WendyMoira

Congrats to my fellow admits. I may have been the one you saw post an admit for English. Found out with an email from the DGS this afternoon--lots of funding info. I'm not sure how good the funding package is, though. Health insurance is regular employee insurance, which is nice, but the nine-month stipend of $13k might not compete...thoughts? What's everyone's specialty? I'm probably going to go to the event in April. The school is great, and probably one of the only ones that will think I'll "fit." Not sure how much I want to move to Texas... But the idea of studying with some of their people is so gorgeous.

I'm the other wait-list for Pittsburgh. Same as littlenell, I got an email from the DGS. I emailed her with a few more specific questions and she replied that they make more offers than they expect to take (roughly 20 offets with an excpected 12), but that after a spot opens up in the 20, they can usually make another offer. It sounds pretty much like they have 20 spots and will make the offers to wait list people if they're turned down, but often late enough that they've made otehr plans. So at this point it's a waiting game. No one turns down an offer while they're still waiting for other acceptances. I just graduated with a BA from a small college in Florida. My specialty's Victorianism with a focus on children's rights/labor, law, and technology (particularly toy culture). I'm also trying not to get excited. Pitt is my favorite program. I would love to find out how many wait-lists have been admitted in the past and when that happened. littlenell, sounds like we might have a few parallel interests--care to elaborate?