if this were baseball, i'd be in the freakin hall of fame.

[fox]

from the university of edinburgh, in today's mail post:

Dear Ms Fox

UNCONDITIONAL OFFER OF ADMISSION AS A POSTGRADUATE STUDENT

Thank you for your application for admission as a postgraduate student. I am pleased to advise you that the University has approved your admission to study on the enclosed Terms and Conditions.

perhaps someone can explain to me how an unconditional offer can be extended on terms and conditions. it's got me stumped.

this is for a three-year PhD program, research only, no coursework, which frankly scares the bejeebers out of me -- in syntactic change. which is cool, but not precisely my thing; i suppose that was the nearest they had among what their people Do. so, on the one hand, PhD, and on the same hand, edinburgh, which i love; but on the other hand, not oxford, and still on the second hand, more expensive than oxford. can you believe that? by close to 1000 GBP a year, in tuition and fees.

for purposes of comparison, this is approximately analagous to, say, northwestern university charging $1500-2000 more for the same basic program than yale.

so, i doubt i'm going to do this one. however, i have two months from the date of the letter (02 April 2004) in which to respond. so i can afford to hang around for a bit and wait to see which if one of the oxford colleges has an offer for me.

Comments

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

W00t! Go you!

[thalia]

Yay! That's fabulous. At least the UK appreciates you.

[axiom_of_stripe]

yay! it's always nice to be wanted. :) what are their unconditional conditions?

[orange852.livejournal.com]

But Scotland would be fun! mmph!