@tfadawghopeful I’m surprised they make you rank regions as a pre-assignment person. Since the pre-assignment had to be submitted before the final interview, wouldn’t they know your special circumstances and accept you only if they had a position for you? I bet even if Atlanta is almost full, they’d give you a spot before they gave it to someone else, though.
@Ranza123 I’m so excited that your top choice is Chicago!!
How are we supposed to wait A WHOLE WEEK?! It’s so funny because each step of the process has had me so impatient, and this should be the easy part, since we all at least know we’re in. But it is still totally nerve-racking!
@tfa2o18 I’m excited about the possibility of Chicago too! Maybe we’ll both end up there
And ugh I know I’m so nervous to find out next Monday! Do you think we’ll find out during the day like with the actual decisions or that it won’t come out until like 8 or whenever? This is my finals week so at least I have something else to focus on but at the same time this is so distracting for me (I’m in a review session right now but I’m being distracted by this instead haha).
Is there any assignment that any of you would get that would make you turn down the offer? Or are you planning on accepting no matter what?
@Ranza123 I am gonna accept no matter what. No way did I go through all of this just to turn it down. Will you accept regardless? I went back a few pages on this thread, and it looks like the deadline 1 people found out in the evening. I hope we don’t have to wait all day though.
I guess we could always try checking the codes again on the day to see if the region/subject is listed there lol
@tfa2o18 Yeah it looked like they found out in the evening. I’ll actually been in Chicago that day visiting my friend so maybe that’ll be a good omen.
I think I’ll also accept no matter what. I feel good about all the regions I listed. If I get a subject I’m uncomfortable with, I might try to see if I could get reassigned a different one (which my recruiter said might be possible). Like HS math or science would be hard for me to teach. I obviously took HS math and science myself at one point, and I did decently well, but I never really had a firm grasp on it, and I think it would be hard to teach something I don’t fully understand myself. I think the reason I never had a firm grasp was because my high school teachers didn’t completely understand (some had been reassigned to teach those subjects and were uncomfortable with it and it showed). So something like that, or ECE, would be harder for me to accept but I would still consider it!
@Ranza123 Yes, I agree. I am so nervous about getting math or science! The placement consultant I spoke to said that if we end up feeling that insecure, though, we can always talk to our school about it. So at least that offers a little comfort!
I chose NOLA, Metro Atlanta, and San Antonio for my high preferences. Milwaukee for my high priority region, but it’s a low preference. I realllly hope I get STEM related subject!
Hi @tfayay ! You can join us anxiously awaiting Monday.
I usually never obsessively check/post on threads, but it’s so comforting knowing other people are going through the same process! Although I guess our only process now is just waiting, but it still is so nerve-wracking. I’m having dreams about placements now. The stressful part should have been getting in at all, but this makes it feel so much more real! I literally can’t stop thinking about it; please tell me I’m not the only one!
@tfayay well, then i hope you get ALL the STEM and i do not.
@Ranza123 omg, you are not the only one. even though i know the placement hasn’t been posted yet, i even keep checking my applicant center. it is really so ridiculous. FIVE more days! but it still feels like a century!
@tfayay ahhhh glad to know it’s not just me! Are you going to accept regardless of region/subject placement? I bet you get a STEM subject since it seems a lot of the regions have a high need for them! I’ve also heard great things about all of your top 3 regions.
I also keep reading all of the old threads on here about TFA. Not for any particular reason, but it feels good to know that other people were just as obsessive about this as I’ve become. The threads were so much more active in past years; I hope more people will join us on here soon so I can anxiously rant to them!
@Ranza123 I definitely will accept regardless of subject placement and region, but I would be realllly bummed if I got a rural area to be completely honest. I’m from a rural area, and I’m looking for that change (finally).
@tfayay omg same; I’ve grown up/gone to school in rural upstate New York my whole life. Honestly, that was my #1 concern when preferencing regions. I tried to only list places that were urban because I really don’t think I can continue through my 20s stuck in a rural area. There’s plenty of time to move back to a small town later! My parents were shocked; I don’t think they can see me living somewhere urban and would have preferred I went to a tiny northeastern coastal town. Did you only list urban areas or were there any that could potentially lead you to have to live somewhere rural?
Hello guys, I am a new poster but I have been lurking the forum for awhile. It’s comforting to see others having similar feelings about this process as me.
@tfaeder Yay welcome! Did you get accepted in the second deadline as well (if so what were your regional/subject preferences?) or are you currently applying for the next deadline?
Hey y’all, I’m one who lurks, makes a couple of posts one day, then lurks again for a week- oops
Edit- Apparently the rest of my comment failed to post. I’ll shorten what it missed:
Wicked excited to have a job after college as a first-gen college student. Even more stoked because my parents/family won’t ask me what I’m doing after college. (I mean they’ll end up asking me why I went to college to teach, how much I’ll make because apparently that’s also a hot topic???)
Do any of ya’ll know how they assign region and subject? There’s gotta be hundreds (thousands?) of us. If 100 people have Nashville as their top choice, how do they decide who gets the 30 spots? (Assuming their subject requests also fit Nashville’s needs in this scenario, ofc.) Do they put us in a computer that just places us randomly according to our preferences, or do individual people do all that work?
@Ranza123 Oh my goodness, my literal thought process! I really don’t want to do spend my 20s in a “slow paced” place. In my hometown, there’s nothing to do/nowhere to go, and there are little to no job opportunities for recent college grads. It would be awesome to teach there, but I think I’d honestly be really unhappy because of the lack of life in the town. I try to explain this to my parents, and they really don’t want me to leave too far away.
I only listed urban areas near and far, haha. I’m open minded to any city!
