Medievalmaniac
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I'm out, extremely kind personal email from the DEGA. Told me specifically that my GRE scores weren't a problem, but my undergraduate transcript (2.66 in 1997) was too spotty for them. Even though I have a 4.0 MA from last year, further master level coursework at 2 other universities on top of that, and multiple publications and presentations in my field, including two at the international medieval congress, that doesn't make up for the work I did in the 1990's as a full-time waitress, commuting forty minutes to and from school to live at home, taking overloads every term. SIGH. C'est la vie. Nobody promised fair. It's horribly depressing, of course - but, I will say, she was extremely kind in her email, and it sounded like she was genuinely sorry to reject me, for what it's worth. Good luck to everyone else!
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What's on your reading list?
Medievalmaniac replied to Medievalmaniac's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Gaiman is definitely amazing...and the medievalists agree, so he MUST be great! lol I don't much care for modern/late 20th century. Occasionally a chick lit book, like Julie and Julia, and I absolutely ADORE Donna Tartt, but mostly - meh. If it isn't 700 years old (or based on 700 years old) , it isn't interesting, lolol Branwyn, your reading list and my reading list are frighteningly similar. And I bet we have a lot of the same titles on our Amazon wishlists, too! lol -
Slee - I think you have a great attitude, you're obviously good at dealing with and mediating conflicts, you have a clear idea of your strengths and weaknesses, and a good sense of the absurd. I wish you all the best in your application season, and I really hope that you get into a program that recognizes your abilities.
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What was the postmark on the rejection letters? That would most certainly clear it up. If the post mark was after the change in status in any case - why then, clearly my theory is most likely correct....either way, I choose to keep my dream until I have physical and tangible proof it has been taken from me.
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You know, NO, I'm not going to give up hope yet. At every other school with an online application status update, the updated status has simply meant it went from the department of graduate studies to the subject department for review. I choose to believe this is also the case with UNC, and that my application is now at the English department. I choose also to believe that tortola23's application is at the department, and the response you got indicates that the review either was being conducted Thursday or yesterday, or that it is being conducted on Monday, and decisions are still being made. Call me an eternal optimist, delusional, or just plain foolish, but I haven't gotten a rejection yet, and I'm only an hour from UNC - all of my North Carolina mail shows up overnight, two days max - if they denied me on Wednesday or Thursday, it would have shown up by today. There was no letter today. I choose to hope.
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YES.
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It's a strange year. A lot of programs are reviewing applications later than usual. It may have to do with the fact that a lot of schools were shut down more or less for a week because of the weather (UVa one of them), and therefore due to the delay in materials arriving and the inclement weather closings, they're just running later than usual. I say, don't give up until you have the rejection in hand. It does look like UVa is sending notices out for other humanities departments this week - American History, Sociology, I thin I saw Philosophy - so, it should not be long now.
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UVa doesn't require the subject test absolutely...at least not for medieval lit applicants. I emailed the graduate coordinator in the English department (who happens to be a medievalist! ;op ) to ask specifically before I applied, and she said they definitely would consider an application with my medieval experience without the GRE subject test. So there's a glimmer of hope still t...
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Awww, I'm so sorry to hear of your Yale news.
( But still, don't give up hope! UVA hasn't weighed in at all yet. Hang in there!! -
What's on your reading list?
Medievalmaniac replied to Medievalmaniac's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Virginia Woolf is ALWAYS a good idea! I love her. If the medievalists hadn't gotten to me first, I'd have been a Bloomsburian. -
Alas. I didn't even get an emailed response from my query..... I hate implicit rejection...just TELL me. Even if it does break my heart.
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Electra complex
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I have not contacted all of my schools, but I did send an email to the DGS secretary at one when my application status changed to clarify whether that meant that my application had been decided on or had gone on to the adcomm, since it appears to mean something different from one school to the next. Haven't heard back, so I'm assuming an implied rejection, though.
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coffee beans ripening on a mountain slope in the sun, far off in Argentina.
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the chirping of a cricket being blown past my window in the frigid gale currently going on outside my window...
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( I'm saying extra prayers for Bloomington, then. But surely you'll get into one of them!!!!
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well, whoever s/he is, s/he will have that ass handed back to him or her once s/he gets to grad school.They don't like that 'tude much.
Thanks for the well wishes; I have little hope, as the English dept. there usually seems to email good news and send bad through the post. But....I'm not physically holding a rejection yet, so I choose to be self-delusional. Until the email com...
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Mine changed yesterday. I've emailed the DGS for clarification as to whether or not that means it has gone to the department for review or that a decision has been made. I'll let you know what the answer is, if I get one.
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Wow, that's very presumptuous of you to decide for the other person what his or her three options in terms of a response to my comments can be. Maybe the other person can decide what his or her response is for him or herself, and doesn't need you to tell him or her what the three things that can happen in this situation are.
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NOOOOOO! I'm so sorry to hear that. I was hoping so hard you would get in.
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nothing, nothing, nothing
Medievalmaniac replied to hopefulJ2010's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
lolol, hilarious. I'm not bothered about UPenn, since I didn't apply. But I'm highly concerned about UNC and UVA, my top two choices. -
that's your opinion. YOU think it is inappropriate. The other person - the one to whom the suggestion was directed in the first place - may not agree with you. It's his or her choice, not yours, whether or not s/he considers my suggestion inappropriate. And since s/he has not weighed in, I think it's safe to say that continuing to hash out whether or not what I said was offensive or appropriate is a waste of time and energy. It's not your decision to make. You can think whatever you want to but in the end, my suggestion was directed at the initial poster and therefore is to be weighed and either accepted or rejected as a possibility by the original poster. You have an amazing penchant for making every thread you post in all about you.
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What's on your reading list?
Medievalmaniac replied to Medievalmaniac's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
lmao!! :lol: Love it!
