English Literature PhD 2008

[pnagy01]

I appreciate the sentiment, but as I submitted to UNC on Dec 1 and stil have not received news, it smells like rejection. Le sigh...

[pnagy01]

Anyone hear from SUNY Stonybrook? (Is my mailbox defective? Where are the letters?!)

[icefired12]

I'm 0-8 now. I don't have much hope that either of my two remaining schools will come through. *&%@#

*(&^*ing pwned.

Have fun in the academy, boys and girls. I'll be the one on the outside disparaging you while secretly harboring a great deal of inner envy.

[bluewhisky]

I'm 0-8 now. I don't have much hope that either of my two remaining schools will come through.

all my sympathy...i'm 0-7 now and am frantically trying to think of plan b. retire to the hills and write the book that grad students will someday slog over??

[commoner]

So much silence out there. I'm glad I found this place to see that offers are coming in waves. Strange, yet comforting.

Good luck to us all.

Acceptances: --

Waitlists: UT Austin

Rejections: UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, WUSTL

Silence: UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Merced, Harvard, Arizona, Hawaii,

[snagsby52]

Is anyone still waiting to hear from the University of Chicago or Indiana University-Bloomington? I wrote to Indiana, but they haven't written me back.

[foreverastudent]

I feel your pain, those who are still waiting. The silence is deafening. Too bad the Grad Cafe doesn't sell hard liquor.

[commoner]

We need to start a separate thread for spouses. My wife is more stressed out than I am.

In case anyone else is still waiting, I contacted Harvard and UC Davis. Both say they should have all offers out by Mar 15. Harvard will be by snail mail.

[Minnesotan]

Hopefully all of this silence means we've made it past the first rounds of cuts. I'm honestly shocked that I haven't heard back from half of my American schools yet!

[commoner]

That's what I keep hoping. I got my rejection from UCLA, my #1 choice, so quickly, it hurt. But since that tree was topped, I have been able to muster through the rejections with much less pain.

[bluewhisky]

Is anyone still waiting to hear from the University of Chicago or Indiana University-Bloomington? I wrote to Indiana, but they haven't written me back.

I wrote to Chicago on Friday, the 7th, and got a reply saying that most of the decisions had been made by now & emails sent. And in case i hadn't heard anything by the end of this week to let her know.

sigh. more bad news. what else.

[sashababie]

After one waitlist and one admit I've been getting a row of rejects, and the update on Chicago isn't very heartening either :cry:

I wrote to Michigan yesterday asking for waitlist information since I had hoped to arrange a trip to the US and visit the programs I'd hoped to be admitted into, but with only one offer I guess I could save the money for future research trips *sigh* so much for planning ahead and getting hopeful :twisted:

[FrankTruth]

If you haven't heard from UChicago you probably haven't gotten in. Unless there was a glitch in the system you would have heard 3 or 4 weeks ago. Most of the other schools would have let you know as well. I got phone calls around the 2nd and 3rd week of February when I was admitted. The one rejection email didnt come until mid-March (Yale).

[snagsby52]

Thanks franktruth...I heard from four of my schools between the end of January and the beginning of February, but I heard from UNC at the beginning of March. I think that there is hope until you receive the rejection, and judging from last year, people were still being waitlisted and offered MAs at this point...some people were even being accepted. Though your truth seems brutally honest to your ears, maybe you should realize that there are people who are trying to hold onto some hope. Your response sounds awfully like gloating.

[engguy]

true what you say. some schools i heard from very early, some not at all yet... i just sent an e-mail this morning to three of them asking when to expect a decision. one wrote back immediately and said an offer wd be forthcoming, another that decisions would come next week. they all seem to go at their own speeds. i would think this might vary even more for international applicants, who knows?

also hard to tell what "frank"'s tone was supposed to be, but i agree that the thinly veiled gloating and occasional dream-squishing on this forum is getting quite tiresome. unless you happen to know for a fact that all offers have gone out from a certain school, why post on it?

[Minnesotan]

People get the idea of the "implicit rejection" into their heads, and have to spread it around like mono, slobbering on everyone else. The truth of the matter is that until you get rejected, you've got a chance. Each school has its own system, or lack thereof (I mean you, Washington!), and there doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason about the process.

[commoner]

Indeed. As I noted, Davis told me they are still working on decisions, trying to get them all out by the 15th. Another on this forum received an offer in early February. Clearly, they have a different system than most.

If you have not received notice, you have not been rejected.

[jewelbomb]

Just to jump on the bandwagon, the idea of the "implicit rejection" is pretty much b.s. I bought into that nonsense and was proven wrong . . . twice. Just like we students, some programs complete their assignments ahead of time, and others work on their decisions until the last minute. Keep hope alive!

[snagsby52]

I just called Indiana University Bloomington and found out that I was waitlisted. This proves that things are still happening, and it is not over yet!

Plus--I saw that two other people got into UC-Davis just yesterday. Congratulations!!

[Minnesotan]

Precisely! Davis is one of those schools from which the people on LJ are whining about being implicitly rejected.

The universe embraces hope (even though it sometimes squeezes too hard).

[whentostop]

Does anyone know how big the Temple PhD program is? I just checked the website and am accepted, but obviously it said nothing about funding. They fund about forty people a year, but how big is the program? My writing is suffering in this state of escalated emotion, for that I apologize.

[eclaire]

To add to all the fuss about Chicago -- perhaps this is a bit self-aggrandizing, but I have yet to hear from Chicago and cannot imagine that they wouldn't at the very least accept me into their cash-cow Masters program (I got into nyu and penn phds and mphil at cambridge).

On an unrelated note -- has anyone else not yet heard from Yale or Harvard? I'm thinking no news is bad news re: them, but I'm secretly praying this may mean waitlist...?

[commoner]

I heard from Yale. They don't need me. I have yet to hear from Harvard. I emailed GSAS admissions. They say they are trying to get notices out (by snail mail) by the 15th.

[commoner]

Anyone out there still waiting to hear from UC Irvine?

[sashababie]

Anyone out there still waiting to hear from UC Irvine?

I am, and really hoping they make contact by email first THEN enclose an attachment or something and say the official letter will come by snail mail. All these ups and downs are wrecking my nerves and my MA thesis :cry: