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Ah so with your background I presume you're going for association with the PSP and/or EUPI at Emory? Lacan and Freud and their "applications" to political theory and animal rights. I also did a thesis on the roots of Lacanian theory looking at the material from which he drew beyond Freud: Hegel, Saussure, Jakobson, Levi-Strauss, cybernetics etc. etc. But ultimately I'm most interested in actual clinical situations.

Grad School App Fees: $850 GRE Fee: $135 GRE Distribution Fee: $138 Interfolio LOR Distribution and Registration Costs: $99 Transcript Costs: (none for me) Postage: ~$20 Total: $1242 Add in anxiety and yes it does indeed suck. Confessional Time: I HAD TO SELL MY FSCKING MOTORCYCLE TO PAY FOR THIS. Luckily I work full time and a new one might** be en route, but taking public transit after years of not doing so SUCKS. **pending rejection from all 10 schools

Same here. I found it relatively late in scouting schools and I wish i'd found it sooner. Indeed- What kind of psychoanalysis are you interested in? What other programs have you applied to?

Wow this is almost precisely the situation I am in. I first found out about Emory's CompLit and drooled over it for months, before eventually deciding on ILA. It's without a doubt one of my top 3 choices. I also went where the faculty research/offerings fit my interests rather than a specific set of departments. The only comp lit dept. I applied to was Cornell, and I almost applied to their history dept. The stringent language requirements were definitely a deterrent for me, someone with only mediocre second/third language skills, and I suspect they were advertised as such for this reason I'm going for psychoanalysis, animal studies and critical theory "as such", and how they've manifested in 20th Century American culture, literature, etc.

^Lord help me

This is exactly the situation I am currently in. Bombed out after 3 semesters with a .8 total GPA. Came back after a year, changed majors (and picked up another major) and ended up with 3.7 and 3.6 major GPA's, despite a 2.9 overall. I think that in terms of selective consideration of statistics like this, your major GPA is a better indicator than your "last 60 credits" or whatever. I believe and I have been told that my overall package is "great" despite the horror of my UG transcripts, and I'm less anxious waiting to hear back because I also have an MA with a 4.0, which I'm inclined to think will greatly displace the sorry state of affairs during your/our UG. But besides all that, if everything else about your package is good, you've been told you have potential, and you want to pursue advanced study, would you be comfortable not even trying because one part of your application is deficient? Committees each weigh applications differently and almost all humanities dept's give little (or the least) credence to "numbers" i.e. GRE and grades. Nail the crap out of your SOP and WS, get good letters, and NETWORK with the faculty you'd like to study with before applying and you'll have nothing to worry about. You won't necessarily get in with funding, but you'll have nothing to worry about imho.

English PhD: Chicago Penn State Columbia Albany Buffalo Other related dept's in sig. AOI: Psychoanalysis, animal studies, critical theory, american literature.