There are indeed productive ways. Not in this thread, of course.
It seems to me that constructing a canon would be more helpful if we:
1) Defined English programs more broadly as "Cultural Studies" programs because... c'mon, that's what we actually do.
2) Recognized the wide disparity between different genres and periods of literature that make it nearly impossible to make an English canon and subsequently develop smaller, more specialized canons.
3) Edit the existing GRE-Subject Test canon with a heavy hand.
I've got rejections from UC-San Diego, Minnesota, and WUSTL.
Some more are presumed rejected.
Iowa started notifying yesterday.
If you have any questions about specific programs, I can relay some information from the facebook group.
Magdalena got a reaction from intlmfahopeful in MFA Creative Writing- Results