No funding, but im going to double check on external opportunities as this is a top choice.

Ignore the status. Anyone who could still click into the application portal and see their uploaded materials? When I clicked into it it showed "Portal is inactive."

Accepted to the EdS program. I got an email that a decision was made and to check my portal. Then a couple of hours later I received an email about my acceptance and with some details about what comes next.

"The PhD admissions committee at Penn State has reviewed your application and found it to have great merit. However, given the extremely high quality of the pool of applicants this year and our limited resources, we are unable to make you an offer to join the PhD program in economics." 0a/1i/0w/8r/17p

Straight out of undergrad

Take with a grain of salt, though I am not. No official rejection, but I logged in to see a page that now says "Error Portal is inactive."

Also received Emile Boutmy Scholarship

Domestic applicant, Canadian politics subfield