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susamli

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  1. I'm about to turn down their offer in Comp Lit, if that's any help...I hope it is...
  2. Yeah, that was my original suspicion, that it was a form letter tweaked by the professors to sound a bit more personalized. Just wanted to check and be sure though. As to Chicago's concern for our well-being...One thing I found ironic about that paragraph is that on the MAPH website there is a page devoted to a list of PhD humanities programs to which its graduates have been accepted. It seems kind of like a brag sheet. And lots of the schools they list are definitely not top ten or top twenty schools. I just felt like I was being manipulated. I have no doubt that MAPH is a fantastic program that does great things for its graduates. I think anyone who chooses to enroll is in for a wonderful year and opportunities. But I really do resent that paragraph, especially since their obvious agenda is to get us to enroll in their own program.
  3. I'll definitely take one of the funded PhD spots somewhere else. What I found ironic about that paragraph was that on the MAPH website, there is a page devoted to a list of PhD humanities programs to which their graduates have been accepted. Kind of like a brag sheet, I guess. All three of the schools where I was accepted/waitlisted are on said list. I'm trying to decide what/if I should write back or not. After all, the email was personalized, and because I know that academia can be so horribly political, I don't want to start out by giving anyone in the field a bad opinion of me. On the other hand, I found that paragraph to be discourteous and pompous. Ugh. Suggestions?
  4. So, I was rejected from UChicago's Comp Lit PhD program and admitted by its MAPH program without any funding. That's cool - very fortunately, I have two other PhD admits with funding and a number-one-on-the-waitlist. A professor at UChicago wrote me a personalized email telling me about the MAPH program and why she thinks I specifically would do well in it. Very kind of her. Then I get to this paragraph: "Whether or not you are interested in joining MAPH, we hope very much that you will investigate the job placement records of any doctoral programs that you consider before committing yourself to one. Doctoral programs in the Humanities with good placement records are rare (a good placement record is one in which a program is able to place at least half of its PhDs in tenure-track academic jobs within two years of the students' completion of the degree). Since the main reason to pursue doctoral work is as the first stage of an academic career in a four-year institution or university, this means that most students in doctoral programs
  5. Hm, actually Master's I'm not certain about - I just know that (yay!) I got into the PhD program.
  6. Yes, they've definitely made their admissions offers.
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