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YES!! All of the confetti for you!

Congrats Allplaid!!

Argh, sorry for all the Princeton and WUStL red on the board. If pannpann's cat in a bowtie didn't help you feel better, maybe some purritos?

Congrats on UCSB As far as I know it was only MTL rejections that came out. I haven't heard anything from English lit.

I applied to UMich joint English and Women PhD but it's been radar silence here. I would love to go to Ann Arbor because they're so gender oriented there. Congrats on the Fellowship!

I'm sorry you're feeling so down and out about the process. It really is a heart wrenching and eye opening process. My own experience counters a little of what you suggest, but I think it just means that this whole thing is just so random. I don't even thing it's particularly biased, but so much of what happens depends on your first initial reading by an adcomm. What if everyone was sick that day? Or feeling grumpy about how a colleague got a book deal on Joyce and so anything Joyce related is going to make them act like a jerk? It's horrible, but this is human nature we're talking about. My academic journey is... checkered, to say the least. I've changed majors five times and started college 12 years ago after getting my GED. I Started, stopped, dropped out, flunked out, transferred to 4 different schools. I was an absolute wreck. I didn't even go get a masters degree because I simply couldn't afford it. Instead, I took a fifth year and in that fifth year I did everything I possibly could to make my research interests razor sharp. I applied to top schools almost as an act of defiance. No one was more surprised than I was when UCLA emailed me. I had wished and hoped for Bloomington or Rutgers, but never in my imagination did I think I'd get into a Tier 2. My GRE scores were passable, but my subject test was abysmal. My LOR were from new faculty that I knew well, but my primary mentor hadn't even published anything yet. My institution is a non-ranked public city college. All of this is to say, I feel where you're coming from because it seems like maybe you stacked the deck against yourself. And if you didn't stack the deck then it was everywhere else that did. Honestly, after checking to make sure all the information they need is there I swear they just pick them at random. Feel better Morristr, you got into two excellent programs and while prestige matters in some ways, in terms of life fulfillment it doesn't matter one iota.

Good thing I kept my stays and petticoats moth free! I wonder if Addison will mind that my hoop skirt is over four yards..

Yay! It'll be so nice to sort of know some other people there!

I was wondering the same thing! I don't have more than one suit and I figured tht might be too dressy. I thought instead I would wear some slacks and a blouse with some flats. But I'll probably bring some jeans too, just in case that's still too dressy. Also, I'll see you there!

I have five programs left too (most of ours are the same I see!)I'm pretty ready for the whole process to be done too, but hang in there. We're all rooting for you I think

I wish I could help more but the only hard numbers I have are from the CUNY graduate center. "This year, we had a large and competitive pool of 197 candidates. We have made initial offers of admission and funding to 21 applicants." Perhaps more can be gleaned from visiting weeks.

GO you!!! hahah, seriously though.

I had seen some of that popping up on the results page and I was cringing the entire time. I can't even imagine how horrible that would make me feel.

I know Dan Edelstein in the French dept at Stanford is doing a ton of great work on digital databases for letters. Mostly eighteenth and nineteenth century, but his work extends out into other disciplines like english literature because of the exchanges with prominent english authors and so forth.

Congrats to morristr, Hannalore, and allplaid! I step away for half a day and there's so much good news!!

Columbia does this as well, but it's an option you have to check in the application. If they offer any funding I think it's a good way to participate in research and develop an even stronger writing sample, but to offer the MA consolation prize with no funding seems really irresponsible. Especially at a place like Columbia where the tuition and cost of living are insane!

Sorry about the rejection, but I'm going to concentrate on this part and say that, extensive reader notes to me signal someone is invested in making your research better and stronger because they believe you have the potential to do the work it needs. That said, take some time to breathe and cry a little bit, and when you return to your work I'm sure you'll see it doesn't sting as bad as it does now.

This has been really hard for me, even having an acceptance didn't help much. I started using a productivity timer which helps for homework and only allow myself to really check the results page if everything else on my schedule is done. It's still hard though. I still think about it, even when I'm not checking. But as a few days went by it got easier. Hopefully you'll hear some good news soon and it'll take a little of the edge off.

It's so true! Lol. I'm so glad for everyone else who got in, but I think as WT said, it stings no matter what. At least we have each other for comforting and celebrating in equal measure

Congrats Lycidas! Hopefully it'll turn into an acceptance for you!

Seriously! I mean, I can understand making it having one day that's a work day so interested people could sit in on a seminar and so forth, but there is no reason there needs to be three weekdays in there!

You're right, you're right.

Thanks softcastlemccormick! Me too! I was just thinking about how painful it would be to put them on the implied rejection list when the email showed up. I shed a small tear, but mostly out of gratitude for finding out so quickly. Sorry for everyone else who was rejected there too. I'm sure it would be awful in the winter, but oh man, in the summer it is truly glorious up there.

Annnnd with Cornell that means I'm saying goodbye to New York state.