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I'm an English PhD applicant.

Also still waiting.

Yeah, I got the email today.

RosemaryJuniper, Where did you hear that? I called today and was told that it could be up to another two weeks before we get any official notification.

I saw another Fordham acceptance on the board. Are they finally starting the round of official acceptances?

In the past, Columbia hasn't begun notifying until the first week of March. They get something like 600 applications a year, quite a large pile to sift!

Yup, also still "in review." Was beginning to wonder if they forgot about my app!

Also waitlisted

Oh CoHo and their "wanna be in Greenpoint, NYC" Hipsterism. Fond memories.

Lincoln, NE is THE GREATEST CITY ON EARTH! I miss my good ol' Cornhusker roots!

I got a call my POI yesterday and was told that I had been accepted (I'm the one who spelled Fordham wrong on the results board). I am not an internal candidate, but I have been in email contact with this professor on and off for a year and a half. I'm also a medievalist, focusing on Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse-y things.

So have the majority of people heard something at this point, or are there a lot of you in the same boat I'm in? I haven't heard a peep.

Congratulations to all of you holding acceptances. Can I ask what your subfields are? I'm among those still awaiting a decision and I'm grasping for glimmers of hope.

I LOVE that you used Tolkien as your default big name professor!

Yes, it will be reviewed. They will not screw somebody over who has paid the application fee, gone to the trouble to arrange all other transcripts and LORs and written an SOP and writing sample. If there were a few problems with your app, or things were received last minute, they might get touchy. This obviously isn't the case with you, though, and they aren't going to fault you for what may potentially be a processing error at your undergraduate university. I'm not an expert, but I've heard enough similar scenarios to speak with relative confidence on the subject.

One more reason to hate the University of Colorado. (I'm from Nebraska!)

I rode an SV650S for four years, but sold it to move to the UK to do an MA en route to a PhD. I feel your pain!

On the other hand, they aren't going to give two beans about what you have done (writing sample) unless you can give them a cogent articulation of what you intend to do (SOP). We can all agree that these are the two most important parts of the application, but I doubt whether any gradcom in the country would be able to prioritize one over the other.

Hey guys, so I am writing a term paper right now on Bede's metrical Life of Saint Cuthbert, which has never been translated into English. Thus, I have to include my own translations in the paper, and I am having trouble figuring out how to do this correctly according the the MLA guidelines. I am definitely using MLA, so please don't respond by telling me how great APA is and how I should use that instead. I'm just wondering if anybody knows offhand how to do this. Do I put the Latin in quotation marks and then put the English translation in brackets? Do I put the Latin in italics and then the English in quotation marks? Please help! Thank you!

The deadline for application has already passed, but if you are forced to apply again next year, check out Eric Rabkin at Michigan.

Medieval Literature: Toronto Columbia UCLA WashU NYU Ohio State McGill Oxford Trinity College Dublin York Medieval Studies: Notre Dame Yale

May I ask if it is a top 10 program that required the subject test?

Columbia's limit is 1,000 words. I am sure of that. I am applying to 10 different schools, and Fordham is the only one with a 500 word limit. I am going to email the department early next week to make sure because some schools, like Yale, don't state a limit on the department website but also don't use the graduate school limits. You have to email them to find that out, though.

For those of you with disappointing scores (like mine, which is also a couple of years old now), remember that this is a ridiculous test that schools only continue to require for ranking purposes and that very few of them actually use it as a major factor in admissions decisions. I applaud the elite schools who are leading the charge in acknowledging this futile hoop for us to jump through and create revenue for ETS in the process: Columbia, Penn, Brown (I think), Chicago (as of this year), North Carolina, Duke, etc. More places should (and hopefully will) follow suit. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean much for us and our hundreds of dollars wasted now.