minnares
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popstitute, I'd be very interested to read your SoP, as well. I suspect this is one of the weak areas of my app package. ~ m
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minnares replied to hopefulJ2010's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
I just checked mine and it's changed too, Medievalmaniac. It appears we are under review with the department . I am not giving up hope until I have six official answers in my hot little hand. ~ m -
Maybe they're processing them literally in the order received. I turned mine in early November? Or again, maybe it's by scores and GPA? Not sure. My last name begins with H, so it might be alphabetical too. Or they might be reading tea leaves or animal scat or star charts. And yes on the not emailing. Agreed.
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It cut me off. That component for me too. I'm trying to decide if I should email the department and ask about the update date since I haven't received anything. Maybe I'm waitlisted?
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LOL! God I hope that's the case. I emailed with Bart Ehrman in their Religious Studies department. He's amazing. 20 books right in line with my subfocus. I asked if he's worked with English majors and if he's taking on new students. He emailed back immediately with a yes and yes, said "it's highly likely we could work together." So I know thehy have that componen...
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That's awesome. Intercollegiate agreements seem so smart to me. UNC has one with Duke, so I figured that's like a 2-fer-1 dealio. Hey, BTW, still no Letter of Doom in my mail for UNC. It's been a week since they updated my app online. I'm wondering if this means I got passed up to the next round?
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ROFLMAO! I hear you on the Facebook thing. "No, I do not want to join your Mafia. No, I don't want to buy any pigs for my Farmville. No, but thank you for sending me the heart, hugs, drinks, cappuccino, chocolate, or whateverthef*ck else you think you need to send me when I'm waiting for THE most important phone call of my life. Yes, of course I still want you to be my friend." AAAAGH. Even better is that my husband and sons discovered they can make me crazy by waving junk mail envelopes at me when I walk in the front door. They only made that mistake once . ~ m
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CONGRATULATIONS! That's awesome. I'm so excited for you. I'm not familiar with CAU's program, though that's not unusual. I've heard about many schools on these boards I didn't know existed. Where are they located? Did they make you a decent financial offer?
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Amen. Maybe that's up to all the wicked smart folks on these threads. We're the future of the profession (hopefully). It's my hope that we find a way to bridge the gap between academia and society, to bring the impactful nature of the work we do to a wider audience. There are some academics whose books are incredibly popular (Stephen Greenblatt comes to mind). I'd like to see more approachable work of this nature. Perhaps then the value of what we do will be more widely recognized. Here's hoping at least. ~ m
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Oh, I didn't mean within the discipline. I meant outside of it. Consider how much emphasis is placed on sciences and mathematics in terms of funding, scholarships, and available fellowships. Consider the emphasis placed on those areas by the government. You don't hear the president(s) standing up at the State of the Union address to say that the United States has to be more competitive in hermeneutics and literary theory. When a university is pooling applications for university wide funding and the science/math majors have already been chosen, it would seem that they get the first crack at the really meaty offers. My brother in law is at UC Davis doing biochemistry (AIDS research). He's got a ridiculous $35k stipend, summer funding, tuition remission, the works. The most I've heard of in English so far was $24k. So, while we recognize that folks in other professions need our discipline in order to learn how to publish and present their research (someone has to teach them how to write, yes?), it's low on the totem pole socially for importance. Right up there with getting a degree in art, though we know differently. And thanks for the sympathy. She's really a Grade A instructor, author, and director (of documentary film). I was her RA for her first monograph. So I'm really shocked she was denied. Another good reality check. ~ m
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Seems that way, and also most of the social sciences. One more way to make the humanities folks feel like second class citizens . I really appreciated the article someone posted yesterday about rethinking getting a humanities graduate degree, just a good reality check. One of my favorite professors just told me this morning she was denied tenure. Though the article just confirmed what I'd already been warned about by others (and didn't change my mind about going at all), it still made some strong points. Anyway, sorry, that was a bit afield of the thread . I'm just annoyed for my professor-friend, who was very deserving and is a fantastic instructor. Moving on... ~ m
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Precisely. I also noticed in the results from 2009 that several programs had additional admits after April 15th. People probably declined offers, and those represented folks getting in off the wait list. And zo... Coolin' my jets . I think finding these boards and seeing so many people having contact with programs sort of blinded me to the fact that they weren't even in my discipline. I probably could have saved myself a lot of stress this month by just knowing it'd probably be March before I had answers. Last year, Harvard and IU Bloomington did the bulk of their admissions the first week of March; those who received rejections got them the second week of March. I've got little post-its on my desk calendar to track this (how mental is that). More waiting. It's a good thing I'm pretrial at my job right now. Busy! ~ m
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I've heard nothing as well. My faculty advisor keeps telling me that February is considered "very early" for responses in many English programs. So, I'm not writing any of my other five off until I get the Letter of Doom or the "You've been found wanting" email. ~ m
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date night
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Well, my letter did not come yesterday. It's probably because I'm on the west coast. I expect it'll be in the mail today or tomorrow. Alas, more waiting. ~ m
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That would make sense. That would explain why some get called or emailed very early on, or the bulk of them, because those folks would then have the highest scores, etc. Yes? ~ m
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Woman, you are hee-hee-larious. Too funny. I imagine something similar. I just PM'd with a UNC-CH admit that heard today in another department. She had never contacted any of the professors before applying, nor had she heard by email. She just got the letter today admitting her. SO... even if you get a letter, you might be in the hunt, people! Also, for those fretting over the lack of date change, keep in my UNC-CH is doing the rolling admits. They've been admitting people the last three weeks. My name is right in the middle of the alphabet. Last year, they admitted someone in the second week of March. And zo... Again, you might still be in the game. ~ m P.S. I am not giving up hope until I open the envelope, skinny or not!
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My focus is critical theory, subfoci gender and religious theory. I'm a New Historicist. They're my #2, but it's not looking good based on what Nighthob got in her mailbox. AGH.
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Check your online app, specifically the last updated date. I found this on a Chapel Hill thread from last year: If you go into your application and look at your actual application (I believe), there are 2 dates--one the date you submitted the application and one the last time it was modified. For a long time the 2nd date said sometime in early January, I'm sure when all my transcripts/info got processed. Yesterday I noticed that it now said modified on 2/23. So I'm assuming I'm getting some sort of notification (positive or negative) based on previous posts from others. Let me know if you still can't find the spot on your application, and I'll actually go to the web site and be more specific on how to find that part. Good luck!! ********** I just checked my own. It says last updated February 17th, last Wednesday. I imagine my mailbox has a little gift for me this afternoon. Could go either way since it seems like they mail acceptances too. Here's hopin' . ~ m
