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  1. Life on a PhD Waitlist: Is There Anything You Can Do?

    For most U.S. PhD programs, April 15 is the final date for accepted students to provide notification of intent to enroll. Schools require a commitment from admitted students by that deadline in order to fill their cohort. If there's movement off the waitlist, you can expect to hear something as April 15 approaches (and even slightly afterward ...

  2. phd

    16. It's April 16th today, most applicants should have made their final decision for graduate school. However, earlier this year, I was interviewed by a very prestigious university in the US for their ECE PhD program. In February, I was notified that I'm on their waitlist. Now the resolution deadline has passed, but I still haven't received ...

  3. What To Do About Getting Waitlisted or Denied

    Seek out development opportunities and strive to make new achievements. Retake a test if you weren't happy with your score. Pursue a promotion or get a new job. Talk to a consultant about how to improve your weaknesses. The key objective for both interest and improvement is to stay in front of the admissions committee.

  4. Waitlisted for Grad School? Here's What to Do

    Send a brief letter or email and remember to be as professional as you can; this correspondence should be viewed as an extension of your grad school application. Stay in touch. Because not everyone on the waitlist is going to be able or willing to hold out for admission, your chances for a favorable outcome increase the longer you're willing ...

  5. How to Handle Being Wait-Listed for Graduate School

    Here are some of the steps you may be able to take if placed on the wait list. 1. Solicit and accept feedback like a professional: If feedback is offered, take advantage of it! Listen to what you ...

  6. PhD Waitlist Chances: Navigating Uncertainty While Remaining Zen

    But then comes the PhD waitlist chances debate—an ambiguous and nerve-racking limbo that often wrenches applicants out of the sweet hope of acceptance and into the clutches of uncertainty. In this blog post, we'll break down the nuances of the PhD application waitlist, offering insights that might just tip the scale in your favor—or, at ...

  7. How to Apply for PhD Funding

    Tip 3 - Be really organised. Some of the most boring and obvious advice for a PhD funding search also happens to be some of the most effective. First of all, make a list of the different funding options you might apply for. Include details of the amounts they offer, their specific eligibility criteria and, most importantly, their deadlines.

  8. Wait Listed for Grad School, Now What?

    In short, it is exactly as it sounds. Just as you might wait behind velvet ropes before entering a popular restaurant or theater, wait-listed applicants stand behind a metaphorical velvet rope hoping to be admitted. While you have not been rejected, you also have not been accepted. Essentially, as a wait-list member, you are in the department's ...

  9. Graduate School Waitlist Advice

    grad. Graduate School Waitlist Advice. You've worked so hard and have made it so far. Now you just need to push yourself a little further before you finally snag that coveted acceptance! Explore the grad school waitlist resources below to have your best shot at transforming that waitlist status into an acceptance in no time! Get Off That Waitlist!

  10. What does it mean to be "waitlisted" for a PhD program? US

    Funded graduate students are a huge investment in training, time, and departmental dollars. If your true goal is "cheap labor", you may as well hire an adjunct. Obviously, in some ways, graduate students are cheap labor, and in many ways, graduate students are easily exploitable. But graduate students are also more expensive than a lot of ...

  11. Still on grad school wait lists?

    I was told that I was very high on a PhD funding waitlist in January last year and then received an offer in mid-May. From what I heard this wait was quite long since admin were dragging their heals a bit, so to still be waiting at the end of June seems extreme. I had better luck chasing my potential supervisors for insight on stuff like this ...

  12. Funding Waitlist

    Posted April 10, 2013. If you're on a waitlist for funding, one of three things can happen for you to secure that funding. 1) Another student who was made an offer declines. 2) Another student accepts their offer but doesn't need/want funding and declines it. 3) The program finds more money to fund more students.

  13. How possible can I get a PhD funding off the waitlist? : r/PhD

    Doesn't matter who is paying for your PhD as long as it isn't you. Also, I feel you. I was waitlisted due to funding as well and didn't get pulled off the waitlist until after April 15 which is supposedly when all potential grads make their decisions. AKA, someone turned down their funding and spot which is why I got accepted.

  14. Question about PhD waitlists : r/gradadmissions

    The problem is all the best applicants will accept something by April 15. This means #7 on the waitlist quickly becomes #1 because #1-#6 already accepted elsewhere (and why it's hard to know your true waitlist rank). If you get an offer late on April 15 or after April 15, you can request more time. The school's response will depend on how badly ...

  15. What to do after being waitlisted?

    soundchaser. Members. 88. Posted March 9, 2017 (edited) Wait lists differ widely. Sometimes indications of interest are likely to make a difference. Sometimes a wait list is mostly a courtesy, and one is unlikely to be admitted. Sometimes the wait list comes with a ranking internally and sometimes it doesn't.

  16. Graduate Admissions & Aid

    PhD Funding Opportunities. It is the policy of the Graduate English Program to attempt to fully fund all students admitted to the PhD program for five years. Most funding will consist of Graduate Teaching Assistantships and other sources within the university, but we also admit students with outside funding. Some additional funding ...

  17. Admission Frequently Asked Questions

    The application fee is $70 for international applicants and $50 for U.S. citizens and permanent residents. The fee must be paid via credit card through the online application portal. The fee is required by the Graduate School and it cannot be waived by the Math Department. It is important to note that your application is not seen by the LSU ...

  18. Want NSF funding? You'll need to submit a grad student ...

    Starting this week, principal investigators (PIs) seeking funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will be required to include a plan describing how they will mentor the graduate students and postdoctoral researchers involved in the project as part of their application. PIs who receive funding will also be required to certify ...

  19. Waitlist and sending emails

    The email is simple: Dear [DGS/program director], I was recently informed that I was wait-listed for the PhD program in Economics at [school]. I am writing to let you know that I have been accepted with funding to A, B, and C. However, [school] is my preferred choice and I would immediately accept an offer of admission with funding.

  20. Navigating the Waitlist Process

    Typically, within a week after the waitlist offer deadline, you'll receive an overview of the upcoming waitlist timeline. Decisions will be made throughout the admissions cycle. Applicants waitlisted in Rounds 1 and 2 will be reconsidered in subsequent rounds. We will notify you of any status changes on the next notification date via Wolverine ...

  21. Alaska's Rusting Waters: Pristine Rivers and Streams Turning Orange

    Dozens of Alaska's most remote streams and rivers are turning from a crystal clear blue into a cloudy orange, and the staining could be the result of minerals exposed by thawing permafrost, new research in the Nature journal Communications: Earth and Environment finds.. For the first time, a team of researchers from the National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, the University of ...

  22. Minnesota lawmakers find fix to help foster kids pay for college

    Minnesota lawmakers found $5 million to help cover colleges costs for former foster children — and then approved it in not one bill, but two, in the chaotic end of the legislative session Now ...