<p>Just received an email…!</p>
<p>From my recruitment person. AHHHHHHHH. I thought I was going to have a heart attack.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>@TeamMontague2012: What did the e-mail say??</p>
<p>I received one too last night. It wasn’t just sent to me but everyone else she worked with that went through to the final round. Basically she told us good luck and whatever happens tomorrow she’d still like to keep in touch. She also made it a point to clarify that she won’t know until we do who got in or didn’t (for a reason) so it was just a nice e-mail from the heart and not an insider tip. :p</p>
<p>I’m so nervous! I can’t stop checking my email/status page.</p>
<p>I also got a mass email from my recruiter. Simply a ‘good luck and you will survive if you don’t make it’ kind of email. Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>How I am coping with today:
- brought laptop to campus to be able to refresh my status page/email more efficiently
- doing absolutely none of the reading I was hoping to get ahead on
- checking twitter obsessively for news (see when other people start to get notified)
- biting my poor, poor nails</p>
<p>Dear TFA, please put me out of my misery soon. Love, toydiamondring</p>
<p>@toydiamondring: LOL and of course updating all of us!</p>
<p>@winterbaby017 Oh, of course! I thought that was implied. I am, of course, also compulsively refreshing this thread for news. (What is my life?)</p>
<p>@toydiamondring Apparently our lives are very similar because I keep doing the same 
Good luck everyone. As my transitional funding status still says “Under Review” I am also expecting a rejection letter but who knows - apparently for some whose status changed to “Complete” they ended up being rejected so I’m holding on to a bit of hope.</p>
<p>I keep refreshing this page, my status page, and my email in hopes that SOMETHING will update asap. This is going to be a long day!</p>
<p>So I have been reading posts all day since about 7AM. I was not going to create an account, but we are ALL on the same page. I keep thinking in my head what if I do not get it. I keep preparing myself for the rejection. I actually found the forum by searching info on the Transitional Funding! </p>
<p>I decided to share my 2 cents. Now that I know I am not insane for thinking about this around the clock…I want to say hats off to all of us for even making it this far in the competative process. That alone says a lot about the abilities that we each possess. I am not coping very well at all. Constant refreshes of everything! I am still “Under Review” but from reading this may not be a bad sign. I felt like I nailed the interview and lesson when I left all the way up until yesterday when I started thinking negatively. I have heard of numerous people being “Complete” and not getting in. I do not believe this is an indication of your acceptance. Just pray and try to stay away from negative thinking. We are all very gifted individuals. If this door closes, it is their loss, and another will open. </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone I can’t wait to read this forum tonight and see everyone’s excitement.</p>
<p>Agreed. I don’t think anything is a good sign or a bad sign until there’s an acceptance letter or a rejection letter waiting in your inbox. </p>
<p>I only have two hours of class today, but I wish I had more. At least in class I don’t let myself check my status (or this board, or twitter, etc.) at all. When I get out at 2:45, I’ll have nothing to stop me from obsessing.</p>
<p>@ALittleUnknown: Same!</p>
<p>OMG. It is 10AM California time and I have been checking every 5 min. Sadly, nothing has changed on my transitional funding status. Ugh. I cannot focus at work. 7 more hours to go 'til it is finalized. Me so scarredd mucho.</p>
<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, why did everyone apply for TFA?
I did it just for the hell of it and wanted to see if they would accept a teacher/dept chairperson that currently works in a hard-to-staff and high needs school in NYC. If they don’t accept me, with all the experience and leadership that I have, then I know the rogram is a complete waste and based on my experience mentoring NYC teaching fellows and TFA corps members very harmful to schools. I also never understood why students who are graduates of big name schools would want to take a job with such little pay and a lot of pressure. Also, why not take the traditional route to teacher certification?
If you are wondering why I applied, I applied based on a bet with fellow staff members who also did it as a bet to see who can get in and who would get rejected. We read about TFA in the Education Journals and find it laughable how TFA thinks a corps member can make a difference in two years!!!</p>
<p>If you want to reply please do.</p>
<p>Good luck to all of you today. Maybe some of you will be placed in my school next year.</p>
<p>So based on your reasoning NYCTeacher4, you’ll turn down the offer if admitted, yes?</p>
<p>@NYCTeacher4: I don’t think many people on this forum as we all wait for notification of our acceptance or rejection from TFA care to entertain that conversation. To each is own and it’s great that you and your friends are applying as a part of some “test of TFA’s true intentions” but your claim that TFA doesn’t really care about closing the achievement gap if they reject you is ridiculous. You are identifying yourself as the barometer for an educational change agent and your evaluation is highly subjective.</p>
<p>The majority of us posting to this forum today are anxiously awaiting to hear from TFA because we are passionate about TFA’s mission and want to be a part of it. I don’t think this is the time or place to project your cynicism about TFA to a group of folks that are trying to stay positive as we wait for decisions to be released. </p>
<p>On another note:</p>
<p>Good luck everyone! I know we’re all checking our applicant center pages, e-mails, twitters, etc. compulsively! lol Part of me wishes I could speed up time, then there is another part of me that feels that at least at the moment there is still a chance of acceptance regardless of the actual outcome.</p>
<p>Yours in the struggle and again good luck everyone! :)</p>
<p>@cdog08: Well said, thank you!</p>
<p>I completely agree with cdog08. I don’t think it’s a conversation worth entertaining. </p>
<p>On a note about transitional funding, mine finally changed to complete! It was changed to “incomplete” on Thursday because they needed more information to verify my pell grant eligibility. After several nerve wrecking days of not seeing it changed to complete, I JUST logged on and noticed the change (I don’t think it was there an hour ago). While it’s been duly noted that this may or may not be a predictor, it does make me breathe a little easier. I have not been able to focus on my Spanish essay at all. Maybe now I can.</p>
<p>And to also touch on what bwilson20 said, we’re an amazing group of people if we got this far. Life <em>will</em> carry us far wherever we go and hopefully in our own ways we will help close the achievement gap! For those of us who are lucky enough to join the corps, I think it would be great if we/they kept in touch during institution and after!</p>
<p>nycteacher, OMG my wife thinks the same thing. She’s been a teacher in SF for 7 years now. Par Coaching and giving math PDs etc. Seh even helped make cirriculum. My wife started out in Visitation Valley one of the most dangerous and lowest scoring areas in SF if not the State. She would come home crying everyday, it was very taxing. They actually had a teach for america teacher there. They don’t do that well from our observation. They usually aren’t prepared for lack of adminstrative assistance and lack of parent participation. My wife had a first grade class and out of 24 students only about 4-5 parents showed up for confrences etc. It’s interesting.</p>
<p>But I do applaud everyone ambition here. I hope its leads to bigger things and not just a two year stretch.</p>