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Congrats on the interview invite! Best of luck! 🤞🤞

It's not over till it's over. Hang on there!

The people at Cornell Classics are awesome. Fingers crossed for you! 🤞

I'm not in art history or museum studies. So I will leave advise to those who are more qualified. But for what it's worth, the fact that you passed your Latin exam on the first try and that you have advanced to your dissertation stage are indications of your ability and tenacity. Whatever you choose to do from now on, you should be proud of what you have already achieved. Also, try post this to the Classics subreddit (r/classics). It's a lot more active than here. Good luck!

Thanks for the spreadsheet and all the work you put into it! I just want to add that for those interested in ancient philosophy MAs, the Classics Bridge MA Program at Cornell would be worth looking into. Again, thanks for the good work!

I'm not in your field. So I'll leave advice to those who are more qualified. But best of luck with the interview!!

It took me two rounds of applications to get into a funded MA and a third round to get any PhD acceptances. So I know the feelings! I wish I could tell you how to best deal with all the waiting and anxiety. Sadly I never quite figured that out. But I'm rooting for you and everyone else!

Congrats on the interview invite! 🥳🎉 Even with an early December deadline, that's pretty fast. All the PhD programs I applied to had a 12/15 deadline, and the earliest I heard back from was in January. The fastest turn around for me was with one of the MA programs. I got an interview invite a couple of days after the application deadline, and another week later I got the result. Best of luck with the Brown interview! Here's to more good news!! 😄🤞

Hmm, they don't have any graduate program in the Classics. This might not be the best place to ask that question. You can probably get better answers from other forums more related to you field. Best of luck! Edit: typo

@JohnNobody If it's a two year program, then it ends in the spring of 2025. You apply in the fall of 2024 when the applications open. You will get the results sometime in the spring of 2025. If admitted, you will start in the fall of 2025. In that case, there won't be a break in you funding, except the summer of 2025, but hopefully that's something you can plan ahead for. Also, congrats on the funded MA!

I know the feeling! I applied a total of three rounds. All rejections the first time around (I still remember exactly where I was when I got the last two rejections back to back 🙁). Only one admit in the second round, but it's a funded MA so that's awesome. Did much better the third time and got into my current program. Fingers crossed for you! 🤞

@screwdriverfemme thanks for starting this thread! What are your areas of interest?

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Congrats on the interview and best of luck! When I was applying, I considered Brown, but it was the only one on my shortlist of programs that required GRE. So I ended up not applying to it. Is GRE still required this year?

That sucks. ?. But don't give up! And best of luck with all your other applications!

That's AWESOME! Congrats! ? ? One of my best campus visits was at UChicago!

Congrats! Time to celebrate! ??

That's fantastic! Hope the interview went well and fingers crossed!

"tortuous" is a pretty accurate description! If it's any consolation, last year prospective students began their campus visit for Cornell in early March, so if I were to guess - and this is no more than a guess - hopefully you would hear back from them about a decision in late February? Though I wouldn't read too much in to it even if you don't hear from them by then.

Last year, Princeton Classics sent out at least some of the interview invites at the very end of January. Of course, it could be different this year. But good luck!

Good luck!

Congrats on the interview! Cornell Classics is fantastic.

Sorry for the late response! Different programs conduct their interviews differently. Some are more formal and technical while others are more relaxed. Definitely know your own writing sample! I stumbled on one of the questions about my writing sample and the whole interview just went south after that. ? Also be prepared to talk about your research interests and how you want to approach them. Other than that, just be yourself instead of who you think the committee wants. Be confident, but if you don't know the answer to something, just be honest about it. There's no point of faking it. Usually they can tell. I'd also tell you to relax and be calm, but I know it's easier said than done! Best of luck!