Timeline for When do offer letters usually arrive?
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| Jun 27, 2014 at 19:53 | comment | added | bender | I followed your collective advice and contacted the department. Apparently although TA positions had been selected as my professor had informed me, the department can not send out offer letters until late July when they have the majority of their undergraduates enrolled. Luckily for me, my research advisor got a research assistantship position for me so now I have my funding settled for the Fall. Thank you for your input. | |
| Jun 20, 2014 at 19:31 | vote | accept | bender | ||
| Jun 18, 2014 at 0:58 | answer | added | Ari Trachtenberg | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 17, 2014 at 17:15 | comment | added | Oswald Veblen | The department may well be unable to expedite the letter; usually there are several layers of approval that have to be completed first, and/or budgets that have to be reviewed and approved. This can seem completely opaque from the outside, but the department almost certainly wants to get the offers out, and they will work behind the scenes to try to keep the process moving. In other words, the explanation you received about the provost's office is completely plausible. | |
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| Jun 17, 2014 at 16:45 | answer | added | Brian P | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 17, 2014 at 16:42 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Rather than going through your advisor, you might want to talk directly to the person in the department who's responsible for TAs - often there's a faculty member with a title like "Vice Chair for Graduate Studies" and/or a staff member with a title like "Graduate Coordinator". They should be in a position to explain what's going on and reassure you. | |
| Jun 17, 2014 at 16:34 | history | asked | bender | CC BY-SA 3.0 |