I know that my application goes to committee at CRCDS this week or next. I got a call from Meadville Lombard that one of my references seems to have gotten lost in the mail. I called the person and they mailed it over a month ago and now have to recreate it, since they did it by hand :::sigh:::. But after that, they will schedule an interview.
I also followed up with the NERSCC, and am officially an applicant now. I can do a couple of pieces of paperwork and once I'm accepted to divinity school, I can become an aspirant.
Feeling tearful and joyous. It was good to go to the prospective student conference at CRCDS this weekend or I wouldn't have been jogged to check in with the office about my application.
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Out of idel curiosity, let me know if you figure out what the distinct lines are when one becomes an "applicant," an "aspirant," and a "candidate."
I never did. I apparently became an aspirant--but never got told so--until I was completing the last paperwork that allows me to go before the RSCC... which I think has to pass on you before you actually become a candidate.
Fortunately, I don't really care. It's not as if the statuses seem to have much meaning. The only annoyance is that I should have been able to go to Ministry Days at G.A., if I'd been told I was an aspirant when I became one. Which is, FWIW, the only evidence I have that I am one, an email commenting on it.
(snort)
Argh, I posted a detailed reply, but it seems to be lost in cyberspace.
Anyway, I have a list of things I was given that are required to be done before being considered an aspirant -
2 interviews, an essay, photo, inquiry form, acceptance to div school, etc.
I have heard from others that communication is a problem. I find that unfortunate, and I do agree that it's a long process and difficult to navigate.
It would be nice to have a more formal notification process though!
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