions so once I hear back about that it should just about shut that door for now.

Didn't get funding for MSU

good to know, thanks!

Thanks! Yeah, it should be enough to get by, which is all I was really worried about getting

Funding for WVU =) graduate teaching assistantship $13,350/9 month academic year full tuition waiver 2 years

Accepted to Michigan State (pending admissions approval) for Masters of Science in Geography. Funding committee meets monday, phew, that's 3 admits =)

Thanks! Yeah, I'm getting more optimistic for MSU after hearing from the other two. No word on funding from either school yet, but I'm thinking that it has to be coming soon one way or the other.

Geography-ish: Accepted to University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor to the School Of Natural Resources and Environment. I applied for the Environmental Informatics: GIS And Modeling which is the sort of Geography I'm applying to as well. No word on funding yet (2 of 3 so far! =)

Nice! Way to go! What schools?

I was just wondering, and thought someone here might know, are there Postdocs in Geography? If so, how common are they?

end game

solving equations

goal keeper

I was writing a response in another thread and found myself describing my experience of being rejected last year and thought that while it didn't fit in that thread very well, it might still serve some purpose in being shared. Last year, I was rejected from the only school that I applied to. It sucked to hear that and I was really bummed and wished that I had applied to more. I don't want to pretend that at the time I saw being rejected as a good thing, and I don't want to try to convince anyone that they should be happy that they didn't get into their choice of schools. I do want to offer the perspective of a year's hindsight in hopes that my reflections can offer starting places for your own thoughts. Like I said, I was really unhappy about the rejection and what felt like a door closing to the future that I wanted. No amount of knowing how things would work out in the end would have made that feel better. Looking back, though, I can see the good that came out of it. I decided to take a break from thinking about grad school until the end of the summer and to reevaluate then if I wanted to apply again. During the summer, I did other work and let myself consider not going back to school. My undergraduate advisor had told me years earlier that I shouldn't go to grad school unless I couldn't not go. After a few years out of school, jobs in several fields, a failed application, and a summer of not thinking about it, August came and that was the question I asked myself. Could I let myself not go to grad school? I decided that I couldn't not go. (Though, that certainly wasn't, and won't be, the last time I ask myself that question, I'm sure.) With that confidence I started looking into programs again and contacted a Geography professor from undergrad to ask for advice. I had been a Physics major and took only two Geography courses, so he barely knew me, but he ended up taking an interest in my plans and helped me look into what I wanted and where my interests fit into the divisions and currents of the Geography community. Through my conversations with him I started to nail down the sort of work I wanted to do and started to look for departments and faculty that were doing that work. I looked at many websites, visited a few schools that I was especially interested in, and spoke with professors at each school who represented the various sub-sub-fields that I was looking at. By mid-September I knew what I wanted, had three schools that would offer it to me, and a short list of professors whom I was interested in working with. It was with that confidence that I went to my friend's cabin for several days of solitude and writing. I wrote some fifteen or so major revisions of my Statement of Purpose, adapted it to each of the three schools (mentioning the specific faculty members of interest), and sent it to my former professor and a good friend for remarks and revisions. A month and ten more major revisions later, I was satisfied that I had said everything that needed said and nothing more (word limits =) and sent them off to the schools. That was October. GRE scores, transcripts, and faculty recommendations would follow. I've been accepted to one school and I'm awaiting news from the other two. I tell my story partly to hear it myself, and partly in the hopes that if you don't get in this year (God forbid), that it will help you as you decide what to do with the frustration. It sucks to be rejected and I'm sure this won't make it feel any better, but maybe after the disappointment ebbs you too will be able to take advantage of your new situation. Cheers and good luck! -clint

Thanks. It is a relief and certainly takes the pressure off of waiting for the others (I have preferences, but only applied to schools that I would be happy to attend). Last year I only applied to one program. That was a lot more stressful and it was late in the season before I heard back. I hope you get in to yours and that they tell you mercifully soon. (My response was longer, but I'm going to start a new thread for it since it was wandering off topic.)

(I hope I'm not contributing to anyone's stress by starting this conversation already. WVU was way ahead of the game on notifications. I don't expect to hear from anywhere else for at least a few weeks, so no need to worry if you haven't heard yet.)

Up until today I would have said e-mail/website update, but after experiencing the anticipation of holding an envelope in my hand and not knowing what was inside: definitely Postal.

Letter of Acceptance received today from West Virginia for Masters in Geography. GTA funding decisions will be made in early February. Still awaiting decisions from Michigan State Geography department and University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources for Environmental Informatics.

Did you get accepted? If so, where? when? and have you heard about funding?