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  1. You are a rock star and my hero today! This is very, very helpful. I know that both schools do very well with placement (almost 100%, and almost entirely in academic positions, many TT right off the bat), but need to get more data about the collaborative school's actual placements (where, what kinds of departments). I know I would prefer to end up at a SLAC or smaller state school (not an R1), but I want to be competitive and I know the academic job market just gets harder and harder every year.
  2. Thank you so much for this - it was extremely helpful. I'm currently trying to choose between two programs I've been admitted to, both which are strong rhet/comp, but one which has tech comm as part of it and the other which has more digital media stuff. I pored through the job postings on MLA this year and it seemed like tech comm was the strong extra area to have in terms of # of posted jobs, but digital media might fit my interests very slightly better. Both offer plenty of courses for me to take, and plenty of teaching experience with a way to get at least 2-3 different courses under my belt before going on the job market (though one has opportunity to teach tech comm and the other does not). The thing you said that's interesting is about publishing. I've gotten different stories from different people about what the "norm" is in rhet/comp (I'm coming in from a related but different background so am unfamiliar with the standards). One program seems to take the stance that it's up to the student to carve out their own path and most publishing is solo, not collaborative, so faculty across the department tend not to publish with students, and students graduate with 1-2 solo publications. The other seems to have a much more collaborative, multi-author culture where faculty are publishing with students more often, but I don't have any info yet about what their typical grad has on their CV in terms of # of pubs. I am now wondering what the "norm" really is, and if the "solo" perspective is old-fashioned or out-of-date?
  3. Thank you, that's kind. :-) Unfortunately, given that they've already sent acceptances and so many schools have limited slots, I think best case scenario is a wait list at this point, but most likely just a rejection. I've had a weird season this year, between this "lost" application, and then getting the wrong funding offer from another school and having them take it back. Makes me appreciate the organized ones!
  4. I finally gave in and called one school where I'd been waiting since December, and I know they had already sent out acceptances and rejections last month, but also in past years sometimes had late decisions go out too (based on the results board). They were very nice, but it turns out they somehow lost my application in the system. I don't know if they did or didn't review it, or how it got missed or lost when it was "out to department" in the system, but I was not on their internal decision list as accept or reject. The poor woman in the department couldn't say anything but that she'd check with the chair and get back to me. But it sounds bad. I'm still hoping for secret wait list here (which is what I'd been hoping) but ... I think ... it's going to be bad news. There's a point at which it's not a bad idea to call and check in if you haven't heard anything and it's clear decisions have gone out.
  5. Lurker slinking out of the shadows with a question ... anyone here one of the people accepted to NCSU's Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) PhD? If so, have you heard anything else from them beyond the generic application portal letter - funding, visit, any details at all?
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