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pumpkins-s · 6 years ago

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I feel insanely bad bc my undergrad school let me into their Masters program and offered me like...full-funding + a TA position with a stipend, and now one of the professors who literally wrote one of my letters of rec has emailed me like “hey want to talk about the particulars of the program” and I’m somehow going to have to be like “hey I know y’all are offering me a literal free degree but I’m leaning towards going somewhere else and paying an ass-load amount of money for it instead so I can say I went to an Ivy League”

#i'm Sweating #my undergrad school obviously REALLY wants to keep me #and honestly if I didn't have the Ivy League offer I'd have. at least really strongly considered taking my undergrad school's offer #bc it'd save me so much money and I'd love being a TA #but a degree from here vs a degree from an Ivy League is. well. it's a world of difference #in terms of the job opportunities I'd have afterward #as well as my potential chances of getting into a PHD program #which. im unsure about but I know my parents want me to think seriously about #and im lucky enough to be in a position where bc I went to a cheap school and did my degree in two years there's money leftover #that my parents can afford to use to help me pay for my grad degree #which with my scholarships and my work-study would make the ivy league degree. feasibly affordable #but regardless I feel bad lol #bc my undergrad school offered me the Silver Platter of deals that I know a lot of people not in the same financial situation as me #would kill for #and also I'm just bad at politely-worded emails communicating this shit so I'm panick ing at how i should explain to my prof that i'm probs #going to go somewhere else #ahahahaha...#ramblings

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