Financial Aid Re-Offered, Turns Out I Was Fine…

July 31, 2012

Earlier in July, I mentioned that I had accidentally accepted less financial aid than I needed. It turned out the mistake was not irreversible, because I could ask for the aid to be re-offered, and I could re-accept a higher amount. My Financial Aid Has Been Re-Offered I checked today, and saw that my financial [...]

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Accepting Financial Aid: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned

July 3, 2012

About a month ago, I received notice that my financial aid for the 2012-2013 school year had been awarded, and I could go in and accept or decline however much I wanted. Accepting Financial Aid Based on the calculations I have done previously, I knew that I would need around $5,000 in student loans for [...]

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The Future of the CPA Profession

June 26, 2012

I was wandering around the internet yesterday afternoon, and this blog post at CPASuccess.com, Here’s What the Future Looks Like for CPAs. Reading through it, I found myself wishing fervently that my schooling was done and that I was already a CPA so I could participate. Looking toward the future and seeing how things might [...]

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Financial Aid Award Announced (Finally)

June 12, 2012

It’s been a bit quiet here because I haven’t really been doing anything active regarding grad school, except obsessively refreshing the student access portal at CU Denver to see how much financial aid they would award me. My cousin, who works in graduate financial aid at a different university told me that she wouldn’t be [...]

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Officially Enrolled for Fall 2012

May 10, 2012

So, my transfer from my 529 came through, and I paid my $200 deposit (it’s a non-refundable fee, but gets applied to my Fall tuition when I start classes) on Monday. I then spent Monday evening and most of my free-time on Tuesday and Wednesday re-working and debating my potential schedule for Fall. As I [...]

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Of Advising Appointments and New Tentative Schedules

May 4, 2012

I had my advising appointment on Monday and the woman I spoke with (very friendly), informed me that the grand schedule–the one I had drawn up for myself after being given access to the Fall schedule last week–is no good. For one thing, the two classes I was planning to take in the Fall with [...]

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Tentative Schedule for Fall 2012 — Achieved!

April 26, 2012

Ha ha! I sent (yet another) email to the Graduate office at the Business school and a very helpful woman (finally) sent me a link to the schedule for Fall. I can’t even begin to express how happy this makes me. According to the MSAcc requirements sheet that I received upon my acceptance, the first [...]

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Fall Schedule Frustrations

April 24, 2012

Over the last few days, I’ve received quite an inbox full of correspondence from CU-Denver. All of the information they’ve sent so far has been useful and interesting, but they one thing they haven’t sent is my student ID number. This is going to arrive via snail mail “sometime in the next two or three [...]

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I’m going to grad school!

April 18, 2012

I opened up my inbox yesterday to find the following message: Subject: Admission Status From: grad-business@ucdenver.edu To: Megan Taylor Dear Megan Taylor: Congratulations! You have been accepted into the Master of Science in Accounting at the Business School, University of Colorado Denver, Graduate Programs, for the Fall 2012 semester. You will receive a hard copy [...]

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Submitted my Application to Grad School Today

April 12, 2012

After several rounds of editing with my favorite brain-trust team (you know who you are, and I hope you know how much I appreciate you), I finalized my essays this afternoon on my lunch break. I thought about submitting my application right then, but I wanted to let it sit for a few hours, just [...]

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