Projected Acceptance Dates for English PHD programs

[imogenshakes]

1 hour ago, Kilos said:

Can also confirm. Both calls I've received have come on Saturdays. One was at 2pm, another at 5pm.

Same. Mine today was at 2 EST. I'm going to be so nervous for the next few Saturdays if I don't hear much during the week.

[KikiDelivery]

I feel rather privileged because my acceptance to Pittsburgh came as an email. I would certainly not have expected a call over the weekend!

 

 

[theburiedgirl815]

Has anyone heard anything from NYU yet? I keep checking the results religiously and am expecting a rejection from Emory since it appears the wait-list and admitted candidates were notified around the 8th. But I'm really hoping for NYU and am getting increasingly worried as I'm not hearing anything or seeing any news from anyone else. 

 

Edited February 10, 2017 by theburiedgirl815

[VirginiaWoolf]

8 minutes ago, theburiedgirl815 said:

Has anyone heard anything from NYU yet? I keep checking the results religiously and am expecting a rejection from Emory since it appears the wait-list and admitted candidates were notified around the 8th. But I'm really hoping for NYU and am getting increasingly worried as I'm not hearing anything or seeing any news from anyone else. 

 

Haven't heard anything either! Just seen a few other posts re: NYU floating around here that are people wondering when they'll get around to announcing admits. I imagine things have been somewhat backed up due to a lot going on in NYC and then the crazy weather on the east coast recently (NYU was closed yesterday). I've been verrrrrrrry tempted to call and ask what their plan is for notifying admits..

[theburiedgirl815]

4 minutes ago, VirginiaWoolf said:

Haven't heard anything either! Just seen a few other posts re: NYU floating around here that are people wondering when they'll get around to announcing admits. I imagine things have been somewhat backed up due to a lot going on in NYC and then the crazy weather on the east coast recently (NYU was closed yesterday). I've been verrrrrrrry tempted to call and ask what their plan is for notifying admits..

Yeah I'm in CT and nearly everything was closed here as well. The joys of northeast weather! I was just curious because I noticed that a lot of other humanities programs are getting notified, but hopefully we hear something soon. 

[Lesleo]

Finally my first acceptance to UMass! Got wait listed previously at UT Knoxville. Still waiting on 10 more schools!

[shoestofollow]

@theburiedgirl815 @VirginiaWoolf

NYU is not going out until next week. Had a phone convo with DGS.

[Caien]

22 minutes ago, shoestofollow said:

@theburiedgirl815 @VirginiaWoolf

NYU is not going out until next week. Had a phone convo with DGS.

Thanks for letting us know

[anxiousphd]

1 hour ago, shoestofollow said:

@theburiedgirl815 @VirginiaWoolf

NYU is not going out until next week. Had a phone convo with DGS.

It's so much nicer to know than to wonder. Thanks!

[theburiedgirl815]

15 hours ago, shoestofollow said:

@theburiedgirl815 @VirginiaWoolf

NYU is not going out until next week. Had a phone convo with DGS.

Agh okay, thanks!

[Lesleo]

When people post on the results page and date it a day later (so for instance it's 8pm Feb 15th, but there are results posted that are dated as Feb 16th already) - is that some sort of crazy time difference or typo or what? 

[Peppermint&Rooibos]

34 minutes ago, Lesleo said:

When people post on the results page and date it a day later (so for instance it's 8pm Feb 15th, but there are results posted that are dated as Feb 16th already) - is that some sort of crazy time difference or typo or what? 

Oh, shoot, sorry. The UVa one dated Feb 16th was from me! I have no idea why the date is set as Feb. 16. It's still Feb. 15 in my time zone, and I received the call on Feb. 15th. 

[Lesleo]

1 minute ago, Peppermint&Rooibos said:

Oh, shoot, sorry. The UVa one dated Feb 16th was from me! I have no idea why the date is set as Feb. 16. It's still Feb. 15 in my time zone, and I received the call on Feb. 15th. 

Lol. This was totally about the UVA update good catch (and congrats!). But I've seen it on quite a few different results here and there and I just didn't know what the deal was with it. Good to know I'm not living in some sort of horrifying, fluctuating time zone. 

