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+ Emory. Nearly forgot them.

No worries. If I remember correctly, Duke Lit, Chicago, Notre Dame are the only schools that *typically* interview.

For a list of estimated dates of acceptances, see: Out of the schools you listed, none of those typically interview. (Duke English interviewed last year but usually doesn't. Duke Literature usually does interview. But anything can happen. UMD started interviewing this year but it's unclear whether it's the whole department or just certain fields.

For Northwestern's Slavic Studies programs, visit the following pages: http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/documents/program-statistics/S05PH_adm_enr.pdf http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/documents/program-statistics/S05PH_att_comp.pdf http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/documents/program-statistics/S05PH_outcomes.pdf http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/documents/program-statistics/S05PH_Placement.pdf Note that not all places have admissions or program stats. Sometimes, the Graduate School chooses not to keep track of such information.

Similar. My post wasn't meant to be a "check your privilege" but rather a "there are good things happening to you". /shrug

Big News? You're alive. -There are currently seven billion people alive today and the Population Reference Bureau estimates that about 107 billion people have ever lived. -Having just a few coins makes you richer than most people on Earth. -The opportunity to attend school is something many people don’t have. (Which makes having a college degree even greater!) -Most people lack a bed of their own to sleep in -Many people on earth lack access to clean water. -Cell phones make talking to loved ones easy. -The Internet, n'uff said? But in all seriousness, try not to compare yourself to others. We have a tendency to look at how great the lives of other people are going without realizing the stresses they're hiding. There may even be people looking at you and saying, isn't it great that Shaun or Rachel is taking chances to pursue what they want no matter the cost? They don't realize that you're refreshing your e-mail every minute waiting for news.

Keep your head up. Emory and UMD are extremely competitive. In the past, Emory only has taken 12 applicants out of the 161 that have applied. That's roughly a 7 percent acceptance rate. The good news is that most schools haven't notified yet and there are plenty of results to come. Don't despair. Also, so much is about 'fit' that it may not be any indication of how good your application is.

NYU is indeed a rare exception and a fairly large program. NYU also has a very systematic way of handling e-mails. Don't get me wrong but everyone is set to have their own biases built in. Given the time that the committee puts into this committee as well as other committees they serve, the more e-mails they receive from prospective take away time from something else they could be doing. If I remember correctly, 2/3rds of e-mails received by professors at my current university are related to questions found on the website; this annoys them. They answer them regardless but I'm not sure if it does any favors to the applicants. I think most schools are against making their committees public because it would result in a lot more e-mails from certain professors and as @Wyatt's Terps mentioned would most likely result in certain people getting a lot more mentions in their SOP. This could make certain fields oversaturated while being less saturated in a different field. Part of the reason that some schools don't allow for visits prior to acceptances is because they don't have the resources to provide you with what the program's culture is like and they want to remain neutral on the people admitted. They don't want visits to the department to impact any decisions. There are other schools that encourage visits but say that visiting will not impact decisions or that department visits aren't possible due to how busy faculty may be. Committees change on a yearly basis for the most part because it allows different applicants with different life experiences to be represented. Some programs do prefer their own applicants whereas others like Stanford (I think) disqualifies you from applying if you have a BA from them.

I don't think there is a single university that would release said information. Doing so could taint an admission committee's decision on certain applicants. Unlike the sciences, English is one of the few programs that don't require applicants e-mail prior to submitting an application.

On a side note: There are some programs that might not want you to list any POIs. They figure that if fit is there, you'll find a spot within the program. There's also the issue of naming POI's who might be retiring/leaving/not taking on any grad students. On a different note: What may get you rejected this year could get you rejected next year or it could get you accepted since different people on the committee tend to have different preferences. Also, a few members on the committee might be different year to year so they may or may not have a bigger interest in your work.

That sounds similar to what I did last year! I'm enjoying cheering on people this year!

