I thought Yale funds all students, but I only got 20% funding with my admissions decision.
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What happened to all of Yale's money?
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Posted 6 months ago #
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I got only 30%. I'll be going elsewhere.
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That's still pretty sweet if the admissions decision was reject.
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They are also under a hiring freeze. Endowment has been decimated.
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So, obviously, you'all are where Yale is going to get its money [back].
Of course, there are vast vaults full of gold bars beneath the Skull & Bones crypt. But you have to be a Level 12 paladin just to get inside, and that's before you deal with the dragon[s].
So no wonder they are cutting stipends.
Posted 6 months ago # -
So what if your funding is only partial? Having a PhD from Yale is still an amazing opportunity.
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^Kinda. BA is better.
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Yeah. I would rather have a PhD from Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley, Michigan, Rochester, WashU, Caltech, UCLA, UCSD, ...
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Let me say this for the youngins.
NOT BEING FULLY FUNDED IS NOT AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY.
Be sure you are funded when you embark on a PhD.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Lack of full funding leads to really crappy department culture as grad students compete for the few resources that exist. Not a good situation - go with full funding and tuition remission guaranteed for at least 4 or 5 years or don't go at all...even with full funding, grad-student stipends will cover your living expenses and not much else.
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I concur. Even if you are independently wealthy, your peers would not be. And you learn as much in grad school from the other grad students. If you have to compete for funding, it kills any camaraderie. And grad school can be hard enough without hating your classmates.
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Yale funds all grad students for five years. The two posters at the top are Trolls.
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To the OP: you mean that you didn't hear? This past year, Yale implemented a new policy. Going forward, all new students will be funded in direct proportion to what they perceive your chances are of successfully completing the program. In other words, if they believe that you have a 20% chance of successfully completing the program, you get funded at 20%.
It's actually a very nice program since it gives new students some good information right from the beginning. Interestingly enough, some students were actually offered negative funding packages.
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^ Um, so the admission letter I got from Yale is a forgery? And the phone call I got from Nick Sambanis (the Director of Graduate Studies) confirming the terms of my funding package was a just an imposter?
Well, you learn new things every day, I suppose.
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Then, why are you posting here? You already know the answer to your question. Obviously, all students aren't fully funded. Unless, you think the letter was a forgery and the person was an imposter.
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^ What question? Do you see a question in the OP's post?
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Even if Yale is no longer offering full funding packages to all admitted students, the 20%/30% thing seems like a very fishy and unlikely way of giving partial funding. 20/30% of what? Tuition waiver? Standard stipend? Length of time? Will you have 30% of a TAship? Sound pretty bogus to me.
But, in case these actually are real, or anyone is in a similar but real situation, don't be idiots. There is no school good enough to make it worth the risk without full funding, and the experience will be worse anyway.
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Yale fully funds all of its doctoral students. The OP is a troll.
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And likely a Rochester/Harvard troll, to be exact. Which one is it? I can't tell the difference anymore.
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harvard funds 150%. even now. it used to be 200%.
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***Do you see a question in the OP's post?***
Yes.
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At least you got in. I didn't w/ good credentials and a 1480 GRE.
Posted 6 months ago # -
So, any further verification so to whether Yale did or did not make partial offers this year: very useful strategic info for departments competing with Yale.
[yes, calls are out]
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Consult the Wiki!
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^ wiki says partial funding: http://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php?q=(politics|government|political)
Posted 6 months ago #