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agathon400

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  1. did anyone else apply to the mphil in literature & language at oxford. if so, have you heard back?
  2. Have you succeeded in learning anything about your status?
  3. I don't exactly see what it is about the process I'm not understanding. Schools to which I have applied have made offers, I have received none; I have no reason to believe future adcoms won't respond to the weaknesses in my application in the same way. Here's a question: do you think it is in any way appropriate to ask your own recommenders about the status of your application in their department (ie, I have heard that offers have gone out, does this mean I'm not going to be admitted, but said in a more periphrastic way of course)?
  4. I applied to Yale. Haven't heard anything. There are rumors that Stanford and Columbia have sent out a first wave - but I heard this second hand. It is likely that these boards have an inherent selection bias. After all, if you were admitted to a bunch of places you would be out visiting schools, not posting on a silly internet forum. So it's not surprising that the people who are posting here might be more likely to have to wait until mid-March or whenever official rejections are sent out by the grad school admissions offices.
  5. Did you apply in the second or third gathering field? Did they inform by snail mail or email?
  6. What are these supposed rankings? Has anyone made a formal rank of the classics programs? Here are some interesting questions to consider: What is Harvard's program so weak? Why is Yale's program even weaker? Columbia's seems pretty bad too. Has the process made anyone else think they might be better going off and making a fortune in business or traveling the world or writing poetry or joining an international separatist group in the jungle or becoming a Don Juan or anything anything else and that only a dweeb or a buffoon with no ambition and no notion of the sublime would submit to five years of memorizing dictionaries and reading philological commentaries in an attempt to climb the petty hierarchy of classics scholarship and academia (not to mention years as an assistant professor in whatever rural wasteland you end up in; the inevitable low salaries; the losers who will be your colleagues - I mean when, really, have you met a Classicist who really struck you as being a superior human being, a man or woman of extraordinary character and beauty and nobility and a wide-ranging intelligence - not, that is, a philological mind crammed with stuffy facts and texts memorized and decaying parchments - )? What a depressing path we are embarking upon, friends... Load the pistol now, Werther - Has anyone noticed how all the best classicists are at Oxford? But that a PhD from Oxford gets you nowhere on the American job market? What a paradox. How about the fact that Princeton is the only place with a decent placement record? I wonder what you have to do to get into Princeton.
  7. Like what faculty? The only one I've ever heard of in their program is this Janko fellow and he's a second tier Aristotle scholar...I couldn't find anyone who seemed worth working with
  8. Isn't it too early for a second "wave" though? It doesn't seem like they have rejected anyone yet...But Michigan is a weak program anyway, I quite frankly I might well have chosen law school over their program. Have you looked at their placement record? It's awful -
  9. Neither have I heard anything but a rejection from Berkeley. Assuming that having heard nothing from the other major schools which have had contacted students also implies rejection (ie Chicago Michigan Princeton Harvard etc). At this point I'd be surprised to get in anywhere... Guess I didn't quite envision how competitive these programs would be. But rejection from one's own alma-matter is particularly harsh. (A blessing in disguise? Really, who wants to dedicate five to seven of the ripest years of your life to memorizing the LSJ?)
  10. Are they sending emails for interviews? Or early notices? Can you tell us anything more?
  11. I applied solely to doctoral programs except for the Cam/Oxford programs which specifically require you to have an MA before going on to a PhD. I was under the impression that most of the major US departments, ie Princeton Harvard Yale Chicago Berkeley Austin Michigan Stanford - didn't have stand alone master's programs and that the more normal course unless you needed to bulk up on your languages a bit was to go straight from a BA to PhD. I guess it depends on the individual circumstances involved.
  12. No, I haven't seen many responses yet posted for Classics programs but other disciplines at some of the schools I applied to have already sent responses. Looks like last year Berkeley started responding in early February though. Where did you apply to? I applied to basically everywhere, 15 places in all... I also do Greek, not Latin.
  13. Hello, Wondering if anyone else has applied to Classics programs this round and if so whether you have started to hear anything back yet, interviews, acceptances, rejections, etc. I haven't heard anything yet from any of the schools I applied to, but I see lots of other programs are already reporting. So perhaps someone out there has heard already. Best. Robert.
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