j.alicea Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 (edited) 18 minutes ago, dilby said: They accepted my application and $$, so I hope they are taking new students !! I must be mistaken then - I can't imagine they would be accepting applications with no intention of admitting students. The chair of my department is the one who passed along that info in September - so maybe something changed between then and December, or I am misremembering things (most likely scenario). *** In fact, I know that I am misremembering things - I think it was Notre Dame (once again, someone correct me if I am wrong). The person who told me graduated from Duke, so I think that's where the false memory is coming from! Sorry if this freaked anybody out! Edited January 23, 2019 by j.alicea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sad_diamond Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 2 minutes ago, j.alicea said: so maybe something changed between then and December, or I am misremembering things (most likely scenario). I hope this is the case! If it's any comfort to fellow Duke Lit applicants they accepted 7 students last year and only 2 matriculated which seems like it could mean that they have a little more space this year! dilby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilby Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Just now, sad_diamond said: I hope this is the case! If it's any comfort to fellow Duke Lit applicants they accepted 7 students last year and only 2 matriculated which seems like it could mean that they have a little more space this year! Hell yeah, this factoid fuckin rules. Have a meme. fortschritt22, jadeisokay, beardedlady and 7 others 7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warelin Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Sometimes, The Graduate College and the Department have a miscommunication or a change in budget which causes some confusion. In recent years, Penn State has had their MFA in Creative Writing program pulled after applications were due. More recently, I think the same thing happened to Notre Dame's Literature (2017?, I think) program. In both cases, applicants were refunded. I think in both cases the department was trying to find extra money but couldn't do so and didn't want to admit unfunded students. Most colleges really are on your side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sad_diamond Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 @dilby jadeisokay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeisokay Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 (edited) oh my god that is such a good intersection of my interests. хорошая работа, товарища. Edited January 23, 2019 by jadeisokay sad_diamond 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disidentifications Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 2 hours ago, conraddy said: Duke decision is killing me... knowing that their window is the 19-23 (rather than, like, sometime in late January) has me looking at the application portal every 10 minutes. Jeepers!!! ohh, where'd you get the information from? i've always thought they simply tended to release their decisions towards the end of january and didn't exactly have a window to notify applicants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havemybloodchild Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 2 hours ago, WildeThing said: I have been refreshing my email for the past two hours but even if emails are personalized I don’t think Wisconsin would tske this long so i guess it’s another L. I was hoping that my implied rejections could he explained away as they are private schools and maybe I would fare better with big public schools. Seems like two of the acceptances are in my field too, so the odds are not good. Right now I’m bracing for another painful year of shut-outs, but at least with Wisconsin out of the way I am not expecting to (not) hear anything until next week with BC/Vanderbilt. I can pretend not to think about apps for a few days, then! Right there with you. The dread is real. There are no wrong emotional responses to this process. It’s not self deprecation, it’s recognition of the exceedingly low acceptance rates of humanities programs. Dread of not being accepted is often (and definitely for me) coupled with dread of low job prospects and being not in my 20s anymore. It’s okay to feel sad and defeated already. Just as it’s okay to feel optimistic. We’re all in this together. We all have our own ways of processing this process. Very happy for all who have been and will be accepted. Also standing in solidarity with those of us who are very afraid of what the next month or so holds. victoriansimpkins, SomeoneAcceptMe, conraddy and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdh12 Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 um santa cruz acceptance posted?!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barshmie Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 11 minutes ago, pdh12 said: um santa cruz acceptance posted?!?!? Woohoo congrats! We all need to hear good news like this to stay positive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdh12 Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 o snap it ain’t mine though!! thought i’d field it here//inform the collective. or could it be one among us?? so. tantalizing...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.alicea Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 17 minutes ago, pdh12 said: o snap it ain’t mine though!! thought i’d field it here//inform the collective. or could it be one among us?? so. tantalizing...... Hello! Additional info. in case you/anyone else is waiting to hear from them: official letters should be rolling out toward the end of this week and the accepted students date is March 14th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musmatatus Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 @j.alicea Big congrats to you! Thanks for the info, too. j.alicea 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conraddy Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 10 hours ago, flungoutofspace said: ohh, where'd you get the information from? i've always thought they simply tended to release their decisions towards the end of january and didn't exactly have a window to notify applicants. I found that on their website a while back and added it to my document of program notes... But of course now as I try to go back and find it, it's disappeared! I was pretty meticulous about putting the document together, so I would be surprised if I just totally spoofed on that, but it's definitely possible. I'm also having a hard time getting onto Duke's whole website at the moment, which is not at all my favorite timing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasperlenspieler Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 7 minutes ago, conraddy said: I found that on their website a while back and