vega maudlin

Whaaat. Who calls to put down their own program??? It sounds like a case of a disgruntled admissions officer, to be honest. I feel like you should be able to complain to someone, but then again you wouldn't want to ruin your chances of getting in...

Man Who is Thursday, can you explain your tagline? Baffling phone messages from admissions people who didn't explain why you were called?? Really?? Two of them? Wish I could help re: your question, but I don't have much experience with it...

GRE 790 verbal, 800 math, 4.5 a.w. GPA 3.69 from the University of Chicago. My major GPA was a bit higher, about 3.8-something, and since the undergrad religion major is teensy at U of C, most of those classes were at the Div School. I haven't published, no significant religious employment except for an internship with an interfaith organization in college, but I was very involved with half a dozen religious organizations on campus, including Lumen Christi (I was the token non-Catholic ). I had very good recs from profs at the Divinity School too -- worked very closely and eventually did an honors ECS thesis with a highly respected NT/ECS prof, who is now dean of the Div School and also happens to be Catholic. I was really active at the Div School (for not actually being a student there) -- often found myself the one undergrad in a room full of MA/MDiv/PhD students. I didn't mention this in my application, but I imagine my advisor did (I was at her ECS workshop all. the. time). I also opted to send Notre Dame a writing sample (called Cheron Price beforehand to ask if I could). I haven't been asked for "my stats" before, but I hope that about answers your question. Again... while I didn't realize it when I applied... my interests line up really well with the Biblical Studies program.

Thanks! MTS in Biblical Studies.

Woot! I'll potentially see you there...

I think miotch was actually replying to my question about Notre Dame funding . I got full tuition plus $5K/year stipend at ND too, miotch... I just wasn't expecting it, because they just list "100% tuition" on the website.

Congrats Marquand Scholars! That's awesome, and I admit I'm a bit envious. Funding question for accepted Notre Dame MTS students: did you get full tuition, or full tuition plus stipend? I heard they fully fund their admitted students, but not to what degree.

I'm new here, but I'm going to BU's merit scholar days...

PS, I cannot believe that this forum automatically lists me as "Decaf." Decaf is FAKE COFFEE. Every grad student knows that. Sheesh.

Hello everyone! I've been haunting this forum for the last week or so, and while I haven't done an online forum in ages and ages, I finally couldn't resist the temptation to join. I applied to eight schools (too many, I suspect), and I'm still waiting on half of them: YDS, HDS, Notre Dame, and Duke. I see that a bunch of Duke MDivs have already heard back, but I applied for the MTS. Anyone out there who is still waiting to hear from Duke for the MTS? No idea when I should expect to hear back... I'm also FULL of nervous anticipation about YDS and HDS. Urg! Let us know already!