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Congrats on the acceptance to ANTS. I hope to hear from BU soon. Maybe we'll take some classes together through BTI. Good luck with Harvard!

Thanks!! I'm pretty pleased. And absolutely-- the BTI is a great resource!!

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Vandy - rolling admissions

Candler - should know by March 1st about other funding.

In your signature it says you applied to BU. For some reason I thought you weren't applying there. That's great though!! That's my top choice right now. I wish it was next week or the week after. I don't think we'll know till the last week of Feb or first week of March :(

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I just want to hear back from somebody...It's killing me.

I feel ya. I'd almost forgotten how bad it was after getting into my current program years ago.

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I just viewed my online decision from Candler...I was accepted into the MTS program! Nothing about funding yet but they said a letter was sent out this week and would include more information.

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I just viewed my online decision from Candler...I was accepted into the MTS program! Nothing about funding yet but they said a letter was sent out this week and would include more information.

That's great! When did you submit your application? Did they send you an email letting you know the decision was ready or did you just keep checking opus?

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Checked my status on McGill's website, and I've been admitted! Did anyone else apply there this year? I'm a bit worried about funding, going by what people have said in past years on this forum about their funding for RelStud.

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That's great! When did you submit your application? Did they send you an email letting you know the decision was ready or did you just keep checking opus?

I submitted my application the last week in January. How about you? I kept checking OPUS and it showed up this morning.

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I submitted my application the last week in January. How about you? I kept checking OPUS and it showed up this morning.

I did too but my last recommendation wasn't submitted until Feb. 1. Hopefully I should hear soon. This waiting is gonna kill me. I check OPUS compulsively several times a day.

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For those of you who have heard from Vanderbilt or have heard about people hearing from them: how do they let applicants know? Phone, email, letter?

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For those of you who have heard from Vanderbilt or have heard about people hearing from them: how do they let applicants know? Phone, email, letter?

When I called them they told me that the notifications are all sent by mail, but a couple posts on this board have mentioned a few phone calls for some top scholarship recipients.

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Results for Theology (TST) at the University of Toronto are out. I suspect I might be the only Canadian posting this year, but just in case anyone else cares, the admissions are out for PhDs and MAs. I've been accepted for the PhD there, which is exciting, but no big surprise because I was an inernal applicant. Now I'm in the bittersweet position of having admits to the three big Canadian schools, but having mostly grim funding prospects. At McGill, I've been offered only TA opportunities with no fellowship or funding, from experience I know TST gives tuition but no stipend, and TAships are hard to come by, and at UBC I've been unofficially told I'll be getting a TAship and some funding but nothing concrete. It seems like UBC's my best hope unless I get SSHRC. I don't know whether to celebrate or have an anxiety attack about finances! Talk about mixed emotions...

Moral of the story: if you're Canadian and want to stay in Canada, have a really good SSHRC application or give up the dream and go south!

How's everyone else dealing with the financial anxiety that I'm sure we all get as RelStud/Theology applicants?

(My apologies in advance for the cheese and whine... I should really be happy now that I have some acceptances, but it's hard to concentrate with the possibility of four more years of debt hanging over my head! All I can do is take Phil 4:19 to heart and hope and pray for the best)

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Results for Theology (TST) at the University of Toronto are out. I suspect I might be the only Canadian posting this year, but just in case anyone else cares, the admissions are out for PhDs and MAs. I've been accepted for the PhD there, which is exciting, but no big surprise because I was an inernal applicant. Now I'm in the bittersweet position of having admits to the three big Canadian schools, but having mostly grim funding prospects. At McGill, I've been offered only TA opportunities with no fellowship or funding, from experience I know TST gives tuition but no stipend, and TAships are hard to come by, and at UBC I've been unofficially told I'll be getting a TAship and some funding but nothing concrete. It seems like UBC's my best hope unless I get SSHRC. I don't know whether to celebrate or have an anxiety attack about finances! Talk about mixed emotions...

Moral of the story: if you're Canadian and want to stay in Canada, have a really good SSHRC application or give up the dream and go south!

How's everyone else dealing with the financial anxiety that I'm sure we all get as RelStud/Theology applicants?

(My apologies in advance for the cheese and whine... I should really be happy now that I have some acceptances, but it's hard to concentrate with the possibility of four more years of debt hanging over my head! All I can do is take Phil 4:19 to heart and hope and pray for the best)

I got into TST today as well. Any idea when our colleges will get to us with financial offers?

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I got into TST today as well. Any idea when our colleges will get to us with financial offers?

What college did you apply to? Also, what program? If it's Emmanuel and a ThD, you're in luck, because they have funding. If it's any of the others, it's a little more difficult to get funding and it usually comes pretty late.

Also, if it's St. Mike's you have to apply for financial aid, which is due tomorrow. I'm not sure about the others, but I'm pretty sure you have to apply to most of them except for Emmanuel if you're going for a ThD. It's kinda too bad they don't just pool the funding, it'd really make things easier.

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What college did you apply to? Also, what program? If it's Emmanuel and a ThD, you're in luck, because they have funding. If it's any of the others, it's a little more difficult to get funding and it usually comes pretty late.

PhD at St. Mike's. I've heard so many different things about funding from students and professors I have no idea what to expect!

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Make sure you get your application in for funding by tomorrow if you haven't done it already. I'll put it this way...

Emmanuel somehow got money this year (dunno how, and I just found out about it today...), and offers generous stipends. The others offer decent funding for tuition. My MA would have been entirely paid for except that I had to take a bunch of extra language courses to meet requirements. Just don't expect any kind of stipend. I'm at St. Mike's, and I can say the funding's not bad, especially considering how hard it is to get MA funding. They really encourage you to apply for SSHRC, because stipends are out of the question. They work on a "everyone gets some funding" sort of system rather than a "some people get alot while others get none" kinda deal. It's fair, and not bad, but you end up in debt if you can't find a part time job or SSHRC to cover living expenses.

(btw, PM me if you haven't applied for funding yet, I can direct you to the application forms and tell you where to fax it)

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What college did you apply to? Also, what program? If it's Emmanuel and a ThD, you're in luck, because they have funding. If it's any of the others, it's a little more difficult to get funding and it usually comes pretty late.

Also, if it's St. Mike's you have to apply for financial aid, which is due tomorrow. I'm not sure about the others, but I'm pretty sure you have to apply to most of them except for Emmanuel if you're going for a ThD. It's kinda too bad they don't just pool the funding, it'd really make things easier.

Also, are you sure its due tomorrow? I was almost positive it was due Feb 4.

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Also, are you sure its due tomorrow? I was almost positive it was due Feb 4.

Yeah it was, but there was an extension because the registrar forgot to email a reminder.

EDIT: whoops, just checked the e-mail, it's due on Feb 25. Sorry about that, I knew it was a Friday, but I thought it was tomorrow.

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