Hi! My name is Helen (an Ethiopian) and am 24 years years old. I have applied and got admission at Columbia Law School's LL.M. program in Human Rights. I have also applied for the Law School's Human Rights Fellowship but could not win. Does anybody have any idea where I could find other sources of funding, especially someone who attended their LL.M. program?

Ciao
Helen

hi,
sorry, I don't know either. You got your admission for the 2006 LLM? That is amazing! You are the first one I hear to get in-congratulations!

one more question: how did u find you that you were accepted: online, email or by mail?

Thanks for the info.

but its a little early for columbia to announce its results,,it seems last year they announced them in february!! n its stil 3rd week december..nyhow accept my wishes 4 ur admission,,
u may inquire at th US Embassy in your country,,they normally a booklet or sumthing about education in US wich lists possible sources of funding as well..
bt do giv us your details,,like wen u applied n if u cud post th contents of th acceptance mail,,tht wud b rili helpful..
stil cant believe columbia announced its results..

OMG...You heard from Columbia already????
Congratulations!!!
Funding my LL.M is a huge issue too...

'hgebresi'..dude you are the centre of attraction here,,so u need to speak up n share with us the details of your admission..i can understand that u must b excited bout your admission right now but we are curious bout ours too..
so plz tell us wen u applied to columbia??wat did they say in there email confirming your admission??by when do you have to confirm?? n stuff like that..

Is it true? Congratulations in such case! But to be honest it seems pretty strange to me...

Merry Christmas to everybody!

Really? a 24 y/o Ethiopian who just got an acceptance in CLS in Dec? Sounds like the douch-bag, Tokyo boy from last year. The style is the same and the responses are similiar. With a Chao salutation?
Really? No answers to the questions on the chat. Even after they started the chat?
Rude crude and dismissable is what it looks like.
There will be more "douch-bags (Mali), Tokyo Boy,Hgebersi's to come as we all fret over our applications.
Most of the real people here will obtain acceptances over the next three or four months.
Good luck to all of you.

Congratulations! n good luck with your scholarships, i quite agree that the US embassy may provide info. additionally, ur govt. may ve certain schemes for funding studies abroad. That avenue may be worth strolling.

anyways, if u come across some international forum do share that. on a lighter note, i haven't yet received my acknowledgement.

cheers

hey, i should have made it more clearer! My admission was for teh academic year 2005-2006. As I couldnot win the Human Rights Fellowship I've applied for, so I have asked for deferral, which I was granted, so as long as i can cover my expenses, i ca be enrolled in the 2006-2007 class.

They notified me the admission status first thru e-mail -by mid-april, 2005, then by a letter reached after some fifteen days.

Sorry for teh delay in replying, i was in a very remote rural Ethiopia 9field work) , where u don't have access to light and water, let alone the internet.

And here is the content of the admission notiifcation (thru e-mail), if u wanna look at
Subject: Admission Status
To: helentaurus@yahoo.com
From: "gls" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 1710 -0500

Dear Ms. Gebresillassie:
I am pleased to inform you of your admission to Columbia University
School
of Law's 2005-2006 LL.M. program. The financial aid decisions will be
made
in the next several weeks. A formal letter will be sent to you this
coming
week. We hope that we will see you at Columbia this year.

Sincerely,

Marietta LaFargue
Graduate Legal Studies Coordinator
William & June Warren Hall, Room 611
1125 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10025
gls@law.columbia.edu
(212) 854-2655

For: Alice Haemmerli, Ph.D., J.D.
Dean, Graduate Legal Studies and
International Programs, Columbia Law School
ahaemmer@law.columbia.edu

Helen:
Let me be the first to thank you for your clarification of your previous requests to the chat.
Congratulations for your acceptance to last years class and I hope that you will find the resources that you need to pursue your LLM in Human Rights at CLS.
All of us on the chat, I'm sure know now why you were unable to respond timely to your request.
We are all lawyers and are by nature skeptical. That is one of the critical requisites and a good characteristic of our professional retinue.
So it was normal and diligent that we wanted more information in order for us to understand what would not have been consistent with our previous understanding of the timing of acceptances given from CLS.
I for one, at the real thought of an Ethiopian Human Rights Lawyer with a CLS education is genuinely enthusiastic and extremely hopeful that your request for resources is resolved post haste.
Best of Everything,
LenaZ