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I’m thinking of accepting UW-Madison’s offer (MFA) and asking UC Santa Barbara (PhD) if I can defer enrollment for two years.
Here’s my rationale:
- UW-Madison’s offer is too incredible to pass up. This program is *exactly* the way I want to spend the next two years of my life. Amazing faculty, full tuition remission, exceedingly generous fellowship, health insurance, etc. A real dream come true.
- UCSB’s Literature and Mind program is one of the best in the country and aligns pretty perfectly with the research I want to do. If I defer enrollment, I wouldn’t lose my spot and wouldn’t need to worry about re-applying to PhD programs.
BUT I have two concerns:
- Based on conversations with people who live in Santa Barbara, the $22,000/year stipend will hardly be enough for rent alone, and given UCR’s response to similar concerns raised by students, I’m worried about financial insecurity during the program.
- I’m wary of having the next eight years of my life planned out. I’m currently still an undergrad. What if, after completing my MFA, I realize I definitely do not want a PhD? Or what if I want to apply to creative writing fellowships?
So, basically my options at this point are to either accept UW-Madison and decline UCSB, or to accept UW-Madison and defer UCSB.
Any advice?
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5 hours ago, TheorySchmeory said:
Do I dare ask if anyone has heard news yet from the Duke Literature program? I've heard back from every other program so far, but no word from Duke.
I interviewed with them and got a kind rejection email this past Monday. They said they already made all of the offers they could, so at this point I’d assume it’s not going to be good news unfortunately. I wonder why they’re taking so long to send out the rest of the letters though
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On 2/28/2020 at 8:25 AM, merry night wanderer said:
@brownjournal I'm curious to see which one you'll choose to do first - it looks like you've got great offers on both the PhD and MFA end. (Madison is nothing to slouch at!)
Yeah I have no idea what I’m going to do. Ideally one of the PhD programs would let me defer for two years to complete an MFA but maybe that’s asking too much
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Also in at UC Santa Barbara! And with that, my PhD app season is over. Phew. Now just waiting on the rest of my MFA decisions to trickle in ?
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46 minutes ago, Elirallo13 said:
emailed Iowa to see if they were done w fiction and got this:
None of the decision letters have been mailed out. We usually mail them the first week of March.
Ugh that's annoying, that's not what you were asking them
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7 minutes ago, tinymica said:
Okay immediately after that post Brown officially rejected me. I.........am okay with this. I thought I would be more upset, but I always knew deep down they wouldn’t want me that much and this means I 1) don’t have to move to Providence and 2) I don’t have to break up my relationship. So.....it’s okay.
Got a rejection too. Ugh oh well
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Lan Samantha Chang is doing a reading at my school tonight. If I was bolder I’d ask about my application status in person ??
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Does anyone know what's going on with Brown?
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Just got my MTL rejection too. When your own school rejects you ?? (although I’ve since learned it’s not a great idea to get your PhD from the same place you got your bachelor’s, so I guess it’s okay)
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I’m currently on an airplane and purchased in-flight WiFi just so I can keep checking the Brown application portal and this forum, just putting that out there
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@tinymica welp okay at least we’re confused together
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@tinymica is your name toward the end of the alphabet? Mine is and my portal hasn’t been updated / haven’t gotten an email
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1 hour ago, Dochinka96 said:
Yesterday I felt the exact same way. But tomorrow is my birthday and honestly I’m just hoping not to get a rejection tomorrow from anywhere lol after that, throw em at me!
It’s a cohort of 25, ive heard about less than 10 notifications. I know there are people not on here or draft of course but it sounds to me we don’t have a reason to feel doomed just yet.
When I was waitlisted at Ohio, I felt on top of the world. Then I learned only 150 people might have applied.Happy almost-birthday!
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Just now, Les Miserables said:
Does anyone know when UC Santa Barbara will be releasing decisions? I feel like it is well after what they did last year and I just want the last of my decisions in so I know what the rest of my life will look like.
Wondering the same thing!
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18 minutes ago, Karakoram said:
Huge congrats. We have good news around recently eh. ❤️ Hope that we are all in. Anyway, which programme at Oxford did you apply to?
Thank you! And I applied to English from 1900-present!
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In at Wisconsin. Can't believe it
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1 hour ago, rbr542 said:
My phone rang with Iowa City code. It was Samantha Chang. I'm in for fiction with GTA funding. I don't remember what I said, something like thank you...??? ? Third try. I'm not sure if this is a dream btw.
Congrats!!!
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1 hour ago, merry night wanderer said:
Did anyone here apply to USC, and know what's going on? That lone waitlist in the results is making me curious.
I'm wondering the same thing. It doesn't help that the office hasn't been answering calls (at least when I've tried calling)
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On 2/3/2020 at 3:38 PM, EM51413 said:
Yup - having gone through that interrogation I'm questioning if I actually want to spend six years there...
Same here--that interview was brutal
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Ah I see. Thank you @Dogfish Head and @politics 'n prose for clarifying!
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I just posted this in the results thread, but I'm curious if anyone here has any insight:
I was one of the people who posted an acceptance for Ohio State. I just called them and they said decisions aren't out yet because they're still reviewing applications. So are we not actually accepted?
Choosing between MFA and PhD--help!
in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
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@caffeinated applicant @merry night wanderer Thank you so much for your responses. You’ve both given me a lot to think about and more factors to consider. As of right now, I’m still not sure what I’m going to do because this:
and this:
feel equally compelling to me, but I have to remind myself I still have over a month to decide. Thank you both for weighing in!