veniente Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 (edited) Holy Fuck.* I just got into Columbia. *Forgive me for my language! Edited February 21, 2012 by arrivant lolopixie and ecritdansleau 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perrykm2 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Awesome!! Congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deebee Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Oh my goodness congrats!!! By phone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the international Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Holy Fuck. I just got into Columbia. WOW! Congratulations!! Just now?? (No sleep for me then.. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripWillis Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Wow, arrivant. Way to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolopixie Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Awesomeness! You better do it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HunkyDory Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 English? Comp Lit? Give us the details! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
girlmostlikely Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 I HAD THE EXACT SAME REACTION. This has been my dream for nearly 3 years. I have surpassed Q and arrived at R. Now onto Z!! I am revelling in literary citationality because I cannot process it in any other way. ecritdansleau 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitespoir Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I have no idea what that means, girlmostlikely, but I think congratulations are in order?! To you too arrivant! Now please, tell us whether it was by phone or email!! Although, I'm sure I would be out of control excited too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Grimwig Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Congratulations arrivant and girlmostlikely! Just got an acceptance email from Columbia, too. Absolutely gobsmacked. Two major acceptances in one day has left my head spinning. SO THANKFUL for this news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
girlmostlikely Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Gotan email from the assistant dean at GSAS. And reaching R is Mr. Ramsey's metaphor for his academic ambitions in To the Lighthouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComeBackZinc Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 It's a To the Lighthouse reference. Which is one of my all-time favorite novels. Such a great school. Such a gorgeous campus. Plus, Ghostbusters! Congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veniente Posted February 21, 2012 Author Share Posted February 21, 2012 Thanks so much everyone - perrykm2, deebee, TripWillis ♥, lolopixie ♥, waiting international, petitespoir, comebackzinc, and massive congratulations to the others who got in! I'm getting gushy but I cannot give enough love to everyone who makes gradcafe amazing; without you, and your support, this whole process would have unbearable. I could've sworn I was going to go 0/12. I got an email from the assistant dean and then director of graduate studies. Posted dismal GRE scores on results board with acceptance (verbal and quant. should be the other way round). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Grimwig Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 As a Woolf obsessive, I'm loving the "R" references! "The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare..." girlmostlikely 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripWillis Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Arrivant -- you should change your handle to arrivé. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the international Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Congratulations again! May I ask, what are you guys's fields of research? I'm asking cuz its almost 3AM here and I should sleep instead of clicking 'refresh'. Maybe you're all Renaissance scholars and I can go to sleep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Aged P Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Wow, wonderful, everyone! And that's one hell of a first acceptance, arrivant! As with Brown, this was the reachiest of reaches for me so I'm not crushed that I didn't get the email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazelbite Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Congrats, all! Amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clmos Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 congratulations everybody! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two Espressos Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 (edited) Congrats, everyone! (EDIT: realized that a third person had been accepted to Columbia) Members of these forums have provided me with tremendously helpful advice and have been tremendously successful themselves, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to emulate them when I apply next fall. Edited February 21, 2012 by Two Espressos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veniente Posted February 21, 2012 Author Share Posted February 21, 2012 Arrivant -- you should change your handle to arrivé. Touché TripWillis! [Can I just take this chance to say you're awesome, we all know it.] May I ask, what are you guys's fields of research? Um, maybe like literary/critical/postcolonial theory (???). 700+ applicants for 15 spots. Again, you're all so freaking amazingly awesome (this is the first online community board-type thing I've ever been involved with, but I think I'm safe when I assume most aren't this great) and I'm pulling so so so hard for everyone yet to hear. xx The Cost of It All (despite their protestations about being fair/'blind' or whatever when it comes to funding, the application costs to programs are still an insurmountable access barrier for many - this needs redressing asap): GRE/Subject study books - $85 (not including the Norton's) GRE/Subject exams - $470 (2 GRE, 1 subject) Official transcript costs - $75 (2 universities *idiotically* requiring originals) Postage costs - $35 (posting transcripts to the other side of the world) Online application costs - $1010 (12 English grad. programs) Thank you gifts to 3 references - $125 = $1800 Hours of MA lost in favour of GRE/PhD app. studying/writing/worring: Unaccountable SOP re-drafts: Too many Sleep lost: Untold amounts Dreams pertaining to grad school over the last three years: Frightening in their number Alcohol imbibed following each rejection: Enormous quantities Worrying (after belatedly finding gradcafe) about no other languages bar English / no POI contact / low-ish GRE scores: Lots Finding out someone, crazily, wants me: See OP. veniente 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayo Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 700+ applicants for 15 spots. Say whaaa? That's amazing! Congratulations to you all!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecritdansleau Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 (edited) I also just got the news of acceptance. Congratulations to the Arrivant, Mr Grimwig, and Girlmostlikely! (and since I read girlmostlikely's SOP, I must say I am not surprised you made it in!) I HAD THE EXACT SAME REACTION. This has been my dream for nearly 3 years. I have surpassed Q and arrived at R. Now onto Z!! I am revelling in literary citationality because I cannot process it in any other way. LOVE THIS!--My sentiments exactly, about Columbia as the "dream." I visited there years ago, and pretty much everything I've done--from my undergrad courses, to figuring out "fit" and current scholarship in my field, and carrying out my applications since then has been accompanied by the "please Columbia" feeling in the back of my mind. When I got the first e-mail, it was actually surreal. I am, in a rare moment, speechless! For the record, my area is 20th century. I am seriously in complete shock. Edited February 21, 2012 by ecritdansleau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the international Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 (Thanks for your reply arrivant ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stately Plump Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Congrats to all who got in! Seriously, I'm so excited that people from gradcafe are going on to such incredible opportunities. You should all be proud of yourselves! You deserve it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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