2017 Acceptances

[imogenshakes]

If this helps any for my fellow Iowa applicants: I have on very good authority that they've made some decisions and are working out funding for admits! We should be hearing officially soon! ? (Admittedly, "soon" for us may be "two weeks" for them yet, but...at least things are moving)

congrats to all of the admits yesterday! I had trouble posting all day, it gave me some error message every time I tried. Not sure what was going on, but glad it's back up and running so we can cheer for all of the good news ?

[CaffeineCardigan]

I don't even post that often but I missed reading all of your good news while the forum was down and I was at work. Congrats to everyone who got acceptances today!! 

[jungThug]

anybody know how many people CUNY typically accepts?  Is it a big program? 

[Lovegood]

@jungThug It claims to have 20 out of 200 on the website of English Department. Does CUNY offer MA?

Edited February 15, 2017 by Lovegood

[Lovegood]

30 minutes ago, natalielouise said:

Wondering also about the NYU acceptance? Someone called in and received their decision? It made me want to call, but I restrained myself lol

Me too, restrained myself! 

[anxiousphd]

@Lovegood @natalielouise I have been assuming it was posted by the weirdo who keeps posting things about NYU trolling us. He or she has some weird vendetta against NYU and has been acting strange on here for a while. 

 

If someone legitimate can claim the acceptance, then my apologies!

[brontebitch]

5 minutes ago, anxiousgrad said:

@Lovegood @natalielouise I have been assuming it was posted by the weirdo who keeps posting things about NYU trolling us. He or she has some weird vendetta against NYU and has been acting strange on here for a while. 

 

If someone legitimate can claim the acceptance, then my apologies!

lol wat

That's wild. I'm glad I didn't call if that's the case!

[Lovegood]

Does anyone know about University of Stirling from UK? I applied by coincidence and got admitted in The Gothic Imagination MPhil, but...it's a MA program without funding, I don't know if it worth the money, or will help me with further Ph.D application, because Gothic Lit is kind of my reading interest, not one of my academic interest. 

[Lovegood]

8 minutes ago, anxiousgrad said:

@Lovegood @natalielouise I have been assuming it was posted by the weirdo who keeps posting things about NYU trolling us. He or she has some weird vendetta against NYU and has been acting strange on here for a while. 

 

If someone legitimate can claim the acceptance, then my apologies!

I think it's just too early to make that phone. 

Edited February 15, 2017 by Lovegood

[Zeromus1337]

I've been waitlisted at the CUNY Grad Center. Found out yesterday. 306 people sent packages! I'm a Victorianist! So close! I'll be going to the Open House on March 17th.

Typically, they only extend offers to about 20, but I was told 25 yesterday for this admissions cycle. 

The portal does not update for those waitlisted. It didn't for me at least.

 

There are MAs at CUNY, but for other programs. You can get an en-route MA in the program.

Edited February 15, 2017 by Zeromus1337

[Yanaka]

No, don't call, guys!! Don't do it!

[KTF87]

21 hours ago, KikiDelivery said:

The waiting process does feel like an exercise in patience. I am here thinking though that waiting is what we are going to be in for with the career path we've chosen.

*waiting on whether we got acceptance to x conference*

*waiting on whether our publication was accepted*

I am trying to recognize and settle myself in the reality of waiting. At the same time, I do understand the frustration of just wanting to know. I found myself in the temptation to just accept a program already, but I smack myself out of it thinking this is a life-changing decision. I need to do it right.

heheh yeah good practice i guess;

@Wyatt's Terps, I am not sure it is about patience, as far i am concerned of course!
for me, it's about the ambivalence and confusion, and remaining in the "i don't know what's going" phase that is draining and overwhelming. I can wait for months if they can just give a frame of what's to come, even with some caveat. I can be as patient as they want me to be in this case, but otherwise I am not sure patience is relevant

 

[Lovegood]

4 minutes ago, Zeromus1337 said:

I've been waitlisted at the CUNY Grad Center. Found out yesterday. 306 people sent packages! I'm a Victorianist! So close! I'll be going to the Open House on March 17th.

