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RUTGERS!! As an early americanist, I knew all along it was my top choice, so it was sort of a no brainer to accept.

The same email came to me Isidore, but I already accepted rutgers's offer, so I let them know that. Hope things turn out ok for you!

Okay, so the SUNY schools are going through some mega funding issues and the Albany campus in particular has had to cut 5 programs (Theatre, Classics, French, Spanish, and Italian). So because David Wills is primarily in the French department, and since his wife is leaving for a professorship elsewhere, I'm not sure that he will be here next year. The amount of people admitted to PhD programs in the humanities has definitely gone down due to these monetary issues. Also, we are building a new business building as well as a new nano something-or-other building (even though we already have both of those builings already), and that seems to be where all of our money is going. For Americanists, the department isn't in excellent shape at this moment. One is retiring, one is leaving for columbia, and one is gone for a year at least. The other one is almost tenured, but not just yet. The department does have a lot of faculty that do creative writing (LYDIA DAVIS, Lynne Tillman, Edward Schwarzschild, Tomas Noel, Don Byrd). But we have a pretty good strong hold in Renaissance and Modernism, too. If anyone has any more specific questions about professors, procedures, or anything like that, feel free to private message me.

I am currently attending here for undergrad and I love it! The dept though is going through many changes. And I'm pretty sure David Wills is leaving since the French dept is closing after this semester. My professor also told me they got close to 200 applicants and only are accepting 5-7 students.

Got a call on Saturday morning from one of my POIs. So shocked! I had 23rd percentile on the subject test, 69th percentile on verbal, but I got 6/6 on the writing. I guess they didnt care since they really liked my writing sample and what i was doing for my thesis. This is my top choice, so I'm super excited! I'm an early americanist.

I too got a call about a TA interview on Friday and got the acceptance email from DGS last night, very exciting!