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Sweet! Thank you for sharing. That's excellent insider knowledge. Also, being a Masshole myself, I'm curious: Which UMass were you accepted to?

That makes sense. No point in holding one's breath, then...

I ran it past my professor, and she said it was acceptable to ask. (I too wanted to make sure I wasn't being obnoxious!) I wrote something like this in my email: "Recently, I received an acceptance with funding from Carnegie Mellon University. However, I am still very interested in Purdue University's program. If possible, may I please know the status of my application?" So if you want to make yourself feel better, you could always preface your inquiry with "I received an acceptance from XYZ University..."

Good day to all. I'm a semi-new member applying for M.A. programs in Composition in Rhetoric. I've been checking this board compulsively over the past couple of days and hope this information will be helpful to somebody: I received an acceptance call from Carnegie Mellon on January 19. I emailed Purdue inquiring about my application status and just received a response a few minutes ago. My contact simply stated they will be making admissions decisions through April 15. She was unable to provide me with any further information. So if you're waiting to hear from Purdue, I wouldn't bother reaching out to them. Also have a status inquiry email out to Penn State, but no word back yet...

Thank you for your reply. I think your advice is pretty on point, and you brought up some aspects of the editing process I hadn't even been thinking about. I was debating on whether to specify three out of five chapters or not... While it's definitely more accurate, it looked clunky as hell when I listed it that way the first time around. But I suppose honesty takes precedence over aesthetics. We didn't really have super solid deadlines, but for her purposes everything was finished in a timely manner. We also agreed on a flat rate per chapter before the work was done so each of us knew up front exactly how much everything would cost. She's cool with me naming her and the book in my CV. And don't worry; the title of the book is very descriptive of its contents. (Cambridge University Press isn't known for its riveting titles, which turned out to be an advantage for me. So I guess I see the rationale.) I also love the quotations in your signature. I only wish the first one were short enough to fit on a t-shirt.

I'm applying for MA programs in composition and rhetoric. My academic and professional background reflects education and editing. (I currently work in technical writing. During undergrad, I student taught high school English and tutored in my university's writing center. I also spent a year copyediting the university newspaper.) I graduated with my BA in English in January 2016. Shortly thereafter, I landed my current job. In May of 2016, a history professor at my university contacted me and asked me to edit her book manuscript. She had asked one of my former English professors if he knew any good student editors, and he recommended me. Over the next three months or so, I edited a sizable chunk of this manuscript (three chapters and the introduction: about 240 pages in all). I deep-conditioned this manuscript at every level, from reordering paragraphs to fixing punctuation errors. I left comments in the documents explaining many of the changes I made and offering advice. During this process, the professor and I corresponded regularly via email. (I didn't meet her until the manuscript was finished, when we were both craving a few celebratory drinks.) Though I'm sure it goes without saying, she paid me for all this. This summer, she informed me the book had been accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press. It will be released in March of 2018, and I'm in the acknowledgements. My two questions are these: Is this experience worth listing on my graduate admissions résumé? If so, what's a good way to go about writing the entry for it? I've been Googling how to list freelance work on résumés, but none of the suggestions I got seemed transferable to a graduate school résumé. I can certainly come up with a list of bullet points for what the work entailed; that's not a problem. I guess I'm wondering what the heading would look like and where on the resume I would put this experience. Is it "work experience," or would it go better under a "related experience" header? Or even "publications"? It seems to blur the line between work and academics. This is what I've got so far. I tried to keep the formatting consistent with the rest of the document: Freelance editing May 2016 - July 2016 Doe, Jane. The Noble History of Socks. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming March 2018. Proofread and copyedited manuscript intended for publication Made global and sentence-level revisions Conferred with author regarding needs, concerns, and goals for manuscript Provided author with targeted feedback What do you think? Is any information missing? Does it look okay? Any suggestions for revision?