dreamsfrombunkerhill

I applied! No news yet for me.

@tunamelt Thanks for the encouragement I hope you're right! They didn't say when I could expect to hear back from them. Thanks for the info about Harvard, btw. Fingers crossed for both of us!

Just Skype interviewed with Stanford. It was.... painful.

@clauderains Tell me about it! USC was 6 out of 128 — that's like 4.6%...

@clauderains The prof told me they accepted five people this year.

For anyone who applied to Pitt: a professor with whom I am interested in working let me know I was waitlisted yesterday, so I suppose they should be coming out with acceptances and rejections soon.

@brogan4334 Congratulations on your acceptances! Did your notification from UCB include any stats regarding admissions? Haven't heard back from them yet and I'm curious.

@clauderains Best of luck and congratulations on your acceptance to LIU! Out of curiosity, did you ask UT Austin if you could defer in order to pursue the job for a year?

Anyone have news of acceptances/rejections yet? I was called on Thursday by USC and offered a fully funded position in their Cinema and Media Studies MA program! I applied to the Ph.D., but I'll take anything!!

Hi all, I've been attaching official secured PDF transcripts to several graduate school applications. Two of my transcripts are supplied by "TranscriptsNetwork" (a Credentials Solution offshoot) and one is from University of Pittsburgh's own online system. I sent these transcripts to myself, meaning I am the "intended recipient" of all these "Third-Party Secure PDFs." When I attached them to some applications, I received an error message that a password protected/encrypted file cannot be accepted by the system. Should I be worried that this is the case for ALL applications, even the ones that haven't given me this kind of error message? Will no one but me be able to open these electronic transcripts? I suppose the best solution is to print the transcripts out, scan them, and then upload them to applications, but University of Pittsburgh clearly states that printed transcripts will read "VOID" across each page. Any ideas? Thanks!

Hi tunamelt and others (who will hopefully materialize!), I went to Berkeley where I earned my B.A. in Film and Art History and a minor in English. I'm applying to PhD programs at: UC Santa Barbara (Film and Media Studies); UC Berkeley (Film and Media); Harvard (Film and Visual Studies); Stanford (Art History with focus in cinema); Duke (Literature); UC Santa Cruz (Film and Digital Media); University of Pittsburgh (Film Studies and Art History joint program); Yale (Film Studies and Art History joint program) I might be applying to USC (Cinema and Media Studies) – Not sure about this program because I really want an interdisciplinary approach and from what I can tell from their (really crappy) website, they don't seem to value an integrative approach across fields. My honors thesis advisor already told me there's little chance of being readmitted to Berkeley; sadly, they generally don't like to welcome back their own. I'm wondering if applying to Rhetoric would be a better idea since it'd be a change of departments. Any insight is welcome! Tunamelt, Harvard is also my number one Fingers crossed for both of us. Also, I ruled out MIT after talking to a professor in the Art History Dept. at Berkeley who got her PhD there. She told me the faculty of HTC tends to look down upon film studies as a discipline (yikes!). I'd take that with a grain of salt, though, as she wasn't exactly enthusiastic about, well, anything. I'm happy to exchange Statements of Purpose with anyone! I'd love some feedback. Also, anyone who is applying to the University of California system – what the hell are you doing about the "Personal History Statement"? I don't remember having to write two separate pieces when I applied as an undergrad .-.

Hi all, I'm in the process of writing my SOP for PhD programs in Film and Media Studies/Visual Cultures/you know, that kind of thing. Some quick background: my B.A. is in Film Studies & Art History, and I earned a minor in English. I wrote my honors thesis on a fairly esoteric, relatively unknown film directed by Orson Welles (F for Fake). In my SOP I state that I'd like to continue research on F for Fake in the hopes of contributing to what is a relatively small body of academic work on the film. F for Fake has a lot of relevant, postmodern issues surrounding it (e.g., authorship, originality, construction of personal identity, forgery) that I'd also like to make focal points of my graduate studies, but I want to make sure I'm not pigeonholing myself in a way that makes me unattractive to grad schools. NB: F for Fake was the subject of my research as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (which I also mention in the SOP), so I'm thinking I might be seen as a person who has relevant experience and can see a project through. What do you think? Thanks in advance!