Wednesday's Mailbag

The Risk family received its biggest disappointment of the graduate school applications this week. The University of Delaware rejected our application for graduate school. Delaware had been our first choice of all the schools we had applied to and we felt we had a very good shot at getting accepted there, but it was not to be. The last remaining school of the original six is Ohio State in Columbus. We are holding out hope, but at this point, we are not expecting anything positive.

Our back up plan has been coming along well. We will have our application to the master's program in history at Salisbury University in Maryland will be completed on time to be considered for a graduate assistantship. This will be the only other school that will pay a stipend to attend there, but the assistantship is very competitive as they only offer two. Our other applications to Old Dominion and East Carolina are coming along just fine. We will most likely not here from these applications until the end of April or middle of May. That really puts pressure on for finding jobs and selling the house, but we will deal with whatever comes our way.

Our relocation options are now Columbus, OH (MA/PhD combined program), Salisbury, MD (MA program), Greenville, NC (MA program), and Norfolk, VA (MA program). We ask that everyone keep us in their prayers so that we may get into school somewhere this fall.