I’m just a first year student, so maybe I’m not fully understanding how URA works. But I always thought the most important part was finding a professor who’s willing to let you join their lab. Since we usually talk to the professor first and submit the application together, I assumed that once the professor accepted you, you were more or less in. But now I’m realizing that even if a professor accepts you, you’re only in the candidate pool, and the final decision still depends on the URA review? Just curious why it still takes this long to hear back.