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    CaffeineCardigan reacted to havemybloodchild in 2019 Applicants   
    Hahaha, I didn’t even see that error until y’all mentioned it. I kinda stopped reading after seeing the comically small font my name was in that didn’t match the body of the email (classy) and “regret”. However now I’m reading “pleaseure” (which my phone wants to change to “please uterus”) like some creep in an animated movie says “treasure”: playyyyyyyyyzure.
    What a great morning.
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from CatBowl in 2019 Applicants   
    I came back just to talk about "pleaseure" ?
    Honestly though 
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from vondafkossum in 2019 Applicants   
    Right? I'm just a little salty but mostly amused. 
    Maybe "pleaseure" is a new word meaning it's very much not been a pleasure? Like, "please(don't apply again)-ure"? 
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    CaffeineCardigan reacted to illcounsel in 2019 Applicants   
    That brings a close to my admissions season. Feeling very lucky to have received acceptances to 5 MA programs. I'm so excited to buckle down and crush the next few years and apply to PhD programs in the future. Now if I can just figure out what school to go to !!!!!!!
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from illcounsel in 2019 Applicants   
    Now if Santa Cruz could send me their (also strangely late) rejection I can finally be free! 
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from illcounsel in 2019 Applicants   
    Right? I'm just a little salty but mostly amused. 
    Maybe "pleaseure" is a new word meaning it's very much not been a pleasure? Like, "please(don't apply again)-ure"? 
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from cassidyaxx in 2019 Applicants   
    I came back just to talk about "pleaseure" ?
    Honestly though 
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    CaffeineCardigan reacted to dilby in 2019 Applicants   
    In at yale, oh my god
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from illcounsel in 2019 Applicants   
    I have written that they typically reject in the first week of March, so I'm not expecting that sweet sweet rejection until next week, probably. But yes. Just give it to me!  
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from madandmoonly in 2019 Applicants   
    I reached out to Brandeis to see what was up with people who hadn't been accepted, rejected, or waitlisted. They said while they've sent out those notifications, people still waiting are on a waitlist, just not ranked high enough to be notified. They said they'll follow up in the next few weeks as decisions are finalized. 
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    CaffeineCardigan reacted to Englishandteamakesahappyme in 2019 Applicants   
    You’re a gem! Thank you. 
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from spectrum-in in 2019 Applicants   
    I reached out to Brandeis to see what was up with people who hadn't been accepted, rejected, or waitlisted. They said while they've sent out those notifications, people still waiting are on a waitlist, just not ranked high enough to be notified. They said they'll follow up in the next few weeks as decisions are finalized. 
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from Englishandteamakesahappyme in 2019 Applicants   
    I reached out to Brandeis to see what was up with people who hadn't been accepted, rejected, or waitlisted. They said while they've sent out those notifications, people still waiting are on a waitlist, just not ranked high enough to be notified. They said they'll follow up in the next few weeks as decisions are finalized. 
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    CaffeineCardigan reacted to Matthew3957 in 2019 Applicants   
    Rejection from U Victoria came through....
    but I also got email from UCSC saying they had some good news for a phone call... could it be really good news?
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from spacea in Getting Out of Academia   
    I've been working with a few people looking at starting a little homestead where people can live sustainably/visit and use their skills by teaching lessons or just having creative space. Shockingly this feels less idealistic than a PhD, but academia is still, I think, where I want to be. 
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from LurkersGonnaLurk in 2019 Applicants   
    Thank you! I have learned a good bit. I think trying next year when I'm not trying to finish my MA will let me have a much stronger application! 
    I'm still really into the land idea! I'm stoked if more people start looking into it. Maybe I'll just start a humanities commune somewhere instead of reapplying! 
    I think so! I'm still processing it and making a plan, but I know a PhD is what I want to do, so I'll likely be back! 
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from vondafkossum in 2019 Applicants   
    Thank you! I have learned a good bit. I think trying next year when I'm not trying to finish my MA will let me have a much stronger application! 
    I'm still really into the land idea! I'm stoked if more people start looking into it. Maybe I'll just start a humanities commune somewhere instead of reapplying! 
    I think so! I'm still processing it and making a plan, but I know a PhD is what I want to do, so I'll likely be back! 
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from trytostay in 2019 Applicants   
    Thank you! I have learned a good bit. I think trying next year when I'm not trying to finish my MA will let me have a much stronger application! 
