JenP

Find a Humanities Department with a linguist whose work aligns with your interests. Michigan Tech has a linguist named Victoria Bergvall that works with CA, CDA, and Communities of Practice.

*takes an extended hand; sucks in breath*

No...I wish It was (is??) my top choice. At this point, I can only hope that I'm on a secret waitlist and everyone accepted is kind and gracious enough to reject their offer when they know they want to go somewhere else.

So...if you've seen some acceptances from schools you've applied to but haven't received a rejection yet (not have you seen any rejections), at what point (if ever) would you email the director about a status update? It feels premature, but I'M DYINGGGG.

Agree with previous poster about substantially editing and/or adding new material for the same reasons. You could also try publishing some of your poems in lit mags in the meantime -- I feel like if they are of publishable quality, without question you should include them (while noting when and where they were published.) It will come down to whether or not your work is a good fit for the school, not whether your work is a good fit for the world. Same references should be fine. Unless they really loved your sample and the rest of your application, chances are, they didn't even read your reference letters (or read them hard enough) to remember them next year. Maybe that's pessimistic. But reference letters are all going to look pretty similar at the end of the day, right? I applied to the same school a second time (haven't heard back) and I applied from fiction to poetry, so my writing sample looks a lot different.

Hi, all! I applied to 3 schools (poetry): * Purdue, which I am assuming has sent out all acceptances in poetry (congrats, guys and gals!) -- this school made fairly early decisions, so I didn't have the luxury of lurking the comments to read something hopeful like "Will not accept offer because I got in to school XYZ." I'm not sure about the waitlist situation. * Bowling-Green * Western Mich. University Nice to meet you all. I've been lurking, commiserating, and rooting for you all.