Enzian

Well done and congratulations! When I saw that it was Indiana, I panicked/got very excited about the possibility of knowing something. And then I remembered that my Indiana app was for neither English nor Comp Lit. Aaagggh.

speed freak

That is indeed what I meant but it's cool. In the immortal words of Albert Swearengen, "I am stupidest when I try to be funny."

Yeah, but added: Right? Isn't that ungrammatical? My brain function is dwindling. Anyway, that guy must be stressed out. And if they're saying March (last year it seems they'd rejected practically half of gradcafe by February 15th...and via website, not solicited email), they must be overrun with applications or understaffed. Maybe Butler just did this all herself in past seasons.

shock jock

I got the equivalent e-mail asking to verify travel plans by Friday. In your version of the e-mail, Tiwonda didn't happen to mention how many total "finalists" there are, did she? (Good luck to you, too!) Also - congratulations, takethiswaltz! I don't think I've read this thread since you posted.

dine sore

They had me at that first external shot of the airport.

What's sad is that it's barely February and we feel like this. I don't know about you all, but several of my programs historically haven't notified until the first week of March or even later. Which means another whole month of magic eight ball responses...

I applied to 13 programs and I've gotten a response from only one so far. Good things come to those who (have no choice but to) wait, right?

Just in the realm of rock/folk kinds of music, I'm seconding Newsom - the best, I think - and suggesting her ex (Bill Callahan) as well as the subtly amusing and kind of creepy Cass McCombs. And David Berman of the Silver Jews (also a poet) has written some of my favorite lines.

Unfortunately, I think there might be slightly more painful waiting in store than we had anticipated. I emailed, asked, and got this response: The admissions committee will be meeting during the second week of February, so by the end of the month, you should hear about admissions. This is subject to change as schedules demand.

Congrats to the poster of that UT acceptance! It looks they notified quite a bit earlier than previous years. I hope that trend is carried out in other programs as well, if only for the sake of my already-too-high blood pressure...

On another note, does anyone else feel like poring through the "City Guide" for all the schools you've applied to is the surest way to jinx yourself? And then do you do it anyway? Because I can't stop.

"Oh, I'm sure you'll get in everywhere! You just love it so much!" It's hard not to feel like, when friends/family do this innocent encouragement thing, that they're really saying "how hard can it be?" and "it's not like other people are actually interested in this shit, too." Anyway, I keep assuring everyone that I'm not going to get in anywhere because (and I hope you did this last year a little, lolo) then, even though I'm broken-hearted, I can still be right. Take that, people who love me!

Aaaaand I just realized I transposed my Verbal and Quant scores when I posted them above. Should be V: 630; Q: 690.

And! Let this be encouragement to those who worry about stats and such, as mine are hardly stratospheric: GPA: 3.24 (major 3.4) V: 690 Q: 630 W: 5.5 My primary interest is memory (and forgetting and nostalgia) in (post-)socialist/communist/soviet lit.

I got the interview e-mail this morning, too, much to my utter amazement (I'm one of the two on the results board). I assume it was the same email that ivandub received (congrats! message me if you like and we can trade info and neuroses). Good luck to everybody who's still waiting - here's hoping for a second wave of positive e-mails for you!

I lived in a former Soviet Republic for the last few years and everyone there had read tons of Jack London and O. Henry. Me and my American English degree could cite The Call of the Wild and "The Gift of the Magi" and one random London short story ("South of the Slot," I think) and that's it. And my local teacher counterparts kept going on and on about The Forsyte Saga, which I'd never heard of. So that was a little embarrassing but, on the other hand, I'd read WAAAAYYY more Dostoyevksy than just about anyone I met (a whole two novels). It's a strange world out there, folks.

I also applied to a few comp lit programs (Boulder, NYU, Penn, Emory) as well as Duke Lit and Berkeley Rhetoric which are very comp lit-ish. I've had no updates yet, except: Emory did not call for an interview and Boulder e-mailed to say they'd notify the week of March 5-9, both of which I've already posted elsewhere so this is just a neurotic redundancy. Sort of like my college punk band.

Just got a mass e-mail from the Grad Program Assistant that says a lot of things (including an unfortunately worded "your application has been accepted" followed by "and is being reviewed") but notably that they plan to announce decisions the week of March 5-9. Figured I'd post in case somebody missed it. Update your spreadsheets accordingly.

Hello fellow Rus/(East)Euro/asian folks. I was going through the results board from the past couple years for the programs to which I've applied (mostly for 1st year Balkan Studies [bosnian/Croatian/Serbian], though my language background is Russian) and I've so far deduced these approximate notification times: Michigan & UNC: 1 March Indiana: Feb/March Ohio State: Feb? Kansas: March? Columbia: April I'm just wondering if anyone else has more concrete information. I like to know when to throw my neuroses into overdrive. Best of luck to you all! Get those FLAS apps in!

Yeah, generally. Although I'm not sure I'd want to know the numbers for Duke Lit or Berkeley Rhet. Thanks for the intel, lolopixie. I suppose darjeelingtea and I will keep some small hope alive for a waitlist.

Congrats to the recipient(s) of the Emory interviews for Comp Lit and English! As an applicant to the Comp Lit program, I am very excited for you (read: jealousjealousjealous). And also a bit anxious. Does anyone know if Emory sends anything to those who aren't chosen for interviews (tacit rejection?) or do we have to wait and hope that they just forgot to e-mail us...until they reject us outright in February? It's hard to know for sure based on the past years' posted results, though it seems the latter option (with more suffering) fits the pattern. In any event, it's nice that the first posted 2012 results for "literature" on the board are potentially positive.

Ha, some of the better book titles I hadn't seen - the one for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, for example, which cracked me up. Stephen Gammell is a sick, sick man.