sarahchristine

Congrats!!!

One of my literature professors had us read a few chapters from Excellent Sheep last semester! I wouldn't mind reading some more of it if I ever have time on my hands - some of the arguments were compelling.

I applied to Purdue, Lehigh, Georgetown, Wake Forest, & North Carolina State. Where did you apply?

I’ve officially applied to all of my MA programs, so I’m officially (finally) a part of the waiting game. I’m not expected to hear back from any of them for another month at least, unfortunately.

Thanks to you both! I'm emailing the programs with an apology and an offer to email copies of the transcript when I do receive them.

I've made a huge mistake. I misunderstood how official transcripts are released (thought it was an automated system - didn't realize the electronic request still had to go through the university) and left obtaining+uploading my transcripts to my applications until less than a week before the application deadline. I'm now unable to upload copies of my official transcripts to my Dec 30/Jan 1 deadlines, and admissions offices are all closed until after the New Year so I can't even contact anyone about it. So, what do I do? I'm panicking - my Dec 30th deadline is my top choice program. As I see it, my only options right now are: Upload a copy of my unofficial transcript? I only have access to unofficial transcripts of 1 of 2 schools, though. "Forget" to upload the transcript and hope they'll contact me about it missing + not hold the mistake against me?

I have a lot of the same concerns and am applying to terminal MA programs.

I don't know if anyone else is having this experience, but I'm applying to MA programs, and I just feel.. vastly underqualified. My writing sample is good but it doesn't align with my stated research interests (which are vague, because my undergraduate english major didn't have a huge variety of course offerings so I haven't been able to do a lot of work in my era of interest.. but I'm applying to MAs, not PhDs, so it should be fine, right?), I'm struggling a lot with writing my SOPs, and I'm not sure how good my 3rd letter of recommendation is going to be. But (I hope) my other 2 letters will be good, and I have a high GPA, did well on the GRE, and have a publication in my university's undergraduate journal. So where's the line between needing to be legitimately concerned about not getting in anywhere and just worrying too much?

Just found out one of my schools doesn't require (or want) official GRE scores unless you are accepted... but they don't have this information anywhere on the website. It was buried in the middle of the online application. So I guess I could have saved $27, since I put them as one of my 4 free score reports. Hopefully sending them my official scores won't count against me in any way? Also - took the GRE on the 22nd! My raw score for Verbal as 160, which I'm happy with, but I don't know how well Writing went. Still waiting on my official scores.

Figured I'd post here since I'm starting to get stressed - I take the GRE on Wednesday (and I haven't had much time to study for it because I'm a senior undergrad), this weekend I'm doing major revisions on my senior thesis (which I'm using as my writing sample for several schools), and this weekend I also need to revise my SoP (draft #3, here I come) and start working on doing tailored drafts.

Sure thing! My current list is Purdue, Virginia Tech, Georgetown, Lehigh, Wake Forest, and NCSU.

I'm also applying to Purdue and Virginia Tech! For literature rather than rhet/comp, though.

19th century British literature, particularly Romanticism & Gothicism. I'm also interested in an interdisciplinary study of religion and literature (specifically, how Christian theologies are represented in literary texts).