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  1. Just now, Bopie5 said:

    THANK YOU!!!! ah your encouragement and support has truly meant so much over the last few months! and now I just feel ecstatic I had to leave my desk at work so I could go cry of happiness in the bathroom haha

    Those acceptance tears are the best.

    You deserve this!!!!!! I just can’t wait to see what you do as a scholar!

  2. 14 hours ago, Glasperlenspieler said:

    or religious affiliation

    This is so funny to me. I am a staunch atheist and all my PhD options now are at religiously affiliated schools. I didn’t even think of religion as a factor when looking at where to apply, except for wondering how it might impede my research interests.  Weird to think that it might impede my job search...

  3. 2 hours ago, vollie said:

    Actually, I hate to be using this account just to ask questions, but as someone who’s contemplating staying home and reapplying next year if I don’t get any funded offers...

    None of my mentors had English MAs (all Creative Writing professors and non-academics), and I didn’t do a lot of the things I see mentioned in this thread as things typical of an applicant because I didn’t know they were typical of applicants. I didn’t do an Honors Thesis because I graduated early for financial/personal reasons (I would have needed to stay a full senior year), and I’ve never been able to attend or present at a conference- the time I would have used for research ended up being used on internships and jobs, and my university didn’t have many opportunities for humanities research for undergrads.

    Did I miss out on my shot for a funded MA by not doing these things? Should I have never thought I could get into one without it in the first place? It seems like it was way more important of a factor than I thought. I only applied to standalone MAs, not MA/PhDs. 

    I don’t think so at all! I don’t think folks applying with BAs are expected to have conferences or publications under their belts. Lots of people don’t do honors theses (is that the plural? I had a lot of beer last night and words all look wrong today) and I don’t think that’s a problem either. What you need is a clear, concise, and intriguing SoP (that is also magically  aligned with whatever the dynamic needs and desires of the department are that year, haha), and an excellently written and intriguing writing sample. Have hope! You can do this! And I would highly suggest taking that year to reapply over doing an unfunded MA. Just my two cents.

  4. I had a lot of professors at SMU ask what I’d done during my gap year. My response was working, reading, and counting down the minutes until grad school. Some professors I felt didn’t love this answer. I could have said I’d been working on things for publication, but after taking with one professor about publications at length the night before, I didn’t think what I’d been working on was really ideal. The prof stressed that, in his opinion, publications were really important if they contributed to a coherent idea of the scholar’s specific research goals. The things I was working on did not necessarily do that. They were related to my interests, but that’s all. 

    The majority of the faculty seemed to find my answer, I dunno, charming? And then we talked about other stuff. And then I was accepted two days later.

    Obviously this is just one school but personally I did not feel any pressure to justify my gap year. I think with how difficult it is to be admitted to a program, gap years, willingly chosen or the result of a shut out, etc., there really shouldn’t be any prejudice against them.

    Not that academia gives a single shit about my opinions, ???.

  5. 18 minutes ago, cassidyaxx said:

    Is anybody else just waiting on visit weekends to be over so there can be some movement on waitlists? Just me? April 15th cannot come soon enough! Then I can stop constantly jumping at my phone when I get an email just to see it's another coupon from dominos :( 

    I just emailed BU with some questions and got a really nice response about enthusiasm for my application and saying movement after the visit day is likely. Fingers crossed for us both!

  6. 25 minutes ago, LurkersGonnaLurk said:

    What do y’all think about visiting when schools don’t have set visiting days? One of the programs I’m admitted to does not have a visiting weekend.

    I definitely want to go check out the city and campus, but I’m not sure how to approach the program. Should I email and ask if there’s a good time for me to visit? 

    Any thoughts would be appreciated :)

    I would definitely express your interest and ask to potentially meet with some grad students and faculty, if possible. Could you sit in on a class? Etc.

    They should like that you’re trying to get to know the program a little more before making a decision!

  7. On 3/13/2019 at 5:48 AM, Anita Dhara said:

    Hello,

    I have received offer letter from CSU for graduate program but I haven't received any funding for the same. So, I am kind of confused weather I am  gonna get scholarship for PhD program or not? Kindly revert me with suggestion.

