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Good luck with your remaining results! I'm sure you'll get a good offer!

UChicago EALC's website (not sure if that's the program you're referring to) says, "All admissions decisions will be released through the online application in mid-February," but they also indicate on the same page that applicants are notified by the department in March. So, a bit inconclusive!

Unfortunately I don't have much data to go on, but I checked some of the historic results (past few years) on the Results page and found a few (weak) trends: -UW (Cinema): interviews clustered in early Feb.; decisions in mid-Feb. -NYU Tisch (Cinema): mid-March -Brown (Modern Culture and Media): mid-Feb Take this with a grain of salt because this is pretty weak data to go off of, but in any case, I'm just hoping I hear something soon as my anxiety is through the roof. Good luck to all this week!

Same! I've been checking for relevant decisions on the Results page and it's surprising how many programs are already giving out results. Then again, it's not out of the ordinary to hear back in late February, March or even April. I'm hoping that the coming week brings some news!

Haha, that's right! Best of luck!

Good luck to everyone next week! Did anyone else apply to UW?

Good luck next week, everyone! Hopefully we get some contact from our programs.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how common it is (or isn't!) to be accepted to a program without an interview? I imagine that it's unlikely as funding a Ph.D. student is an expensive investment for the department. Also, does anyone know how late the "interview season" goes? Again I imagine that it's probably pretty variable, as some programs don't seem to release results until some time in March. As February approaches I'm increasingly concerned about the lack of any contact from my programs haha

As far as I know, interviews are not done or are uncommon for MA programs. I had no interviews for any of the MA programs I got into.

@PhDApplicant23 Congratulations!

Keep the hope alive, everyone! I hope we get some news by the end of the month or within the first week of February.

Hi, J. Strayed. Nothing yet for me!

Hi Junboroni, I was admitted to one of those programs; my decision came out on March 10. Best of luck!

Good luck!

Meanwhile I still have missing rec. letters on some of my applications ?

Hi everyone, I applied to a couple Comp Lit programs (Northwestern and Stanford as far as I recall). Good luck!

My interview was with UCLA!

I had an interview (my first) yesterday

Also, out of curiosity, how many programs did everyone apply to? Initially I was going to apply to just four Ph.D. programs, but one of my recommenders suggested that I cast a (significantly) wider net, so in the end, I applied to fifteen.

Hi, everyone! I haven't heard of any interviews being done (but my network of fellow applicants is practically non-existent). Let's keep our spirits high; I'm sure that all our hard work will pay off and we will get into a program that wants us as much as we want it! Good luck everyone, and @Justanotheraspirant, I agree--any chat on this thread makes me feel solidarity.

Anyone still wrapping up applications? I've got my last two coming up in the next week. I must say, it was pretty stressful to handle all the early-/mid-December application deadlines with all my term papers and final exams left to do. We're almost there, everyone!

Hi Nomis! That's a good question. Partly it comes down to where the POI is; in some cases, I have applied to comp lit/film studies departments when there is a professor there who is specialized in an EAS-related area (in my case, modern Chinese film/lit/cultural history). But otherwise, I mainly applied to EAS departments based on my experience so far. I did my undergrad and am doing my master's in EAS departments, and really enjoy being around professors and other students working in EAS. In fact, my undergrad coursework was strongly focused on modern Chinese political history; it wasn't until recently that I began to explore film and literature, so I'd probably feel more competent teaching an into-level course on a topic other than film. I think being in an EAS dept. is a great way to share ideas and knowledge. For instance, having the opportunity to chat with a fellow grad student working on premodern literature or late-imperial history is great. I think that if I were in a comp lit or film studies department there might be a higher chance of being sort of an "academic island," where other people are studying the same kind of stuff (i.e., literature or film) as you, but might not have much else in common in terms of background knowledge. But this might also be a good thing, since it would allow me to deepen my understanding of the texts I research theoretically, globally, etc.

Hi PhDApplicant23! Very cool. I think that all three of the fields you mentioned lend themselves to interdisciplinary research. Basically researching X through Y. Personally, although my research deals heavily with film, I am not so much interested in film. Rather, I am interested in how film talks about or represents things. That's why I'm a bit unsure if a cinema program is right for my research--at the end of the day, I need to work with an advisor who is at least a specialist in the "things" that the films I study deal with. Best of luck with your applications!

Hi, Nomis. My work is very similar to yours! Looks like you and I have a few overlapping applications. Best of luck to you!

@Aviro I've wondered the same thing! I expected there to be a lot of activity on this thread but alas it's been pretty quiet. Best of luck with your applications!