hiddenpalms

Hello, I'm so glad I found this! I'm a second year MA Gender Studies student here at MUN in Canada (I'm American though). My work is centered on queer masculinities and sexuality studies. The last time I applied was during the 2019-2020 school year, I applied to a mix of MA/PhD programs. I got rejected to 3 PhD programs then, but I feel better prepared now. I applied to 16 PhD programs (I'm crazy). I just finished my last app Thursday, in fact. I've been told a lot of programs have around 80-100 apps and only 2-3 spots, so that's the reason I wanted to apply to so many. Also, I know last year a lot of programs weren't accepting new cohorts due to the pandemic, so I thought there could even be more apps this year. I applied to mostly all Gender Studies programs. American Universities: Oregon State, UCLA, UCSB, University of Arizona, Minnesota, Rutgers, Indiana, Kentucky, Buffalo (Global Gender Studies), Yale (Combined American Studies/Gender & Women Studies), and Stony Brook. Canadian Universities: University of Toronto, McGill (Sociology with an emphasis in Gender and Women's Studies), York, UOttawa, and Guelph (Social Practice and Transformational Change with a specialization in Sexualities, Genders and Bodies). Canadian schools tend to give 4 years of funding VS 5 in the USA, so that may be a factor come decision time. I was reading last years thread and some programs started to do interviews at the end of January. Fingers crossed everyone. I wish the best for everyone. People don't quite understand how competitive our field is.