springseternal

Hi English grads, has anyone heard from University of South Carolina? Not much information seems to be trickling through....

Aargh! Hellothisisdog! I did change email to a work address and re-sent. Hope, hope, hope this helps. May be too late.

Thank you theory411 and onceinalifetime. My prof did say she was 'bombarded' and emails just slipped further and further down her list. I have - thanks onceinalifetime - decided to get a different email since I was using a Hotmail acct. which has often been put in spam folders. I will now use my work email which has an @.org.uk address and hopefully less likely to be spammed. I will also shorten my letter leaving out brief thesis proposal and how my proposal links with their work? Should I widen the net and ask Grad Admissions Office if applications have been received? Have received electronic notifications - but it is still a frustrating mystery as to why no individual response from POI.

Fellow applicants! I wrote 17 letters to potential supervisors. Short, straightforward, to the point, polite to ask if they were taking on PhD students. I had read pertinent material by each professor and matched it to my thesis proposal. I have had not one single reply. I've shown my letter to one of my MA profs who thought it was fine and couldn't improve upon it. I am not applying to Oxford to do PhD because they require a Distinction - which I did not get, though I got a First in my undergraduate degree there. My GRE scores were 99 percentile. I am applying to American and British universities at or below Oxford in ranking.What should I do? I've re-written to several profs, politely again, and still not one reply. My recommenders seem as stumped as I am. Any ideas? Does this seem hopeless?

I'm an Oxford graduate (First) with MA also from Oxford. Got good recommendations from tutors, 99 percentile in the GRE subject and general. Have not heard a thing! Looking at the forums here, many people seem to have contacted people they want to study with or have teachers who know teachers on their intended programmes. I have no connection nor do my Oxford tutors to any US programme I've applied to. Has this scuppered me? Or is there something else I don't know about? Just curious (not to say gnawed by uncertainty and doubt) why I have not heard a thing. I would have thought I'd have a good chance? Now I am wondering if there has been some mistake in my application? Despite giving my payment details, no application fee was taken. Yet, I did receive 'application successfully received' from all. Any ideas? Applying to English PhD: Princeton Yale U Chicago UC Berkeley Harvard