IKB
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Congrats to all of you who received scholarships!
Here's my email and I can't really figured out what does it mean by saying: "in the amount of $20,000 OR $10,000"
I am pleased to inform you that you have been awarded a fellowship in the amount of $20,000 or $10,000 for each year of your two years of study in the master of public policy program at the Ford School of Public Policy. The following circumstances may affect your fellowship funding:
● Less than full-time enrollment in a semester
● Enrollment in a dual degree program
● Receipt of additional funding
● Academic probation/suspension
● In-state student status
Can anybody explain? Thanks?
I would interpret that as $10,000 each year, which totals $20,000 over the 2 years. Congrats!
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Until today, I just had loans listed in my financial aid award notice, but I just got an e-mail stating that I've been offered a full tuition scholarship for 4 semesters.
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I have no idea how the process works, but if it's any help to you guys, I will be declining my HKS offer if I have to borrow, let's say, more than 30K/yr in order to go there. I expect that at least a few people will be let in off the waitlist after April 1st rolls around and accepted students begin to weigh whether they can foot the bill.
Good luck, I'm sure we'll all end up going to great places.
I'm in the same boat as LadyinWaiting. Barring a very generous financial aid offer, I will most likely decline my HKS MPP admission. Hopefully that's good news for you wait list folks!
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Just got waitlisted
Hattaba,
I was waitlisted at Princeton, so I know how frustrating that uncertainty can be. If it makes you feel any better, depending on financial aid, I'm most likely going to turn down my HKS spot. I received an offer from another school that's almost impossible to turn down. I know I'm only one person, but there have to be many more like me out there... Head up.
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I was also admitted early notification, but I just got my financial aid offer: a Board of Overseers scholarship worth $18,500/year. I'd love to go to Fletcher, but with tuition over $36,000/year, I'd still have to take out a lot of loans. I think I'm going to have to go with a more generous offer from another school.
Edit: Almost forgot--congratulations to everyone who got in!
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Just received an e-mail from admissions, and I got in. Good luck to everyone else!
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Crazy how up and down this whole process can be, right? Just a couple of hours ago I was feeling a bit down about getting wait listed at Princeton, and now I'm smiling again, thanks to an admission to Michigan and a very generous funding offer from Yale.
I'm not sure how everyone else is coping with the roller coaster ride of results, but I just keep trying to remind myself that there are a lot of great programs out there that can provide incredible and unique opportunities to those students who seek them out. No one school is perfect. I'm trying to have faith in the sometimes confounding admissions process by reminding myself and that things tend to work out in the end, even if it's not always as we might have envisioned or hoped.
Anyway, my congratulations to everyone who got good news from the Ford School today and my sympathies to those who don't get the result they were looking for.
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Just got an email (at noon EST) -> wait list.
I got a wait list e-mail around that time, as well.
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What were your metrics?
Benefactor,
Though I feel slightly uncomfortable going into great detail about my background on a public forum, I can tell you that my quantitative, verbal and analytic GRE scores were all above the 90th percentile, my undergrad GPA was 4.0, and I have 3 years of full time public service work experience and 3 years of study/research/work abroad relevant to my field of interest. However, I also have some perceived weaknesses, including an unrelated primary undergraduate major and a lack of economics/statistics classes. I tried to mitigate these weaknesses by focusing on my high quantitative GRE and strong performance in calculus classes. So far that strategy seems to be working for me. Good luck to you!
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Me too! Congratulations!!
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Congrats to everyone who received a positive response!
I was surprised to be offered an almost full tuition fellowship. With the $4,000 assistantship, that's quite a bit of money. It really eases some of my worries about taking out massive amounts of loans when I want to continue working in the (low-paying) public sector.
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I applied to the MPP and received a very short and informal admission e-mail last Monday. It indicated that an official letter would be arriving shortly, but included no information about funding. I'm working out of the country right now, so I'm not sure if the letter has arrived at my parents' house yet or not.
For the others out there still waiting, I wouldn't worry. It seems like the responses are just starting to trickle out and that many applicants have yet to hear either way. Good luck!
Official HKS Thread
in Government Affairs Forum
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Is an MPP at HKS really going to provide a student with that many more international development-related opportunities than an MPP at Duke (obviously the MPA/ID is a different story...)? Both programs seem to be strong policy programs with some interesting global components. I'd say the competing draws for those interested in international affairs/development are Harvard's top notch faculty and research centers and Duke's Center for International Development and Geneva Program.
I'm focusing on international development. I was accepted at both Duke and Harvard, but never seriously considered Harvard, as I was only offered $10k a year vs. Duke's full tuition offer. In the end, I decided to go with a fully funded M.A. in IR instead, anyway. But I never really saw Harvard's opportunities for someone interested in development as warranting six figure loans. Especially since most of us are going to be earning public sector salaries when we get out.
DCA-John, I'd be interested to hear why you think that Duke's not in the same league as Harvard for international development.