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To repeat, that is how things look to me regardless of how they actually are. (My wager is, the latter is mostly indiscernible, anyway). I could be sounding a false alarm, but I am led on by such “real” factors as reduced cohort sizes and the opaqueness surrounding their (non-)declaration early on. As I mentioned, acceptances may be a handful only (and therefore, not represented by the Results here), but to me it isn’t a stretch (/unreasonable/unfair) at all to speculate the absolute worst.

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I think the problem in this case is, no one’s gonna come out and be upfront about something as shady as “not finding a qualified candidate”. Chicago rightly made an announcement, otoh.

Yes they did offer that the next cycle. I was already in a PhD program then... so both I and that letter felt oddly out of place.

I’m sorry — but hold up well to whom? What press? Who cares, and finally how would I even know if anyone’s been accepted at all (to then not be able to do anything about well, anything)?

Anyone here accepted to Emory’s Comparative Literature? Care to mention your sub-field?

To echo, Stanford comp-lit did this with me back in 2019, citing “exceptional circumstances”. This cycle, they truly are; no wonder, their MTL rejected me. Has anyone here been accepted? I did not anticipate that a few programs might just be accepting applications to make money. But from where I’m standing, it sure looks that way. I have also been rejected from Emory CL along with others (as seen on Results) and again, not a single Accepted poster — notwithstanding the handful they take in anyway. This has been happening with quite a number of progs actually; a legit cause for alarm.

Sorry, I didn’t quote before.

I am sorry if this unhelpful — but this really comes down to what you want, or rather what you want more. Would you rather that you passed on this offer for potentially nothing next year (as the argument goes)? Is Slavic, or an ideal program worth the plaguing uncertainty (especially of these unprecedented times)? I know nothing of your circumstances which in my case would be the basic determinant of what I end up doing. So I’d ultimately ask myself, can I at this stage afford to play “go big or go home”? With whatever you decide to do, I wish you the utmost success!

See @semiotic_mess’s post in the Lit thread.

I was never interviewed albeit admitted into history phd at nyu; although as I later found out most if not all of my cohort had interviews.

For the Duke rejects like me: Duke.... izzzaa jUke.. n dose hoo getin.. getin by a fluke...??

So what you uploaded would be unofficial transcripts. Write to the grad coordinator or whoever’s in charge, and ask if unofficial copies suffice at this point.

Word is, yale is accepting 3 in English.

(Again, in my experience) acceptances often roll out all at once, and earlier than rejections and/waitlists.

Northwestern would be an exception, as they themselves claim: https://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/documents/diversity/201920-diversity-and-inclusion-initiatives.pdf

I’ll say this: in my personal experience, when I saw an acceptance from a program I hadn’t heard from, I was rejected.

Early action for grad admissions isn’t a thing.

I think it means what they say it means: they are still going through applications.

It was transferred to CL from Eng on the 20th, after I realised I had made a mistake and submitted my app to Eng instead.

I applied, and I have not heard anything. My application began being reviewed after 20th of last month.

Hey can I ask what folks think about how common interviews generally are for complit programs; that is, if most or all admits are vetted first? It’s hard to get a grasp from the Results of the past...

I wouldn’t know really — no one tells me anything, or perhaps I don’t listen?

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