no word on funding (yet, I hope)

Complete and total surprise. I committed!

Email to check portal came at 11:43pm ET. Received $80k total scholarship funding. Applied by Dec 20 deadline

5 years experience in IR, undergrad degree in IR from a DC IR school, no GRE scores, 2 LORs (one academic, one professional). No scholarship notification but it looks like that info may be sent later.

2 years work experience.

I already had ine master and a little work experience.

Notified on March 4th that the department has chosen not to admit an MA cohort for fall 2025.

Development and Governance concentration

No financial aid, but very happy!

Rejected from PhD but accepted to MA

canadian, ubc grad, interviewed late feburary, 1 year of work experience

Research: Research assistant for 2 labs (one psychology, one education in linguistics); 160 SLP shadowing hours at a hospital Work Experience/Extracurriculars: RA (Resident Assistant), Teacher's Aide at my campus daycare, Secretary/Playwriter for a theatre club, taught HS English for a summer, Secretarial work at a private speech clinic Rec Letters: Two professors/lab directors (one is a distinguished professor in linguistics), third was my supervisor last summer where I taught HS English

Domestic applicant (Canadian). Received a full scholarship and funding from a research project.