bonesbines
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MTLs decisions usually are sent out the second or third week of February so we should be hearing really soon!
well i'm still bracing myself for a rejection! yiiikes. crossing my bones
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Any new from Stanford MTL? It's been over two months since the deadline, so I'm assuming I've been rejected. I'd email Frau Heise to see what's up, but I'm too scared...
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Has anyone seen this? Fascinating...
http://gradschool.duke.edu/about/statistics/admitlit.htm
I'm particularly interested in the drop in admissions numbers from 19 or 18 to only 9 or fewer from 2003 onward. Does this reflect a larger trend in Comp. Lit. as a whole? The Humanities as a whole? Presumably so.
Best of luck to everyone else applying!
(And to those lucky enough to receive offers/interviews, please share the results...)
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Good points, grifter. I realize I need to lessen my unhealthy obsession with my Berkeley application - but that (as you know) is much easier said than done. Thanks for the good wishes and the positive feedback - every little bit of additional analysis helps soothe my already extensive obsessive tendencies. Best wishes for you and your own application process.
i know some people currently doing PhDs in Comp Lit at Berkeley. they're pretty cool, but you seem just as cool, if not cooler, AND more directed. unless you come off as a dick or something in your written material, i'd say you have a great chance.
best of luck
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Hey there! Yeah, it seems we're the only ones on here. Either that, or Comp Lit is a really shy field.
yeah i wonder. i actually applied to scattered comp lit programs last year and as i remember there was much more activity on the forum than there is now.... are there fewer candidates this year? are we more cautious?
anyway, Cornell's the only place i applied to for comp lit. my main languages are french and italian--i was kind of half-joking about wanting to study seducers and playas--i'm really more into the italian marx. my language work, however, is still rather basic, so in addition to Cornell I've sent out apps to english places.
(wreckofthehope, why is Rutgers the only comp lit you're applying to?)
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sooo no one else is showing up? hm well i also applied to Cornell for Comp Lit.
my interests are mostly in heterosexual cultural studies. specifically, I'd like to study 'pick-up artistry' and, i guess, seduction techniques generally in terms of souci de soi.
Good LUCK!!!
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Congrats on getting bumped. I think someone else also was a Masters applicant; so maybe they were interviewing Master applicants who they considered worthy of PhD status
Anyway, an hour after posting the previous post, I got a very basic email from the Department letting me know I've been accepted with full scholarship. So the results should be tricking in now. Good luck everyone.
They didn't mention any planned open house...though I hardly need an excuse to visit NYC.
hey that's great. very happy for you, Kursty
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most of my German stuff has been in Goethe-Instituts (very good experiences in Munich and Dresden), but i've worked through some books indepedently that are pretty okay:
April Wilson's German Quickly
Christopher Hall's Modern German Pronounciation
Essential German Grammar (a Dover paperback)
not sure what your goals/interests are with all this, but a German-for-reading type thing (like Wilson's book) might serve you best....
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so yeah, it was kindajus a mass e-mail to me and like four others, requesting a phone interview for next week. no word on #applicants, #admittants or whatever, but the tone of the letter was rather
and 
, if you know what i mean. . .anyway, i'm not putting much stock in the thing.--people often find my phone presence off-putting, and as i'm feeling very geistesklamm on account of a recent implicit rejection (and general mediocrity), i'm not expecting much. . .
best of luck though Kursty. i hope everything works out
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