akallen

Final Decision: Teaching Assistantship and Full Funding to Georgetown!

I've been accepted to both the Georgetown and Columbia MA programs and am having the hardest time deciding what to do. The Columbia program is the Free-Standing M.A. program with no funding and I don't have any funding at Georgetown, either. However, the Columbia program is only one year, and therefore half as expensive as Georgetown. I have a lot of personal pros and cons with each option, but I was wondering if any of you could give me a sense of what you think I should do objectively. I know that Columbia is an incredible program and I should probably accept their offer, but I have heard bad things about being an MA student in a highly competitive P.hD program (mainly that you get ignored). Have any of you heard that this is the case? Since Georgetown is just a Masters program, I know I'd get more attention from the professors. Still, Columbia is Columbia. Thoughts? Thanks so much!