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I also called him "Goodman" instead of "Woodman" in the email so I'm screwed...good luck to the rest of y'all

I emailed Virginia about my app. They said they had made some offers and some rejections, but couldn't do anything with the rest of the apps.

Though I didn't apply there, I heard that columbia started the process in mid-feb, so no need to sweat that one just yet

Got an NYU acceptance! How would you guys rate NYU's program as compared to Rutgers (for Latin literature of the silver period)?

Thank you all for the excellent and thoughtful advice. I read through these responses carefully and will certainly email the DGS today to ask for placement statistics. Many of you also pointed out the Columbia-NYU-Rutgers-Princeton exchange. You're right -- I hadn't thought enough about that. I will wait for the Vanderbilt result and take it from there. I have one additional question (and this is something I'll also be asking my own professors). Would I be hurting or helping my chances of securing a tenure-track position if I choose to write a dissertation on Near Eastern influences on Greek literature? The topic is much less popular in the States than it is in the UK, and at the moment only a few scholars are deeply invested in this research, meaning it will be hard to put together a dissertation committee. On the other hand, it seems like an expanded view of classical antiquity is important and in line with some trends in modern scholarship (multiculturalism). Any thoughts on this question? Thanks again to everyone for their generous help.

Hey guys, This board has been very helpful in the past few weeks and I'd appreciate all the advice I can get about my current situation. Here are three facts about me: -I'm interested in studying 1) Latin literature of the silver period, and 2) Near Eastern and South Asian influences on early Greek literature. -I would like to become a tenured professor at a good liberal arts college or research university (need not be Harvard...). -I have been accepted into a funded PhD program at Rutgers. I applied to 9 other schools, but have only heard back from one of them (rejected from Cornell). Since many of these have already notified, I am expecting a wave of official rejections soon. I do not feel bitter about this at all. I know that some of my friends will get in nowhere and that I should be happy to get into a funded PhD program right out of undergrad. My question is: given my goals, is it worth attending Rutgers this fall and finishing my PhD or should I attend a Post-Bac or MA (I applied to Vanderbilt) and reapply in order to try to get into a better program? By "better" I don't mean that Rutgers is bad, but that classics programs traditionally counted in the "top 10" place their graduates in higher-ranked schools. Is it crucial to get into one of these the top 10 programs? Or does it matter more what I do at the program I attend? By the way, I visited Rutgers and liked the faculty very much. I'm a bit confused about this. Any thoughts?

9 programs officially, though a few them (penn, princeton, chicago, virginia, yale) seem to have made some offers already. Congrats to the new admits I saw on the results page today!

I was the Rutgers admit...it was such a relief to hear from a program after two ominously silent weeks.

Has anyone heard anything from the University of Virginia?

I guess I got rejected from Penn too. What about Princeton? Chicago? Cornell? Yale?

I haven't heard anything, but I feel good about Rutgers. The rest...who knows?

Hey guys, I'm new to the board, but seeing so many aspiring classicists (I'm applying to grad schools this year too) inspired me to ask a general question: Where do you want to see the classics profession in 10, 20, 50 years? What kind of research should or will we be doing? What new approaches to classical literature will emerge? How will we fit into the university context? Or is it just too early to start thinking about all this?