[Denver, CO]

I'm looking into moving from Seattle to Denver for grad school. My decision isn't made yet, so I want all opinions on the area around the CU Denver campus. I won't have a car, so neighborhood suggestions that have transit lines running through them would be helpful.

[CU Denver SPA]

My aunt is an administrator there. I almost applied. Started an application and all. I grew up in the Denver suburbs and my parents still live there. Thought I might be able to swing residency (most likely not as I've paid rent, utilities, and taxes in CA for the past two years).

I've spent time on the CU Denver campus - I actually took community college courses there in spring 2007 to help shore up my quant background before I moved to CA. I'm medium on it. Decently nice campus, not my fave part of the city. Doesn't give off an atmosphere of "cutting edge" or "higher learning." It's excellent for domestic/homeland security and criminology and well known throughout the Western US for that. Not what I'm interested in though.

All in all I thought Pitt would most likely serve as a good last line of defense in case I didn't get into my safer schools like GWU, UCLA, and UCSD, so I skipped applying to CU Denver.

If you want to do a JD dual degree that could be a GREAT deal though, since CU's law school in Boulder is EXCELLENT and easier to get into than it should, and the year in Denver would give you some good law firm networking opportunities.

Thanks for your thoughts. My interest is in domestic/homeland security so that was one of the reasons my advisor recommended that I apply. He had noted that it was definitely more of an "up and coming" program rather than one that's got a well established reputation so that's pretty much what I was expecting. Is Denver an urban city? If the school was well known for homeland security, would it give me a leg up in applying to federal government jobs within DHS or FEMA moreso than if I were to go to a program that doesn't have coursework focused in that? If I were to go, I'd plan to move back to my hometown (Seattle) after graduation and am curious of which is better - going to a school known for a specialty or going to a school in the area where you eventually want to work (My other option is Seattle University - it seemed that UW Evans didn't like the fact that I was more or less straight out of undergrad).

[CU Denver SPA]

Anyone know anything about the reputation of this program? Did anyone else apply and/or are contemplating attending? Thoughts would be appreciated...

[Evans school at UW]

If you log into where you submitted your application, you can obtain an application ID and send them an email with the number in it. They sent me my rejection letter, nicely PDF'ed as an attachment and all. Game over for me - guess I won't be a Husky again after all.

[Evans school at UW]

I'm starting to think my rejection letter got lost in the mail...would be nice to know being this school is my top choice and I don't have a funding package from Denver atm...

[Evans school at UW]

Don't give up hope just yet! I was feeling very rejected until I checked my mail today. The extremely tiny acceptance letter just arrived, and I live in Seattle so there might still be some acceptances floating around the postal service. Keep the faith for at least one more weekend!

Congrats! I live in Seattle too but so far nothing in the mail. I called Admissions and they said that letters went out yesterday and will arrive accordingly wherever people are located - so maybe I shouldn't be expecting much since I live about a mile away from the school and haven't received anything. Guess I should be buying a warm coat for Denver...