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Ok, let's brainstorm.

These programs are very different, and the NYU one seems like it was made for me. However, I already do that kind of writing (not to say that the program wouldn't improve my writing, because it undoubtedly would), and I feel like I might learn more at Columbia in terms of actual reporting. The idea of NYU sounds 'fun' to me, and I really want to go, but there's just the name attached with Columbia that makes it hard to pass up. Does anyone know ANYONE in CRC who I could get in contact with to ask for a rundown on student life? I am desperate here, as I need to decide soon!

Does anyone know when the admissions decisions come out for the CRC program? I haven't heard a word from NYU since I turned in my application.

i got an acceptance yesterday, but i was told the official package decision would come in mid-march by the latest.

got into CUNY yesterday afternoon. still waiting for my personal big two: NYU and columbia. i haven't heard a thing from either of them (even about the e-mail survey for columbia), so i'm kind of freaking out. has anyone else heard back from CUNY like i did, or has anyone else gotten any e-mails from NYU, particularly the CRC program?

yeah i applied for the religion and journalism program. also to NYU for CRC. i think NYU is my first choice, so i'm really, really anxious about these next week weeks.

i wanna wait to hear from the other school i applied to, so i'm not sure yet. i think i would rather live in NY if given the opportunity. what about you?

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Just wondering if anyone is applying to this or knows someone who is/has. I've never seen anyone post on TGC about it. I'm pretty sure I'm applying, but I'd like a little more information that doesn't come from the program's Web site.

Hey guys. I'm applying for the Fall 2012 cycle and getting a bit of a head start. I was an English and journalism double major at UF, and I am thinking of applying to some j-school master's programs at NYU (cultural reporting and criticism), Medill, UT-Austin, and Missou. The only thing I'm unsure of is what would make for the best writing sample. I have a million op-ed and editorial clips from my college paper, some stories from an internship at the local paper (mostly boring PR-style fodder), and clips from my job now at a music magazine that are sort of irreverent and esoteric, although they are the most exemplary of my writing style. I'm unsure of what j-school programs are looking for, especially CRC at NYU. I mean, do they want an excerpt from my English honors thesis as one of them since they are mix between academic criticism and journalism? Should I send a mixture of critical theory papers and articles? What did you guys send for writing samples?

This got sorted out literally the day before drop/add ends. Now all I have to do is present my "description of work planned" to the notoriously mean and scrutinizing head of undergraduate affairs. Not looking forward to tomorrow.

I'm in the same boat, only with less time! I want to do Biblical studies as a comp. lit program (first language being Biblical Hebrew), and I just started taking Modern Hebrew this semester. Upon graduating I will have a full year of Hebrew, which is not enough to get into a Comp. Lit program. I am taking an independent study in Biblical Hebrew next semester, but I am thinking of staying for a post-bacc year at my college to take another full year of modern Hebrew. The two language thing scares me though. Do I need to take another language on top of Hebrew during my post-bacc year or is the full two years of modern plus some intensive study in Biblical Hebrew enough to get into a program? I am strong (I think) in all other areas of my application. Basically, to you, I'm saying there's always the possibility of applying to do a post-bacc year at your institution. Good luck!

It might help to clarify. The author in question is Cormac McCarthy, and no one on my faculty seems to know a lot about him. This is unsurprising given the dearth of McCarthy scholarship, but I still feel like someone should be able to help me out. For the final paper in my Dante seminar, we were supposed to do a comparative piece on Dante and an English poet of our choosing. I e-mailed the prof and asked if I could write about McCarthy. He granted my request, and gave me an A with glowing comments on the paper. When I walked in his office to pick it up at the end of the semester, he gushed about how impressed he was, and he even gave me a hug, thanking me for presenting such an impressive argument. My plan was to try this paper out on him, and if he responded favorably, ask if I could turn it into a thesis. I was shocked when he said he'd be a secondary reader but didn't know enough about McCarthy to supervise any scholarship focusing primarily on him. I really, really, want to do a paper on Christian allegory and McCarthy, but I've never taken an American Lit class (I've taken mainly theory classes for my English major), and subsequently don't really know who to approach. I had sent out a couple of e-mails throughout the semester to professors who taught Am Lit, but not gotten any bites from people willing to supervise a thesis. I left it with my teacher to "please" try and think of someone who could work with me. He promised to give it thought over the break. Ugh. I know that an undergrad thesis means nothing in the grand scheme of things, but so much seems tied up into it (potentially stronger recc letters, a stronger writing sample, graduating with highest honors after already doing all the other reqs, etc.), that I can't bear the thought of it falling through.

Hey guys. I have been freaking out because it seems like I'm not going to be able to complete an undergraduate thesis. There are two teachers who have agreed to be secondary readers for my proposed topic, but said they couldn't be primary readers as they are unfamiliar with the author I've chosen. Both were very enthusiastic about my idea, but they were unable to supervise the scholarship themselves. I've known what I wanted to do my thesis on since probably sophomore year, and I can't get my head around possibly picking another topic. Do I need to just get over it and come up with something else? How important is having an undergraduate thesis when applying to graduate school? I'm not sure what else I would use as a writing sample, and I would forgo my whole "graduating with honors" designation if I didn't take thesis credit, even though I've done all the other steps to assure I'd graduate with the highest honors in my major. I am treating this like it's the end-all-be-all of my academic life, and I can't figure out how to fix it. Help!