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Ahhh thank you! I've had three Skype interviews so far, and they've all been quite different and I've certainly improved after each one. Expect lots of questions about your research interests, writing sample, why that program, but also some standard job interview questions like "what are your strengths/weaknesses?" I honestly got some questions that I did not anticipate with some interesting perspectives on my research and my ideas, and just had to wing it...sometimes that worked, other times it didn't... As for those of you wondering about whether the interviews are in English or French, prepare for both. For the most part, mine have been in English with 1 or 2 questions in French, so don't be surprised when a professor suddenly starts busting out some French at you! These kinds of questions though haven't been too intense; they've been really basic questions. They just wanna see how you sound/if you can actually speak French. Good luck y'all!!

Also, @issaquah, does your username refer to the city in Washington??? Is there a fellow Washingtonian in my midst???

Hey hey hey everybody! Like a few of you, I've also been lurking this thread for quite some time without posting. I'm mainly interested in postcolonial studies and global/comparative francophonie, particularly francophone literature from Vietnam and SE Asia and the Vietnamese diaspora. I applied to 11 PhD programs lol and have been hearing responses from most of them. UC Berkeley sent out their acceptance decisions today. I got accepted which is super exciting because it has been one of my top choices for a long time, and from what I can see on the admissions results survey, there have been some other acceptances from people on this forum as well, so congrats to y'all! I interiewed with Northwestern over Skype, but I don't think it went very well seeing as how they didn't invite me to their visiting days (yikes), but it's all good! I've also had Skype interviews with CUNY and Princeton, and NYU coming up next week. I'm visiting Emory and Princeton in the coming weeks and then USC at the end of the month (fingers crossed). I haven't heard anything from Columbia or Yale, but I sincerely doubt I will seeing as how they've already sent out invitations to interview/visit according to the GradCafe surveys. Looking forward to hearing all kinds of good news from everybody and hopefully meeting some of you thoughout this recruitment season