Postgrad application responses

pushpop

Hi all,

I dropped in applications for two separate computer science masters courses last week, and I'm wondering when I'll hear back with a yay or nay from Trinity. I've been offered a place in a masters in DCU on the condition of achieving a certain final grade, but the acceptance deadline for it is the 28th of May, and the payment deadline is a fortnight after that so I have until the middle of June to pay up. If I don't hear back from Trinity before then I'll have to commit to the DCU course. Does anyone know when I should expect a reply from TCD?

Thanks

Tacitha

Graduate Studies are notoriously slow and unreliable. There's no fixed date for acceptance and when you might hear from them depends on the course and its closing date, the course director and a few other things.
In your situation, there's no point in waiting. The course director has the facility to accelerate acceptance for a candidate with another offer. That has to start with the Graduate Studies Office (you contact them with written proof, and they send your file to the director early for permission to admit). That may work on its own, but I wouldn't rely on them. I'd bring the written evidence in to the GSO, and request that they ask for an early decision. Then I'd phone or e-mail the course director, letting them know what you've done, and I'd be prepared to follow up every few days. It can all be managed very quickly, but you need to keep pushing.

Crash

pushpop - I assume you have the emails for the course directors for each course, if not send me a pm and let me know what courses they are, and i'll pass along information.