     

    Does the program website not give any details about funding? I’m in English and I feel all my programs mentioned funding somewhere online.

    Congrats on your acceptance!

  8. I would have focused much less on my desire to teach and much more on my passion for research and projected course of research in my phd. I wouldn’t have tried to inject some earnest personality...I don’t think schools cared an ounce about it, haha. I would have approached researching programs differently, mostly looking at recent publications of recent grads and where’d they’d just graduated from. I would have gotten on the boards sooner and asked highly successful applicants from prior years to look over my samples.

  9. On 3/10/2019 at 12:40 PM, kendalldinniene said:

    Hey y’all, so with my offer from SMU I’m questioning staying on the waitlists at Loyola and BU. Really their respective attractions are Suzanne Bost and ranking. I’m thinking I’d like to email both and ask some questions that might make my decisions easier. For example: what’s the conference funding like? How easy is it for students to work interdisciplinary tracks? Etc. Do you think this is appropriate for a waitlisted student to do? Thanks in advance.

    I asked my questions at Loyola and got a very kind and detailed response, which also let me know I am #1 on the waitlist.  *excitement*

  10. For me, funding is turning out to be a bigger deal than the idealistic Kendall of yesteryear (fall 2018) thought it would be.  Maybe it's because of my age, but I have to be real with myself about what kind of lifestyle I'll be happy living for the next 6ish years.  If I'm miserable and overly stressed about money, I will not be capable of doing my best work.  The quality of my work is the most important factor in getting a job I want after graduation.  Therefore money is a big deal.

    I also want to be at a program that values my work and my future enough to fund me a truly livable wage.  This should be a baseline expectation, imo.

    However, in your case you're talking less of a time commitment, so maybe the funding doesn't have to be such a big deal.  I think you should trust your gut- it's done well by you so far!

  11. 3 hours ago, CaffeineCardigan said:

    Right? I'm just a little salty but mostly amused. 

    Maybe "pleaseure" is a new word meaning it's very much not been a pleasure? Like, "please(don't apply again)-ure"? 

    Hahaha, I didn’t even see that error until y’all mentioned it. I kinda stopped reading after seeing the comically small font my name was in that didn’t match the body of the email (classy) and “regret”. However now I’m reading “pleaseure” (which my phone wants to change to “please uterus”) like some creep in an animated movie says “treasure”: playyyyyyyyyzure.

    What a great morning.

  12. 3 hours ago, Hopeful and Not said:

    Looking through a number of "from the waitlist" acceptances, it makes me wonder, when is it appropriate to consider the waitlisted university a rejection? Do they send out additional rejections for waitlisted students when they have no shot or do they have to simply wait it out until April 15th?

    I can only speak from my experience on Ohio’s waitlist last year and what BU told me about the waitlist this year: all bets are off until 4/15 or later. Not great news, I know, but that’s been my experience.

  13. 8 minutes ago, Bopie5 said:

    Spending one of the first few days of my spring break endlessly grading papers for a GE Business course that I TA for. Good practice for hopefully being a grad assistant someday, but also...can't believe the degree to which college students don't know how to use commas...

    Hahaha, my roomie my jr year was an accounting student from Germany and she struggled a lot with English comma usage, it’s so different from German. It was an undless battle for her ?

  14. Hey y’all, so with my offer from SMU I’m questioning staying on the waitlists at Loyola and BU. Really their respective attractions are Suzanne Bost and ranking. I’m thinking I’d like to email both and ask some questions that might make my decisions easier. For example: what’s the conference funding like? How easy is it for students to work interdisciplinary tracks? Etc. Do you think this is appropriate for a waitlisted student to do? Thanks in advance.

  15. 1 minute ago, Ternwild said:

    I think what @Sigaba , in their usually rude fashion, is trying to suggest is that the health insurance for each university differs.  My friend goes to UCSC and they offer dental, vision, and mental health.  I'm sure each program varies depending on the funding that university has to provide for health care, but, yes, some universities offer dental and vision.

    That's about what I figured.  Congrats on your acceptance, btw!

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