Shoelle

Congrats!! That IS a great problem to have! Silence. I'm waiting on them for film and media. Is that for the PhD program? I applied for MA and am still waiting... Congrats, and good luck! By the by, is anyone else having issues with the application status check website for Northwestern? Hasn't worked for me in days.

I would LOVE to send an inquiry, but I'm too worried it's a social faux-paus. I agree with autumn, they surely haven't forgotten anyone. If I were on the committee, I could understand getting annoyed by applicants who are only sending email for "hey remember me!?" purposes. One more email shouldn't make a difference at this point. Of course, I still want to send one anyway, but I'm resisting. Thank you!! I'm trying to be patient and not get my hopes up. Thank you for the information, now I think I can just try to breathe without doing anything rash. Best of luck to you, too! I believe autumn was referring to the media and cultural studies track specifically, which was the one that had been previously mentioned. One student per track does sound like far too few.

I've been worried about that, but I think those were for people who already have PhDs....am I wrong? I'd be going for an MA from them first, then onto a PhD through the same program (they don't typically offer terminal MAs after all). The only reason I still have hope is because I was given heavy hints from my POI when I submitted my app early. He went out of his way to email me about an error so that I could correct it before his colleagues saw, we started talking a bit and I don't feel he would have said such positive things about my chances if he wasn't pretty serious about me. It would be kind of awful to give someone false hope like that. Then again, there's a whole committee to contend with, and he's just one person. An important person, but only one nonetheless. I'm nervous. I really, really want Wisconsin. Ugh.

Long time lurker here, finally caved and made an account. Haven't heard a peep from Wis Mad media and culture or UCSB film and media. Same goes for all my programs save USC actually (which was an acceptance, thank god). The wait is killing me.