So how stupid is this?
Mar. 1st, 2005 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntiemeeshI'm applying to the University of Denver for a Masters degree in Library and Information Science. The application deadline for Fall 2005 is April 15. I have plenty of time to get my materials together and sent in. Well, I started filling out the online application this evening and guess what? If I want to get financial aid (which I do) I have to apply for FAFSA by February 20!
WTF! Why is that deadline earlier than the program deadline? Grr! This means that I need to apply for the spring semester, now, instead of fall, so that I can get financial aid. It's not a huge thing. It had always been in the back of my mind that I could start in the Spring semester if I had trouble getting things together in time for fall. But I would have prefered to start sooner rather than later. Now there is no choice.
On the plus side, this does give me more time to save money. Instead of staying at my mom's and living cheap while working at a crappy job for three months, I get to stay at my mom's and live cheap while working at a crappy job for six months. Six months in a town where there is nothing to do and everyone is depressed and hopeless. Sounds like so much fun! *shudders* Maybe I'll still move to Denver in September and just try to get a job for a few months before I start school. The other possibility is that maybe I could get a job within the University system for a while before starting school. If I did that, I could get much reduced if not free tuition. That would be very good. It's something I have to look into.
Gah! On top of that, the application process is a labrynthian ordeal involving several applications to different bodies, some online and some not, plus the usual letters of recommendation. LIS does not require any entrance exams. Does this mean I don't need to take the GREs? I don't know. When I first started investigating the program I thought I did have to submit GRE scores but that they accepted old ones (older than the five years that most schools allow). Which would have been good as mine are about ten years old. They've made a lot of changes to their website in the last six months, and apparently there have been some changes in the requirements as well.
So, to recap. I'm frustrated. Not really freaking out, but confused and slightly stressed. Okay, slightly more stressed than normal. It's all going to work out in the end, this I know. It's just getting to the end that may age me before my time.
WTF! Why is that deadline earlier than the program deadline? Grr! This means that I need to apply for the spring semester, now, instead of fall, so that I can get financial aid. It's not a huge thing. It had always been in the back of my mind that I could start in the Spring semester if I had trouble getting things together in time for fall. But I would have prefered to start sooner rather than later. Now there is no choice.
On the plus side, this does give me more time to save money. Instead of staying at my mom's and living cheap while working at a crappy job for three months, I get to stay at my mom's and live cheap while working at a crappy job for six months. Six months in a town where there is nothing to do and everyone is depressed and hopeless. Sounds like so much fun! *shudders* Maybe I'll still move to Denver in September and just try to get a job for a few months before I start school. The other possibility is that maybe I could get a job within the University system for a while before starting school. If I did that, I could get much reduced if not free tuition. That would be very good. It's something I have to look into.
Gah! On top of that, the application process is a labrynthian ordeal involving several applications to different bodies, some online and some not, plus the usual letters of recommendation. LIS does not require any entrance exams. Does this mean I don't need to take the GREs? I don't know. When I first started investigating the program I thought I did have to submit GRE scores but that they accepted old ones (older than the five years that most schools allow). Which would have been good as mine are about ten years old. They've made a lot of changes to their website in the last six months, and apparently there have been some changes in the requirements as well.
So, to recap. I'm frustrated. Not really freaking out, but confused and slightly stressed. Okay, slightly more stressed than normal. It's all going to work out in the end, this I know. It's just getting to the end that may age me before my time.
