<p>I honestly cannot fathom having to wait another month. I have finals and work next week and then I am taking a 5 day roadtrip home for winter break and stopping at my boyfriend’s and best friend’s houses so hopefully that coupled with the holidays will make time go by a little bit more rapidly. I am a bit nervous about the whole diversity preference. I am from an upper/upper-middle class white family so I know that puts me at a disadvantage. I guess the only diversity thing I have going for me is that I’m gay haha. I have a feeling that if selected into the corps that I will be placed in Dallas-Fort Worth because I highly prefered Dallas (even though it is my #5). My top four were all gray or blue dots (DC, Seattle, Portland, Chicago). I want to get invloved with nonprofit management and govtl consulting at some point so I think DC would be the best option for me. Plus I have a full time internship next semester with a nonprofit so it would be nice to just move there in January and never leave!</p>
<p>@nolakid Someone talked me into putting new orleans on my highly preferred but how is it to live there I’ve only been there once for the essence festival? </p>
<p>For my highly preferred I put
Dallas
New Orleans
Los Angeles
San Antonio
Houston</p>
<p>@alisenwonderland I love my city! I went to high school in Denver, CO and college in Little Rock, AR which is where I currently live but I go to New Orleans at least 3 times a year. New Orleans is so full of culture! Honestly there is no place like it, so if you do get the opportunity to live there I think you would love it. There is always a festival or event going on so you’ll never be bored. There is such an eclectic mix of people in the city that I’m sure you’ll make great friends.</p>
<p>@nolakid Okay cool I’ll leave it on there lol thanks. When I visited the culture was what I really loved most not to mention the food. I had never had a po boy or crawfish. </p>
<p>I am officially on break. I really need to find some exciting things to do to make this wait go by fast.</p>
<p>I have so many places as highly preferred. in this order… MA, Miami, NYC, Upstate NY (growing region), CO, Bay Area, RI, DC, Philly, Baltimore, CT, Newark, DE. Then I just have one least preferred and thats Dallas.</p>
<p>@taffiedog10 Did you put a high need region in your highly preferred?</p>
<p>Did anyone else that put Seattle-Tacoma in their top get an email about their webinar tonight?</p>
<p>@ubbulls24 I got the email but I thought it said the webinar was next week and it wasn’t in my top but I did preference it.</p>
<p>just had a moment of freaking out, I had a missed call from some NY number, called back and it was the TFA national office haha then I checked my voicemail and it was just a robot telling me to submit my regional preferences since I had unsubmitted them to change a few things…such a tease! haha</p>
<p>@lea no i didn’t, did we have to? i only put dallas as a high needs region and it was under least preferred.</p>
<p>If you put a high need region in your highly preferred but it is lower on the list of highly preferred, do you think that there is a really large chance that you would be placed there? That’s my situation with Dallas right now</p>
<p>@pml i would assume so, but no one can be sure. theres always time to change your preferences until tomorrow. i feel like i have changed mine so many times! i basically have all the gray regions on the map in my highly preferred along w/ miami. i know that makes my chances slim but i put so many of them (15) in highly preferred that hopefully they can give me one of them! what do you have as your preferences?</p>
<p>As of now they are,
Highly Preferred
- DC
- Seattle
- Portland
- Chicago
- Dallas
- Milwaukee (Tied)
- Houston</p>
<p>Preferred:
7. Bay Area
8. San Antonio
9. Nashville
10. Colorado
11. Los Angeles</p>
<p>Least Preferred:
12. New Orleans</p>
<p>nice! those look like great choices. i just realized something about our preferences. i think it might be important to look at what your subject preferences are and then look at what is available in that region. for instance, i am most interested in doing ece and special education, but those placements arent available in mass. i still have MA as one of my highly preferred, but i definitely wont be surprised if i don’t get placed there. have you done that?</p>
<p>Hey, everyone. I’m a 2012 CM working Detroit. I remember using this forum to touch base with other prospective CMs during the application process and found it to be very helpful and a great stress reliever. Anyway, I would be more than happy to field any questions or concerns y’all have about the process.</p>
<p>@Mrlahey How is Detroit?</p>
<p>Hey MrLahey! Where did Detroit play into your rankings?</p>
<p>All I can think about is if I am going to get an offer or not! I interviewed yesterday and was one of two males in my group. I wonder if males have an advantage when it comes to acceptance. Anyone else have Chicago or Detroit in their most preferred?</p>
<p>I’m hoping so, TFAWannabe haha I was the only guy out of our 7…I had Chicago in my preferred but not highly preferred!</p>
<p>@mattack yeah me too! The suspense is killing me. I keep looking at my transitional funding to see if there have been any changes, but it is still under review. I did not think I would be this anxious to hear back.</p>