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I'm actually waiting on both CUNY Grad Center (for the comp lit Ph.D) and Columbia (for the comp lit MA). I wish they'd both just hurry up already! I'm getting really antsy and I don't have any acceptances yet, though I'm really holding out for CUNY. According to the results boards, there have been a few rejections already, but only 2 or 3 Ph.D acceptances. I wish I knew the size of the cohort they are aiming for, but apparently they received over 100 applications. As far as Columbia, though -- I don't know any details. :[

All's quiet for me, too. I wonder if that's a fluke -- I'd imagine that most of us may have to wait a few more weeks to hear back since the application deadline was so late. The only thing I know is that I received an email a week or so after the deadline, telling me my application and supporting materials were all received and ready for review.

It looks like our research interests and backgrounds are pretty different -- I earned my BA in literature with an interdisciplinary gender studies minor at a tiny liberal arts college in Florida and am applying for the MA/Ph.D. I'm most interested in 19th century Russian and French realist literature, novels of adultery, contemporary feminist/gender theory, psychoanalysis, and theories of the novel. I wrote a comparative undergraduate thesis on representations of women in the works of Flaubert and Tolstoy, using different theoretical frameworks for seminal novels and lesser-known short stories. Also, I applied to Rutgers, but not to their comparative literature program -- their Women's and Gender Studies Ph.D program has been the only program I've heard back from thus far (rejected, unfortunately).

I don't have any information for you about CUNY's numbers, but I'm also applying to CUNY, Stony Brook, and NYU for comparative literature (as well as the MA program at Columbia)! What are your areas of interest, out of curiosity?

I was the person who posted the rejection for Rutgers. I got a very nice but very generic email from an admissions officer, telling me that my application was not recommended for acceptance. I thought I was a strong candidate, though perhaps the WGS program wasn't the best fit (it's also the only one I applied to, all of my other apps going to programs in Comparative Literature). Still, it was my first rejection and it stings to know that I'm one of the first to be rejected. Good luck to all of you!