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Awesome, congratulations! I might try again once I finish up the MA. Do you mind if I ask if you're coming straight from a BA and what your interests are? Thanks re: UNC -- I'm super excited and if I see you at a conference (I'll be looking for the talking black cat, a la Bulgakov's Бегемот) I'll wave sheepishly.

Just denied via e-mail. Good luck!

nataliedread, thanks again for giving us some inside info. Any advice or thoughts for those of us (I think there are two?) who are alternates for FLAS funding at KU? That's a good question and one that I'm not educated enough to answer well (I know FLAS is open to all citizens, though, not just native citizens). I don't think it would hurt to e-mail a program director or administrator and inquire about alternatives to FLAS. Unfortunately, I think application deadlines for most internal funding options will have passed already but maybe they can suggest some external sources. You may also be able to get funding in the second semester that you wouldn't be able to in the first -- a student instructor position at Michigan, for example, is (at least as I understand it) open to everyone except incoming students. So, if it's financially feasible for you, you might be able to go into debt for the first semester and hope for better during the second? I hope that's more helpful than it sounds to me as I sit here writing it but it probably isn't. Good luck! Yeah, congrats to the Yale acceptance! I'm assuming it's jrnels, what with that fancy updated signature.

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nataliedread, this is just the coolest ever. Thank you so much for making yourself available for questions. I'm going to PM you for a few but when you say that you didn't get FLAS decisions until really late....how late is really late? Also, it looks like a few of us on here applied for summer programs this year -- do you remember approximately when you were notified of acceptance into Pitt's SLI program? And were you able to do the 4 weeks in Montenegro? Someone had mentioned to me that summer study abroad is tricky to get covered by FLAS if you're at the beginner level.

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I'm mostly just bummed because it would have meant funding is taken care of. I'm already tired of waiting on money -- it takes all the excitement out of being accepted. But I hope this isn't the end of the road for anybody whose dream program is Duke Lit! Who knows what news a waitlist could bring.

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Congrats porygon! And, Matan, I would like to gently recommend COLUMBIA!!! Only kidding. I would say that 21k in Durham is going to feel like a lot more money than 27k in Manhattan. But then...you'll be in Durham, North Carolina. Not in NYC. I would further estimate that Columbia is maybe a slightly better fit (though this opinion is just based on my visit to Durham and the faculty's lunch during which they outlined their current projects and not all faculty members were present -- plus the fact that you applied specifically for Mid East at Columbia which I would say is not an especially developed area at Duke Lit) but the flexibility of the Duke program is awesome and your fit there is, if not perfect, obviously good. I would look into job placement rates from each program and how they approach professionalization for current grad students. Are there workshops (or whatever) to prepare you for the job market? For the interview process? For publishing and presenting? How do they get you teaching experience? Is it enough teaching? Is it so much that it interferes with your coursework/dissertation? Get in touch with a few current students if you can. Everyone I met at Duke was wonderful (or at least personable) and I'm sure they'd be willing to chat about the program. You might also try to use your offers as leverage to get yourself some more funding. It won't work for Duke -- everyone gets the same deal, period -- but it might for your other programs (though Columbia, as a private school, probably takes the same inflexible line that Duke does). But who knows! Anyway, I envy your success but not your difficult choices. Good luck!

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Congrats Matan! Vordhosbn, good luck with your delectable decision. :-)

Thanks! I haven't been accepted or heard either way yet -- should have made that more clear, I think takethiswaltz is the lone admit thus far -- but it was good to meet you, too. I assume you'll be at Yale come next semester?

Yeah, I was hoping they would but Tiwonda said (at some point, I don't know when and I could also just have dreamed this, who knows) it would be sort of piecemeal but that everyone should know by March 15 at the latest.

Thanks! I'm not counting on it but I do hope I hear something (anything) before March 15. Visiting got me all excited, despite my best efforts to remain cool and unattached, and now that you've been notified I'm back to frantic e-mail/results board refreshing. But truly, congratulations. That's a very exciting program.