[Dr. Old Bill]

It seems as though the Results page is set to GMT, meaning that any results posted after 7:00 PM EST are going to show up as the next day.

[Silabus]

This list of projected dates just brings up more questions. Well, it did help with Florida State. Brandeis says they let you know late February to Early March. But what's up with Vanderbilt? Actually, Ball State says Mid-February. It's the middle of February. I just...I need to know! xD

[Dr. Old Bill]

7 hours ago, Silabus said:

This list of projected dates just brings up more questions. Well, it did help with Florida State. Brandeis says they let you know late February to Early March. But what's up with Vanderbilt? Actually, Ball State says Mid-February. It's the middle of February. I just...I need to know! xD

Yeah, this list really has to be taken with a grain of salt -- it just a general idea that's based on when programs have notified in the past few years. Any number of factors can change the notification timeframe.

That being said, I'm also curious about Vanderbilt. There's that one anomalous waitlist on the board, and nothing else. It could mean that they took a very small cohort this year, and none of those people happen to stop by GradCafe, or it could mean they're doing rolling admissions, or it could mean they've completely revamped their process. It's hard (okay, impossible) to say for sure, though I suppose we'll find out soon enough...

[Silabus]

8 hours ago, Wyatt's Terps said:

Yeah, this list really has to be taken with a grain of salt -- it just a general idea that's based on when programs have notified in the past few years. Any number of factors can change the notification timeframe.

That being said, I'm also curious about Vanderbilt. There's that one anomalous waitlist on the board, and nothing else. It could mean that they took a very small cohort this year, and none of those people happen to stop by GradCafe, or it could mean they're doing rolling admissions, or it could mean they've completely revamped their process. It's hard (okay, impossible) to say for sure, though I suppose we'll find out soon enough...

Oh I hope not. I soooo want to work with Rachel Teukolsky. I was meeting with my MA thesis advisor earlier today and she asked: Well did you contact Teukolsky?

I was like: Noooo, I didn't want to come across as a ham.

[Lesleo]

Is the other acceptance from Temple around here somewhere? I did the same thing you did - checked the website and saw my status changed to accepted - any email or phone call yet? 

[becca11773]

5 hours ago, Silabus said:

Oh I hope not. I soooo want to work with Rachel Teukolsky. I was meeting with my MA thesis advisor earlier today and she asked: Well did you contact Teukolsky?

I was like: Noooo, I didn't want to come across as a ham.

I'm waiting to hear from Vandy too. Hoping the (less likely) possibility that they've accepted all people who aren't Cafeing and all of us Grad Cafers are about to be rejected isn't the case.  

[Silabus]

@Wyatt's Terps @becca11773

Looks like we all finally heard back! Rejection for me. I mean, getting into a program already softens the blows of these other rejections... However I would STILL give an arm and a leg to work with Rachel Teukolsky. Oh well!

[Caien]

@Silabus! I just noticed your signature says 19th century Irish! We're so rare! What nineteenth century Irish texts do you work on?

[Silabus]

Just now, Caien said:

@Silabus! I just noticed your signature says 19th century Irish! We're so rare! What nineteenth century Irish texts do you work on?

You too?! I've only met one other person! HEEEEY! Let's be friends! Omg and you got into Notre Dame, GOOD ON YOU! *claps*

My textual interests though. Well, I know Oscar Wilde is a debatable Irish Author, but he is from Ireland. My MA thesis focuses on him.

Sheridan Le Fanu is great! Also, Lady Wilde (aka Spinoza). I'm also super interested in Victorian Medievalism, the re-telling of the Knights of Fianna in poetry and novels at the time.

What about you?! 

[Caien]

12 minutes ago, Silabus said:

You too?! I've only met one other person! HEEEEY! Let's be friends! Omg and you got into Notre Dame, GOOD ON YOU! *claps*

My textual interests though. Well, I know Oscar Wilde is a debatable Irish Author, but he is from Ireland. My MA thesis focuses on him.

Sheridan Le Fanu is great! Also, Lady Wilde (aka Spinoza). I'm also super interested in Victorian Medievalism, the re-telling of the Knights of Fianna in poetry and novels at the time.

What about you?! 

Ah this is so exciting!

