enchantedforest
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Yeah, super accurate! I think the biggest thing that hurt my applications this year was my writing sample; it wasn't in my subfield. I had my advisors and several colleagues give me feedback, and granted, I felt it was the best writing sample I could give, but it was nowhere near 19th century British literature.
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DUDE. SANTA CRUZ
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Likewise.
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Does anyone know if UPenn notified all the applicants who were accepted?
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Accepted into UPenn! Received a phone call from the DGS!
Congrats!
That's my top choice. Still crossing my fingers (and toes).
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I flew up to Santa Cruz last night to visit my alma mater, visit my old professors/thank my old LOR writers. He told me very kindly, "Listen, I know this is tough but I'll just give it to you straight--you probably didn't get into the program. I'm sorry." I already figured that was going to happen. I went down to the UCSC Graduate Department and they told me since they started focusing a lot more on the Creative Writing PhD program, they were starting to take funding out of the Literature department to create spots for the PhD program. Pretty much I hear they were only focusing and accepting PhD students this year, and not really doling out MA spots.
It sucks but I mean what can you do, right?
For those applying to the UCSC PhD program, they're starting to send out their offers this week. Just a heads up. And if you're applying for a Masters and you got in, congrats, because I hear they literally didn't have spots this year to offer. They are handing out offers to 15 applicants, btw.
15 applicants! Does that include the PhD in Creative Writing?
Thanks! And sorry about that, that does suck.
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I'm still waiting for Princeton, UPenn, and UCSC. I believe I have an applied rejection from Yale...
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Is it weird to think we could hear back from almost all of our schools between this week and next? Then it is over. Completely over. Cannot handle this.
Well, according to the results Yale English gets back to applicants around March. :-/
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Has anyone heard back from university of pennsylvania English?
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Thanks Algernon (PS, I love that book).
I got waitlisted for the PhD, what's everyone's subfield? I heard they have the waitlist for the subfield, and I think there are 4 or maybe 5 if they include drama. With that said, there may be 3/4 people waiting per subfield. What does everyone else think?
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Hi All,
I was wondering how many people were waitlisted for the MA program in English? By my count there are 13 people waitlisted (according to the results page) - I don't know for PhD or MA. That's quite a large number of waitlisted students isn't it?
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Hi Everyone,
I'm a bit stressed out with applications and whatnot. I rescheduled my GRE general test to next month because my scores on the practice tests were inconsistent, and I didn't feel comfortable taking it... which means, I will be applying to schools late November. I know this may be a silly question, but do you think that'll hurt my application, since a lot of deadlines are December 1st?
Thanks
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i have a similar question, but for fairy-tales, or victorian reception of fairy-tales? any leads on people in the field?
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I'm almost positive this question has been raised before, but I wasn't able to find it (after sifting through the forums), my apologies!
I have really poor undergraduate grades, and I'm not being modest, I mean in the 2.0's - this was largely due to being a caregiver for my parent. However, I'm currently in a top-ten MFA program, where I have a 4.0 and am scheduled to present academic papers in two major conferences, one internationally. I also have taken a slew of graduate-level academic courses, and have reading knowledge in 3 languages and know the specifics of what I want to study. Perhaps I score high on the GRE and subject test, and have awesome letters, would my undergraduate record matter much?
I'm worried that's the first thing they see. Thanks for help! Newbie here.
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