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Dear Ms. TeBordo:
Congratulations! I am pleased to confirm that you have been admitted for graduate study in our M.S./Ph.D. program in Communication and Rhetoric for the Fall 2006 semester. Our applicant pool this year was very competitive, but your credentials are impressive, and we are confident that you would be successful in your graduate work and an asset to our program.
When we admit students to the Ph.D. or M.S./Ph.D., we assign a faculty advisor based upon our best possible match with their stated research interests. Your faculty advisor, should you choose to enroll, will be Professor Tamar Gordon, who is looking forward to working with you. Prof. Gordon will be contacting you by email or phone shortly, and you may reach her at gordot@rpi.edu. We hope this advising partnership will be complementary to your research goals. However, initial advisor assignments may certainly be changed once you begin your studies, should you find another departmental faculty member who is a better “fit” for your doctoral program and who agrees to work with you. More information on our faculty and their research interests may be found on our website at www.llc.rpi.edu .
Departmental decisions on merit funding in the form of a limited number of Teaching/Research Assistantships (T.A./R.A.s) for the 2006-2007 academic year will be made by mid-March, and formal offers will be made shortly after that by the Dean’s Office in our School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Your patience is greatly appreciated as we wait for Rensselaer’s final budget approval process to be completed so that first-round funding offers may be formalized. As do most graduate programs, we participate in the Council of Graduate Schools April 15th resolution, so any offers we make carry an April 15th response deadline, though earlier responses are always welcome and appreciated.
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I got this e-mail yesterday afternoon, I had already gotten my letter on Wednesday, and the phone call on Tuesday. So I think this means I am really really accepted to RPI. I also got an e-mail from my potential advisor on Tuesday like hours after I was told I got in. It is so funny that the people at RPI still think they are trying to win my enrollment. She e-mailed me telling me how great it would be to work with me and how wonderful our partnership would be. Funny thing is that the recruitment director told me (after she had told me I got in) that Tamar was the first person they thought of as an advisor for me, and when they mentioned it to her she said she didn't even want to see my file, that she remembered me from my interview with her and she wanted to take me on. Hoorah! Yes yes. I am psyched. I have seriously gotten so much academic encouragement recently, from people who really matter. I am starting to feel like maybe I am not an average student who somehow sneaks by to accomplish things. I am one of 12 students from hundreds and that is cool. I just need to be in the top 6 in order to get funding so I will keep my finger crossed. Although formal funding notification does not go out until mid-march, Kathy told me she would be calling those ranked in the top 6 to make sure they would still want to go there around the last week of february.
Tamar seems pretty sure of my funding- or maybe is this what they say to everyone? In my e-mail response I told her that should all go well with funding I could say with some certainty that we would be working together in the fall. Her response was along the lines of "once you receive your formal notification of funding we can start working on getting you a list of books to be reading this summer..." Hmmmm "once you get formal notification." Thing is, the ranking order has already been made so maybe she knows I got in the top half, or maybe it was just a formality and I am reading too much into this.
All I know is that I have a 50% chance of funding, which is way better than the 2-4% of students that they accept into the program itself. I am a happy girl for the moment.
It seems all my hard work has paid off and here coems more. But I am happy to begin thinking of writing a dissertation, knowing that I am surrounded by those who love and support me.
I agree with Pete, I am a changed person, totally not the person I was a year ago. I think when we become stagnant in our self-concept is when we are suprised by the person in the mirror. I however want to be unhappy if I don't see change. I am not the same person I was even a few months ago, and I am happy about that. My life is changing- hoorah! Finally, things are working out.
If you made it through, congrats.
kaitlyn.
Congratulations! I am pleased to confirm that you have been admitted for graduate study in our M.S./Ph.D. program in Communication and Rhetoric for the Fall 2006 semester. Our applicant pool this year was very competitive, but your credentials are impressive, and we are confident that you would be successful in your graduate work and an asset to our program.
When we admit students to the Ph.D. or M.S./Ph.D., we assign a faculty advisor based upon our best possible match with their stated research interests. Your faculty advisor, should you choose to enroll, will be Professor Tamar Gordon, who is looking forward to working with you. Prof. Gordon will be contacting you by email or phone shortly, and you may reach her at gordot@rpi.edu. We hope this advising partnership will be complementary to your research goals. However, initial advisor assignments may certainly be changed once you begin your studies, should you find another departmental faculty member who is a better “fit” for your doctoral program and who agrees to work with you. More information on our faculty and their research interests may be found on our website at www.llc.rpi.edu .
Departmental decisions on merit funding in the form of a limited number of Teaching/Research Assistantships (T.A./R.A.s) for the 2006-2007 academic year will be made by mid-March, and formal offers will be made shortly after that by the Dean’s Office in our School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Your patience is greatly appreciated as we wait for Rensselaer’s final budget approval process to be completed so that first-round funding offers may be formalized. As do most graduate programs, we participate in the Council of Graduate Schools April 15th resolution, so any offers we make carry an April 15th response deadline, though earlier responses are always welcome and appreciated.
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I got this e-mail yesterday afternoon, I had already gotten my letter on Wednesday, and the phone call on Tuesday. So I think this means I am really really accepted to RPI. I also got an e-mail from my potential advisor on Tuesday like hours after I was told I got in. It is so funny that the people at RPI still think they are trying to win my enrollment. She e-mailed me telling me how great it would be to work with me and how wonderful our partnership would be. Funny thing is that the recruitment director told me (after she had told me I got in) that Tamar was the first person they thought of as an advisor for me, and when they mentioned it to her she said she didn't even want to see my file, that she remembered me from my interview with her and she wanted to take me on. Hoorah! Yes yes. I am psyched. I have seriously gotten so much academic encouragement recently, from people who really matter. I am starting to feel like maybe I am not an average student who somehow sneaks by to accomplish things. I am one of 12 students from hundreds and that is cool. I just need to be in the top 6 in order to get funding so I will keep my finger crossed. Although formal funding notification does not go out until mid-march, Kathy told me she would be calling those ranked in the top 6 to make sure they would still want to go there around the last week of february.
Tamar seems pretty sure of my funding- or maybe is this what they say to everyone? In my e-mail response I told her that should all go well with funding I could say with some certainty that we would be working together in the fall. Her response was along the lines of "once you receive your formal notification of funding we can start working on getting you a list of books to be reading this summer..." Hmmmm "once you get formal notification." Thing is, the ranking order has already been made so maybe she knows I got in the top half, or maybe it was just a formality and I am reading too much into this.
All I know is that I have a 50% chance of funding, which is way better than the 2-4% of students that they accept into the program itself. I am a happy girl for the moment.
It seems all my hard work has paid off and here coems more. But I am happy to begin thinking of writing a dissertation, knowing that I am surrounded by those who love and support me.
I agree with Pete, I am a changed person, totally not the person I was a year ago. I think when we become stagnant in our self-concept is when we are suprised by the person in the mirror. I however want to be unhappy if I don't see change. I am not the same person I was even a few months ago, and I am happy about that. My life is changing- hoorah! Finally, things are working out.
If you made it through, congrats.
kaitlyn.