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Hate to say it, but I'm pretty sure the deadline was always 12/1 for English Ph.D apps

I'm pretty sure you would alphabetize it under "H", but I would check with someone from your English department just to be absolutely positive.

Thanks for letting us know they were available, I was going to pull my hair out waiting until Monday! Just got my score of 690 / 93rd percentile. PHEW! Relief, finally.

I can't stress how much I agree with this. My field of interest is primarily queer theory in high modernist and postmodernist Anglo-American and French literature, but the article that I've had published and the paper that I'm going to be presenting are both outside of my time-period (one medieval, the other Early Modern) and not necessarily engaged with the specific methodologies that I'm planning on highlighting in my SOP. So instead of using one of those, I decided to completely revamp a 7 page paper that I wrote for a class and had the kernel of a good idea into what is now 21 pages that I'm super proud of and that's engaged with both my time period and my methodologies. I think the moral of the story is: you want to sell the graduate programs on the idea that you are absolutely passionate about your time period and theoretical framework, and the best way to do this (at least in my mind) is to give them a knock-your-socks-off writing sample that's engaged with both of these things.

Glad I wasn't the only one freaking out after this test. My timing was all screwed up because I kept on waiting for that block of questions that are just straight identifications that have shown up on all three (THREE!) practice tests I've taken and are usually easy to breeze through. But no. And it felt like a lot of the stuff that screwed me up before and I made sure I was good on - postco novelists, 19th-20th C playwrights (Williams? Ibsen? Chekhov? Ionesco? NOTHING?!) - didn't make an appearance whatsoever. I ended up skipping around 30 questions, and rushed through the last three long sections. Seriously, I don't know what happened to me this morning, but it sure didn't feel like the GRE Literature subject test. Oh well, this glass of sangria (not the first of the evening) makes this morning go down just a little easier.