UT LBJ - MPA Admitted Thread, Fall 2014

[kathryn_a]

Just received notice of admission to UT-LBJ for MPA. The email said financial support decisions will be finalized within the first two weeks of March...here's to hoping for some $$$!

Edited February 18, 2014 by kathryn_a

[MPPgal]

Wow they did it early this year, congratulations!

[MPAallday]

That is pretty early. Congrats!

 

I wonder how long this means we should wait for acceptance letters before assuming rejections.

[Plate77]

I received an acceptance today as well. Fingers crossed for funding!

 

EDIT: This is actually for the MGPS. Didn't realise this was an MPA thread.

Edited February 19, 2014 by Plate77

[Amsh_Aust]

Congratulations to those who are in for MPA.. I'm still waiting for MGPS results .. hopeful!!

[MPPgal]

MGPS and MPAff admissions are at the same time, do check your status page, last year they changed it without sending emails. Also, last year it took them about 4 days since the first of us heard until the last did. http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/services/apply/checkstatus

[Calatoara]

Still waiting to hear :-( MyStatus page says I'm still "in review."

[gwualum4mpp]

Mine (Mpaff) is also in review....ahh! Good luck everyone

[MPAallday]

Still "in review" as well! Good luck everyone! Hopefully we'll all find out by this weekend.

[Amsh_Aust]

"In Review"...thanks for the link MPPGal..

All the best to everyone who has applied!

[DreamTeam03]

Same. "In review." Blegh. I'll be glad when the waiting is over. Thanks for the info MPPgal!

[MPPgal]

Do not over think it or worry too much, last year I did and it helped little except for endless nights of no sleep with weird theories including international, alphabet letters and number patterns. I remember correctly the first of us to hear we were admitted were on a Friday and up to Thursday people kept hearing also for Friday people our emails came in on a Sunday, and this was in March, so do not think that not hearing is necessary a bad thing. 

[dctalk13]

MPPgal,

You're a swell person for helping out future grad students even though you already got int LBJ. Thanks for your contribution.

[marwanslm]

Congrats! I applied for Master of Global Policy Studies, still not getting any news. finger crossed

[joseon4th]

Another MGPS hopeful checking in, also with no status change.  

[MPAallday]

I'm guessing that kathryn_a and Plate77 might have been special acceptances (perhaps priority acceptances). It seems that everyone else I've talked to hasn't heard back -- which might indicate that they haven't gotten to the rest of their acceptances yet.

 

Just speculation though!

[MPPgal]

Yes it sounds that way, don´t worry my guess is they will come out when they did last year so first week of March. I would keep an eye out Friday. I have no idea as I am in no way associated with the admissions committee but that is my incling as it was on Friday afternoon last year when most of us heard. keeping my fingers crossed for y´all!

Edited February 24, 2014 by MPPgal

[texasjen]

When I met with the LBJ representatives in the fall...they said second week of March for admissions results. I'm surprised people are hearing so early...

Edited February 24, 2014 by texasjen

[Caradrina]

Got my rejection today. Pretty disappointed. I guess I know what to work on for next year! Good luck to people still waiting to hear!

[MPAallday]

Sorry to hear about that Caradrina! Good luck with the rest of your applications!

[Caradrina]

I put all my eggs in the lbj basket; I'm in Austin already, and due to family commitments, don't really have the flexibility to move right now. I know I need to get quantitative GRE up for next year, and maybe go ahead and take some more math classes. Any other advice to help me be competitive for next time around?

[MPAallday]

I put all my eggs in the lbj basket; I'm in Austin already, and due to family commitments, don't really have the flexibility to move right now. I know I need to get quantitative GRE up for next year, and maybe go ahead and take some more math classes. Any other advice to help me be competitive for next time around?

 

Well it's hard to tell without your statistics. What's your GPA, GRE, etc?

[Caradrina]

Well it's hard to tell without your statistics. What's your GPA, GRE, etc?

[Caradrina]

Been working as an educator for 10 years. Volunteer work with refugees and a persistent interest in gov, development, and diplomacy made me want to apply for the mgps. 3.8 Gpa from an ivy as an undergrad, decent writing on gre, high verbal, pretty low quantitative. Not a lot of math courses in undergrad. Good lors from professors at Dartmouth and Columbia. I'm thinking take more math and improve the gre?

[MPPgal]

Yes and international experience I think that might be your low point, for MPAff your curriculum sounds fine but if you want to do something that is global you need to link it to world. Remember you are competing against internationals, people with peace corps experience etc. You need to link it much more. I fnot I would say try for MPAff it seems a lot more tailored for education.