added it to my document of program notes... But of course now as I try to go back and find it, it's disappeared! I was pretty meticulous about putting the document together, so I would be surprised if I just totally spoofed on that, but it's definitely possible. I'm also having a hard time getting onto Duke's whole website at the moment, which is not at all my favorite timing. Here you are: https://gradschool.duke.edu/about/program-statistics (scroll down to find Literature, but you're right about 7 admitted, 2 matriculated) Duke is impressively transparent about admissions numbers which is appreciated. conraddy and disidentifications 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disidentifications Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 29 minutes ago, conraddy said: I found that on their website a while back and added it to my document of program notes... But of course now as I try to go back and find it, it's disappeared! I was pretty meticulous about putting the document together, so I would be surprised if I just totally spoofed on that, but it's definitely possible. I'm also having a hard time getting onto Duke's whole website at the moment, which is not at all my favorite timing. Right, because I recall seeing that somewhere too, but after being reminded of it by your post yesterday, I tried to confirm the details but couldn't find any mention of their intended notification window on the website. Do you think they might've removed it just because they no longer intend to notify us so early? (It's driving me a bit nuts, because I'm refreshing their results portal incessantly too.) 23 minutes ago, Glasperlenspieler said: Here you are: https://gradschool.duke.edu/about/program-statistics (scroll down to find Literature, but you're right about 7 admitted, 2 matriculated) Duke is impressively transparent about admissions numbers which is appreciated. Ah, I was asking about the notification period for Duke English, but I do appreciate this link! Time for me to over-analyse statistics to guess at my chances of... not being rejected. (*screams into the void*) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneAcceptMe Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 3 minutes ago, flungoutofspace said: Right, because I recall seeing that somewhere too, but after being reminded of it by your post yesterday, I tried to confirm the details but couldn't find any mention of their intended notification window on the website. Do you think they might've removed it just because they no longer intend to notify us so early? (It's driving me a bit nuts, because I'm refreshing their results portal incessantly too.) Ah, I was asking about the notification period for Duke English, but I do appreciate this link! Time for me to over-analyse statistics to guess at my chances of... not being rejected. (*screams into the void*) I too recall seeing this on the website, but for some reason I remember it saying they aimed to start getting decisions out after the 20th? At any rate, I've been refreshing my email since like 4 AM lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wordsworthian Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 12 hours ago, WildeThing said: Seems like two of the acceptances are in my field too, so the odds are not good. Right now I’m bracing for another painful year of shut-outs, but at least with Wisconsin out of the way I am not expecting to (not) hear anything until next week with BC/Vanderbilt. I can pretend not to think about apps for a few days, then! Oh my goodness does Vanderbilt actually start notifying that early!? Ahhhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildeThing Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 42 minutes ago, The Wordsworthian said: Oh my goodness does Vanderbilt actually start notifying that early!? Ahhhhh I have noted on my calendar the day on which I think admissions decisions will arrive (for those accepted and/or interviewed). So far, Emory and UW have notified on the day or even a day or two before. Chicago did so a week early. I have Vanderbilt down for exactly one week from now. I guess we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disidentifications Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 2 hours ago, SomeoneAcceptMe said: I too recall seeing this on the website, but for some reason I remember it saying they aimed to start getting decisions out after the 20th? At any rate, I've been refreshing my email since like 4 AM lol it's past the 20th (and i am compulsively checking my horoscope just because...) SomeoneAcceptMe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musmatatus Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Regarding vanishing dates on a website, it's possible that those were leftover from the previous year and they only updated it in some places and not others. You might check to see how the dates line up with last year's calendar (if it's more squarely a business week). disidentifications 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disidentifications Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 1 minute ago, sugilite said: Regarding vanishing dates on a website, it's possible that those were leftover from the previous year and they only updated it in some places and not others. You might check to see how the dates line up with last year's calendar (if it's more squarely a business week). in that case, the published dates are a couple of days before when decisions were announced last year. still, it's quite unnerving to know that at any moment, you'll be hit with That Email. (for someone who works so much with derrida's l'avenir/à-venir, i really don't deal very well with uncertainty in the future to come. ?) conraddy and FiguresIII 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bopie5 Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Even though I have all of the email addresses for the schools I applied to marked so they won’t go to my spam folder, I still end up checking my normal inbox and also my spam folder, several times an hour. Even though I’m not expecting to be notified for a week or two from my schools! Just forever waiting for That Email! placeinspace, disidentifications and victoriansimpkins 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilby Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 I set my phone to give me push notifications for my .edu email address — although since I'm not in school anymore, I don't use that for anything other than PhD stuff. It's been a good way to stop myself from relentlessly checking. disidentifications 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bopie5 Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 @dilby That’s a good idea, except my .edu is my main bc I’m still in school, and I get 30-40 emails to it a day! Think that would add to rather than relieve stress ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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