TripWillis

Yes, not "all," just "most." If I get accepted there, I will seriously feel like Larry the Cable Guy. Me and my UMass Boston undergrad B.A. transfer from Berklee College of Music will be in the dive bar singing Bruce Springsteen if you need us.

Off topic, Timshel, but I've never complimented you on your name before. I love East of Eden and every time I look at your screenname, it reminds me of my chances of getting into grad school: Thou mayest!

I'm Boston til I die. Lived there for 7 years and would go back in a second. Still waiting for BU, Tufts, and Harvard to call me already and offer me a spot! (I also have realized from day one how incredibly unlikely that last one is -- but, hey, in retrospect... glad I tried)

Hello! I notice you also got into Northwestern. I had really been considering applying there, but it's pretty top-tier and I already had quite a few of those on my list. Congrats! I wanted to work with Dwight A. McBride, but who even knows if he teaches anymore now that he's dean? I think, as early acceptances, we have a good shot at funding, but worst case scenario we'll have to teach. At least CUNY has a lot of branches = lots of available adjunct labor!

As a regular, I am pulling for you so hard. You don't even know.

Yeah, it seems like historically that's how it works.

Now I'm dying to hear about funding... I have a positive feeling though.

I will third this because I played the interdisciplinary card to death in my apps. Of course, both programs that I have been accepted to have a heavy focus on interdisciplinary scholarship, one by definition (because it's American Studies) and one because it's CUNY Grad Center.

YAYY!! Wow, awesome program too. Congrats!

I keep looking at my e-mail from CUNY to try to figure out if it's a prank from someone.

Thanks Timshel! Same to you on UCR -- that's a freaking great program.

I studied an absurd amount for that stupid, meaningless little test, but, quite frankly, there is just very little on that test that has anything remotely do with my chosen fields of interest. Here's my story: I started studying 6 months beforehand, did the Princeton Review book, did the practice test, got a 530, made about 500 flash cards, read a large bulk of the norton anthology of English lit, memorized many poems, many names of Greek and Roman deities, recorded all my flash cards and a few select poems as audio files on my computer and listened to it on the subway every day for 2 months, took another practice test, got a 530, crammed the whole week before, took the test and... surprise of all surprises! 530! (I did however go 165/6.0 on V/W) Simultaneously, I did about 12 drafts of my basic SoP and 6 or 7 drafts of my writing sample. I also read about 25 journal articles and 10 books related to my thesis and my field to try to upgrade my writing sample to publishable quality. That stuff has, apparently, really paid off. The 6 months studying for the subject test? Almost a complete waste of my time.

HA! For me too! Now if only they had a special place to clip your toenails...

Oh Jesus, if I could tell you how unbelievably angry bureaucratic CUNY e-mails have made me this semester... every time I saw one I was like "ADMISSION????" Even if the subject line said, "CUNY Budget Letter" or "Parking Lot Closed 02/01/12-02/09/12."

If you want classic evidence of that, my subject test score is 530. That is proof that it doesn't mean anything.

Thanks Grunty. I think no one is more shocked about this stuff than I am. I'm really pulling for you, man.

It was sent directly from a faculty member. Another note of advice: if you are currently a CUNY student at Queens, Hunter, Brooklyn, etc., check your WebPortal e-mail address. That's where I was notified and I was not expecting the e-mail to come there at all. It was NOT the contact e-mail I put on my application. Good luck cquin and grunty! I'm really pulling for you!!

I just got an e-mail from Robert Reid-Pharr congratulating me on my acceptance... to... the... CUNY... I... total state of shock. Too much unbelievable craziness.... head exploding... Good luck to everyone else!! This is like a dream come true!

Looks like someone in comp/rhetoric got an acceptance e-mail. I wonder if it's someone I know.

Just read this on the results board from someone else who was accepted: " Follow-up from e-mail acceptance below--Received a letter from the DGS, and I was not offered any form of funding. Yikes! That makes me tense.

I could deal too, especially if it were three sections of the same class (ENG 1 or 2, for example). I don't have a good estimate of how many, but I know some students in the Sociology department (a little larger cohort than English) who are unfunded and do a 3/3 to get by. Then again, that's a lecture-based class -- they don't have to grade 450 papers (plus revisions... 900???) a semester.

I assume that if you're a GTF your teaching load is only 2 courses a semester, but if you have to adjunct with a remission to pay your way through, it's definitely a 3/3 load you're looking at. I currently work for CUNY and make $3,800 per section per semester. $7,600x3 = the cost of living in New York approximately.

I do too! I think a 3/3 course load simultaneous with full-time coursework, independent research, comps, etc. might end up killing me, but hell... that's what we all should expect when we sign on the dotted line, eh?

CUNY is an awesome program, but I think their cohorts are traditionally large and you should expect some teaching. Amazing faculty though...

Yeesh. One can only hope for an early acceptance or else the feeling of limbo will have to continue for a while...