UWash

Spoke with a nice woman at the University of Washington today about my application. The Social area made 5 offers this year (out of about 200+ applicants), 4 people accepted. One of the faculty members I applied to work with is possibly leaving in the next year or two to take another offer, and the other is retiring. The people who took students this year aren't in my area of Social (and they're brand new faculty who aren't even listed on their website).

This softens the rejection a bit. At least I know that they considered my application and being accepted there was out of my control. (It did take them until 4/14 to tell me they didn't want me.)

NYU offered to find me $18500 in federal loans. Not sure where the rest of it is supposed to come from. Also, no tuition remission for master's students (even in the case of an RA/TA-ship). But, I CAN defer for a year and be guaranteed a spot in the Fall 2007 class. I just need to send in my $250 deposit.

In other news, I think the computer is working again.