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Hi there! No thread on UIUC yet. Anyone going there this fall?

Also moving from overseas to UIUC, probably in early August. Looking for a roommate now, if anyone's interested feel free to PM me!

Thanks for sharing! I'm an international applicant and don't know how funding really works in American institutions. What puzzled me is, looking from the results board, the two schools that told me to wait actually have offered funding to other students. Someone admitted earlier than me into school A received funding, and someone admitted later than me into school B also did. I can only assume funding opportunities come rolling out in some programs. They may even have a ranked list for that.

Guys I wonder if it's normal for some schools to offer funding way later than having offered an admission? I was told to wait for funding info, but it has been almost a month. Emailed DGS but she couldn't make any promises of funding at this point. So...should I assume there might be no funding at all? Anyone have experience with waiting for funding?

I emailed the DGS of Toronto a couple of weeks ago and learned I was waitlisted. "......because we are a public university dependent on government funding, there are severe limits to how many non-Canadian students we are allowed to admit."

Quena thanks! Best of luck with UPenn!

I read your other post, well both of them are great! I'll also vote for Georgetown because of the length of their program. I just got admitted into the MA program at Indiana but was told to wait for funding info...And the same scenario with my Illinois acceptance. I doubt if I could sleep well before I wait it out... Also Thanks!! I'm more inclined to Indiana if I get funded there, but I too found the faculty at Illinois very lovely, and your comments make their offer more attractive to me.

Shirbs I was waitlisted there and I liked the program and the faculty. But I just learned they didn't fund all the admitted students this year, and now being waitlisted seems to suggest an even smaller chance of getting funded... Anyway, congrats to your acceptances!! Did you apply to the Italian program at Georgetown (for I remember they don't have graduate programs in comp lit)? Edit: Just saw you're in Illinois! I got accepted in UIUC and really want to learn more about the city ...Are you living there?

Anyone applied to Indiana?

Same here! And this is my fourth rejection so far.. Unfortunately, I've seen some complaints of their MAPH program on GC (and of unfunded complit MA programs in general). Don't know if it's worth attending if I finally got into nowhere this year.. Anyone have any ideas?

Congrats to the new acceptance!!! Now I start to think I might be the only one who has NOT heard anything from anywhere in this thread...???? (I applied to Indiana, Michigan, WUSTL, Brown, Chicago, Rutgers, PennState and UIUC.) Should got my first notification from Indiana yesterday but still nothing came out.

Expecting the same here...I'm dying to hear anything just to stop obsessively checking my inbox and the website. Also did anyone on this forum apply to Indiana? Was told that admission decision should be sent out by this Fri. And congrats to those who were accepted!!!

So we have the first Michigan acceptance, congrats!!! Anyone want to claim it? Also applied and still no news. I'm all nerves now...

Thank you for all these advice Wendy! I've sent you a skype request. And huge, huge congrats to Fancypants and the PennState interviewee!

Thank you mollifiedmolly! I just asked the UCs about their funding for international applicants and got positive answers. UCB claims they strive to support all the incoming international applicants, so does USC, and UCSC provides merited fellowships but unfortunately international applicants are not eligible for other sources of financial support. I think not all of them are minefield schools that should be best avoided. That said, I'm thinking about cutting the UCs off from my list for all this, since funding is not that solid as other private schools, and I also don't want to venture into a program that may take a decade to finish. I have looked UPenn, UNC Chapel Hill and Duke before, but found few people working in the same field. Well as for Princeton I just barely have the guts. As to the locations, I have never been to the U.S. so I simply depend on my research on the internet. But I do heard that Chicago is a good place to be. So glad that both of us are applying to CompLit, I have sent you a PM and please keep in touch:) Good luck!

Thank you proflorax, I read through that thread and really feel I should ask the UCs about funding in details before applying..... Thank you for this, I hope I have seen this earlier! But are these packages offered equally for every accepted student, as proflorax has pointed out international applicants may not receive the same funding? I'm going to ask them too, will post updated info if I get a confirmation from the departments. Please share updates with us )

Hi there, I'm an international applicant applying for doctoral programs of CompLit. I would like to know other CompLit applicants and people who are already attending a CompLit program here. Would be grateful for any suggestions and information about CompLit programs! Here are some things about me: Areas of interest: narrative forms, history of the novel, aesthetics, interaction between art criticism and literary criticism / literature and arts. I'm interested in early China, 19c France and Edo Japan. Languages: I'm a native speaker of Chinese, know French and Japanese, and have basic knowledge of classical Latin, classical Greek, German and Sanskrit. Applying to: Brown, UMich, UChicago, Washington in St. Louis, UCR, UCSC, USC, Indiana, PennState, Rutgers and maybe UCSB. (still deciding on schools, so REALLY need some advice...) GPA 3.55 (undergraduate) , V163 Q163 AW4.0, TOEFL 113. Have not attended any conferences nor published any papers (probably the biggest weakness in my application package?). I'm currently translating a book on still lifes in literature and arts into Chinese, also trying to sign up for a conference held in Dec. (don't think it will help much, though...) I was wondering if any one knew the funding of the UC schools, I've seen posts warning not to apply to universities of the UC system because they have poor funding. Well funding is quite important for me so I'm a bit worried, I would appreciate it if there are any suggestions on this. Good luck to all the applicants here!