OFFERS OF ADMISSION

Offers of admission as a matriculated student, and any offers of tuition waiver or fellowship or assistantship support will be conveyed in a letter from the Dean of the Graduate School. Any similar offer, whether verbal or in writing, that is made by a faculty member, program director or an individual graduate program is unofficial and not binding.

Applicants who are offered admission by the Graduate School before April 1 must accept the offer in writing by April 15 in order to secure the seat offered in the incoming class. For offers made after April 1, the applicant must respond in writing within two weeks of the letter from the dean in order to secure the offered seat.

The Graduate School abides by the policy promulgated and endorsed by the universities in the Council of Graduate Schools regarding acceptances of offers of certain types of financial aid by graduate students. Applicants are given until April 15 to consider multiple offers they might receive from the various graduate programs they have applied to. As of April 15, however, applicants are “bound” by their acceptance of offers of admission and scholarships, fellowships, traineeships, or assistantships. Offers of tuition waivers and stipend support fall into this category of financial aid. Students accepting such offers from NYMC after April 15 must declare that they have not accepted admission to another graduate school, or they must produce a written release from any graduate program from which they have accepted such an offer. Similarly, any student who has accepted an offer of admission and financial aid from NYMC must, after April 15, request a release from that acceptance if they wish to accept an offer of admission in any other graduate program.