jprufrock

Let's do a cost benefit analysis: 1. Cost of travel and accommodations from Europe to Duke... I dunno, like $2,000? 2. Potential upside of getting into top choice school? $20k/yr stipend + $10k/year free tuition + $5k misc X 5 years = $175,000 3. Peace of mind from knowing you interviewed in the best possible way: Priceless? No brainer for me, just go. This is your future. Time and money are of little to no consequence.

Pssh, you should be able to handle it. I'm sure they'll have a panacea at the Stanford interviews to help mollify you

I also applied to Stanford but didn't receive an interview e-mail. So to comfort myself I laid out 3 different scenarios: 1. Those with incredible applications weren't even contacted for an interview because they were already put on a list of acceptances. 2. Interviews or the application process goes out in waves and thus not everyone was contacted. 3. Stanford received a large pool of applicants with similar subfields; only those of that subfield were contacted to be interviewed to be narrowed down. I'm sure other grad programs have done things similar to this in the past--anyone think of any more (positive) scenarios so we can hold on to (maybe false) hope a bit longer?

Hi all, Just thought I'd drop in to say that I heard today from my former UW professor that University of Washington started their English graduate admission process only yesterday. I didn't apply there, but thought those of you who did would appreciate an update.

"It's good, but is it good enough?"

woohoo! 630 79% 160 correct 70 incorrect 0 omits pretty good for studying less than 10 hours.

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