Hey all,
Figured I should overcome my fear of posting this year and just let it rip. Nice to see a thread like this finally. It seems like there's a lot of overlap between my schools and other people's, too. I'm interested in studying non-commercial/instructional/educational media, masculinity, and youth-- mostly focused in the 20 or so years after the end of WWII (or that's what I put on my SoP at least). Oh and uhh, strictly in America for the moment. My academic interests began in film theory, though, so I'm curious to know what other people are pursuing there as well.
My list (heavy on the critical/cultural side as well):
USC- Critical Studies (Cinema-Television, prob reject as I hear they're normally an early notifier)
Wisconsin- Media and Cultural Studies
Minnesota- American Studies (prob reject-- they've already taken 4 people I think)
UCSD- Communication (in unofficially, no word on funding)
UCSB- Film & Media Studies (out)
Syracuse- English (for steven cohan, basically, who probably has every non-lit person there trying to get his attention)
Indiana- Communication & Culture/American Studies (in with a decent package)
NYU- Media, Culture, Comm (I'm an internal and therefore will most likely not get in...no, of course it won't be my sub par app that's to blame... :wink: )
Texas- RTF (will probably be made or broken depending on who is on the committee this year).
A couple of things I'm curious about at the moment:
1. Does anyone have any conception of the distribution of admits within Wisconsin's comm arts dept? In other words, do they take 4 film, 4 rhetoric, 4 m&cs, 4 comm sci (I chose 4 arbitrarily) or is it unevenly distributed? Are the applications to each dept about even in number?
2. Does anyone have any idea about placement records for any of the schools we're considering (a little "cart before the horse," i know)? I know websites have this kind of info, but they only give you a sense of the successes, not the failures.
Best of luck to everyone! I'll be sure to post new and useful info if and when I get it.