momo

Hi all. I was wondering if anyone else applied to Kent State's literature PhD or if anyone has a sense of Kent's program. Their website is not terribly helpful, so I figured I'd ask and see if anyone has firsthand knowledge.

Unfortunately, my partner e-mailed the secretary Sunday night and got a reply Monday afternoon that she was not accepted. A short, kind of rude e-mail, at that. Just "We will not be offering you admission or an assistantship." So, it seems at least some decisions have been made. Now I just have to decide whether I should go to Purdue or to a significantly lower ranked program even though I told Purdue I was going there. That's why a program shouldn't require early responses. This is no fun.

I got accepted at Purdue in early March with assistantship &c. The letter asked us to reply by the 25th of March with a decision. Well, I'm waiting to find out if my partner was also accepted (she's in a similar boat to you-no letter or anything) so I hadn't responded figuring I had until the 15th anyway. I received an e-mail yesterday saying they wanted a response by today so I accepted...but perhaps this means that they're trying to get a sense of what openings they have as soon as possible and they'll notify people soon about delayed acceptance/rejection.