TulipOHare

I would visit your one admit if at all possible -- you might be pleasantly surprised. If you visit and you don't fall in love, or if you can't visit, I would go with your gut and try again next year. You sound pretty convinced that you could do better next year, and you know your credentials better than we do. Don't forget to ask the rejections for feedback on your app.

Caveat: I am not a mathematician or in the math field at all. I took one term of stat. :mrgreen: But I would say it depends on what you want to do with your Masters. What would the name recognition do for you? How far would it take you? If you're planning to go on to a PhD and do the whole traditional academic track, I would say go ahead and shell out for Chicago, with two exceptions: - you want to study something esoteric that someone does at Delaware and no one does at Chicago - you think the peace of mind of having full funding would enable you to become the most brilliant stat grad student in the Mid-Atlantic (so that when you go to conferences people say "Ooh, that's arod17, what a promising young scholar" and it kicks open doors the same way the Chicago name would) I would also be OK with Chicago if I were sure I'd get a well-paying job straight out of grad school. Otherwise, I would lean heavily toward Delaware. There's my two cents.

How much is it getting to you? How do you deal with it, or how do you plan to deal with it? Not looking for any specific advice, just wondering what other people's experiences are. I graduated with $26k in student debt and I've got about $19k left. Depending on where I go and whether I get any scholarships or assistantships, the amount of debt I have will increase by anywhere from $10k to $150k. And I constantly go back and forth between panicking ("oh god no way can I handle any more debt!") and shrugging ("who cares, I'm gonna be up to my neck for the rest of my life one way or another").

Same boat here -- not a peep. It's also irritating because my officemate applied to 10 schools and has interviewed at all of them, accepted at 2, and no flat-out rejections yet. It does not console me that she was applying to totally different programs (PhD cognitive psych) and that her app deadlines were a full month earlier than mine. :evil:

One year later... anybody out there? :?