quena Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 I have Upenn and Colorado Boulder left. Boulder only offers an MA program now. They said they'd notify during the first week of March. I don't know about Upenn. Haven't heard anything, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appppplication Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 It sucks when there's nobody else on the boards waiting for the same schools to notify. You never know what the timeline is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t1racyjacks Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 I have nothing left except Stanford MLT, but since there's a 1% acceptance rate there I'm not very hopeful. also -- ok sorry -- but this has been bothering me for weeks -- and I have to get it off my chest. I can't help feeling that there might be something wrong with me because I got 75% of my british apps in but rejections from my american ones (thus far, there's only stanford left). please don't scold me for being 'negative' -- I just need to get it off my chest. can't help wondering if it's because I'm inferior in some way :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appppplication Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 (edited) Its not you. Department sizes and funding for the humanities have been dwindling in the US. Mostly due to the recession and the shrinking number of tenure track positions. Also I imagine that US programs just receive 3 or 4 times more applicants than most UK programs. Even Oxbridge gets way fewer PhD apps than US correlates. Don't feel bad. At the final round of decisions everyone is more than qualified and decisions become much more arbitrary. But also you applied to the most competitive US programs. Edited February 7, 2015 by Appppplication Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__________________________ Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 First, I Just want to send a double congrats to Gustav for the acceptances! It sucks when there's nobody else on the boards waiting for the same schools to notify. You never know what the timeline is. I can at least stand with quena in saying I'm waiting to hear from Penn's comp lit program (I would have applied to an equal amount of English and Comp Lit if it weren't for a variety of non-academic related factors). I can echo this for Medieval Studies though - which like comp lit seems to be on a schedule completely different from both English and comparative literature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quena Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 mollifiedmolloy, congratulations on your acceptances! (I haven't looked at other threads these days so I might be a bit late ) And good luck with the rest! It seems that you are doing great so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__________________________ Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 mollifiedmolloy, congratulations on your acceptances! (I haven't looked at other threads these days so I might be a bit late ) And good luck with the rest! It seems that you are doing great so far Thanks, quena! Best of luck with yours too! I'm looking forward to seeing Comp Lit popping like English has. I wonder if comp lit programs (or any more comparative or interdisciplinary programs) take longer to get acceptances together simply because so many departments have large chunks of faculty rooted in other departments... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appppplication Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 I didn't really think about the difficulty of gathering a bunch of profs from different depts @mollifiedmolloy. That definitely makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katla Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Congratulations Gustav on your acceptance to Cornell! And I apologise if I missed someone else. Currently using my holiday to force myself to check the board less. Which clearly is not working And yes, big congratulations to you too mollifiedmolloy! t1racyjacks I can only Appppplication's comments about not taking the US rejections personally! When I applied first time in 2011 I got rejected from the PhD programmes In applied for in the US but was accepted to really good UK masters. I think that apart from the smaller amount of acceptances there's the very real fact that many US programmes offer you funding, and when you apply you know there's 75% chance or more that you are it'll be funded. In the UK this is not the case, of course funding is not an impossibility in the UK but it's much less certain and you're frequently much more reliant on external funding or year by year funding. I know several people who had to reassess their phd plans because they didn't secure any. Obviously it may be easier to fund a PhD here because they're relatively cheaper Re unis I'm still waiting for the official rejection from Cornell, more specific news from Rutgers and any news at all from UCLA, nyu, Michigan, Washington, Stanford and Harvard... Not expecting good news from any of them just now... But I'm in Rome so I, perhaps stupidly, think I'll be able to handle the rejections better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubmarineReflection Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Yep, still waiting to hear from Stanford, NYU, Brown, and Harvard comp lit programs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quena Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 please don't scold me for being 'negative' -- I just need to get it off my chest. can't help wondering if it's because I'm inferior in some way :unsure: I've got only rejections so far, so I echo this. I was really in "maybe I'm just not good enough to even make it to the waitlist" sort of self-doubt. But hey, I don't even have time to dwell upon this thought since I recently moved to a new town, have another semester ahead, and also have a whole MA thesis to finish. I guess we just need to keep telling ourselves that the applications are just a tiny part of our lives, which will go on with or without acceptances (not to mention that you are already accepted to wonderful places ) Gustav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appppplication Posted February 8, 2015 Author Share Posted February 8, 2015 Everyone still alive here????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Q84 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Wow looks like comp lit acceptances are starting to trickle in... Congrats to admits to Yale and UCSB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quena Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Everyone still alive here????? Trying to stay alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fancypants09 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 I just saw a NYU Comp Lit acceptance on the Results Board!! Congrats whoever you are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuclearves Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 It is nice to hear some good news! Congrats to the people who got UCSB, NYU and Yale acceptances. I am thinking about how good it will feel to get an acceptance and to know you have funding too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t1racyjacks Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Trying to stay alive. LOL for me it's proving a struggle. they're testing my blood right now to see what the hell is wrong with me. I daresay it's psychosomatic in some way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katla Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Yes, definitely huge congrats to the silent Yale, nyu and ucsb acceptances!!! I haven't heard anything from nyu, so I'm guessing it's a no go... Here's hoping both they and Cornell will be kind and send rejections soon! T1racyjacks I hope you get better soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubmarineReflection Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Also no word from NYU, which is kind of funny because I had a dream last night I got rejected from there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appppplication Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 This week we're going to get real results! I can feel it! quena 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quena Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 This week we're going to get real results! I can feel it! Hoping for the same! BTW Is Result Board currently down? Seems like I can't access it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appppplication Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 Accepted to UC Riverside comp lit with four years funding (I have an MA)!!!!! SOOOOOOO happy!!!! __________________________, Katla, Gustav and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fancypants09 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 OMG!!! Congrats!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appppplication Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 Thanks! I was starting to get worried! Since I had heard no word I thought perhaps that they had already notified but that none of the applicants were on GC. But thankfully I was wrong!! I'm very excited! First acceptance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__________________________ Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Accepted to UC Riverside comp lit with four years funding (I have an MA)!!!!! SOOOOOOO happy!!!! Congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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