email indicating informal offer of acceptance- more details to come in january (formal offer + package)

Recommendation of my admission to the graduate school without funding. I hate this situation

Still waiting to hear about college allocation and funding information

Answering to this: "To the Cambridge acceptance below - when did you submit the application? Thanks!" Submitted: 19 Nov GAO: 23 Nov Offer: 27 Nov I had an informal interview with a potential supervisor in late October. But there is no info about funding yet. So I keep reminding myself not to be so excited about it.

To the Cambridge acceptance below - when did you submit the application? Thanks!

GAO on 23/11, made an offer today :)

I submitted my application prior to the funding deadline in December, but because it took the admissions department 14 weeks to process my documents the anthropology department wasn't able to consider my application until April and did not even know that I had submitted it in December. Edinburgh had strikes delaying things in March and COVID-19 related delays afterwords but this was still really disapointing. In the end I was accepted but the department wasn't able to give me funding because they received the application so late. My documents were only finally processed by admissions after I emailed them 5 times. Word of advice, definitely reach out if your documents are not being processed quickly and make sure the department knows that you submitted prior to the funding deadline early on. 2a/7r/0w

received an email to check portal

Extremely excited to be doing a PhD at the University of Chicago!

Unofficial offer e-mail, after re-evaluation in jan

Accepted via email for bio anth. I declined the offer.

Accepted via email notification with funding package letter in bio anth. I declined the offer.

Accepted via email. I declined the offer.

Went for campus visit where I was notified at the end that I was accepted. I formally accepted the funding package in March.

I was notified by UVA that they would not be able to accept anyone off the waitlist due to COVID-19 related budget problems or something? I'm not sure but I was moved from the PhD waitlist to being accepted into the masters in anthropology program.