mppapp2018 Posted March 5, 2018 Posted March 5, 2018 I haven't seen a topic for Sanford for this year. Has anyone received any updates or know of any dates?
jello1237 Posted March 5, 2018 Posted March 5, 2018 20 minutes ago, mppapp2018 said: I haven't seen a topic for Sanford for this year. Has anyone received any updates or know of any dates? I haven't heard any updates, but I'm hoping we'll hear back soon - looks like they've sent results around this time the last couple years.
gelatinskeleton Posted March 5, 2018 Posted March 5, 2018 Haven't heard anything but also crossing my fingers for a notification soon given last year's decisions. Ellen123 1
anmanya Posted March 6, 2018 Posted March 6, 2018 Has anyone received any mail from the school? Any idea about the dates?
jello1237 Posted March 6, 2018 Posted March 6, 2018 Someone just posted in the "Results" section that they were accepted! Ellen123 1
anmanya Posted March 6, 2018 Posted March 6, 2018 Oh right! Have you guys received any mail/change in portal? I haven't :/
Ellen123 Posted March 6, 2018 Posted March 6, 2018 Nothing has changed for me either. Not feeling great about this now.
anmanya Posted March 6, 2018 Posted March 6, 2018 I know. I'm in the same boat. Guess we should stay strong and hope for the best. Has anyone contacted the school about the speculative dates?
mppapp2018 Posted March 6, 2018 Author Posted March 6, 2018 I also haven't received anything. The wait is frustrating.
wakandaforever Posted March 6, 2018 Posted March 6, 2018 Congrats to all! Can you all share how your financial aid packages look like? I have $18,000 in tuition fellowship but that is it and I recall Duke is quite generous!
elizabethrs Posted March 6, 2018 Posted March 6, 2018 Just got an email from them! I got quite a bit of funding, though it's not my top program. I'll probably use it for leverage at UChicago...
Dampact Posted March 6, 2018 Posted March 6, 2018 4 minutes ago, wakandaforever said: Congrats to all! Can you all share how your financial aid packages look like? I have $18,000 in tuition fellowship but that is it and I recall Duke is quite generous! You should consider yourself lucky as compared to me...I have 2,000$...-_-. Luckily I have a better offer from Harris which is my preference over Duke anyway, so maybe I can use my admission here to negotiate a better deal with Harris.
pozole Posted March 6, 2018 Posted March 6, 2018 I was offered a tuition fellowship covering nearly all of the '18-'19 tuition...! To be reconsidered for the following year. A few programs seem to have admitted students' days the same weekend - anyone else in this predicament? (not complaining...! happy to have multiple acceptances)
AshD Posted March 6, 2018 Posted March 6, 2018 (edited) Accepted, $18k scholarship Edited March 6, 2018 by AshD
gelatinskeleton Posted March 7, 2018 Posted March 7, 2018 (edited) Yay, in with a $21k scholarship! Edited March 7, 2018 by gelatinskeleton
Ellen123 Posted March 7, 2018 Posted March 7, 2018 I'm also in with funding! Is anyone planning on going to the Open House?
gelatinskeleton Posted March 7, 2018 Posted March 7, 2018 1 hour ago, Ellen123 said: I'm also in with funding! Is anyone planning on going to the Open House? I'd like to, but considering that I applied to 7 schools (TBD how many I'm in at) and live in a land far far away, we'll see what the bank allows. I'm not sure I can make it to the online webinars either. Ugh. If someone attends admitted students day and is able to share their impressions, I would greatly appreciate it I will certainly do so if I attend! I've had a few people say they don't think that Duke is "my type of place" (what does that even mean????), but these are also people who are not familiar with Sanford. I don't particularly care about the larger Duke campus being a good fit for me, but I definitely want to feel a sense of shared purpose/interests with my cohort. I feel like that's hard to do via other people's opinions or a webinar, so it's too bad that so many open house days overlap.
pareidolia Posted March 7, 2018 Posted March 7, 2018 (edited) 7 hours ago, pozole said: I was offered a tuition fellowship covering nearly all of the '18-'19 tuition...! To be reconsidered for the following year. A few programs seem to have admitted students' days the same weekend - anyone else in this predicament? (not complaining...! happy to have multiple acceptances) 8 hours ago, wakandaforever said: Congrats to all! Can you all share how your financial aid packages look like? I have $18,000 in tuition fellowship but that is it and I recall Duke is quite generous! I got my acceptance email from Sanford this afternoon (3/6) with a half-tuition scholarship ($21K) plus the standard $4K TA/RA position. Since I am pretty narrowly focused on public health policy, Sanford is high on my list; I'm on the waitlist at Harris and waiting for a decision from U Chicago's social work school. To answer pozole, I have the conflicting admit day problem, with Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health (Master of Healthcare Administration), and I'm really not sure what to do about it. I already visited Sanford back in November when I interviewed at Fuqua, but I didn't get to meet career services or alumni. If there are a number of other admits with conflicts due to other MPP programs having the same admit day, maybe they'd let us do a mini-admit day earlier that week or something? Edited March 7, 2018 by pareidolia
mppapp2018 Posted March 7, 2018 Author Posted March 7, 2018 Hi all! Just received my admission as well. But with only 5k plus the standard 4k ta/ra. A bit bittersweet, but congratulations to all other admits, especially those with such great funding offers!
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