Taihoku

I asked my future advisor this very question. He said that I should use this time to read whatever I want that I felt might be useful in making me think more about what I'm interested in. Come with ideas and interests, basically, and they will help you with the actual training once August comes. I have however also asked for and received syllabi for classes I'm interested in, and also spend a lot of my spare time working on languages.

(Imagine me terrified at the terror I might have caused others, trying to do the opposite) Point of clarification, I have, but not in literature. I do area studies.

I 100% get this feeling. I just want to say I had only rejections (1 official, 2 implied) when I got my Harvard offer (and the way it's looking now, it'll be my only offer). You never know.

I got into my top choice, so I'm very happy, but I'm wondering about how (or if?) I should go about contacting a POI at another school where I was rejected (ten minutes before being accepted by my top choice, hah!). I would like the opportunity to discuss my work with them down the line, as I am very much interested in this person's work, and they showed interest in mine, and we had a one-on-one interview a couple of weeks before decisions arrived. Should I wait a little? Should I mention that there's no hard feelings about my being rejected whatsoever, or just not mention my being rejected at all?

Harvard's EALC decisions (don't know about HEAL) are officially out next week, some applicants have been contacted already. I've not heard anything one way or the other from Columbia, though, so it seems like not everyone are notified at the same time.

Not a literature applicant (other than Duke!), but I do literature (in area studies), and have been in this thread a lot these past few weeks to exacerbate/manage my anxieties, and figured I should post here too! Literally ten minutes after getting rejected by one of my top choices, I got accepted to my top choice! What an absolute roller coaster! Super happy now! The wait fucking sucks so much. I sincerely wish the best for all of you still waiting, try going to the movies, taking a walk!

Rejected by one of my top choices literally ten minutes before receiving an acceptance from my top choice! Incredibly happy and relieved! No more waking up at four in the morning to check my email! Good luck to everyone still waiting! The wait absolutely sucks, go see a movie, take walks, be with nice people!

Hello everyone! I've applied to five schools, but I'm fairly certain I've already been implicitly rejected by three (99% sure about one of them). I've interviewed with the remaining two. I'm a fairly untraditional applicant (or at least so I'm told, I still don't really understand the game at play), have good (170 V), and terrible (147 Q), and ok (4.5 AW) GRE scores, and am applying with fairly lucrative, external funding (or, again, at least so I'm told) to two of the five schools. Like other international applicants, I currently spend my days refreshing my email and searching for "East Asian" in the results forum, and my nights waking up to do the same. I wish everyone the best of luck.