Tober Posted February 19, 2018 Posted February 19, 2018 16 hours ago, DatGuy said: Excited and anxious to see what this week holds! Same! Good luck to everyone.
DorsalFins Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 On 2/19/2018 at 6:22 AM, Tober said: Same! Good luck to everyone. Only school I haven't been rejected by, yet, prayers aren't begrudged to supplement luck
DatGuy Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 (edited) On 15/02/2018 at 9:34 AM, kaxtar1 said: I mean the questions seem to be clearly focused on if there was a place for the interviewed. What questions did y'all ask/what were their respective answers? I basically was asked: 1. How my writing sample links to what I want to do for the doctorate. 2. An esoteric question pertaining to a book in my field, and how what I said in (1) relates to it. 3. Why I hadn't used the word postcolonial despite talking about postcolonial things for basically 8 minutes. 4. How I would teach a course on World Literature to undergrads. 5. What is the first thing I want to do upon entering grad school, and what is the first thing I should do. These were basically the five or so larger questions we talked about. Don't remember if there was anything else particularly notable, except for questions pertaining to my knowledge of the languages I want to work in. What about you guys? Edited February 20, 2018 by DatGuy
DatGuy Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 12 minutes ago, kaxtar1 said: Only school I haven't been rejected by, yet, prayers aren't begrudged to supplement luck May the force be with you!
immanentfields Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 Yale rejection via an email to check status. Looks like a big wave of them on the results board.
Missing Person 11 Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Received a very good offer from SUNY-Buffalo, with presidential fellowship. I was wondering if anyone on this thread is also planning to go there?
DatGuy Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 12 hours ago, Missing Person 11 said: Received a very good offer from SUNY-Buffalo, with presidential fellowship. I was wondering if anyone on this thread is also planning to go there? Amazing. Congratulations! I'm getting antsy waiting on Penn in the meanwhile, as is like 40% of this thread!
superfluouswoman Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 On 2/16/2018 at 3:00 PM, mxiongturquoise said: Hi! No words from Northwestern yet. I emailed the program coordinator and was told the following: "We hope to have our final admissions decisions made soon. Please be sure to check CollegeNet. We appreciate your patience and understanding." Dying to hear from them too--I so hope to get to stay in Chicago... Got my Northwestern rejection today. Hoping you had better luck!
heysickah Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Hey all! I am/was hoping to do Comparative Literature. I only applied to one program*, and I'm currently sitting nervously and precariously on a waitlist. *Due to community ties and that my partner and I are building our first house in the area.
immanentfields Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 On the waitlist at Princeton, via a kind but formal email from the grad school dean just now.
WildeThing Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Officially rejected from Princeton, so just waiting on UCLA now.
superfluouswoman Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Rejected from Princeton and Northwestern today and rejected from Yale yesterday. It's been rough, fam. Praying to the ancestors for Penn.
immanentfields Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 39 minutes ago, heysickah said: Hey all! I am/was hoping to do Comparative Literature. I only applied to one program*, and I'm currently sitting nervously and precariously on a waitlist. *Due to community ties and that my partner and I are building our first house in the area. Can I ask which wait-list? I've been incredibly lucky to have multiple offers, and I think a few other people here have been too, so there might be some forthcoming movement .
mxiongturquoise Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 3 hours ago, jshaarawi said: Got my Northwestern rejection today. Hoping you had better luck! On the same boat—got the rejection from them as well. Hug... superfluouswoman 1
Yanaka Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 6 hours ago, WildeThing said: Officially rejected from Princeton, so just waiting on UCLA now. So sorry you're having a bad season. I know all the feels. Hang in there
WildeThing Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 21 minutes ago, Yanaka said: So sorry you're having a bad season. I know all the feels. Hang in there Thanks, just means I need to reflect more on what I’m doing. Also add official Stanford and Cornell rejections today.
mxiongturquoise Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 2 hours ago, WildeThing said: Thanks, just means I need to reflect more on what I’m doing. Also add official Stanford and Cornell rejections today. Hi! So sorry to hear about all our rejections...but I like the idea that these are opportunities for reflection and further growth. I've been dying to hear back from Cornell as well, although I'm pretty sure it's an implied rejection. May I ask whether you received an email about it?
WildeThing Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 4 minutes ago, mxiongturquoise said: Hi! So sorry to hear about all our rejections...but I like the idea that these are opportunities for reflection and further growth. I've been dying to hear back from Cornell as well, although I'm pretty sure it's an implied rejection. May I ask whether you received an email about it? Very brief email from Comp Lit DGS (Karen Pinkus I think) this afternoon.
mxiongturquoise Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 10 minutes ago, WildeThing said: Very brief email from Comp Lit DGS (Karen Pinkus I think) this afternoon. Got it! Thanks...I'm sure a similar email will be waiting for me tomorrow.
heysickah Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 On 2/21/2018 at 1:51 PM, immanentfields said: Can I ask which wait-list? I've been incredibly lucky to have multiple offers, and I think a few other people here have been too, so there might be some forthcoming movement . UNC-Chapel Hill. I hope that you are right!
immanentfields Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 15 hours ago, mxiongturquoise said: Got it! Thanks...I'm sure a similar email will be waiting for me tomorrow. Just got mine as well.
DatGuy Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 Has anyone heard from Penn, or have a more recent idea of when they’re going to get back to us by?
immanentfields Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 48 minutes ago, DatGuy said: Has anyone heard from Penn, or have a more recent idea of when they’re going to get back to us by? Nope. They're the only school I have left to hear from at this point too.
DatGuy Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 21 minutes ago, immanentfields said: Nope. They're the only school I have left to hear from at this point too. Yeah, same. I really hope they let us know by tomorrow. I’m a bit on edge.
superfluouswoman Posted February 23, 2018 Posted February 23, 2018 3 hours ago, DatGuy said: Yeah, same. I really hope they let us know by tomorrow. I’m a bit on edge. Same. They said 1-2 weeks though. So, it might be another week of anguish.
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