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Princeton and Carnegie Mellon are both closed today (Wednesday). Not sure about MIT.

All of mine say "submitted" as well. I check every day (okay, maybe a few times every day...) to see if there's a change, but nothing. I'm assuming (read: hoping) it just depends on where you've applied and that some schools will never switch from "submitted".

I was one of the acceptances. I put it down as MA in Results, but I think that they assume/like their MA students will stay with them for the PhD (hence the MA funding). I don't like to get specific with my stats, but I have middle road GRE scores (it wasn't a very good experience and I had no time to retake, sadly), a pretty good GPA with a higher in major GPA. I think my writing sample and SOP were both good, and I'm guessing my LORs were also good (2 are from big names in my field, 1 from a postbacc I've had for 3 classes). The grad chair called and he was very nice. There's a open house day/weekend in March, and he said that they're going to send out letters (by post) in a few days (though, with the snow it could take longer). He said he called to let me know sooner, but I don't know if that means all calls happened already, or will happen this week, or...anything, really. But I'd assume that final decisions are coming soon. I don't know a ton at this point, but if people have other questions I'll try to answer!

Any of the 3 PhD programs I applied to are my first choice for different reasons. (That sentence is grammatically questionable, but I'm leaving it and using application stress as an excuse.) They're three different programs, so depending on where I go (and who accepts me), I'll end up studying slightly different things. But I would be IMMENSELY happy with any of them. Really, if two or all (haha) of them accepted me, I'd have a lot of trouble deciding which one would be best. I'd probably have to do a poll... But all three programs are insanely difficult to get into, from what I can tell, so I'm just hoping that I get some choice in the MA programs I applied to and can go from there...

I've been doing the same thing, jaxzwolf. And getting the same answers. I call conspiracy.

Hmm, those are good points, Sparky. I'd wondered about German, but an undergrad professor told me I didn't need it (and I hope he's right because I just don't seem to mesh well with German). I've only had 1 semester of Latin (I dropped it this semester to take a renaissance Italy history class) and while I'd planned to take Old English, I dropped it after the first class... I wish I had taken Latin earlier, but I guess I just have to wait and see now. *sigh*

So everyone knows the importance of Latin for Medievalists, but what other languages do you think grad schools look for? As many as possible is, of course, the best...but which do you think they look for specifically, and how proficient do you think they'd want you to be while applying? Do you think they take into consideration that you could become proficient in a language during the summer before matriculation, or do they just assume that wouldn't happen?

I like this kind of thinking!

I haven't heard anything. I'm taking it as a bad sign. (there's no evidence that it's a bad sign, but I'm being a pessimist anyway)

I'm in the middle of Gods of Aberdeen by Micah Nathan (and a bunch of other things for classes, of course).

Medievalist here! In undergrad I've been focusing on Chaucer (my thesis looks at astrology in The Canterbury Tales) but I want to do something more interdisciplinary in grad school. In my SOPs I mentioned dream visions, since I like the intersection of literature, philosophy, and history, and the cross-language analysis that could happen. I'm also interested in the blending of science, philosophy, theology, and mysticism during the time, but I don't know much about that at this point, so it's a vague interest of mine. At this point I'm just hoping to be accepted somewhere, and then I'll work to concentrate my interests based on where I'm accepted.