Warelin

Here's to good news! Congrats on being done. Over the years, people have been surprised by being accepted at places, being rejected by places and rejecting offers that they thought they'd accept. The atmosphere on the other side is very different when it comes to choosing when people are presented with multiple choices.

Unfortunately, this depends on the program and may depend on policies set by either the program or the Graduate School. There are several that I'm aware of that would e-mail you about missing materials. Others only update via their portal and won't notify if materials are missing. I imagine most would be happy to answer any questions if you're concerned about missing materials though. Additional delays may or may not occur if it has to be processed by the Graduate School prior to being forwarded to the department or Admissions Committee.

Everyone could use a reminder.

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I don't think a POI being on leave this school year would make any difference. In Literature, you're admitted to the department rather than to work as a member of a certain faculty's lab. As such, the admissions committee makes decisions on behalf of the department. Most members of the department will not be on the admissions committee. In most cases, you wouldn't select who you're interested in serving on your committee until after the second semester of your second year. As such, I wouldn't worry about it as long as they've recently as the faculty member has taught grad-level courses. There are some faculty members which often have never taught at the grad-school level and might not be available to serve as your dissertation chair.

Professors understand that interests change and wouldn't hold it against you if you decided against a school. The application process is ultimately about your future and interests. Professors also won't know if you decided to not apply to a school unless they're on the committee for that school. Those records are kept confidential. I think applying to schools which you feel are your preferred schools is the most important thing you can do. Your preferences might change again during grad school; schools know that. If you think there are schools with a better fit that fit your interests, apply to those instead. Is it possible to submit an application to the university where the professor you were interested in moved to? Does that school interest you?

For what it's worth, Washington University in St. Louis has a January deadline but has traditionally been on the first schools to accept students. In some cases, applying to different places might mean less waiting as long as you're interested in all schools you're applying to. WashU, Emory, Notre Dame and Duke have also traditionally paid for flights and accommodations for accepted and/or final round candidates.

I'm not sure if it would be beneficial to mention waitlists from previous years. I think the admissions committee changes each year and each one will look for different things to fill in a cohort. I also think there are far more valuable things you can talk about in such a small word count.

That's good to hear then. There were reports that they did from users on this board. It caused some panic last year.

Historically, Duke Literature is the only of the two that does interviews. Last cycle, Duke English was reported to do interviews.

Chicago recently started interviewing a few cycles ago. In the past, they've extended interview offers to more people than they had "slots" for. At least one person has claimed they've been extended an offer without an interview. Emory, Notre Dame, and Duke also do interviews. I think somebody mentioned that Northeastern started doing in-person interviews last year.

Penn State's structure is that the majority of its graduates apply to the MA program. Most of the graduates from their MA program then continue onto their PHD program. As a result, they only accept 1-2 people with an external MA into their PHD program which is determined by how many people leave after the MA.

You can do it!

There is no ability to edit (after 60 minutes) for members because what happened (in the past) was that members would create posts, get answers, then edit out their posts. This often resulted in future individuals not understanding the context of said posts.

Prior to August 2011, the GRE was scored between 200 and 800.

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Did you participate in any of the following programs: http://gs.emory.edu/admissions/waiver-qualified.html Alternatively, some schools may offer an automatic fee waiver to graduates from certain schools.

Sarah at Washington University in St. Louis and Nathan at Northwestern are really excellent in their organization and answering questions.

Apply to hidden gems that you overlooked the first time? Find real hidden gems outside?

For what it's worth, one of my professors submitted ~2 weeks late on an application that said letters were due on the same day. I was still accepted by that school.

I think schools are just curious to see who they end up losing students to if they're accepted elsewhere. Is stipend playing a major factor? Are other programs introducing new certificates or initiatives that's causing an impact on decisions? I don't think schools have the resources to keep track of every school so this allows them to identify trends and use the data in however they see best fit.

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I think it’s important to note that sometimes a misunderstanding on what a professor expects might also lead to a lower than expected grade. Sometimes, a class might not have anything graded until the very end of the semester. A class or two below an A- might be overlooked but consistently falling below a 3.5 might signal that grad school might not be right for that person.

Your application would not be considered incomplete.