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¡Hola! La Uni de Washington en Seattle. Cuando solicité, Nebraska me dijo sobre los finales de febrero debería saber algo. ¿Qué tal llevas la espera de noticias?

UVA said to expect results around late February when I went to their informational session in December. They're one of my top choices.

¡Enhorabuena! And yes, that sounds like a good sign. I'm...still....waiting...

I'm slowly going insane and have convinced myself I won't get any more acceptances and won't get the funding for the one acceptance I have despite the fact it's still incredibly early, lol. I'm on reddit but haven't seen anything about Spanish programs at all. Fingers crossed you get good news next week!

There was 1 or 2 Berkeley decisions for Spanish on the results page: https://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/

Congrats!

My guess is it's a wait list.

¡Enhorabuena! Be yourself. Be prepared to talk about your research or the research you want to do and why, what interests you about their research, things like that. Know your SOP well as they may ask things about it. Make sure Zoom or Skype are up to date beforehand. Be prepared for the "describe yourself" and "best/worst qualities" and "tell me a time" type questions. It'll probably be bilingual. I think for the one interview I had for my M.A., they asked about my hobbies, and we started talking about paella (I was living in Valencia at the time). Anyone else have any interview advice? What did I miss?

¡Enhorabuena! Can I ask which one of your excellent schools has realised your own excellence? I understand if you don't want to say. I have news of my own. I was accepted to Durham, but without funding because it's the UK, so now I have to apply for an important, extremely competitive scholarship for all humanities Ph.Ds amongst eight or schools in hopes of getting funding. I'm excited for the acceptance, but trying not to get my hopes up for getting the scholarship.

Look at it this way, we're not competing for any of the same spots I'm literature myself, but I appreciate and support all my linguistics people. We all love Spanish.

May the odds ever be in your favour @presidentialpudding February seems to be the target month. In the end I applied to Durham (in the UK), McGill and Toronto in Canada and UVA, Washington, Penn State and Nebraska. What about everyone else?

Hola @presidentialpudding! UIUC usually makes international offers earlier, but this with Covid things are completely different and they may have only made the decision on internal applicants and will make international decisions later. If you haven't heard anything, don't worry. No news is usually good news. I feel that schools across the board could be slower this year due to funding concerns. Waiting is torture!

I think, outside of UIUC for internal (Master applying for Ph.D.) and international applicants, the earliest might be the last week of January. Most come in February, some not even until late March. (I issue that caveat so no one freaks out. Waiting lists factor in too.) Here's a link to the results page on Grad Café in case someone doesn't know about it. You can look up the program + Spanish to see when the results normally come in, or you can just search "Spanish" to see the latest admissions decisions. For your mental health, however, I recommend only using it sparingly https://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/

I'm just waiting for results now, which will take a while as most of my apps are due between Jan 6 and 15. I applied for all of mine along with the Dec. 15 so I don't have to worry about getting them done, just the hearing back anxiety I hope for the best outcome for everyone! How'd it go for you @poetrylover?

How are the applications coming along? I think the 15th is a common deadline for a lot of schools (but only one I'm applying to this cycle). I have all my submitted as of yesterday. Grad Cafe has been extremely quiet this year. I had an informational meeting with one of my schools, and they said they expect more applications than normal this year. Mucha suerte a todos, may the odds ever be in your favour.

Thanks for the heads up about Cornell! I briefly checked them out this summer, but they fell out quickly. I've been hearing horror stories on this board about Yale's program for years. Thanks for the rec of Georgetown. I wish I had come across them earlier as I'm a bit set on which ones I'm applying too...so many good programs out there.

I'm still looking to swap too...the more eyes the better I think. I'm Spanish literature.

I'm applying to a Ph.D in Spanish Lit and have the same struggles as everyone else. Thanks @amaward1 for the advice.

Mucha suerte! What programs are you looking at? Illinois-Urbana Champaign has a strong linguistics program if you haven't considered them. One of my undergrad professors said pretty much the same thing, that as long as we're aware about the job prospects and what doing a Ph.D in the humanities entails, and we still want to do it, then to go for it. My question...how to figure out if our interests really match the department? That's where I'm at right now. They all look so pretty on paper

I'm also doing Hispanic Studies, so if you want to do a swap I'd be more than willing. You can't have too many eyes! In general if it isn't too late to get in on the swapping I'd be willing to.

My advice is to make sure your writing sample is the best version you can make it. I might focus on MA programs this year if you don't have one as it will make you a stronger candidate in the future and you will be able to have stronger letters of rec and writing samples and know exactly what you're getting into But I know a lot of people on this forum are accepted right away into Ph.D's too. Politics of memory in Chile and Perú sounds really interesting! And it sounds like you have a great list of schools to choose from. ¡Mucha suerte y animó!

Bleepbloop: Thanks for the reminder in case some wasn't aware of the bleak prospects for academia. Most of us probably are aware, but it is a good thing to point out in case someone seriously has their heart set on a career in academia and being a professor is the only reason they're doing it. I want to do the PH.D for the love of learning and am quite okay with teaching at an independent school or community college after. Olivetree: I have a lot of schools on my list I'm narrowing...This is my second cycle, but last year I was stretched too thin during application season and didn't put out my best applications to be honest and only applied to three as it was...and my M.A. adviser was too swamped with things for me to continue where I was doing my M.A. (so yeah, I know all too well about academia!). My long list includes Michigan, U Washington, U Toronto, McGill, Colorado Boulder, (I've already received a MA rejection and a PH.D rejection so maybe not), Indiana, Texas Tech (I have an undergrad prof that is now at TT who would be the best adviser ever), U Southern California, Wisconsin Madison...looking at a couple in the UK too. I'm investigating a lot of schools to find a great fit. What about you? And what's your interest? Linguistics, lit...?

¡Hola a todos! I know it's somewhat early to start this post, but I know some are probably starting to narrow down their choices and are starting to get things together...and since this year is going to look extremely different than past years, I figured I'd get the ball rolling. This post is for all those applying to both MA and Ph.D programs in either linguistics or literature. I'm considering a Ph.D in Spanish lit with a focus on contemporary peninsular literature and film with an interest in queer studies, la España vacía/vaciada and el mito de la Transición. I'm narrowing down the schools. I applied to a few last year but didn't have much luck due to external factors. I know this year won't be great for admissions, but I'm still going to try anyway because nunca se sabe. I did see that Uni of Chicago isn't admitting any applications this round. If you know of other schools not accepting, please share! ¡Mucha suerte y mucho ánimo a todos!

Thanks, @WildeThingI knew there was somewhere where I had found it before, but I couldn't remember where. And thanks for the FB group suggestion @merry night wanderer I will check it out!

I'm not sure this is the right forum or not, but I'm seriously considering applying for the Iowa Writer's Workshop. I just finished a M.A. in Spanish Literature and was shut out, but I miss writing fiction so I'm looking at the MFA at Iowa...any other similar recommendations? Anyone else looking at this or has done this?