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So I called and Tina, the graduate coordinator, was nice, but had some strange information: neither she nor anyone in the department can tell an applicant their status directly. It has to come from the Dean's office. She said that they are going through the waitlist now but can't tell me if I am on the waitlist or not. Overall, her advice was "if you have an offer, I suggest you take it." This might be UC Riverside policy, though, as there are two other departments I have not heard from either and from which I also expect rejections. I have to say I am not a fan of this policy. At least I had already assumed rejection.

Still haven't called! I plan to do a string of rejection-checks soon, but maybe I'll squeeze UCR in tomorrow. Good luck to you, too! Any word on your end?

I second this question. I plan on calling the department on Monday to find out if I'm waitlisted or rejected.

Geez, you both speak directly to my day-to-day. Until UCSB comes out with their decision on my application (this week, according to my conversation with the graduate coordinator), I will continue to read millions of Democratic primary articles and analyses, following each Bernie poll with the same, displaced urgency and anxiety as that of my graduate admission fight. Whatever, color me millennial, but I'll always remember these concomitant and uncertain futures together...!

Hm. So I guess certain fellowships at certain UC's, even if they are ostensibly only for a certain number of years, add onto the $19,000 TA salary? I only ask because UCI offered slightly more than that each year, regardless of whether that year is a TA or fellowship year.

(on a side note, I truly admire how supportive this community is. A lovely pocket of collective care in the midst of what can seem like glorified cattle-branding. I appreciate you, gradcafe!) And congratulations on potentially being able to share space with Butler, @EROSvTHANATOS!

Congrats to the other UCI acceptances and everyone else today! The program was definitely my first choice in terms of academic fit, so I'm a little ecstatic. Hope to hear about a campus visit to meet the others accepted! (Anyone else just get a letter sent directly from the graduate school before any departmental heralding?) Yikes, it sure is February, isn't it? I got my rejection from UCLA yesterday (and totally deserved it). Soon: UCSB and UCR. The future is now...! Eek! Godspeed, all. Hang in there.

Thank you for your help! Perhaps because I've already had a brief visit there with my fiancé last year, they are not extending that same travel offer. Regardless, it isn't a huge concern. Thanks again!

Thanks very much! I'm trying to navigate the various open house dates as much as I can. Hopefully the admittee in Early Modern decides soon! One follow up question, though: do you think there is a difference in the travel stipend for admittees off the waitlist versus first picks, or do such funds just transfer directly over if the admittee decides before the March meet-and-greet?

Question! Is the department offering you a travel stipend for the visit? And is it a formal tour or is it based on your availability? Thanks!

Congrats to the acceptance off the wait list! I hope to join your ilk!

I tend to tether my dreams to my current situation as much as possible now, as I have had three separate academic focuses and their projected futures of cello soloist, professor, stage actor, and, now, simply any sort of life-long educator and theatre maker in Korea. Despite most likely being about to embark on a PhD in English (unless the Ethnic Studies apps pan out logically...), my dream involves my already planned future of living in Korea, becoming fluent, teaching rhetoric/composition and hopefully race/postcolonial/performance theory in some capacity (though I think I would want the equivalent of a CC there... but perhaps not), trying to undermine global (racial/economic/political/lingual/colonial) inequality and the innate privilege it confers on me as a white American male in whatever I do, eating 파리바게뜨 and 한식 every day, and having the time to own a socially conscious (preferably youth) theatre company with my fiancé. 짱~! I guess that will shift dramatically once I get there. I have trouble staying invested in anything forever except, so far, my as of yet humble movement toward social justice. We'll see what turns up.

Thanks very much! Yes, I was lucky enough to meet with Amanda Bailey when I visited last year. She is quite welcoming and a skilled pedagogue. I'll probably be asking you a few questions in the coming weeks, hopefully after I'm accepted off the waitlist! Thanks again.

I'm sure ProfLorax will be much more informed about this, but as an outside visitor to the campus last year for my fiancé's tour of schools, it seems basically suburban. To be fair, though, I just drove around without really getting it to explore the surrounding environs. The campus is really expensive and nice, though. Beware the foot-traffic if you drive through the campus - you'll wait for pedestrian crossing a while.

To flesh out the UMD results: I was sent an email from UMD saying I'm first on the waitlist in Early Modern. I haven't yet put it on the results page, though. Congrats to those UT Austin acceptances! Hope those emails keep coming...