Mar 03 2009
Cash Money
Well, I got that offer. It has morphed from a nomination into a “Please take our money and come to our school, no fooling” email from the dean of the department. Soon I will have a letter with some numbers on it. One of the numbers will be $20,000. It will probably be the largest offer I will get, as my other schools are all state universities known for bad or uneven funding. I should have applied to Duke or something just for the hell of it, so that I could have a wider array of numbers to leverage into something higher from my home school. I’d like to do my PhD at my home school but they have terrible funding packages and so I have to hustle to get a larger aid package. That’s the only reason I applied to other programs, really. The fight’s not over yet - I’ll need to secure some good numbers from my home school or it’s off to another state with me.
