Accepted!

Graduate School
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<p>Don't know if we have an acceptance thread, but I was accepted! It's great because I only applied to one school (UW Evans--the only place I was willing to relocate) so thank heavens I got in, because the GRE was bloody expensive and I'd have taken it again if rejected. Does anyone know whether I can find out my FA package, or lack thereof, before the paper gets here? We were accepted by phone.</p>

<p>(Sounds like I chose UW because of location, which is only partly true--I also like the Evans School, obviously.)</p>

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<p>Congratulations!</p>

<p>Who called to notify you of your admission? I would start with that person, or your professor of interest. It’s also possible that financial aid offers are still being worked out.</p>

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<p>Thanks! I don’t know because my mother (who lives at our “permanent residence”, i.e. tax address, since we don’t own a home and are military now) answered the phone, and she was just finishing a nurse’s week of 12-hour night shifts. I’m very lucky she answered it and remembered who it was.</p>

<p>It’s only a master’s so I didn’t communicate in depth with a professor in particular. They are all interesting to me. I think I will wait for the paper letter and then see. There’s not a lot I can do until then anyway.</p>

<p>I hope I get at least some merit aid. I will be getting paid this year but I will be alone with my kids and I don’t want to have to work too much during school. Perhaps I can work with the school and then do summer consulting. Crossing my fingers.</p>

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<p>I would not wait for a paper letter. Call the department’s director of graduate studies and express interest in funding opportunities.</p>

<p>Most financial aid for graduate studies comes in the form of teaching or research assistantships. That is, you work X hours per week assisting faculty with their research work or teaching duties. In return, you earn a modest stipend and/or partial or full tuition remission. There are “free money” fellowships, but those are mostly reserved for Ph.D students.</p>

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<p>Thanks. I think I will in that case.</p>