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    2014 Fall
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    English - Literature

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  1. Thanks for all these thoughtful responses. My school is listed as participating in the April 15th resolution. I think this tends to favor my situation a bit. The link posted by BookReaderPerson was quite helpful as well. It seems there is a difference in opinion about how to handle this situation. I still have quite a bit of thinking to do. Any other responses or thoughts would still be much appreciated.
  2. I accepted an original offer a couple weeks ago but then received a VERY generous offer from a school that I'd been wait-listed on. I'd sort of given up on this second school so did not remove my name from the wait-list. I would very much like any information as to what might be my options in this situation. Is it totally unprofessional to contact the original school and explain my new, unexpected situation. Should I even consider the second offer or does my previous commitment prevent me from accepting any other offers. Any advice or insight would be very much appreciated. *I've already posted this in the Decision forum but also wanted to post here as the program I'm interested is in English Literature*
  3. I accepted an original offer a couple weeks ago but then received a VERY generous offer from a school that I'd been wait-listed on. I'd sort of given up on this second school so did not remove my name from the wait-list. I would very much like any information as to what might be my options in this situation. Is it totally unprofessional to contact the original school and explain my new, unexpected situation. Should I even consider the second offer or does my previous commitment prevent me from accepting any other offers. Any advice or insight would be very much appreciated.
  4. Thanks for the responses. I'm going to plan on sending an email out early next week asking about expenses and take it from there. Thanks again!
  5. I've recently been offered a campus visit by one of the Lit Depts. to which I've been accepted. I would love to visit the campus before I decide whether or not to attend, but like most graduate students I don't have a bunch of extra cash hanging about. I was wondering if these visits are usually financed in part by the school? The email didn't say anything about this and I was curious as to whether it would be appropriate to ask about financial accommodations made for hotels and/or transportation. Any advice, insight?
  6. boomah, this is one of the online resources I found most helpful:
  7. I like all the suggestions of the above posters and use many of the same methods. To add to that, I've also learned to speed read by means of various online courses, videos. I was compelled to learn speed reading on account of another graduate student in my MA program who always impressed me with his ability to read all the material for each week with reasonable understanding. As a new graduate student I often felt overly rushed to keep up with the required reading and could only glance at some of the articles, essays, novels. This student consistently appeared to not only have read the material but was able to demonstrate this by speaking to it in classroom discussions with insight. His secret: speed reading! Speed reading is wonderful for articles and essays, as well as general reading you might do online - newspaper articles etc. However, it's not as helpful in reading the types of novels you're likely to encounter in upper level literature classes as these novels are not written in the style or with the same sort of intellectual clarity as modern scholarly research. These novels are written as, well, novels and therefore tend to require nuanced, close readings to reveal their inner-workings and subtleties. As for novels, I try to do as much work up front as possible, such as reading through any appropriate wikipedia articles as well as any other summaries I can get a hold of. Afterwards, I use the speed reading method whenever possible while novel reading. All this is only for reading that must be done or self-study or something of general interest, meaning, I also do just sit down and read novels for enjoyment, wherein I take my time; however, when it comes to the pressure of reading for a class I can't recommend enough the use of any comprehension strategies one finds useful.
  8. Got my decision today. Unfortunately, it wasn't good news for me, just a short letter saying I was not accepted. Also, I didn't receive any email notification, simply discovered this by checking the website. The link was all the way down on the bottom of the page. I noticed many folks recently got put on the waiting list. Best of luck to you!
  9. I'm the same boat! I don't know what to think about it and I just keep telling myself to be patient. Perhaps they go through the applications in batches at U of MN and just haven't gotten to us yet. At least we haven't received a rejection!
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