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I enrolled in the program at UPenn and had the most absolutely horrific experience to the point I withdrew. The guaranteed paid assistantship as listed on their website is a complete lie. It was the selling point for me and then they tried to make me an unpaid project assistant after I did not get offered a graduate assistantship for the ones I interviewed. Nobody took any of my concerns seriously and I felt I had no option but to leave the program in lieu of throwing away $40,000 tuition on a program I could have gone to for free at another school. I have a Penn GSE email, I'm not someone from a rival program trying to put it down, I seriously had the worst experience of my academic life with their staff. Total waste of time and money. STAY AWAY!

I am enrolled in this program and the guaranteed paid graduate assistantship by the priority deadline is a lie.

I'm so glad Harvard rejected me. I went to Penn and loved it and now I don't have to worry about making a decision.

Rejected, not surprised.

My Penn decision available email came at 1:14AM EST and by 9 AM the next morning they had sent me another email telling me I had yet to view the decision. I'm guessing it won't be like that for HGSE... Time to sleep.

I see someone who had very similar "numbers" to me got accepted last year. That gives me some hope. I just discovered the results survey part of this now.

Yes. Congrats on your acceptance.

Accepted at Penn last month.

I know what you mean. I went from thinking I had about a 50/50 shot to thinking I will be rejected for sure. That 53% acceptance rate sure looked tantalizing before I realized everyone who applies has insane credentials.

Hi all. I just found out about this site yesterday. The anticipation is killing me now. I put 2011 by mistake under app season.