Northeastern

[Soc231160]

anyone want to claim the Northeastern admit?

[SocGen89]

I'm the admit for the 22nd. It was unofficial, as they have said that the Graduate School needs to approve their recommendation. Still waiting to hear on funding, but invited to come to the open house.

[lunababy5]

Received my acceptance by e-mail this morning! Around 10 AM inviting me to the open house Friday, March 16th. Information on funding and open house coming soon.

[MoreCoffee]

I'll claim one as well. Although, my letter stated that they are not currently offering me funding but if some becomes available they will let me know. Based on that, and my other offers, I'm not thinking NE will be a feasible option for me. How likely is it that you can get off a wait list for funding?

[erenkrc]

Same here. I think they have not offered funding to anybody yet. So it is not really like a 'wait list'. I hope they will let us know about that funding issues soon.

[MoreCoffee]

Did you get this same statement regarding funding: "We are not able to offer you funding at the time of this writing, however, should funds become available, I will be in touch immediately"? I took mine to mean that others were offered funding but it may become available if others turned it down.....

[erenkrc]

Yes, I got exactly the same message. I thought they would send the funding information later and this was true for everyone accepted. I don't know. Did anybody get some funding information before?

[MoreCoffee]

Oh, interesting! I guess I just had on a pessimistic hat this morning. Well, I definitely hope your interpretation is correct!

[lunababy5]

"We are not able to offer you funding at the time of this writing, however, should funds become available, I will be in touch immediately."

I also interpreted that to mean that others have received funding, but maybe we will hear something soon! Hmm...

[erenkrc]

Anybody heard something about funding?

[sociologo]

Did anyone receive funding to Northeastern? I'm in the same boat with everyone listed above. "We are not able to offer you funding at the time of this writing, however, should funds become available, I will be in touch immediately." No update on that for 3ish weeks.

[MoreCoffee]

I haven't heard a thing. I'm wondering if folks might get more information at the recruitment weekend. Isn't it this week? I turned down the invite to the recruitment weekend since without funding, attending Northeastern is off the table for me (and I have other offers with funding on the table). They have been the quietest school for me in terms of ongoing dialogue.

[SocGen89]

I've been working with their admin assistant pretty closely, since scheduling time off work and getting flights has been such a hassle. I wouldn't say that there is no funding - it wouldn't make sense both because 1. There hasn't been funding offers to anyone on this thread and 2. Considering how they have engaged me once I reached out to them with questions. If they didn't want a strong cohort, the fastest way would be to offer no funding to their students. I don't know, but in my opinion, we might be learning more during the open house itself.

[lunababy5]

I also have been corresponding with the administrative assistant - she has been available and helpful to me with any questions I have, however the funding topic is pretty sketchy and vague so far. When I probed a little further, I was told I am on a waiting list for funding and that everyone will be formally notified about funding in early April. She also said that in the past, funding has opened up for students who werent offered in may and June. I get the impression that, for now, we are all on this hypothetical 'list' and decisions about allocating have yet to be made.

Edited March 15, 2012 by lunababy5

[sociologo]

So you think maybe funding hasn't been released at all? I have a few other schools that have done that but were upfront saying that "yes you're admitted, but we aren't handing out funding yet." Hmmm. Yes, the admin. assistant has been very helpful with everything except funding answers. Maybe we'll get more answers after the visiting weekend. I'm also not going - way too expensive to travel from Florida.

[Soc231160]

How was the visit weekend? Did we learn anything else about funding?

[erenkrc]

I was at the open house and funding issues still seem to be so vague. There were 12 people visiting and only one of them was already offered funding. I talked to the graduate coordinator myself and he said 7-8 people are usually funded by the department in a year. It seems that we are waiting for them to reject the offers. That made my hopes decrease.

[sociologo]

Well, that is disappointing...

[sociologo]

Anybody else accept the offer? I got off the waitlist for funding in the globalization concentration and was very happy to accept! Would love to hear if anybody else is heading that way.

[erenkrc]

Congratulations! I am still waiting but I think I have no chance at all. My concentration is globalization as well. I think there are no more spots remaining there. Do you think they will inform the ones who will not be offered funding? I still need to hear the final decision.

[sociologo]

Probably not - some spots do move around through the summer. Doesn't hurt to email and ask where you are on the list though.