    I'm still really into the land idea! I'm stoked if more people start looking into it. Maybe I'll just start a humanities commune somewhere instead of reapplying! 
    I think so! I'm still processing it and making a plan, but I know a PhD is what I want to do, so I'll likely be back! 
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    CaffeineCardigan reacted to LurkersGonnaLurk in 2019 Applicants   
    Sorry @CaffeineCardigan! I was shut out last year but learned so much in the process! I hope you did and will try again next year if you’re not too busy on that land!
    For what it’s worth I’ve been Googling plots of land all week b/c of our convo last week! 
    Good luck with everything!
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    CaffeineCardigan reacted to Englishandteamakesahappyme in 2019 Applicants   
    @CaffeineCardigan Ok. I'm waiting to hear from Brandeis as well. I guess I'm too much of an optimist. Sometimes weird last-minute acceptances happen! All the best to you, though. 
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    CaffeineCardigan reacted to havemybloodchild in 2019 Applicants   
    Sorry Cardigan, but I know you have great things ahead of you, within the academy and without.
    @optimistic_nihilist I didn’t personally pick a fave beverage for a name because a) I didn’t get that anonymity memo but also b) it’s hard to tell a bunch of internet strangers just how much you like bourbon ?
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from Matthew3957 in 2019 Applicants   
    I feel this in my soul. 
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    CaffeineCardigan reacted to emprof in 2019 Applicants   
    School prestige is not not a factor. (Litotes!) But I wouldn't say that it's decisive. 
    I think @Dares has a point in saying that there is a particular language (and habits of mind, and methodologies, and preoccuping questions, etc.) that characterizes elite academic discourse. It's the language that the profession uses to talk to itself. And one might more readily, or more easily, encounter that language (habit of mind, methodology, etc.) at Yale than at Unknown University. So perhaps a candidate from Yale will be more immediately legible to an admissions committee as a proto-academic than the UU candidate. There is also the sense--perhaps unfair--that success at a prestigious university presages success anywhere; if an undergraduate institution is truly unknown to the committee, then a straight-A average there might not provoke that same assumption. (The UU could be academically rigorous, of course--but it could not be.) LORs often rate students in comparison to other students: e.g., "top 5%," "top 10%," "2 or 3 best of my career." At a prestigious university, top 2-3 of the career is very impressive. At UU, it might be less so. It's not that the committee knows or assumes the UU student to be weaker than the Yale student; it's just that the information from UU doesn't signify as strongly.
    That said, committees also love to flatter themselves (and sometimes maybe they're right) that they can recognize "diamonds in the rough" (this is a phrase that comes up all of the time) and "refine" them with expert teaching, mentorship, and advising. There's also a high premium on diversity, including economic diversity and "first-generation college student" status--meaning we don't want a whole class of Ivy League grads from wealthy parents with graduate degrees. If an applicant has gone to a fancy prep school and a fancy university, and is very polished, but the ideas in the WS are uninteresting, that application is much less compelling than one from an applicant from UU who lacks polish and knowledge of the most recent work in the field, but offers a strikingly original approach to a text or topic. And occasionally, applicants from high-prestige undergraduate institutions are identified so strongly with their prestigious undergraduate mentors that the question of "teachability" comes up: does the applicant seem already to be calcified in a particular approach or methodology and s/he would not be adequately responsive to feedback and mentorship? 
    So all of that is to say: sure, it matters. Everything in the application matters. But it matters a lot less than the intellectual excitement that the SoP and WS generate.
    Hope this is helpful. Happy to natter on further if people have questions.
     
     
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    CaffeineCardigan reacted to WildeThing in 2019 Applicants   
    As I said, the process is the same no matter where you come from, it’s just easier for some. We just need to have perspective so we can maximize our chances. Hope or no hope, the only time to give up is when all decisions have been made.
     
    There’s also the issue of cultural capital. The higher up the rungs of ‘prestige’ you go, statistically, the likelier it is that you have more means than those below. More means translate to more opportunities to impove your CV and focus on academics. It’s a bit of vicious cycle that is not unique to academia and so there is no reason for me to think that admissions are somehow isolated from these issues, either.
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    CaffeineCardigan got a reaction from Indecisive Poet in Getting Out of Academia   
    I've been working with a few people looking at starting a little homestead where people can live sustainably/visit and use their skills by teaching lessons or just having creative space. Shockingly this feels less idealistic than a PhD, but academia is still, I think, where I want to be. 
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