So... what's next?

[wintergirl]

This is ridiculously preemptive since I still have applications to finish (some due the 15th, the rest at the end of the month), but I'm already anxious about what happens next. I know that in the general board threads for applications, people are talking about interviews, etc. Does that happen for Lit programs as well? If so, when?

These next few months are going to be hellish, aren't they. :|

[Timshel]

The only school that I know of that still does interviews is Emory.

[truckbasket]

These next few months are going to be hellish, aren't they. :|

You have no idea . . .

[lolopixie]

Yea, there really aren't many programs that do interviews anymore. I know for sure Emory still does, as Timshel stated. January will be pretty straight because there aren't a lot of schools sending out decisions. Now come February....ugh. You will be obsessively checking this board to see if anyone has posted an acceptance, checking your email, phones, websites...it gets pretty gnarly.

[Mistral]

I think Stanford does interviews also.

[darjeelingtea16]

Notre Dame's PhD in Lit program supposedly also does interviews.

[Mistral]

You could make a list of the estimated times you will hear back from schools based on last year's results (so you have an idea of when to really start panicking... )

[Grunty DaGnome]

You could make a list of the estimated times you will hear back from schools based on last year's results (so you have an idea of when to really start panicking... )

A list is unnecessary. For this, they have created the Grad Cafe results board, which we will all be checking 10 times daily, starting in January

Edited December 10, 2011 by Grunty DaGnome

[Mistral]

A list is unnecessary. For this, they have created the Grad Cafe results board

Yup, a list of estimated dates that you will hear from particular schools based on last year's Grad Cafe results board is what I was trying to describe. A calendar layout might be even better.

[lolopixie]

And I thought I was type A lol

[Grunty DaGnome]

Not type A; type Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[Mistral]

I haven't made a list or calendar..... yet. Just thought about it. By the middle of January, I will probably have all of the estimated result dates memorized anyway...

[bdon19]

I haven't made a list or calendar..... yet. Just thought about it. By the middle of January, I will probably have all of the estimated result dates memorized anyway...

I haven't made a list, but I'm pretty sure I already have the estimated result dates memorized. Or at least I know based on a ballpark (like, middle of February, 18th-20th of Feb, that kind of stuff).

[Grunty DaGnome]

Just don't anyone have a heart attack in January when you start to get routine application status emails from all your top programs!