Hi guys, I am also wait-listed by my top choice program. I just got accepted by a conference today, and I wonder whether it would increase my chance of acceptance if I email the grad program and update my CV with this conference? Has anybody done similar things before?
The paper that I will be presenting at this conference is exactly my writing sample for application. The paper will also be published in a subsequent journal. It is a decent enough interdisciplinary conference held by a relevant department in my university, probably the biggest one in the field in my country (I'm international and the sorts of theoretical angles I am pursuing are still new here), but it is far from internationally prestigious.
I was informed of my waiting list status when the program was giving out its first round of offers. I am high on the list, I couldn't make it to the campus visit but I was in touch with a few people within the program. Now it is April 7 and I haven't heard from them for 2 weeks... Just wondering whether updating my CV is the right thing to do for a literature program? I know some friends in business and science have done it...