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@HomewardBound Boston is definitely very high up there for me too. Dorothy Kelly's research interests map very closely onto my own. I think finding out how much funding they would give me is going to be a pretty big decider for them, though, because Boston is such an expensive city to live in, and salaries for my partner's field out there are pretty low

@HomewardBound Congrats to you as well! I can't remember, did you say that Boston was pretty high on your list of schools? With 5 to choose from so far, I can't imagine how you're going to decide!

Just got an email informing me that Boston University has recommended for admission with 5 years of funding! Finally more good news!

I still have 4 schools that I haven't heard anything back from, but hopefully this week will cut that number down!

I got the same email and got so excited! Then I started chuckling to myself in the middle of the library when I realized it was only Penn sending me their rejection letter again, haha.

@Carly Rae Jepsen congrats on Rutgers! I'm starting to wonder what my status is at a couple schools. I haven't heard anything either way from Rutgers (and the online status check still says "No Decision"), so maybe I'm on some kind of unofficial waitlist? Did anybody else here apply to Duke? Because I know somebody reported an acceptance, but I don't know if anyone has received rejections from them. That's another school I haven't heard anything from either way, and I just don't know what to think of that.

Congratulation @Yanaka !! That's such good news! Not great news for me that I haven't heard anything yet, though ?

@madamoiselle that's true! And it is somewhat nice to be done waiting in limbo!

First bad news of the day: a rejection from University of Pennsylvania. My hopes weren't high in applying, but it doesn't make it any less sad!

I've also had this exact same fear (as well as a related one that all of the professors I tell about my acceptance will think, "Why the heck did they accept this dummy?"). Honestly the best refuge for me has just been talking it through with some close friends who are also in academia/aspiring to enter academia.

Congratulations @Green.Mango! I hope you and @Carly Rae Jepsen get offered great funding packages for IU. I've loved my undergraduate experience in the French department here, and the graduate-level course I'm in right now is amazing too. I do have to warn, though, that IU is a little notorious for seriously underpaying grad students. (Although take that with a grain of salt as I've mostly heard that from English PhD's and have had much fewer conversations with French PhD's about funding.)

Congrats @HomewardBound And thanks @HomewardBound and @madamoiselle glad to know I'm not the only one thinking about this. I just went ahead and asked! Also, I'm incredibly embarrassed to realize that I spelled "weigh" as "way." Apparently I wasn't awake either.

Could I ask y'all to way in on this? Is it acceptable for me to bring my partner along with me on a campus visit as long as I notify the department that I will be doing so? My partner will definitely have a pretty significant say on where I end up in the fall because she will almost certainly be moving with me and trying to find a job in that city. Because of that, it's important to me that my partner also gets a sense of the place we might be moving.

Bienvenue @lesmainsdelsa ! Congratulations on all of your good news so far!

I was admitted into Michigan too!! I'm so excited, it's my first admissions offer. Plus Michigan is one of my top top top programs @Saltshaker are you planning on going to the open house?

@Carly Rae Jepsen congrats on the Indiana acceptance! Bloomington's a great little town in the otherwise not great state of Indiana, haha. Plus IU is a great school

I certainly hope I'm not just en attendant Godot! I want my responses to actually show up at some point! Haha

Hi @French_Wannabe congratulations and welcome to Grad Cafe! Unfortunately I haven't had the chance to visit France, but I've been studying French for a long time and am majoring in it for my undergraduate degree!

Félicitations @madamoiselle !!

I feel that! I didn't have much of a preference either besides Bordeaux, and I really only chose that because my thesis work is on an author from that area!

I (think) I requested Bordeaux, Poitiers, and Orléans Tours, in that order. What about you, @cafelove?

I don't know if I can say it's made it much more bearable for me, watching all y'all get acceptances/interviews left and right, but it's nice to hear from people going through the same application process! Haha

It would be great to hear what your professor says! I just spoke with my campus Fulbright advisor, and he said that France has, historically, not conducted interviews. He also said that, if they were conducting interviews, we would have already been notified about them. And that's good to know about them considering our preferred TAPIF regions! I had just kind of assumed they would ignore our TAPIF application unless we didn't win the Fulbright, haha

"I thought we didn't pronounce the letter e in French? You're telling me the rule changes for poetry?" This was the bane of my freshman year literature course.

@Carly Rae Jepsen thank you! Unfortunately there's still one more round of reviews (and therefore a couple more months of waiting) before I can officially receive the award and find out where they're sending me. Really all being a semi-finalist means is there are now only 15-20 applicants vying for 10 spots instead of ~150 applicants