Straparlare

The obvious answer is Comp Lit MA programs. Investigate a few of them. I mean, I'm not trying to dissuade you from English, if you honestly want to go that route and think it'll be good for your interests and future career in academia, then go for it. But if you're choosing to go apply to English MA programs just because you didn't get into a Comp Lit PhD program (again, still time), then maybe consider a Comp Lit MA. There are also a couple lower level programs in Comp Lit that take later applications if they have room and rejected their first wave. You could also look into those. UC Davis is one them, and I think U of Oregon is another.

@Yanaka I don't mean that an MA is a rabbit hole, just an English one if you're set on Comp Lit. Certainly geography plays a role in all application decisions [the MA I applied for was in Hawaii (the application process was awful)]. And if you had confidence at the beginning of the process, don't get down now. It's only early February! There's still time.

I agree with most of the people up above. Calm down. You're only two schools down, you can still come back. This isn't a game of tic-tac-toe or something! A question I do have is if you are so concerned with your competitiveness (and I'm assuming this isn't new) why did you only seem to apply to top programs? Personally, I'm not certain about my competitiveness either, and so I applied to a couple lower ranked programs (including an MA program in English) just in case. There are several Comp Lit MA programs around (Boulder [just finished my BA there] used to have one, but it closed down). If you do decide to go down the English MA track things to think about: the subject test (I didn't do a BA in English either and didn't feel comfortable doing the test) so maybe look for programs that don't require it (I don't know how many that is), and if you're wanting a PhD in the end is there a program that may not end in one but that you'd be happy to study at and have someone who does research in something you're interested in. Is an English MA something that you'd like to do? If not and you're just throwing yourself down that rabbit hole, then maybe stick with Comp Lit. Just my two cents. PM me if you'd like to talk since we're both Comp Lit people.

Not their Comp Lit. I applied to their Rhetoric program because a prof suggested it and said it wasn't like a regular rhetoric program. I'm still patiently waiting.....

I'm sorry to hear that! Is it better to know?

So, I noticed that someone posted on the survey about hearing back from Davis, that they got an interview. Has anyone else heard back? D: so stressed

I have too! But thinking about it, I only applied to 4 comp lit programs, 1 english, and then like 2 interdisciplinary programs! So I'm not solely comp lit. Yay! People are actually responding! I know that Comp Lit is generally not in January but in the last few years, a couple schools send out acceptances in January, so I'm always hopeful. I'm also applying to Oregon! But it's not the top of my list. Good luck to you!

Long time lurker, first time poster. I kinda thought that it would be nice if maybe Comp Lit people could rally together and wait in solidarity since a lot of English programs are sending out acceptances and rejections. I keep checking the survey section of gradcafe to see when Comp Lit might start coming out (I've seen a couple about Irvine, but didn't apply their...). Maybe I'll be a lonely island of Comp Lit in a see of English. Congrats to everyone who has been accepted to English programs, btw!