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To whom does that recent acceptance post belong? Or is it an acceptance from some North Carolina other than UNC Chapel Hill...? Anybody else heard anything?
Congrats to the admittee either way!
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I think it just means these candidates are their first two choices and that more will be accepted soon. No one here should lose hope! We don't even know if the two favorites will accept the offer.
All I meant was that it's unclear what "two of the first doctoral candidates accepted in the admissions process" meant, because it left room to infer that there had been other acceptances as well. In fact, I do know now that there have been offers made to more than just the two Jefferson Fellow interviewees. So...
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Got an email from the Grad Coordinator saying that I have been recommended for admission. Yay!
I am anxious to hear about funding options, though. I really hope that they will be able to provide a full funding package for 5 years. I guess we will hear about this soon in a forthcoming letter?
Congrats to those who are also recommended for admission!
Hey, englishgrad11, congratulations! I'm envious of your email--the only reason I know I've been accepted is because I checked the website. If you wouldn't mind sharing, did your email say anything else that might be interesting to the rest of us who are still waiting to be contacted? From your post it seems like perhaps they didn't tell you much else, but I think we're all anxious to hear about visiting/funding/etc.
Congrats again! Can't wait to hear more from them!
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Do you know whether they're perspective PhD students or MA students? I wouldn't think that they would be making MA decisions any time soon...
They're doctoral candidates. They're here because they're interviewing for the Jefferson fellowship. But like byronlover said, the adcom still has at *least* one more meeting to go. The email described them as "two of the first doctoral candidates accepted in the admissions process"--whatever that means.
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PhD applications were due Jan 15... who knows what's going on.
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Yep, mine too! Yay! Can't wait to get some more information about visiting, funding, etc.
Yes... visiting and funding. Especially given what's been said about funding in years past. I wonder if it will be any different now that the Literary Studies track is single-trajectory, with no terminal MA.
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Yes, I have the exact same message. It still says pending as my status, but I did take that message to mean that I had been or would soon be admitted. I believe that once the program makes their decisions, they have to send that list to the director of graduate studies of something for approval (make sure everyone meets GRE minimums or something).
I don't think you have to worry--I can't imagine they would put "recommended for admission" and then NOT admit you. At least, that is what I'm thinking/hoping. I'm already counting my chickens. Maybe that's not a great idea, but I can't help it. I'm already ecstatic.
I just checked the My UW portal again this morning, and it's finally updated to say I've been admitted, for sure. Definitely made me feel better (was beginning to think I had read the "recommended for admission" paragraph incorrectly) so thought I'd let others know who were possibly in the same situation.
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Congratulations on your acceptance! I am sure you are elated! Do you mind sharing your stats? If not (I understand), but can you at least say what track you're on, literature, comp/rhet?
Thank you so much--it's still pretty unbelievable! And my stats:
I applied to the Literary Studies program. I'll have my MA in lit from the University of Virginia in May (if all goes well!)--my area of focus is 19th-c. British/textual studies/digital humanities, and my GPA is 3.96.
GREs: Verbal--690; Quantitative--650; Writing--5.0; Lit--660
Really not terribly fantastic numbers, so it must be true what they say: numbers are only a small part! Good luck to everyone!
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Yes! Thank you thank you thank you intextrovert, for your help. I think I might actually be able to sleep tonight, now! Congrats once again to the admits, and very best of luck to everyone still waiting!
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Yes, I have the exact same message. It still says pending as my status, but I did take that message to mean that I had been or would soon be admitted. I believe that once the program makes their decisions, they have to send that list to the director of graduate studies of something for approval (make sure everyone meets GRE minimums or something).
I don't think you have to worry--I can't imagine they would put "recommended for admission" and then NOT admit you. At least, that is what I'm thinking/hoping. I'm already counting my chickens. Maybe that's not a great idea, but I can't help it. I'm already ecstatic.
Okay, I feel better knowing someone else, somewhere else, sees the same thing. For a while I couldn't believe the text in that box had changed at all--I'm still thinking I don't believe it, but it's definitely reassuring to know you've got the same situation. I guess I just feel... incredulous? Congrats on your (very, very probable) acceptance, papillon!
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Congrats to all acceptances! I have a favor to ask of you, if you have a moment--
After reading about all the recent acceptances, I went to check my status. The "My UW-Madison Grad Application Status" (under student services) still says "Pending," but when I clicked on the "Enter>>" link and got the Graduate School page, the box labeled "Status Description" says this: "Your program has recommended you for admission. The Graduate School will be reviewing your file. Please refer to this page for updates."
I asked my two roommates if they think this means an admission. They think it does. I think it's still too ambiguous. Can anybody help me out? If you're still waiting, or if you have been admitted, does your "Status Description" say something different? I really wish it were 12 hours later so I could call and ask! Any help would be greatly appreciated... thanks!
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On 2/13/2011 at 11:21 AM, bigdgp said:
So have the majority of people heard something at this point, or are there a lot of you in the same boat I'm in? I haven't heard a peep.
My page still says "in review" too... Or it did yesterday, anyway--they're "performing maintenance" right now, apparently.
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I'm finishing my MA at UVa this spring, and as far as I know the adcom isn't finished meeting. All three of my recommenders are on the adcom, so I feel like I kind of have a feel for what they're up to, but I could be wrong. And just for help in timing, I got my MA acceptance on March 17. Most of the PhDs I know got in off the waitlist, so they didn't actually hear until very close to (or on) April 15.
Best of luck to you all! It's really a fantastic program with AMAZING faculty.
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Mine begins with a V and I've already been rejected! So maybe the fact that yours is still pending is a good thing? I've assumed that I haven't been rejected from OSU yet because they're going alphabetically.
I have a theory about alphabetical elimination, too. I think those of us at the end of the alphabet (I'm an S) have more panic time than those at the beginning. For sure.
I'm also in the same boat with you on OSU... figuring end of alphabet = later rejection. But good luck to you!
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My app status still shows as pending. By the sheer number of rejections on the site, I am assuming that I have been rejected as well. I just would like a status update as to what is going on.
Me too. Why can't they update everybody's at once? Every time I have to go through that stupid drop-down menu and wait for the screen to show I about die... and then feel like an idiot, because obviously it's just going to change over to "denied." Hurry up, UW-Madison.
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Ha! Good to know I'm not the only one who thinks the alphabetical scheme is likely... and given that feeling I'd say you deserve to be cautiously optimistic, for sure! I would be. I wish MY last name started with something before "L."
Thanks for the info re: your experience last year, durkin! and much luck to you, too!
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Hey all--so I'm at the end of the alphabet and am convinced that's why I haven't gotten an email telling me I was rejected. Results board shows they only took 3 out of 150 (so... impossible odds... but what acceptance isn't a miracle in terms of odds?) and am just wondering whether people who HAVE gotten their emails were in the first half of the alphabet? Or does anybody know for a fact that alphabetical organization matters/doesn't matter in terms of response time? I'm totally aware that I am likely inventing things.
Also, is there a way to check the status online? I couldn't figure it out, if there is. Which might say something about whether I should be admitted to (a further) grad program.
Any news on UVA?
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I'm on the inside (doing my MA here) and I don't even know. I can tell you for certain that I know at LEAST four people have been accepted, and they were not all accepted at the same time. I have no idea whether any of those people are the same people who have posted on the results board, but I don't think UVa is one of the places that does a mass notification of acceptance. At least it doesn't seem that way. But who knows!