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Curious to know about the funding pack you were offered. What's it look like? How much? Etc.

Hey ladies! Yea the e-mail was pretty dull. lol. Kindof like this "Hi, we approve your admission, thanks. Oh and you'll get a packet soon. Welcome to Charlottesville." So we shall see! I never had any official notification of being placed on a waitlist, so I don't know if I came off of it or not. I don't know if this is a master's program or a PhD program. I don't know about funding lol. Pretty much I just know my status went from "pending" to "admit". I'll let you all know what happens as soon as I get more info.

Yellow! Finally, finally, finally! I've gotten in! I don't what in the world took them forever to decide, but yay!No details yet, it was a short e-mail from the graduate school not the department. Weird huh? Unfortunately, if it's fundless, I can't go. But still very good for my ego, eh? My very best to you.

Hi Michelle! Too bad about the funding sitch. As for the debt, that's you and me both, including a lot of other humanities majors I'm afraid. Good for you for taking up the challenge though. I just can't afford anything unfunded (no hubby to help out ) Seriously though, congrats. UVA is a wonderful place. I haven't heard anything yet! Still pending!! IT's driving me crazy. and I know they have my stuff because a couple of weeks back I e-mailed Peter Barker who told me they were making decisions at the time and that I was still being considered. sigh... We'll see in the next few I guess.

Is it funded Michelle? Congrats! That's very exciting news.

haha yellow5. I have no clue. No word yet, but no reject either. Waitlisted? Maybe?-- who knows...if you hear anything please do share. I've already contacted them once, so I'm trying hard not to "bug" them, yet. Once April comes around though, all bets are off :evil:

Ok, I've just read this entire thread and it's amazing how much of a guessing game the whole process is. Especially when you take my applications and success rate into account. Part of me thinks I'm lucky, but actually, how lucky can you really get? I think I've done something right, although I couldn't tell you what. All I know is, I can tell you what's totally wrong with my application according to this thread, and yet, I've gotten into over half of the programs I applied to, all great programs, and I was waitlisted in two top 15 programs... Gre's are horrible. I was sick when I took them, couldn't find parking, ran a mile to get there on time, (literally, relay for life was going on when I had to take them and I had to run a mile or so in the race because all streets were blocked ) So yea, Verbal=sub-600, and math...well, you can forget it. I crashed and burned. I come from an average private institution. I had an okay overall GPA, but a very high major GPA. So for me, I don't think this was a numbers game at all. If it were I would've lost the game a long time ago, but honestly, I can't see how I'm the only applicant they've decided not to count numbers with... That being said, I had a bomb writing sample. I mean I'm very proud of it. My LOC's are awesome. They're like my family and well known in their respective fields. My SOP is focused, straight forward, I discussed relevant theorists, listed relevant questions, I'm a creative writer also, so I discussed how that sets me apart (coming from both the writer and critique perspective), and so on. Oh, and I made sure that all of these pieces fit together. I didn't have a writing sample about one thing, and an SOP highlighting something completely different. It all fit together as a package. I don't intend to be arrogant (please, please no evil eyes!), I simply think that this is what made my application successful, and I hope that it's helpful information for anyone looking to try again. I do hope you will, because you sound like you could do wonderful work. Basically you know your weaknesses so sell your strengths!

yea ummmm did everyone get into the NYU MA program or what? (I got a packet too) Here's the question, anyone get REJECTED from NYU?

OKAY Im STILL pending. Anyone else?

what "other" site is that ?

Oh dear, I'm so sorry Yellow5. I'm not celebrating just yet. Not many seem to have posted rejections from UVA Master's yet. I'm sure they're coming to get us leftovers soon.

Wait Yellow5 did you get the response just now?

Frankly, I find it embaressing for a "top ten school" not able to fund their PhD's in some way. How can you expect students to matriculate to the best of their abilities?

Sigh... Post-Colonial Studies/literature.