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My advisors, though, to answer the initial question, kept telling me to go for straight Lit Phds since, because I already have an MFA, it, to them at least, looks better on the resume than two CW degrees. Hope my comments are helpful, and congrats--you must produce quality work since getting accepted to, or being waitlisted at, any of those programs is no easy feat.

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Just wondering, has any USC Phd applicants out there heard anything? I managed to forget about my application till now since it's the only school I applied to this year and applying to USC feels a lot like buying a hundred dollars worth of power ball tickets, but now that it's March it's getting harder to not check my email and grad cafe every few minutes despite the likelihood of a form rejection.

So did you get in?

Thought this was a silly question until I saw you were going into criminal justice. I wouldn't have made it past day one if that was the case during my mfa. (I'm actually only a light smoker, or vaporer, but my natural demeanor is on the stoney side). And I imagine the % across all fields of profs and candidates is going to be higher than your national average. I've also never heard of a candidate or a professor getting a drug test. I guess it could happen if they were trying void your tenure or kick you out of the program, but again never heard of it. My 2 cents: it's likely not going to be a problem unless you plan to work at the federal level, but discretion isn't a bad idea either since there's usually a lot politics and politicking on college campuses and just in academia in general since there's only so much money and positions to go around.