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I am also looking for advice on UVa's MA program. I am trying to decide between UVa and the MA program at Georgetown. I got a full scholarship plus a TA position with a stipend at Georgetown, and UVa is, obviously, unfunded. However, I am fortunate in that my parents will pay for UVa if I decide to go there, so I will not have any debt either way. Does anyone have any advice or insight on this?

Haha, don't feel too bad, my acceptance to the MA program came with the same "Dear ," email. Makes me wonder about the esteem in which they hold their MA students... Oh and Leto, I am so sorry that happened to you. I hope many good things are in your near future!

Congrats potential future classmate! Are you planning to visit? For those who were asking about funding, I got more information on mine, but it looks like Baudelaire already pretty much explained how it works. My specific funding package is a full tuition remission explicitly guaranteed for both years (obviously contingent on satisfactory academic performance) in addition to a sort of TA position with a stipend for the first year. It looks like there are also a few other types of packages too: student funding Hope that helps!

I got an acceptance with funding at 6pm on a Thursday night during the school's spring break. So it definitely happens, even with funded offers.

Thanks, guys! And I'm just as confused as all of you are about the funding. I still haven't been able to get any details about my funding package. I plan on calling on Monday and asking about the size of my funding package and about second-year funding, and I'll let you know what I find out.

Looks like they're notifying even earlier than the 14th! I got a phone call from Dr. Ortiz today offering me admission. I somehow missed the call (I've carried my phone everywhere with me for weeks, and I miss the ONE call from a grad school *sigh*), so he left a message. I got a funding package, but he didn't give any details about it in the message. I hope you guys get similar news soon!

So I'm pretty sure the two are unrelated, but I got an acceptance letter from the school just a few hours after emailing for a status check. Now I look quite impatient! Oh well.

I also got an acceptance this afternoon.

What is the best way to ask a graduate school about my admissions status? I know that people have been accepted to this program already, but I haven't hear from them. Should I email or call? And what should I say? I know that waiting is probably better, but I'm going crazy...which is not good during midterms week!

I saw a Wake Forest MA acceptance with funding on the results board. Can anyone claim it and/or give me any information?

Do you have any insider info on when the MA decisions go out? Or even roughly when you received your acceptance? The only past data I can find on the results board is for the PhD decisions.

There's a thread about this in the Lit/Rhet/Comp subforum that might interest you:

I just got a (non-personalized) email from the grad director at Duke saying that she received requests for feedback and would be able to give feedback on some applications in May or June after the semester is over. I'm not sure what she means by some, but I guess I'll just ask again in May and see what happens.

I think it is still too early. Based on results from past years, I'm guessing that Harvard usually sends out acceptances in one batch of emails. So either this is spam, or it was a special case where someone's POI had a personal interest in informing him/her of the acceptance. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of acceptances are yet to come. But, this it totally guessing on my part, so take it with a whole shaker of salt!

Ahh, I saw that! I hope they're quick with their rejections...like ripping off a bandaid!

This is totally random, but on the main forum page, this thread shows up as "You're Killing Me, Stan..." and makes me snicker every time. Now I want to give all of my schools nicknames. Hey, Harvey, how about sending out some decisions?

I am so sorry for your loss and will be keeping you, Mark, and their families in my thoughts. Thank you for the much-needed perspective.

I remember that thread, too. Most people suggested to prepare for an interview in this situation. It's almost definitely a good sign because it shows that they're interested. Congrats, and good luck!

I don't have any actual data, but I think MA deadlines tend to be after PhD deadlines, which would probably make the MA decisions later.

These are my family's dogs, so I unfortunately don't live with them right now. But they are cute, so I will post anyway. And Max will hopefully come with me when I go to grad school. This is Max (he needs a bath in this picture!) This is Kate (she's only like 3 months old. SO CUTE!)

Do you know whether they're perspective PhD students or MA students? I wouldn't think that they would be making MA decisions any time soon...

Love it!

Hm, maybe tomorrow. Marrying you today would ruin a perfectly good Singles Appreciation Day!

Haha, well, this is pretty bad. But I had fun messing with it. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many an email server that I had just checked before. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `'Tis some interviewer,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Oh but I am such a bore! Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of worry - worry that had filled my core- For the many horror stories that make up the adcom yore - To whom my heart and soul I swore. And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating `'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door - Not an interviewer entreating entrance at my chamber door; - This it is, and nothing more,' Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, `Sir,' said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; - A letter there, and nothing more. Now onto that paper peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the thickness gave no token, And the only word there written was the number on my door. “Shit!” I whispered, closed my eyes and slammed the door. Merely this and nothing more. Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, The letter called me so much louder than it had before. `Surely,' said I, `surely that is good news within that packet; Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore - Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; - 'Tis good news and nothing more!' Open here I flung the letter, and, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a kindly reject, condescending to the core. Not the least allowance made it; for the hours spent in torture; But, in fifteen fucking seconds, to the ground my dreams it tore - “With great regret,” and “we are sorry,” brought my future to the floor. “With great regret” and nothing more.

Hm, same for the MA, on both counts. Hah, I had fun trying to fit two 15-page papers into that page limit, but it ended up looking fine somehow. I wonder if the simultaneous deadlines means they'll release decisions at the same time.