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Rob is seriously nice. He’ll put up with anything you throw at him. I probably reached out to him half a dozen times and he was quick to respond every time. You can call him if you want, but I mostly emailed him, and he got back to me sometimes as quickly as a few minutes.
After deposit, about a week. Other than that, they may not get back to you about your prerequisites unless there’s an issue. If it’s been two weeks, call rob and verify. That’s what I did. He said they didn’t contact me because everything was fine.
I accepted my offer and I’m in state so my experience is different than yours, but I have a friend at Mississippi State and she loves it. You have to understand that you’ll get a great education no matter where you go. And as an out of stater, you’ll have a lot of debt no matter where you go as well. An extra $50,000 is a lot of money, and something you shouldn’t take lightly. Granted I haven’t actually calculated out the difference in cost of attendance out of state for Mississippi State vs Penn but it’s definitely a lot of money. Once you factor in the extra cost of tuition and cost of living, Penn just might not make sense to go to.
Logically, I know all that. Just having a hard time letting go of going to Penn. But you're right, long term it won't matter!
This has been my struggle because I do think all the things you mentioned are so important. So I've been left deciding between the quality of these 4 years and how much more I think I will get out of it vs yearssss of extra debt. It's just comparing apples to oranges. MSU is 80,000 for 4 years ( I got a contract seat and a scholarship) and Penn is 240,000 for 4 years, that's an absolutely insane amount of money. I wish the difference was smaller but unfortunately I think that amount of money, and knowing I can make the best of any school, kind of forces me into my decision. After weeks of agonizing, I think my mature adult decision needs to prevail.... Even though it's not near as exciting
I haven't gotten any specific financial aid forms to fill out yet. I think once you accept a seat you do all of that. Also as you can see from this thread, I'm most likely giving up my OOS so best of luck to you!!!
I do see that, I'm actually in the a similar situation with Penn and Tufts (penn being my IS and cheaper, but me liking Tufts campus way more). Alas, since I'm in state I don't think your seat would go to me anyway. Best of luck!!!
I accepted my seat a while ago and haven’t gotten any financial aid stuff. I filled out everything on FAFSA before the priority deadline and listed Penn as my school but haven’t received anything aside from FAFSA’s confirmation that I filled everything out. I’ve heard that we get things closer to the beginning of the summer.
Congrats on the scholarship from your IS! That really is awesome that you’re saving so much money and get to also go to a dream school of yours. In regard to something you said in your blog post, I honestly can say Rob is the king of easing your stress while also saying you’re the first person he’s ever seen do something. I didn’t finish my Bachelor’s (one class short) and I was stressing over and over, so I emailed him. He essentially said what he said to you. I also called him after I didn’t receive confirmation of my prerequisites being okay and he said I was good to go. He’s been a lifesaver.
Hey I'm in the exact same position!! Even after the scholarship offer I ultimately decided to be a mature adult and decline 🙁
I was pulled off a couple weeks ago and I'm OOS! Are you IS?
Ah good luck!!
Finally! I’ve been following this thread and eagerly hoping you’d get the call. Congrats!!!
Aw, thank you so much!! 🙂
You should submit FAFSA ASAP. There is another process I believe for going directly through Penn though. But as far as FAFSA goes, submit all your stuff for it and they’ll reach out to you soon to let you know if they need anything else.
I submitted my FAFSA months ago maybe in February before I even interviewed, do you think I need to send it again?
Nah don’t send it. I just spoke to financial aid. They’ll reach out to us soon.
I don’t think so. I’ve not needed mine, but I didn’t apply for and internship or residency. I can’t imagine they care about your undergrad transcripts though.
That would depend on the internship/residency most likely. I did find one or two (one at Ohio State I believe) that required an undergrad transcript. But that seemed to be very uncommon. Most only were looking for vet school info.
You have my permission to use my replies, but I’m gonna tag a moderator on this one. @Lupin21Hi, everyone!
I'm Mita. I'm currently taking my master program in Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia, majoring Linguistics. So, it's all about language.
Now, I'm doing a research on linguistics features in an online discussion forum. I found this thread interesting and chose it as my data. I read all the chats, 593 chats in total 🙂
I found that you guys use electronic discourse while chatting with the other users, such as the emoticons, the initialism LOL, the shortenings (feb, undergrads, etc.). This is what I am looking for
Firstly, I am writing this to ask your permission. Can I use this thread as my data source? I will analyze all of these chats but I will not mention your username. Secondly, how old are you guys? It relates on language style (factors affect the way you use language). I ask this question because when I read the chats, I found some of you wrote c/o 2023 while there were some users who wrote c/o 2022 or 2021 😳
Thank you so much. Hope hear your reply soon
Best Regards,
Mita Rosari 🙂
That would be a no go, good buddy. We do not allow surveys or participate in outside research without specialized approval from the upper level SDN administration team. Our forums are kept to sharing of information only and do not want influx of these types of posts/threads distracting from our purpose.
Thanks the the response. I tagged you since I figured SDN had a policy like that. Thanks for the clarification!
Yeah, give it some more time. Same dealio on my end last and this year.
Okay cool. I also think I didn’t apply for a direct plus loan so I just did that to be safe. We’ll see lol
