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STILL no word. How many other Ph.D. applicants are still waiting with no word?

You basically design your own program. All of my courses (except one) were specifically about early modern and late Medieval content. You can be interdisciplinary if you want or you can focus on a subfield or take classes in a few subfields of English. It's really your decision. You take 3 courses a quarter, though your thesis counts for a course in the last quarter. Feel free to PM me if you have questions.

Just whining. . . I WANT to know!!!!! That's all.

MAPH is huge. There were, I think, about 130 people in my MAPH cohort (this combines all the humanities but, still, huge and mostly English). They try to personalize the emails, so I wouldn't be surprised that it takes awhile to get to everyone.

I'd sure hope so, but given how. . .odd some of these notification patterns have been, one does wonder

Congrats waiting! Glad to hear, at least, you're not in my subfield You got accepted to UO as well right? I'd like to hear back from UW to try to make maybe (hopefully!) a single trip out to see both schools. Any mention of a visit date in the UW package? Also, I really don't think they watch these forums. I'm sure that's a joke, Germaine!

Hmm. . . I feel like mine would have been attractive based on the blog, but they have really no people whose primary focus is early modern poetry, so I think that may be playing a role. I still haven't heard anything, but is that because I didn't get in, am waitlisted, my letter got lost in the mail?!?! SCREAM! I NEED to hear back from this school to really start to get some kind of closure. I may call soon. Sigh. Good luck to everyone who got postal notifications of acceptance recently! Would any of you who are Ph.D.s mind sharing your subfields? I saw a couple rhet/comp folks, the Canadian postcolonialist, others? I'm early modern/psychoanalysis/gender studies.

I did, a lot. I loved the professors I worked with. I only got partial funding, though, so it was very expensive. The MA cohort is large, which means you have to make sure you're assertive to get attention and get what you want. I found that if you did that, people were quite responsive. PM me if you end thinking about it and have questions about anything, including living in the infamous Hyde Park.

I am, which is odd since I did MAPH and won't be referred. I think my (rejection) letter got lost in the mail.

Congrats Quentincomp!

Thanks for the info! Now to (hopefully!) wait for good news!

No kidding! That seems ridiculous!!!

DUCKS!

Congrats cyborg!

Postal service for admissions and email for rejections (so far)? Seems backwards to me but whatever I guess. . . Hey there Mr. Postman, bring me some news!

I'll share. PM me. Note that I didn't get into any of my reach schools, though, so take it with a grain of salt Good luck next time around. Maybe think about applying to both Ph.D. and MA programs next time too.

Where do you live? Can you take some graduate-level courses at a nearby university? I would highly recommend this to improve your writing sample, get new/recent letter of rec writers, make contacts, and show that you can do scholarship even though you've been out of the game for awhile. That, I think, is all way more important than retaking the GRE. If there isn't anywhere you can take a place, I'd do one online. Others can speak to this, but I think like Purdue or Boston College or somewhere near Boston has online English courses (other grad cafe people talked about them, so that's all I know). You also should try to network. Go to conferences even if you don't get accepted to present at them. Talk to the people there. Email people at schools you'd like to work with. Start soon (I wouldn't until May given the craziness of right now). Tell them what you like about their work, what you're interested in, and then ask for recommendations of other reading/research material. Get professors, grad students, writing tutors, etc., to read your SOP especially. You don't have to take all the advice, but you'll get feedback. Try to get multiple readers for your writing sample too. Good luck next year!

Got my funding email today. Comparable to what's been posted. I'll think for a couple days, but I'm likely to decline this next week, so I hope anyone waitlisted gets a spot and funding!

Congrats to the acceptances posted on the results board. However, it seems a little odd to me that no Ph.D. admits have been posted. Does anyone out there have a Ph.D. admit yet? Such a weird process. . .

I can't tell you about UMN's waitlist, but the waitlist I'm on (UTA) has been similarly silent in response to emails. . .maybe that's just the way waitlists work? Good luck!

Yep, I meant time in WA. I'm only an hour different, so that's much more merciful I think that they probably evaluate, make their first cut or two, notify those people, and then work their way through the rest of the pile that they've decided to keep for review. I emailed and asked if they did "waves" of acceptances or reviewed applications in bunches, making all decisions about reject, accept, wailist before moving on to the next bunch, and the grad secretary told me no. I'm not entirely sure, obviously, but I'd think that they've got to send out acceptances and waitlists soon. . . Then there might be a continuing limbo for apps that don't make it into accept or waitlist and first and don't get notified. Sigh. Just so ready to hear. . .

AAaaahhhh! Another day and no news. A blessing in disguise I guess. Sigh. Good luck to us all!

Tybalt, I literally laughed out loud!

Depends on what you consider publications. I've been solicited by some press that prints your stuff. They don't have a peer-review process. You don't have to pay for the publication, and, theoretically, you get a percentage for each book sold. I think this press makes most of its money off you and your family buying copies of the published books/articles. Needless to say, I declined the invitation. Anyway, there are quite a few publication options if you don't care about passing the peer-review process. Some people think (mistakenly I'd argue) that simply being published gives them an advantage. This isn't really true if the publisher isn't respectable. Just being published doesn't make one a good writer. That's why there are lots of people accepted to top 10ish programs who never have any publications. Their writing sample speaks to their potential/skill, not lines on a CV citing publications that the ad comm probably hasn't seen/read. . .

I think you can never go wrong with business casual (khakis, Oxford-type button down, or sweater and dressy shoes). I'd avoid jeans, personally.