Today, I found myself extremely bored. As a result, I complied a list of when schools typically notify for first-round acceptances using data from the results page. After, I rearranged things in order by when programs typically notify. Michigan State-Dec 10? (Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures) OSU-Jan 25 Wisconsin- Jan 28 Duke- Jan 29 WashU- Jan 31-Feb 2 Northwestern-Jan 31-Feb 2 Berkeley- Jan 31-Feb 2 Chicago- Feb 1/2 Minnesota-Feb 2 Vanderbilt - Feb 2/3 Texas- Feb 3/4 Indiana-Feb 3/4 Purdue-Feb 3-5 UCLA- Feb 4/5 Johns Hopkins- Feb 5 Davis-Feb 5/6 Penn State- Feb 5/6 Pittsburgh-Feb 5/6 Nebraska-Feb 5-7 NYU-Feb 6/7 Maryland-Feb 7-9 Rochester-Feb 8/9 Emory- Feb 8-9 Irvine-Feb 8-9 Illinois- Feb 9-12 Brown-Feb 10-12 LSU-Feb 11 Rice- Feb 12 Buffalo-Feb 12 Missouri- Feb 12-14 Delaware-Feb 12-14 Kansas-Feb 14 Carnegie Mellon- Feb 14/15 Alabama-Feb 14-16 Cornell- Feb 15/16 Miami University-Feb 15/16 Michigan-Feb 16 Connecticut-Feb 16 CUNY-Feb 16/17 Santa Barbara-Feb 17-19 Stanford- Feb 17-Feb 20 Princeton-Feb 17-20 UVA- Feb 19/20 Rutgers-Feb 19/20 Harvard- Feb 20-Feb 22 Columbia- Feb 20-22 Penn- Feb 20-22 Utah-Feb 22 Notre Dame-Feb 23 Yale- Feb 24/25 Washington-Feb 25 Syracuse-Feb 26 Chapel Hill-Feb 26/27 Oregon-Feb 27-28 Iowa-March 2-5 Florida State-March 4-7 Mississippi- March 5-7

I think a lot of schools are "sneaky" in the ways they present information at times. (Some schools say how big their incoming classes are but never mention how many people they accepted. My prestige comment wasn't directed towards you; my apologies if it came off that way. However, it's a phenomenon I've noticed from people who pay much less attention to finding their proper fit within a school. I've had many conversations with friends that have applied to places which has none of their specific interests, I once had an Uber driver who dropped out of UPenn due to expenses and was ecstatic about their acceptance and degree from University of Pheonix. I was unsure of how to react.

I think a fair amount of people will apply to Cornell for no other reason that it is part of the Ivy League. I know a fair amount of people who have applied to programs using undergraduate "prestige" as a determining factor.

It's hard to tell if you're serious or not but misinformation can be dangerous. If you go to: http://gradschool.cornell.edu/academics/field-metrics Then click: "Selectivity and Yield Over 5 years", you'll be guided to Cornell's admission stats. If you select "Comparative Literature", you'll see that SU/FA 2015 saw a total of 7 out of 71 applicants get admitted. Of the seven, 3 chose to enroll. I think one of the most important things to realize is that there is a difference between the numbers of applicants accepted and the number of applicants matriculated. While the matriculation seems low, it's important to remember that there may have been a significant overlap between Cornell and students that chose to enroll in another "top-school". While we don't have data from every school, I don't think there is a school that has 100 percent of its acceptances take up their offer 100 percent of the time.

Quick side note: I found this: https://hr.msu.edu/hiring/studentemployment/gradasst/stipendRanges.htm A level one half-time pays between $682 and $1186 biweekly. They pay about 19.5 times per academic year according to their numbers. 682*19.5= $13,299 1186*19.5=$23,127 The health portion of the SI charge for Fall and Spring is $1,504 ($152 bi-weekly for Fall 2016 and $156 bi-weekly for Spring 2017), with the remaining $4,700 (477 bi-weekly for Fall 2016 and $487 bi-weekly for Spring 2017) covering the tuition.

From reading over this board, Michigan State's financial offer sounds similar to the way that University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee does. http://uwm.edu/english/graduate/graduate-resources/financial-assistance/ $15,000 GTA salary (9 months) $18,905 Approximate value of non-resident tuition waiver $5,135 Approximate value of health insurance premiums paid by UWM -$528 Approximate 12 month insurance contribution paid by employee -$1,337 __________ Approximate student fees $37,175 Total approximate annual value of assistance package for a single, non-resident, doctoral GTA

Someone else was curious on that first question too and asked. Apparently, the answer has to do with allowing time for professors to write recommendation letters for both undergraduate and graduate students. They don't make funding decisions until after spring break but do admit those who they think best fit in with the program. I'm not exactly sure what the exact numbers are. According to their website, graduate courses are capped at 15 students.

