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JaneLWH

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  1. I can totally attest to that, too: earlier this week I got accepted to Columbia (my dream program) and rejected by Fordham. 😅Anything is possible
  2. Best of luck everyone! This cycle isn't technically over for me yet, but since yesterday's Columbia acceptance (my dream school for ages now!), I think I have made my decision!!!
  3. Hi guys, fwiw, I just wanna say that after receiving an offer from Columbia last night, I'm gonna remove myself from the waitlists at UCLA, Michigan, and NYU. I will also be declining offers by Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, and Tufts. I hope some of this movement ends up helping other people!!!
  4. Waitlisted at UCLA, I really hope someone rejects their offer as my other alternatives are Northwestern and (potentially) NYU (I haven't had my interview there yet though)
  5. To those who saw their rejection update on their UCLA portal; my portal hasn't updated or I'm blind lol. Would it mean a possible waitlist or am I missing something?
  6. Is the Columbia interview invite true or fake? Turns out the Berkeley posts for English aren't genuine based on inside info
  7. I also got an interview invite from NYU; it seems that this is an extra step for shortlisted applicants. I'm surprised at how many programs are doing interviews this year - it seems to be a new thing
  8. Hi! Waitlisted at Rutgers. I do have an offer from Oxford for an one-year MA though, so I may be accepting this instead.
  9. Out of all the programs to which I applied this cycle only Duke English allowed applicants to send it. In their webpage, they said it's optional this year but that, "if you think your scores would strengthen your application, then please feel free to send them." I didn't send mine anyway - my math score was a bit embarrassing -, and I found their policy this year incredibly unfair and ethically questionable. It would be much better if they either required the test of everyone this year or not at all. Encouraging certain people to send their scores whilst knowing others will be unable to due to covid, lockdowns, general disruption, puts the latter category at a disadvantage.
  10. I really hope they do not reinstate the GRE! It's a classist barrier and a waste of a ton of money. Not to mention that studying for it is boring and utterly unstimulating.
  11. I don't think being "odd" is necessarily a disadvantage. I've been apprehensive, too, chiefly because I'm still an undergraduate and therefore haven't had time to develop my research interests extensively. I have thus far been rejected by two programs, but have received an invitation to an interview by another in spite of what I fear some would describe as the "vagueness" of my interests. At any rate, I wish you good luck with your applications! I'm actually wondering how many people applied to UNC this year. I don't know if it's true, but their website says they typically receive between 300 and 400 applications yearly!
  12. My area of interest is British Romanticism (and, within the field, I'm interested in the intersections between poetry and aesthetic theory as well as poetry and philosophy, in addition to certain deconstructive approaches). UNC was a bit of a stretch for me fit-wise. I decided to apply though because of one particular professor though and current graduate students studying there who specialize in Romanticism. What's your period?
  13. I applied to UNC Chapel Hill as well. I haven't heard back, nor do I know when results are supposed to starting being announced.
  14. If anyone knows anything about Duke...I'm wondering if all acceptances have been sent already, given that only three people have posted and only one appears to have been waitlisted. Though I've braced myself to expect a rejection letter from them any day now, I'm still hoping!
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