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How snobbish are the Ivys???
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Fall 2013 English Lit Applicants
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elbow2332 replied to Galoup11's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Hello lit friends, Long-time stalker from a sister discipline. I just want to drop amidst the many congratulations, which I echo, a note of appreciation for everyone's collective fear and loathing and psychosis and support and exultation over the last six months. It has been important to my sanity to see peers and colleagues going through the same. I'm heading to Berkeley--accepted this morning--and their film department encourages collaboration with other fields. Literature and philosophy are my other loves, so maybe I'll see some of you around! Yours, E -
Congrats, all! I received a late unwaitlisting from USC, but ended up sticking with Berkeley anyway. Is anyone still grinding out final decisions?
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Jesusrules, by "theory" do have more in mind Eisenstein/Bazin/Metz or Derrida/Deleuze/Lyotard? Or some other theoretical set? My understanding is that with the exception of Dana Polan, NYU tends to steer clear of the D/D/L route. (Or Bordwell's SLAB, for that matter.) [unrelated note: I deleted my school ranking post, not as an implied retraction but because it just struck me as potentially foolhardy to leave those views in public.]
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Oh yeah, now I remember you'd gotten into a few MA/Ph.D.s too. Congrats on the positive response, anyway!
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Good news, I hope, MrBrooklyn?
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Vanilla Tea, your points are well-taken, especially on "interesting." In hindsight, that was a sloppy bit of http://en.wikipedia....egant_variation to avoid reusing the word "leading," which is decidedly less subjective. Certainly many external criteria enter into our decisions. I like warmth, for one! I had a personal preference ranking of the eight universities I applied to that considered, but did not rely entirely upon, my tierings. I thought Indiana was the bee's knees fit-wise for me, but I also had to bear in mind that they could not offer many of the resources that Yale could irrespective of interests. But then both rejected me anyway, so pah. All the same, if I were on a hiring committee and there were two candidates, one who went to Georgia State and had advisers with very close interests, and another who went to Harvard and had to be a little more self-directed because there was no South Asian scholar available, I would expect the latter "to have a much better chance of coming out a well rounded media/film scholar." Perhaps you and I would differ in our leanings there. For what it's worth: although I enjoy batting around these rankings or tierings in personal conversation or on the GF forums, I wouldn't want to take them any further. My worry is that institutionalized hard-and-fast rankings (like the USNWR's or the NRC's) might on the whole not be good for us. Does anyone think we would be better off with a http://www.philosoph...com/overall.asp or a http://grad-schools....glish-rankings?
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New admissions details: I've spent some time talking to NYU people after my interview. Four students were admitted to fill four Ph.D. spots. NYU has an unranked waitlist from which to draw assuming they have less than 100% yield. Everyone's who was accepted or waitlisted has been notified. Also, http://chronicle.com/article/Graduate-Programs-in/131123/ is pertinent to the cohort size discussion and our long-term career prospects. I'm not sure what it might spell for CMS/RTF/CallUsWhatYouWill, an expanding discipline in a contracting market.
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No, I haven't yet. Perhaps they're sending it Pony Express? They've summarily ignored all requests for status checks, so that won't be of any help to you, either. I at least have not. I don't want to count any NYU chickens before they hatch.
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@apk0021, there's unfortunately scant admissions information available in our field. Leaving aside a few figures for Ph.D.s, with respect to MAs I'm only aware of http://cinema.tisch.nyu.edu/object/cinemaFAQ.html#q3717. Even that 1/3 figure must be averaging all levels, though, so I'm not sure how helpful it is. If there's a program or two you'd want to learn more about you could always email a department secretary at the schools.
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Hi friends, Long-time reader late joining the discussion. For what it's worth I emailed the grad coordinator at Harvard almost a week ago. I asked whether (as I assume) all acceptances and any waitlisters have been notified. I haven't heard anything back but I'll let you know if I do. Also, have any other Yale applicants not heard back? I saw American Studies (my other dept) sent out a blast of rejections yesterday, including one AmSt/FilmSt. I'm cautiously hopeful that no news is good news, and I'm wondering if anyone in in the same boat.