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You might also want to consider schools with experimental/non-traditional Rhetoric programs. My former supervisor, an Eisner-winning scholar in visual rhetoric and comic studies, did her PhD in Composition & Rhetoric at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her dissertation focused on Lynda Barry, and she is now not only the Director of Rhet/Comp but also Director of the new Comic Studies Program (an undergraduate program) at Portland State University.  

If you signed an official form I assume that is fine. You have a copy of a form stating your acceptance and terms and assuming it is signed by them it is binding, I believe. I’m assuming it is the portal acceptance Warelin and I were talking about, in which case you have nothing to worry about. If you are unsure feel free to PM if you want someone to look at it. 
As for bureaucracy, all universities have this problem in my experience. Some will be better than others, but even simple things can take a while to resolve. For instance, it took weeks to have a typo corrected on a transcript because the process involved multiple people in different departments for some reason. I wouldn’t worry about it too much.

The journal that accepted my paper on white racial anxiety in Kate Chopin's short fiction went live this week! Yay for my first academic publication!

Accepted off the waitlist at UC Davis. First acceptance out of 5 applications. 

There should be no limit to reacts today!!!
 
Congrats everyone ❤️ We did it!  I’m so glad to have been a part of this community, for all the support, and for all the joy in seeing folks’ dreams come true.
I just know in the future whenever I see some truly incredible thing happening in our field, I’m going to proudly be like hmmmm, I bet there’s a GCer behind that. 
 

Looking forward to it!

Literally sobbing. Just accepted a PhD offer from UConn! I've wanted this since I was a little girl, and I never thought it would happen. Thanks GC, for your support and help!

today in surreal sentences: headed to UVA in the fall! 

Officially going to UVA!
Thanks to everyone who has helped with advice, information, and just generally making this community the supportive place it is. I've been here for 3 years now and I'm glad to be moving on to the next stage finally.

Accepted off the waitlist at UVA! I can hardly believe it, I was sure it wasn't going to happen.
If there any people who went to the visit, or who are current or ex students, please DM me! I'd like to ask some questions about the area and there's not really a lot of time to wait for responses through the regular channels.

i've officially accepted michigan!! (which is a relief as my birthday was recently and a lot of my friends bought me michigan-related gifts... would've been an amazing but shortlived punchline to have been like "haha actually i'm staying at oxford but thanks anyway i guess"). 

Heading to Rutgers! Pretty stoked about the program, and excited to join. 

Accepted my offer to Brown! ?

accepted off the waitlist at Virginia!!! screamed when I saw the email, to the horror of everyone else around me on the train...

I couldn't have put it better myself. I just accepted my offer at Yale — see you in New Haven?  

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I couldn't have put it better myself. I just accepted my offer at Yale — see you in New Haven?  

I was encouraged to take a minimum of two years off in between undergrad and a Ph.D., and I settled on one, though I was VERY tempted to apply as a senior in college. I'm now incredibly grateful for the past year and secretly think that taking even more time off could've been a good move (despite the fact that my application cycle went pretty well, and I'm grad school-bound in the fall). My two cents, for what it's worth--but I'm now a huge proponent of gap year(s) and will encourage pretty much anyone to at least consider taking one.

I'm currently one month out from graduating from my undergrad, and I applied to 7 PhD programs and 1 MA this cycle. Personally, I would suggest waiting. Trying to balance apps with schoolwork, multiple jobs, social life, and extracurricular commitments was a lot to juggle all at once. And, I think that I probably got shut out from the PhD programs because I didn't have a defined enough idea of a potential project--I didn't have the time or course space to develop that in my undergrad. 
HOWEVER, this has been one of the best learning experiences of my life, both about myself as an academic and myself as a person more generally. I don't know if I would recommend doing what I did, but if I could do it over, I would do it again. If you feel like you have a strong sense of your potential project, and if you have academic, psychoemotional, financial, and interpersonal structures available to support you in the applying season, go for it! Admissions is SUCH a crapshoot. Like everyone else has named, there are pros and cons to waiting, and there are pros and cons to applying. You can't really make a "wrong" choice. If you wanna talk more about my specific experience, feel free to message me!

I couldn't have put it better myself. I just accepted my offer at Yale — see you in New Haven?  

Just received an offer off the waitlist from Johns Hopkins! Time for the difficult deliberations that some part of me wished would never be necessary. Still, not complaining; I feel unbelievably fortunate to have this choice that needs making. 

I couldn't have put it better myself. I just accepted my offer at Yale — see you in New Haven?  

I couldn't have put it better myself. I just accepted my offer at Yale — see you in New Haven?  

anyone else feeling at least a little nauseous at all times as we enter the last week of waiting here? if not, that’s cool, I’m nauseous enough for all of us! it’s gonna be a loooong week
(for the UVA waitlist crew: I heard movement is expected “early” this week, fwiw)

Just formally declined my waitlist spot at Rice — I am 99% sure that this is going to cause some movement, if someone out there is waiting.