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  1. Congrats to the accepted. I'm bummed not to get the call, but not throw myself off a cliff bummed. It is amazing how much better rejection tastes when you've been accepted elsewhere.
  2. I sent an e-mail this morning and heard back from the DGS. She says that letters will go out sometime next week but has not been given an exact date. Which is unfortunate, because, like you, it's the last program on my list. She also shared that the visitation schedule is the 13-15 (which is, of course, what every program's schedule seemingly is). Sigh.
  3. The odds are so low on this one that I'm trying (unsuccessfully) not to think about it at all. It would help if it wasn't my dream school. I feel greedy just thinking about Penn after getting in elsewhere.
  4. Congrats, Bdon! You've got three options now and I've got two in a single day. God, this whole process is draining and wonderful at the same time, isn't it? Edit: As a formerly despairing applicant (until about 1:00 today), the part about this being wonderful is just for the lucky ones. Too many applicants are going to end up thinking this process is just draining and terrible. Edit 2: I write this with far too much liquor in my system. Celebration drinking, however, is infinitely better than despair drinking. I wonder if the hangover will be more pleasant as well?
  5. Thanks everybody for the congratulations. As evidenced by my post today in the 0% thread, I was in no way expecting good news. I wish I'd asked some questions so I could offer you all some insights into whether they admitted all today or not (though I would have had to phrase that sort of question cleverly). For Yank: my focus is modern and postcolonial literature with a dash of posthumanist philsophy thrown in for good measure.
  6. I am one of the acceptances, yes. Didn't get much over the phone: was too excited to ask pertinent questions.
  7. HOLY SHIT. At my lowest point (see above), I get a call from UVA. I'm in. Goddamn! Time for a beer or three. Idealists can win! I'm rooting for all of you.
  8. I'm in the same boat, Adam. From everything I can tell I'm a strong applicant. The numbers are all there, the sample was edited, read and reread by myself and others; I won awards, earned recs, etc. But none of that seems to matter. If, at the end of the process this spring I haven't gotten in anywhere (looking distinctly possible with the schools I have left), I sense that this will be the reason why. I think it's a shame that the topic of writing samples composed in our junior or senior years when we're 22 or 23 plays such an important role in this process. As a part-time marketing employee, I sometimes wonder if I wouldn't have been better off approaching the process of applications from a sales perspective. Rather than write the thesis my professor wanted, or that I felt aligned most with my views, I should have composed something specifically for the audience I wanted to reach. I should have researched professors' approach to texts first and written a thesis that was derivative of that work. A somewhat sickening thought. Of course, from my outside perspective, I sense that the system doesn't get any different from here on out. Sexy wins. It wins now, when we're 23. It wins with publishers. It wins with departments that are hiring. It probably wins with tenure decisions. So it goes.
  9. I feel like I've already gone 0/11. But the pain has just begun I suppose.
  10. That's just about the best acceptance clip possible. As for the anxious, repeatedly checking e-mail clip...
  11. Based on my post before yours, I'm right there with ya. I'm feeling deliciously cynical about the entire process. I probably need to lock myself in a room for a couple months, make sure nothing comes across in the way of accepts/waitlists, and then just move on (because otherwise my cynicism will generate unhappy blog material that is better left unsaid).
  12. Congratulations to those of you with acceptances (and double acceptances!). Best of luck as you're selecting your program. Since this is, after all, the 0% Confidence thread, despair has set in with a vengeance for me. My remaining applications (following some poor advice from my thesis adviser) are largely to the bigs: the Penn's and UVA's of the world. And I'm feeling awful about my chances. I'm already writing the obituary for my application season.
  13. Thank you for sharing your research, Katy85. Nice to have some firm(er) ideas on when we can expect news.
  14. Thanks for the insight, rising_star and ComeBackZinc. Nice to have the inside perspective on this.
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