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Just wondering...	[05 Aug 2009|09:12pm]
[ **mood** | curious ] Hello!I'm planning to apply for the 2010/2011 TFA Corps. I'm curious about the new regions TFA has added. On the application were Tulsa, Dallas, and the Twin Cities even an option when you chose your "preferred" regions?I mean, how much will TFA accommodate your preferences?Thanks in advance!
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Fourth Round Waiting List	[25 Apr 2009|01:39am]
[ **mood** | anxious ] Hi! I am in the fourth application round for Teach For America and just learned this Monday (April 20th) that I've been placed on their waiting list. I hear there were more than a thousand individuals placed on the wait list this year, and just this week about half of those were informed they wouldn't be likely to receive offers, while the other half were (presumably) contacted and told they can reasonably expect to be admitted on a rolling basis between May 1st and May 18th. I, however, haven't heard anything either way. That being said, the people who said they received updates on their statuses were from previous application rounds. Now I'm wondering whether they were already immensely selective about who they placed on the wait list from this fourth/last round (meaning, anyone who was chosen for the wait list from the fourth round is part of the one-half that made the cut), or if they just haven't gotten around to sifting through us Round Four Waitlisters yet. It's all very confusing and I don't know how naive it would be to feel positively about my very vague status.I myself haven't received any follow-up information since Monday, but I have heard of people (who are currently on the wait list) being informed this week that they'll have their decision between May 1st and May 18th. (TFA says a choice few will hear before May 1st.) And I still don't know when I can expect to hear from them. Since I have not received any updates - negative or affirmative, I have no idea where I am in this process. My recruiting contact tells me those on the wait list should be hopeful, but I don't know whether this applies to me specifically or if it's just pretty-talk intended to keep people on the list. Do any of you have any insight in this matter? I would greatly appreciate it!
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getting your region changed?	[11 Mar 2009|02:50pm]
[ **mood** | confused ] Hey everyone,So I got accepted, and I am super excited! However, I didn't get my first choice .... I feel bad mentioning it, but the reason why this is a big deal is because my husband recently got a promotion, and so now I'm not sure if he'll be able to transfer his job like we originally thought he would. (I did only put our city in the highly preferred area though, and I also checked off the box that said my spouse could only transfer his job in the highly preferred regions.) If this is the case, he may end up out of a job, which puts us in a rather precarious financial situation. Has anyone had any success in appealing to TFA to switch their region assignment? I feel bad because the people I've talked to in Charlotte seem awesome. (In case you're wondering, my first choice of assignment was Atlanta.)I went ahead and emailed admissions to ask about it, but thought I'd check on here to see if anyone knew anything.
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