goldfinch1880

hypervodka I remember you got into Emory....are you planning to attend? currently weighing my options!

well there went that theory....

do you guys mind sharing what letter your last name starts with? Mine starts with a K and I'm not sure why I haven't heard from UVA or Austin

Not to rub salt in that wound but how did you know you're rejected? Mine still says "in review" and I haven't received an email. (don't feel too bad---remember there's always money in the banana stand)

morristr---I notice in your signature you have a UVA rejection, do you mind sharing how you found that out? when I log into applyyourself I just have a "submitted" notification and date.

Just saw the UVA rejection on the board, supposedly a random website check....does anyone else besides me who applied still not have an update?

why Saturday? I'm newish to this process and was hoping to have a breather this weekend but I'm realizing that's not the case!

somehow I missed that it was you with the Vanderbilt acceptance, hypervodka! congrats!

congrats to the Boston College acceptances btw!

I actually noted all of the above in my first and only readthrough at the time. seemed pretty straighfoward to me, and am not ascribing intent. life is funny and people are funny and the internet is funny so I had a good laugh, and it looks like I wasn't the only one!

^this

no the joke was that their bad/pompous phrasing IMPLIED they couldn't speak ANY language (I don't know anyone who isn't proficient in at least ONE language.) then the assumption was drawn that one should also be somewhat fluent in English to study it, despite what the phrasing implied....never actually entertained that as a real possibility.

no one is focusing---just amused! life is funny. " Unofficial email from DGS. SLAC. Extremely good GRE/subject test scores. Imaginative, unprecedented research. Clear research goals. Several conferences, one publication. Four languages (but I explicitly said I was nowhere near fluent in any of them). I waited a couple of years after undergrad before applying (my writing sample has nothing to do with my undergraduate work)."

This is amazing hahahahaha. Also something seemed fishy to me because if I remember Vanderbilt doesn't require the subject test....so why would they have bragged about subject test scores?

and the way they phrased the 4 languages part makes it sound like they aren't fluent in ANY language.....which is going to make a PhD program in ENGLISH kind of difficult if you ask me....

I had a good laugh about the hot air coming off of that one, but more power to them!

are we assuming implied rejections from Notre Dame then?

1) have you logged in yet? Mine is still listed as "submitted" but I assume that's where the decision WOULD be? 2) is your SOP not visible?? I know I submitted mine but it's not showing up anymore.

I thought it was a "your app has been received" email, but it seems so late for that?? Part of me hopes it's a pre-Finalist email, but the fact they didn't fill in my name makes me think they sent this to everyone who applied....

did anyone applying just get a very cryptic email from Notre Dame?? my name wasn't even filled in: Dear , Thank you for your application to the Ph.D. Program in English at Notre Dame. As we continue building a world-class department, we are eager to recruit the very finest students to our graduate program, and we were delighted to see your interest. Our deliberation process involves the entire department, and members of our faculty from your area are reading your work with great excitement and delivering their assessments to our Graduate Studies Committee. I will be able to contact you soon about the next stage of the process. Our Ph.D. program provides our students with favorable funding packages and access to the University's outstanding oversees facilities in London, Dublin and Rome. English students have competed successfully for Notre Dame's most prestigious fellowships for graduate study. And our faculty is committed to providing a collegial and fully inclusive environment for our graduate students. I encourage you to explore our departmental webpages to discover much more information regarding our department. I look forward to communicating with you soon.