When I was applying to programs three years ago, this is the data I wanted most and had the most difficulty finding. In hope of encouraging other lurkers to follow suit, here's my application experience, quantified. I applied exclusively to Ph.D. programs.
B.A. in English
GPA: 3.93
V: 720
A: 780
S: 760
Field: American modernism (I switched during my second year of grad school to antebellum American)
Rejected from: Harvard, Washington University in St. Louis, Columbia, Chicago (made unfunded MAPH offer), NYU (made unfunded MA offer)
Waitlisted at: Stanford, Penn, Vanderbilt, Rutgers (which later accepted me).
Accepted: Penn State, SUNY-Buffalo, Rutgers.
Now at: Rutgers (in my third year and loving it).
