Seneca

They told me that they would let me know if any funding became available - their deadline is in a month, so I'm planning to email them sometime next week regarding the funding situation. Of course I'm still waiting to hear back from my other schools, and I'll have to carefully consider all of my offers - I'm really hoping that UW will offer me funding; I wasn't expecting admission to any PhD programs when I applied.

I've been accepted to UW (PhD), waitlisted at Vanderbilt, and rejected from Berkeley, Harvard, and Fordham. Still waiting to hear back from Columbia, Rutgers, and Boston College (Latin MAT). I'll probably end up going with UW, but I'm a bit nervous since in my acceptance letter they said they had no funding to offer me at the time.

Rutgers emailed me last week saying that two of my letters of recommendation hadn't come in, which I take to mean that they're looking over applications now.

It seems as though the University of Washington has sent out many results; has anybody else yet to receive a response from them?

Part of the problem is that I'm not entirely certain. Really, I'd love to do anything with classical literature (particularly Latin; Ovid is my favorite author), but as far as objects of advanced studies I'm unsure. I'm interested in Indo-European and the linguistic processes we can trace stemming from Greek and Latin, and I'd like to eventually work as a teacher or professor of the languages at some level. In my work as a tutor I've spent some time thinking about the issues in standard pedagogy for the ancient languages (and for modern ones as well) and some glaringly obvious ways to improve, but that probably won't correlate very well to anything I could focus on in grad school. With my app season finally looming, I realize that I should've been thinking about these issues long ago...

I'm about to start working on my apps, but I don't have a very good sense of what my chances will be and where I ought to apply. Normally I'd ask my advisor, but my university's classics department is so tiny that we don't even have one. Anyway, here are my statistics: 3.97 undergrad GPA, summa cum laude with a double major in anthro (highest honors) and classics (likewise). I have two and a half years of Latin, all A+s with the exception of one A and I've been a tutor in the language. Likewise for Greek (minus one year). Reading knowledge of French and German. GREs: 720 verbal, 710 quantitative, 5.0 essay. Undoubtedly I'll receive strong letters of recommendation; in my last quarter my classics faculty chose me for their annual merit-based scholarship. Obviously I don't have nearly as much experience in Latin or Greek as I should. With that handicap taken into account, what sorts of schools (on either coast principally) should I be applying to? If possible I'd like to avoid going for a postbac, but if that's the only way to make myself competitive, I will.