Angela Merkel

It is too early for the Univ of Illinois at Chicago. Their deadline was just two weeks ago. (I applied to their program.)

To state the obvious (someone has to), these are dark, dark days for academia. No one is getting jobs, absolutely no one. The job market has completely collapsed (there are currently 8 listings for Spanish on the MLA jobs board, across all fields in the country). If you want to be a professor, I'm sorry. Don't do a PhD for this reason. If you've lost your job, have nothing better going on, and want five years of funding then by all means do it but for the love of god cultivate a parallel resume and network throughout grad school that will help you find employment in some other profession once you finish.  

¡Saludos!
¿A cuál 'Washington'? La University of Washington o la Washington University in St. Louis? Yo solicité a esta última. De todos modos, no espero respuesta de Washington en San Luis sino hasta marzo. También solicité a Nebraska. Si sé algo te lo dejo saber.