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I'd probably just email first. If they don't get back to you in a timely manner (say, Monday morning), I'd call on Monday afternoon or Tuesday. I've received quick email responses from programs. Good luck!

Okay. So yeah. This totally explains why I was ready to bite the head off the incompetent woman at the grocery store bakery tonight. Got it. Must start exercising. Something. Glad that I'm not the only one who's starting to feel the effects of this experience.

When I was in the beginning stages of trying to find a thesis mentor, my capstone professor emailed the entire department with my proposal and asked if who would be willing to work with me. That might be the way to go. No one in my very, very small English department was well-versed on the author I was writing about (Margaret Atwood), despite the fact that there is a ton of scholarship on her.

I'm hoping for an MFA program, but applied to one PhD and three MA programs as well. I'm really hoping that I won't have to do this again next year. Focus in any of the lit programs would be women's and gender studies, queer studies, postcolonial theory, poetics, North American literature since 1900. I am particularly looking at silencing in literature and theory. MFA (poetry)/PhD (literature): Cornell MFA (poetry): Texas - Michener, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio State, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth, Old Dominion, Alabama, Arkansas, LSU, McNeese, West Virginia, South Carolina, WashU - St. Louis, Michigan - Ann Arbor, Wisconsin - Madison, Illinois UC, S Illinois - Carbondale, Kansas MA in Lit: U Louisville, Miami - Ohio, and Brandeis (joint MA with Women's and Gender Studies) edited to add focus....

I've never seen a score above 800 on the Lit test. I suppose that it's possible, but every practice test score I've seen just goes up to 800. (I never saw the pdf from the ETS, so I don't know about that one.)

800

congrats. i had the same score, but with 157 correct, 64 wrong, and 9 omits.

Well, I already knew my score, but I just wanted to post and say that my omits (9) appear correct. I figured that I skipped about ten. Your score is good, but if it concerns you, have them hand score it. Maybe you didn't bubble dark or erase enough?

So, it worked fine on Chrome. I didn't want to sign up for that Verified by Visa (don't know anything about it, so want to scope it out), but the continue button was there, so I could have. I paid by check instead. Didn't try again on Firefox. Good luck!

I had the same issue the other day. I'm also using Firefox and have gotten the same Verified by Visa prompt during previous purchases. Annoying. Would love to hear if anyone knows what's what. Maybe I'll try Chrome. Hmm.

I'm doing the same, but I'm a first timer with no real knowledge (outside these boards) on how these things are perceived. For me plunking down a bunch of stuff at the end felt forced and didn't make sense. We'll see how it goes, I guess.

I'd have to agree about the easy going professionalness of the people at MU. i've emailed re: points of confusion or page-length issues a couple of times and have received prompt, courteous, and helpful responses (i.e. give us your best on the essay, don't worry about page length), so i'll be doing the same on the SoP. mine will probably top out at 2 pages with 1.5 spacing. (i'm only applying for the masters in lit there, so i would imagine my SoP doesn't need to be quite as extensive.)

i expect that they will go up on or around the 24th. that's what happened with the general gre scores - they went up right when ets said to expect them.

I'm in the same boat. Waiting for initiated to turn into completed. I think that it's just going to take time, but it sure is frustrating!

Thanks for the advice, y'all. I went ahead and added it. Now comes the interminable waiting.