BeatrizBear

I'm applying to a Spanish PhD program and honestly I can't find more than six schools that fit my research interests. I guess it all depends on what you want to study for. My friend was applying for Economics and she had a long list of schools she was applying to at the insistence of her adviser.

Yeah, that's what I got the impression too. It seems like they take very few students per school to accurately call any school a safety school. I'm not a traditional student. Although I did minor in Spanish and tested out of the language courses. I also speak Spanish as a first language. My MA is in Humanities but I'm writing my thesis over the Mexican writer Elena Garro and I took some graduate Spanish courses. I mainly did Latin and Ancient Greek before as a Classics major. Oh, which schools are you applying to eyepod? I got pretty partial to the East Coast after doing my undergrad in Boston. But I was born on the West Coast. I lived in the area surrounding USC as a kid. Actually, I lived within walking distance of the university. Although right now I'm in Texas, about three hours from Austin, actually. It's a nice place. It has a good art and music scene. Mostly hipsters, though. It's the most liberal place in Texas, probably, and it is full of young professionals.

I've heard that too. I've been looking at Cornell as well. I'm trying to find some programs that specifically have faculty in US Latino Literature and/or Latin American Literature (especially the period of the Boom writers and forward). What about everyone else? Anyone else around here applying or am I alone here? Hehe.

So I'm applying for a PhD in Spanish Lit for the Fall of 2015. I've narrowed down my list to Indiana U, NYU, UT Austin, and the University of Pittsburgh. I'll be applying to a few more too but I'm still on the fence about them. Where is everyone else applying? Is there any school that could be called a safety school in this field? I'm pretty anxious that I'll be rejected from everywhere that I apply.