Dear friends who have received their acceptance/rejection results, if you wish, fill out the following form as an example of experience to help the future.
#result #result_apply
Result (acceptance/rejection): Acceptance
Date of receiving the result letter: March 3
University: Miami University
Field: M.A in Geography
Degree: Masters
Fund status: unknown – wait list (I am the third person on the list and two people before me received RA funds)
Relationship status with professors: I emailed one of the professors whose research interests me and after that I was invited for an interview. The interview was conducted twice and the teacher encouraged me to apply even though the deadline had passed.
If rejected, why? :-
Result (acceptance/rejection): Acceptance
Date of receiving the result letter: April 9
University: University of Arizona
Field: M.S. in Urban Planning
Degree: Masters
Fund status: Graduate Tuition Scholarship in the amount of $16,000.00, distributed evenly between your first fall and spring terms.
(GA status not yet determined)
Communication status with professors: Communication with one of the professors who encouraged me to apply and I applied 🙂
If rejected, why? :-
Result (acceptance/rejection): Acceptance
Date of receiving the result letter: March 19, 2021
University: Iowa State University
Field: Community & Regional Planning
Degree: Masters
Fund status: Miller R. Springer Scholarship 2,000 award for each year for two years ($1,000 per semester for four semesters) +
$16,778 College of Design Graduate Student scholarship for the academic year of 2021-2022
(GA status not yet determined)
Relationship status with professors: I sent an e-mail for the Feeweaver application, asking for my CV and explanation, and after a week they sent me the Feeweaver app code, and I applied.
If rejected, why? :-
Result (acceptance/rejection): Acceptance
Date of receiving the result letter: March 8
University: University of Iowa
Field: Urban and Regional Planning
Degree: Masters
Fund status: a third-time graduate assistantship for the 2021-22 academic year. Your third-time assistantship will include a stipend of $13,535 for 13 hours of effort as a research or teaching assistant, coupled with a full tuition scholarship. Funded students also received a fee scholarship for 50% of the mandatory student fees assessed for both semesters, plus paid health and dental benefits.
Relationship status with professors: You can say that I got my first positive answer from this professor and he told me to apply very promisingly. After I was accepted, I emailed him and he interviewed me and told me to wait until the status of my fund is determined (in June he said that the fund might arrive), but thank God, the department gave me a fund before that date, and I think it was because of my professor’s follow-up.
If rejected, why? :-
Result (Accept/Reject): Reject
Date of receiving the result letter: Feb 14, 2021
University: University of Utah
Field: City & Metropolitan Planning
Degree: Masters
Fund status:-
Relationship status with the professors: I exchanged emails with one of the professors and I thought that the probability of my acceptance was high, but because this department had removed App Fee for this program, many people had applied.
If rejected, why? : We received a record number of outstanding applications this year and unfortunately could not accept everyone.
Result (Accept/Reject): Reject
Date of receiving the result letter: March 27, 2021
University: Simon Fraser University
Field: Urban Studies
Degree: Masters
Fund status:-
Status of communication with professors: Canada did not respond at all this year and I did not try much for it.
If rejected, why? : They didn’t say and they said, don’t follow up at all 🙂
#resume #conditions
Bachelor’s field and GPA: Urban Engineering 16.97/20 (3.63/4)
Master’s field and GPA: –
TOEFL/IELTS score (overall and separately for each section): IELTS 8.0 (L:9 – R:8.5 – S:7 – W:6.5)
GRE/GMAT score (overall and separately for each section): I didn’t have any
Articles (journal/conference): an international conference article/ an isi article under review
Research experience/Work experience: One year of research experience as RA and cooperation in several research projects with the professors of the urban planning department of Shiraz University/One year of work experience in the office of facilitating historical context and urban planning.
This post is written by The_Sep