From my understanding, religion plays no role in any graduate school in English.

Out of curiosity, have you looked at Villanova? I know they offer a Gender and Women's Studies certificate that can be earned alongside the MA. I think UMass Boston also has a good focus on Gender and Women's studies.

Hi Woosh. Have you looked into getting application fee waivers? While you can e-mail the programs individually, the Big 10 alliance streamlines the process a bit more: https://www.btaa.org/students/freeapp/introduction I'm not sure which schools you're interested in but a few schools you could be interested in are there. I think the rule is that you must apply for the fee waiver between September-Nov 15. Each school has different rules on to which applicants they grant waivers to. In addition, there are a limited number of waivers granted so it's best not to apply for a fee waiver if you know that you wouldn't apply.

Welcome to GF, Chloe. What about those 4 programs attract you? For MA programs, being funded is the most important thing. Rankings don't really matter for MA programs. If I remember correctly, all 4 of those schools on the Ph.D. level are focused very much on teaching.

I know in general that Comp Lit programs tend to receive fewer applications than English programs. However, I think the percentage accepted is within a few percentage points at each school. I'd also imagine to some extent that despite Comp Lit programs having a smaller applicant pool that their applicants have a more "serious" interest and aren't applying because they want to "read literature for 5 years." I'm not sure how many people apply in English for that reason but I remember a program mentioning it as a reason to not apply so I wonder how big of a problem it is. When Princeton released their numbers a few years ago, I think their number of applicants for English was around 350. On another note, the Graduate School at Northwestern does keep a record of their applicants: For Comp Lit, they received 102 applications last cycle and accepted 13. This is a 13 percent acceptance rate. For English, they received 208 applications last cycle and accepted 16. This is a 8 percent acceptance rate. Duke's Literature Program received 152 applications last cycle; 12 were accepted. That's a 8 percent acceptance rate Duke's English Program received 241 applications last cycle; 15 were accepted. That's a 6 percent acceptance rate. It's also important to realize though that each application will be different and that some schools will care about different things differently. Some schools may consider teaching experience or tutoring experience; others won't. Some will like you to have conference experience; others might prefer to do all your training themselves. Also, having an interest in say, Ecocritism, will do you no good if there's nobody there with an interest in Ecocritism.

We will never know the true meanings of questions. On a side note: Comparing Providence (Brown) or Cambridge (Harvard) to New York City might not be the way to look at it. Chicago might be a bit easier to compare to. According to the University of Chicago, "In recent years, we have received around 600 applications a year and have admitted anywhere from 2% to 5% of those applicants into our PhD program." I think another thread mentioned that a school in Philadelphia (UPenn) received more than 700 applications one year. I think what makes UPenn and Columbia receive more applications than most schools are they have several groups of people applying to them: 1)People only applying to top 10/20 programs 2) People only applying to ivy league colleges 3) People applying to live in major cities 4) People applying to live in world-class cities 5) People unaware that UPenn and Columbia are ivy-league colleges. There are indeed some people who believe that UPenn is just a state school and have never heard of Columbia since it isn't Harvard/Yale/Princeton. I think HYP may actually receive less applications because people are intimidated by them.

Which MA programs have you looked into? I think the application preparation for an MA is similar to that of an MFA. Some MFA programs tend to prefer letters of recommendation from other creative writing professors. On another note: I'd e-mail some programs you're interested in to ensure your eligibility. I just looked at a LSU's page and discovered this "3. Official transcripts: A minimum GPA of 3.2 is expected on undergraduate and graduate coursework." A fair number of programs will consider your MA grades over your BA degrees but LSU makes it sound like one does not replace the other. Chances are it's a requirement set in place by the Graduate School but it might be worth checking out. (There are programs that also only care about your last 60 credits of your undergrad.)