goldfinch1880 Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 saw someone start one of these a couple of years ago and it seemed to go over well. This isn't meant to be a place to harass people to make decisions, just a place to reveal what programs you've declined (and accepted if possible) and what subfield you're in, to give waitlisters a way to gauge waitlist movement. good luck! On that note.....I'm almost positive I'll be turning down a funded PhD offer at Northeastern within the next week. Hope that helps someone!
thepriorwalter Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 Turned down: Alberta, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, University of Florida Accepted: Michigan Areas: gender and sexuality, pop culture, 20th-century American
CarolineNC Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 Turned down: Florida, Oregon, Kansas, UMass Amherst, SUNY Binghamton, William and Mary (Am Studies) Picking Between: Austin, Chapel Hill, UC Davis (will probably turn down UC Davis but I'm still nervous about funding and UC Davis offered me a lot more) Areas: Nineteenth- and early- twentieth-century American literature and culture (Am. regionalism, domestic literature, immigrant literature); space and place studies, gender studies.
wetheplants Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 Just got rejected from Cambridge, an hour after emailing them politely asking when I might hear back..... sigh. Was kind of my top choice too.
silenus_thescribe Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 Turned down: Miami University (fully funded MA), Chicago MAPH, will turn down U of Iowa PhD if I end up off the waitlist. Accepted: UT-Austin English PhD Areas: Dramatic literature (particularly 20th and 21st century Anglo-American), philosophy and literature, 20th/21st century American, film (especially film noir and the nouvelle vague).
allplaideverything Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 Turned down: Oregon, Syracuse, Fordham (just a couple days ago) Still choosing between: UC Davis, UC Riverside, and USC (Creative Writing track)
AsKingfishersCatchFire. Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 I turned down many offers. They are all crossed out below in the signature. I will also be turning down Tulsa, and potentially Purdue and Kentucky, soon! I hope these help somebody get into their programs with funding!
1Q84 Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 I have nothing to contribute yet but are folks calling or emailing to turn down offers? And to whom are you all addressing the message? sherdim411 1
allplaideverything Posted March 24, 2015 Posted March 24, 2015 I've emailed POIs and administrators to let them know. I called my POI at Syracuse, because we'd had more contact, and I'll almost certainly call my folks at either Riverside or Davis, but typically email is fine. 1Q84 1
pannpann Posted March 24, 2015 Posted March 24, 2015 I turned down my offer at UVM. I was #2 on the waitlist for funding so hopefully that will help someone out! Accepted funded offer from Villanova. doc1 1
slightlymoreanonymous Posted March 24, 2015 Posted March 24, 2015 I've turned down Nebraska, Iowa State, Purdue, and TCU. Still need to talk with Clemson and Michigan State and officially accept Florida State. I hate sending these emails though--it feels like a break-up each time! Katla, iwontbelyeveit, AsKingfishersCatchFire. and 1 other 4
CarolineNC Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 Just turned down Davis. I hope somebody wonderful gets in off the waitlist and I hope it's a grad cafe person! allplaideverything and silenus_thescribe 2
InHacSpeVivo Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 I don't think this affects any regulars, but I turned down University of Rhode Island's funding offer by default (didn't accept by their deadline). I've turned down Nebraska, Iowa State, Purdue, and TCU. Still need to talk with Clemson and Michigan State and officially accept Florida State. I hate sending these emails though--it feels like a break-up each time! Re: MSU... Are you English or WRAC?
unræd Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 I chickened out and emailed--the DGS if I didn't have a lot of contact with the school, or the DGS and POIs if I did. I'm done with my notifications, so at this point I've turned down Notre Dame (Medieval Studies, the rest are English), Yale, OSU, UCONN, Stanford, Cornell, and Urbana. Hope there's good news in there for someone! margeryhemp 1
hypervodka Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 Turned down offers from USC and UCONN. By email, both times. In the case of UCONN, I emailed my star POI before I emailed the DGS. Best of luck! SilasWegg 1
Wonton Soup Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 I turned down, uh, all the schools I didn't apply to. *fits in* ilnomedellarosa, empress-marmot, jean-luc-gohard and 4 others 7
slightlymoreanonymous Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 Inhacspevivo, I'm WRAC! But an MA, not a doctoral student
kurayamino Posted March 26, 2015 Posted March 26, 2015 I've turned down Indiana-Bloomington and will likely turn down Michigan by the end of the week. I hope this helps someone here on GC! janaca, allplaideverything and margeryhemp 3
Mattie Roh Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 I turned down, uh, all the schools I didn't apply to. *fits in* hahaha...me too. What are schmucks like us doing in this thread? Living vicariously, I guess. Congrats to all of your deserving scholars out there!
AsKingfishersCatchFire. Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Turned down Purdue's offer for MA/PHD, full-funding. I really hope someone here gets it!
1Q84 Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 Just turned down offer from UCR (I was categorized as early modern). Hope it helps someone here! allplaideverything and tacitmonument 2
wetheplants Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 Just turned down offer from UVA, and will also turn down offer from UChicago's MAPH tonight... hope that will help out somebody out there on the wait list!! =]
postwarfever Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 Turned down Purdue for PhD (20th century American lit.)
1Q84 Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 Turned down University of Toronto (early modern). I don't even know if there's anyone here still waiting for UT but here's hoping! allplaideverything and InHacSpeVivo 2
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