A bit random but did anyone who got accepted UC Irvine Comp Lit end up rejecting the offer? I was told from a POI that I was high-up on the waitlist and I have my fingers crossed that something will fall into line after a very disappointing cycle.
After receiving a MA with high marks from Germany, in German, and a BA from a top-tier US school, I am perplexed as to what it takes to get into these programs. Perhaps my SOP was a bit "old school" (my interests are psychoanalysis, aesthetics and politics, the relationship between German-Jewish identity/national citizenship, the question of "ethnic" Americans (Afro/Italian/Jewish), and transatlantic modernism). Thus my project is basically German/US comparative with lots of interest in psychoanalysis and structuralist/poststructuralist thought. It feels as though I somehow should have a more "Zeitgeist-y" interest but perhaps this is just my own defeatism speaking.
Thanks for the help!