Typically, they only extend offers to about 20, but I was told 25 yesterday for this admissions cycle. 

The portal does not update for those waitlisted. It didn't for me at least.

Thank you for this! I can assume it is a implied rejection... 

Congratulations to you! I just watched their Open House recording on the Youtube days before.

Edited February 15, 2017 by Lovegood

[KTF87]

17 minutes ago, anxiousgrad said:

@Lovegood @natalielouise I have been assuming it was posted by the weirdo who keeps posting things about NYU trolling us. He or she has some weird vendetta against NYU and has been acting strange on here for a while. 

 

If someone legitimate can claim the acceptance, then my apologies!

who's that??!!

I read stuff about NYU from a dude/tte who got rejected last year or so, and who dissed Foucault and Butler lol!

maybe it's the same person? hahaha

[KTF87]

s/he could also be the hacker who brought down this partiucular thread! haha

[KTF87]

7 minutes ago, Yanaka said:

No, don't call, guys!! Don't do it!

Yes!!
You can not call! You can! You can do it!

[anxiousphd]

3 minutes ago, KTF87 said:

who's that??!!

I read stuff about NYU from a dude/tte who got rejected last year or so, and who dissed Foucault and Butler lol!

maybe it's the same person? hahaha

That's who I suspect.

3 minutes ago, KTF87 said:

s/he could also be the hacker who brought down this partiucular thread! haha

The whole forum was down, not just this thread. 

[Yanaka]

What do Foucault and Butler have to do with NYU?! haha

[KTF87]

5 minutes ago, anxiousgrad said:

That's who I suspect.

The whole forum was down, not just this thread. 

I am not sure that's the case, it could be though. But I remember seeing many active and updated and recent posts elsewhere.

but anyway, if you're right, then s/he could be a very bad hacker

[engphiledu]

7 minutes ago, Lovegood said:

Does anyone know about University of Stirling from UK? I applied by coincidence and got admitted in The Gothic Imagination MPhil, but...it's a MA program without funding, I don't know if it worth the money, or will help me with further Ph.D application, because Gothic Lit is kind of my reading interest, not one of my academic interest. 

I'm not sure about the program, but my advisors, undergraduate professors...everyone has strongly guided me against accepting any non-funded or even partially funded offers. Their reasoning is that unlike doctors or veterinarians, funding for graduate school isn't impossible to find (though, as we all know, the application process makes it difficult to guarantee). However, we won't make enough money (on average) to be able to comfortably pay off any loans. Some of my colleagues and professors are still paying off their loans, and they're tenured. 

I was told that it's always better to sit out a year, strengthen my application, and work than commit to that kind of financial burden. Again, I don't know about your program, but just some general advice I've received!

[allywally]

all I wanted for Valentine's Day was an acceptance...alas. Congrats to those who did get one yesterday!

[KTF87]

6 minutes ago, Yanaka said:

What do Foucault and Butler have to do with NYU?! haha

hahahahaha beats me!!

but there was clear medieval borderline shakesperean anger towards what s/he referred to as mental masturbation in Foucault and Butler (sugarcoating here)

[Yanaka]

NYU seems to make a lot of people angry  

[KTF87]

7 minutes ago, Yanaka said:

NYU seems to make a lot of people angry  

more reason to love them, wait for them and stalk them!! vicious!!

[Lovegood]

2 minutes ago, engphiledu said:

I'm not sure about the program, but my advisors, undergraduate professors...everyone has strongly guided me against accepting any non-funded or even partially funded offers. Their reasoning is that unlike doctors or veterinarians, funding for graduate school isn't impossible to find (though, as we all know, the application process makes it difficult to guarantee). However, we won't make enough money (on average) to be able to comfortably pay off any loans. Some of my colleagues and professors are still paying off their loans, and they're tenured. 

I was told that it's always better to sit out a year, strengthen my application, and work than commit to that kind of financial burden. Again, I don't know about your program, but just some general advice I've received!

Thank you engphiledu, I don't want to have that kind of financial burden for my family neither. Wish me good luck to get admitted in any funded program!