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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
The UI-Champaign rejection letter was the kindest I've seen, and I've seen 'em all. But, weirdly, it says that they accepted under 20% of applicants. Isn't that a way higher application-to-acceptance ratio than everywhere else? That means if they accepted 5 people, they did so out of a pool of 25 applicants; if 10 out of 5, and 10 seems like a high yield this year. What I'm saying is that for those of you playing this game again, IUCU sounds like an excellent program that hardly anyone bothers with. -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Thought I'd done this already: -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
How do folks like us with great record collections strike out? -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
It's gonna be an honor just to get a rejection letter from Harvard. Or so they think. I'd like an official notice from Buffalo. -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Who are you and when will we be able to read your wonderful things? -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
I'm an early modernist and I tanked at most of those. If you would ever feel comfortable sharing your SoP and writing sample I'd be grateful; I clearly do not know what to aim for, nor the right stance to take. Plus it's just plain fun checking out other folks' work ?. -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
This is a wholly reasonable response, which I thank you for. I reached out during a couple cycles myself, not to every school but just here and there, and my application went no further. -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Sure. But any number of people on here claim to have received acceptance letters from POI. Perhaps in these particular instances these particular professors are, just temperamentally, quite eager to contact applicants whose friendly exchange they remember months, and hundreds of applications, later. It sounds to me, however, like a relationship had been built; how, I do not know, and if I admit that I suspect that the applicant's mentor reached out to a friendly colleague to put in a word on that student's behalf I do so without bitterness. And in any case this is the last time around for me. But just for the sake of knowing I would be interested to know what goes on, as would, I'm sure, other older or working class students who may be throwing hundreds of dollars out the window on chances they, as outsiders, just do not stand. -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Bring on that final assault of rejections! -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Thank you both for saying well what would have sounded bitter coming from this non-trad student. -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
That Vanderbilt rejection letter is getting roasted on the results page. I didn't think it was that bad--probably the kindest of the three I've received from them. Then again, maybe I'm used to being treated like a rug, so you figure it out. -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Any scholars manques--Predestinated Washouts of the Americas and Beyond--wanna bet on who eats it first? I'm out everywhere but a couple tony, tippity-top schools, and they ain't gonna take me. Can anyone beat that? -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Thanks for letting me know, I'll cross that one of my list! -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo? -
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MaoistTowelette replied to jadeisokay's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
If you haven't applied to McGill you should do so in the future: you get an email telling you to check your portal, and then you have to click not a "View Decision Letter" key like at a normal school, oh no, you have to click on a key that says "Read Refusal Letter." Kinda got everything I needed from the headline! Oh well, my French is terrible and I hate puppetry. Canada's loss, the poor dears.