I know there's all that nonsense about having to write about Ireland to be an 'Irish author', but that's a hangover from Yeats and we've kinda moved on from that in Ireland. I took classes in the house where Wilde was born, he went to Trinity, his father was a collector of Irish folklore and his mother wrote nationalist poetry, how Irish can you get? I don't work much on his texts though, Dorian Gray remains a complete mystery to me though I've read it several times. Have you read his children's stories? What's your thesis on?

Isn't it hilarious how they're all related or friends? Like Maturin is Wilde's great uncle and Lady Wilde was a friend of Le Fanu's, and Bram Stoker stole Wilde's fiancee and was a cousin of Arthur Conan Doyle...

As for myself, I'm a narratologist so I'm hoping to work on a project looking at the structures of key novels across the century: Rackrent, Melmoth, House by the Churchyard, Dracula etc. I'm also interested in some of the lesser know Irish female Gothic novelists of the Romantic period, like Regina Maria Roche and Ann Fuller.

Editing because I forgot to mention that the Fianna stuff sounds really interesting!

Edited February 18, 2017 by Caien

[Silabus]

1 minute ago, Caien said:

Ah this is so exciting!

I know there's all that nonsense about having to write about Ireland to be an 'Irish author', but that's a hangover from Yeats and we've kinda moved on from that in Ireland. I took classes in the house where Wilde was born, he went to Trinity, his father was a collector of Irish folklore and his mother wrote nationalist poetry, how Irish can you get? I don't work much on his texts though, Dorian Gray remains a complete mystery to me though I've read it several times. Have you read his children's stories? What's your thesis on?

Isn't it hilarious how they're all related or friends? Like Maturin is Wilde's great uncle and Lady Wilde was a friend of Le Fanu's, and Bram Stoker stole Wilde's fiancee and was a cousin of Arthur Conan Doyle...

As for myself, I'm a narratologist so I'm hoping to work on a project looking at the structures of key novels across the century: Rackrent, Melmoth, House by the Churchyard, Dracula etc. I'm also interested in some of the lesser know Irish female Gothic novelists of the Romantic period, like Regina Maria Roche and Ann Fuller.

Lord hoping, wherever I do my PhD, they'll help me work out some kind of research venture at Trinity. I sooooo want to go there! Desperately! And you're right, he's pretty Irish! However there are still critics that say if you read Wilde you're only Hibernicizing his texts.

Dorian Gray is the centerpiece of my thesis on him! And yes, I've read his children's stories! I'm actually using The Happy Prince in my thesis. My thesis is on identity. In a letter to a correspondent Wilde once wrote: “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”  So the thesis explores identity as made up of these different aspects, the artist, the critic, and the art object. In it I talk about people being essentially creative producers, how being a critic is like being an artist of a kind, and how desire, what you desire and wanting to be desired, also plays a part in how you shape your identity. I use Wilde's works, critical, plays, short stories, to help inform this along with theories by Butler, Hegel, Dollimore, and others. I also reflect on other people writing art criticism at the time and who influenced Wilde, like Arnold and Pater--that's where Rachel Teukolsky (from Vanderbilt that didn't accept me T_T)'s book comes into play as well. It's not totally finished yet but it will be soon, I'm finishing up my MA this semester.

It is funny! It's made me think Ireland really is a small world after all! Oh I love Stoker too. I've had a period where I studied Irish Vampires so Stoker and Le Fanu were my go-to's.

Oh interesting! I know Fuller wrote gothic novels but I haven't read them. And I've read The Nun's Picture by Roche! But you're right, I've never studied either of them academically and they've never been mentioned. Actually, I've never had a professor who does any specializing in Irish Lit. The lady I work under now specializes in Trollope though.

[HumanCylinder]

On 2/17/2017 at 6:24 PM, Silabus said:

Well, I know Oscar Wilde is a debatable Irish Author, but he is from Ireland. My MA thesis focuses on him.

I just thought I'd chime in to say that my writing sample was focused on Oscar Wilde (from a major author seminar I took on him as an MA) and I was accepted to Texas A&M last cycle! (though, I'm really only a half-way Victorianist; interested in those late century movements, aestheticism/decadence/New Woman, and their bearing on modernist experimental texts).  I didn't end up attending, but not because TAMU wasn't a good option for me. I just ended up picking a place that had a little better focus on modernism and poetry.