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LeFresne

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  1. http://who-got-in.li...com/103121.html Who Got In is a LiveJournal group that prospective grads can visit, ask questions and post results to. It's a useful resourced, but navigating it can be daunting since it's 30 page and counting with little organization (because it's an LJ thread). Hope this helps. I think CUNY results appear somewhere near page 28 and on. Not certain though.
  2. Columbia sent out some acceptances and waitlist notifications already, so it's possible that they're about to send out the remainder of their notifications and decided not to answer individual inquiries. Looking through Who Got In on LJ it seems that CUNY has sent out acceptances and waitlist notifications already as well. It is weird that they never responded to you though. Who did you contact?
  3. Just adding this because I thought it was funny: I had planned to contact Columbia the first week of April, but a member of the faculty contacted me instead to ask if I was still interested in applying to the program. Strange, no?
  4. Yeah, CityZen has a pretty good method for contacting the school. I haven't drafted an email yet so I don't have anything to add--I think it's completely legitimate to contact a school when you have admissions decisions you need to make. I just recommend waiting until after their official time for notifications. I'm bouncing off the walls waiting for Emory to send out decisions, but their website says they might not be able to reach admissions decisions until the second week of March. So I'll respect that deadline, even though it means I have to wait an extra week before fully exploring and considering my options elsewhere.
  5. Hi Carrs4. I think you're probably fine. Several of us in this thread are still awaiting feedback from programs we applied to in early January. At this point, February 15th is the recent past by most admissions standards. Don't freak out yet. I don't know much about the MA programs that you've listed, but I imagine they have some kind of ballpark estimate as to when you can expect to hear back. Additionally it may help to search the results survey on this site for some notion of when you might hear from your these programs. Although, this is not always helpful--circumstances change from year to year so it may take longer to hear back from some schools this year than it did last year. Hope that helps.
  6. To clarify: I split my applications into Philosophy programs and English programs with emphasis on Medieval Literature. Since I'm not quite up to par for PhD programs in Comp. Lit. (I lack languages, I was a double major as an undergrad and concentrated on philosophy and medieval studies), accepting an MA offer is just about the only thing I can do to advance in this area. I would probably not accept an MA offer for Philosophy (unless it was fully funded, which seems very unlikely to happen). Attending an MA in English seems to make a lot more sense though. But I could be wrong, and I probably am! This is my first year applying.
  7. I'm wondering the same thing myself--I applied to Columbia's PhD program and got rejected, but they sent my application to the Medieval Studies department whose deadline for applications is not until March 15th. Unfortunately this means I won't hear back from Columbia for at least another month. Since Columbia is such a great school it would be a complete game changer if I were to be accepted; I would have to very seriously reconsider my options, but by that time my other schools will be expecting to hear back from me. At this point it seems like contacting the department is the better of the two options precisely because everything is sort of hanging in the balance until I get word from them. I can't conceive of how this might hurt my chances of acceptance since I'm sure there are other students who are in the same position. Also, in one case I'll lose my funding if I don't respond by a certain date and therefore it'd be insane for me to hold out for Columbia, especially if I find out in the end that I've been rejected. It would be equally maddeningly to accept an offer only to learn that I'd been accepted to Columbia. In spite of the fact that the deadline is March 15th, I'm going to reach out to the department and request an update probably at the end of the first week of April. I really can't wait longer than that. There should be some kind of protocol for this though. The only reason I'm summoning the courage to contact the department is because I figure I haven't got much to lose, right?
  8. I've been accepted to the MAPH program as well. I received half tuition, but I was instructed to respond by April 29th, not April 15th. It would be absurd to require us to respond so early since their 'campus days' program falls on the 14th and 15th of April anyway. My biggest dilemma was that I had my mind pretty much made up not to attend the MAPH program until one of my philosophy profs who wrote letters for me told I shouldn't be so dismissive of it since Chicago is such a great school. Surely, we reasoned, it would not hurt my application to have an MA from a school as prestigious as The University of Chicago. But, on the other hand, the MA is NOT in my intended course of study for UChicago (I applied to the Philosophy department) and from what I've heard, the philosophy professors are not exactly warm to the MAPH students. What's more, I've been accepted to Fordham without funding and it costs the same as tuition at Chicago's MAPH AFTER my scholarship is applied. I wouldn't even consider the MAPH if I hadn't gotten funding and I'm still strongly leaning toward 'no.'
  9. Is anyone still waiting on Emory? I've been checking the results survey and nothing has come up, with the exception of one rejection and two suspect looking acceptances from mid-February.
  10. Their financial aid letters are attached to the bottom of the rejection/acceptance letter as a separate letter they link to, so if you haven't checked that out yet you should. You may have gotten it too. I don't know by what criteria they select people for tuition though, and I was fairly surprised to see that I had received the scholarship at all, since so many people are reporting that they're unfunded entirely. However, after I've searched this forum for feedback about UChicago's MAPH I'm even LESS sure than I was before. It gets a lot of mixed reviews--some people think it's an academic cash cow while others claim to have used it as an intense grooming process for another round of PhD applications with varying degrees of success. I forgot to mention that I'm still waiting to hear back from Columbia's Medieval Studies MA department as well, but even if I get rejected from all three schools, I'm not entirely sure if I'll attend the MAPH. At least not before I speak to faculty in the department and email one or two philosophy profs involved to see what it's about.
  11. Just heard back from University of Chicago's philosophy department. They've turned me down for admittance to the PhD program, but offered me half tuition and entrance to the MAPH. I should also mention that it looks like literally everyone who was rejected from UChicago was invited to join the MAPH program. Nice of them to offer me half tuition but I'm really not sure about this program. Does anyone know anything about it? Still waiting on Emory and Fordham.
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