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    2019 Applicants

    in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition

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    Given I haven't gotten a WUSTL email from DGS, can I add it to my pile of implied rejections (or at least implied non-acceptances if I'm lucky enough to get a spot on the wait list)?

    EDIT: Also, I've seen Cambridge rejections on results board for the MPhil. Does Cambridge not send them all out at once? I know they are on a "rolling admissions" system but I heard from some people that all that means for Cambridge is that they may contact you early if your application really wows them (don't know if that's true or not).

    2019 Applicants

    in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition

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    6 hours ago, reluctanthumanbeing said:

    I received a personalized e-mail from the DGS (no phone calls for me, but it's probably because I am an international applicant).

     

    6 hours ago, briwriteshere said:

    @SomeoneAcceptMe Hi, long-time lurker here! To echo what @Warelin said, I received notification yesterday afternoon via phone (I was told I would receive an official acceptance email from DGS within the next couple days). I'm also a domestic applicant. It seems like last year they notified students well into early February, so don't lose hope. Best of luck!!!


    Welp the refresh button on my email is going to break this week lol! I saw today that I missed a call from a 314 number on Thursday, which sparks a bit of hope in me.
    Congrats on the acceptances, it sounds like an amazing program ☺️

    2019 Applicants

    in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition

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    Just now, dangermouse said:

    my undergrad institution is where they keep jeremy bentham's beautiful mummified corpse on display. i still think about him wistfully sometimes - we shared a lot of good memories, him encased in his glass cabinet, me proudly showing him off to uneasy prospective students...

    Lol I've heard he's required to be in the room during philosophy department meetings

    2019 Applicants

    in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition

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    1 minute ago, Renzo said:

    I don't have a dog in this fight (didn't apply to Chicago), but I imagine that the people who didn't get interviews were in fact relieved by your message, so from a utilitarian perspective, I think you made the right call.  To those who have interviews, seems like you're still incredibly close to acceptance, and maybe it's good to know that you have to push yourselves across the finish line (and not just avoid any screwups) during the interview.   Good luck to everyone!

    Bentham would be proud ❤️ 

    Terrible GRE Quant - worth it to still apply for English PhD?

    in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition

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    On 7/24/2018 at 11:54 AM, placeinspace said:

    Hi everyone,

    I posted this on the admissions forum but someone suggested I ask over here, since there will be more specialized advice. I scored a 143 on my GRE diagnostic test, and despite 3 months of studying from Khan Academy and the ETS site, I don't think my score would be much improved. My verbal score was 161, and I've studied vocab since, so I feel okay about that. Is my terrible quant score too low for more competitive programs? I know some people claim it doesn't matter for English, but other people have told me it does...

    Thank you!

    I know a few grads in various humanities departments that didn't do too well on the GRE Q and were accepted. V and AW scores probably are looked at much more for English. Some departments are transparent and will report average GRE scores (Duke does this, for instance, and I think average Q scores are in the 150s). 

    2019 Applicants

    in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition

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    3 minutes ago, flungoutofspace said:

    Right, because I recall seeing that somewhere too, but after being reminded of it by your post yesterday, I tried to confirm the details but couldn't find any mention of their intended notification window on the website. Do you think they might've removed it just because they no longer intend to notify us so early? (It's driving me a bit nuts, because I'm refreshing their results portal incessantly too.) 

    Ah, I was asking about the notification period for Duke English, but I do appreciate this link! Time for me to over-analyse statistics to guess at my chances of... not being rejected. (*screams into the void*) 

    I too recall seeing this on the website, but for some reason I remember it saying they aimed to start getting decisions out after the 20th? At any rate, I've been refreshing my email since like 4 AM lol

    2019 Applicants

    in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition

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    11 minutes ago, placeinspace said:

    I’m still ruminating on this whole thing and I’m pretty bummed. Last week I reached the conclusion that if I don’t get into Chicago, I’m not going to go to school, regardless of other acceptances, so this is kind of a very sudden and definitive thing for me (I’m an older applicant and Chicago had just the right balance of everything I would need, both academically and in terms of lifestyle). I’m sort of relieved to not be stressing about it anymore but also am sad about what might’ve been. Anyway, that’s all I got. And congrats to all of you who received an email!! That sounds like I just tacked it on at the end but it’s very genuine. You have a shot at an amazing program and it is very well deserved!

    Hey don't beat yourself up ❤️ That's hypocritical of me to say since I'm panicking about the whole thing, but hey:

    Before graduating I talked to a graduate student at my undergrad institution (which has a one of the top programs for the field he was in). He got in after his third cycle of graduate applications. He got rejected to his back up schools but got acceptances at this school and Harvard. He was reluctant, but decided to go to my undergrad institution, which he said was one of the best decisions he made. He loves his cohort, he loves the professors, he's gotten to speak at lots of conferences and publish a lot of articles even in his first couple years of a Ph.D. program (which, given that American Ph.D.'s take about 6 years and people don't start their dissertation until about the 3rd year, is rather impressive).

    Honestly, even though all of us are probably perfectionists, there's only so much we can criticize about ourselves in this process. It's so selective, especially for the humanities, that there is a huge degree of arbitrariness to the application process that we didn't experience when going to elite undergrad institutions. Some professors that run the admissions process at the Russell Group in the UK have even talked about how they have heavily discredited an applicant for having a typo on their personal statement. As someone who has dyslexia, that's terrifying for me lol. As you've probably already seen in the results search, even people with multiple publications get rejected. When the majority (almost all) of the applicant pool are geniuses in the field, sometimes admissions decisions come down to relatively trivial factors, which sucks, but can also be encouraging if you need to apply next cycle (which will probably be the case for me since I had a lot of personal stress during this whole process and didn't get to focus as much on my personal statements).

    Don't be so quick to dismiss other institutions you may get acceptances from. Go visit their program if you get invited--you may just find that it was a much better fit than you thought after all. 

    2019 Applicants

    in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, kendalldinniene said:

    No shame!  I was able to take a class on his work in undergrad and fell in love.

    If Beale Street Could Talk is excellent and there's now a movie on it that I highly recommend.

    Giovanni's Room is my favorite, I wrote my undergrad capstone on it, and Go Tell it on the Mountain is excellent (his first novel and semi-autobiographical).  

    He also wrote a billion essays which are phenomenal, there's one in particular about his good friend Lorraine Hansberry right after she died called "Sweet Lorraine" that is just lovely.  

     

    Thanks for the suggestions! I've heard a lot of people love Giovanni's Room, so maybe I'll start there

    2019 Applicants

    in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Bopie5 said:

    Welp, the fact that I didn't get an interview email from Chicago has officially activated A New Level™ of decision anxiety. Catch me deploying the dubious coping mechanism of reading and rereading Sedgwick for the next several hours while eating cookies!

    Welp, off I go to the liquor store lol. Hopefully reading some good ol' Celine or Platonov will make me feel better.

    Whilst on that subject, what books do you guys turn to cope with the world?

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