shieldmaiden

omg just checked the portal after seeing several people posted their results on the forum. ecstatic. plz plz let me know if anyone accepted is not going. Rutgers is definitely my top choice as an 18th centuriest.

Still no word from Princeton...I am beginning to doubt that I applied to it at all?

Just saw a Princeton acceptance on the results page. Wondering if anyone might claim it? I myself am a bit confused since judging from past results Princeton tends to send out notifications in the second half of February (trying really hard not to lose hope here?

Just checked my mail and found out that I have been waitlisted too. I would definitely take this as a positive turn since my first notice was Duke's rejection. Good luck to us all~

Just popping up to say that this thread is absolutely necessary amid a wave of rejections (and implied ones). Hope you all the best and fingers crossed! These are hard times (even harder than the application season) indeed.

Thank you so much for offering to help! I'll send via PM.

Hey all, I am applying to the PhD in Com-Lit as well as Eng-Lit for the 2020 cycle. I have been here a few months ago, asking about my GRE scores and the forum has been very helpful. I hope you are all doing well with your applications. Now that I have went through a few drafts of my SOP, I would be really grateful to have someone who was successful in past application cycles look it over and give me some feedback, both in terms of content and grammar (since I am not a native speaker). I'd also appreciate it if anyone applying for this cycle would like to swap SOPs and give comments to each other. Please let me know if I can send my SOP via PM. About me: I'm doing a MA in English (eighteenth-century) now and will graduate next summer.

Wow! Thanks for the long reply and your insights! I've been told that there may be certain "minimum entry scores" and stuff like that but there's nothing for sure like you said. Sometimes being lucky is perhaps even more important than having high scores hhh. If I decided to do another GRE I would definitely try to make it count by working on my previous errors etc.

Thanks so much! Feeling a lot better now.

Yeah, that's also what my advisor and one senior (who has been admitted into a really good Phd program) told me, but somehow I guess since there is still time before the application season actually starts, it might be still worth a try

Thank you for your advice! I think I'll definitely gonna do that before I plunge into another session of test-prep (or not)

Hi, I'm new here and a non-native speaker so please ignore if there are any errors in the formatting and wording etc. lol I am currently considering applying for a Phd in Eng-Lit or Com-Lit in the US for Fall 2020. I still haven't quite decided on which schools to apply yet but I've just received my GRE scores report with a 165 in both v and q, but the score for writing is only 4. I've been told that somehow one has to get at least a 4.5 in writing to be really competitive but considering the time and cost it takes to retake a GRE test...therefore I'm literally torn between retaking and not retaking. Hope you guys can give me some suggestions. Thanks a lot.