dorotheabrooke

I did this! I emailed UI Urbana-Champaign with a detailed email of updates (academic and professional) to supplement my application. I also attached an updated CV. I sent that two weeks ago (near end of March) and heard back with an acceptance from the wait list on last Tuesday! So I say: go for it! PM me if you want to know how I worded it or whatever. Best of luck!

Congrats! Also, what does the 2-1, 1-2, 1-1, & etc. mean for teaching loads? I've also had some schools say 18 hours, 25%, or 45.5% appointments... can anyone shed any light on these terms for me?

For any of you in similar situations: What's the difference between being wait listed and being accepted but wait listed for funding? I have two schools that wait listed me straight out, and two others that accepted me pretty early on but have since told me that I am on a wait list for funding. The two schools that admitted me do actually keep wait lists for admission, too. I don't understand the difference between wait lists, though.

In the same position! I've been debating whether I should go ahead and call... I'll be in NY in a few days to visit CUNY, and if anything funky is going on with NYU, I'd rather know before/while I'm there. I have a feeling that the MA conjecture might be accurate, though, or that our rejections might be hanging in the balance--Duke's process took several days, for example. Best of luck to you either way!!

And you're sure? This would be infinitely better!

So this would mean that there is no tuition waiver? Just that the stipend almost fully covers tuition? That's not the same...

Thank you!! I'm rooting for you!! Best of luck! I'd like to think that they would contact you soon--it does seem strange to keep people waiting without an official wait list.

Hi Cactus Ed! Yes! I received a call from the Director of Admissions last night. They accepted me! Have you heard anything?

I just emailed them. I'll post any update I hear

Good luck!!

Nothing on my end yet! Fingers crossed. Good luck to you, Porridge! (You were admitted there too, right?)

Obviously. But if you're going to claim that we need to understand your supposedly multifaceted reasoning for your posts, then you can understand what I meant here. The types of judgement calls you made against other people can easily be read for what you think and how you feel about others. That's it. End of that. You can extrapolate as you see fit; you clearly seem to think yourself capable of high analysis. I'm done with this thread, though. On to people who are nice.

I still get that these were thinly veiled attempts to berate people. I don't think everything posted can just be chalked up to sarcasm--that's too much of a cop out. Sarcasm doesn't excuse callousness and/or ignorant assumptions.

It's this type of attitude that gives off the pretentious English scholar vibe. Are you really THAT full of yourself that you truly think people don't understand your attempts to laugh at and berate them? No, we get it. We just don't think it's funny. Many people (myself included) come to this forum for two reasons: information and encouragement. Most of your posts, as far as I've noticed, provide little of either. I don't know what you get out of your disposition, but I surely hope it's something more satisfying than how you have a tendency to make others feel. What's more, by the way, is that many of your past conjectures have been completely off-base. Name, for example, your ridiculously arrogant thread on wagers of acceptances/rejections. According to your formulas, I shouldn't have been accepted into a Ph.D. program anywhere, let alone have received the 6 acceptances I have (5 from top 30 schools). If you're sitting there thinking that people "just don't get" you, maybe think about how much you're not really "getting" either. These are real people on the other ends of these posts, you know, not robots (at least not most of the time).

I really don't intend to describe all my research here, especially to someone who seems so negatively predisposed toward it, but I will say that I find what you posted as insulting. Wishing that she had never read and instead birthed 12 children--I mean, come on (this is particularly insulting to Eliot's intelligence and femininity, by the way... not to mention my own. Should I stop reading have 12 children then, since I enjoy her writing?). I think you got a bit carried away there if your only complaint is that you don't like her writing style. Additionally, just because you don't like her novels doesn't mean she was a negative influence to society. This remark is incredibly ignorant and judgmental. You should do more research before you try to insult someone that is heavily influential to not only Victorian studies, but novel studies, feminist studies, gender studies, realism, and many more. I don't "get" magical realism, but I would never say that we're the worse for having it. Overall: didn't think that this thread was funny. (If that's what you were trying to accomplish.) My suggestion: read more. Research--including that of the historical background. Maybe even have some compassion.