Fall 2018 French

[meliboeus]

Stanford was lit, although I couldn't figure out the identity of @Carly Rae Jepsen; was you the only girl among the French applicants, or just an edgy dude?

[Carly Rae Jepsen]

11 minutes ago, meliboeus said:

Stanford was lit, although I couldn't figure out the identity of @Carly Rae Jepsen; was you the only girl among the French applicants, or just an edgy dude?

Omg, we were probably on the same library tour! I was the guy with glasses haha. 

Have you heard anything yet?

[meliboeus]

nothing but a generic email informing that formal admission offers will be sent out this week. the wait is killing me, ça va sans dire, and I still am utterly jet-lagged.

[Frenchlady]

On 11/03/2018 at 4:53 PM, lem195 said:

There are some cross-listed courses at LSU that are in English but the majority of classes are completely in French.

That was the first question I asked Dr Leichman. That's exactly what he said. I am telling you, I am really liking the feel I get from LSU. 

[Frenchlady]

On 11/03/2018 at 4:10 PM, Saltshaker said:

It seems to be quite common for classes to be taught in English—when I went to UVA, it was maybe half French, half English, and at Cornell, the course was cross-listed so it was entirely in English. I’m sure there are classes taught entirely in  French, though, what class(es) did you sit in on?

I did not sit in any... I just asked the professors. I am in France and only visited campus during spring break. 

[Carly Rae Jepsen]

5 hours ago, meliboeus said:

nothing but a generic email informing that formal admission offers will be sent out this week. the wait is killing me, ça va sans dire, and I still am utterly jet-lagged.

yep, same here. The wait makes me anxious.

[Saltshaker]

3 hours ago, Frenchlady said:

I did not sit in any... I just asked the professors. I am in France and only visited campus during spring break. 

Oh, okay, gotcha. I wouldn’t worry too much, I’m pretty sure the French classes are conducted in French. You just have to watch out for the cross-listed ones because those courses will be open to non-French speakers, and so they’ll have to be conducted in English. 

[HomewardBound]

@Saltshaker I'm in State College, PA now. I just reread my offer letter. It looks like they want to hear my response soon, as I'm their hold up. I guess that means you're waitlisted? I'll try to make my decision soon. 

 

@Carly Rae Jepsen I'm also probably your hold up for Pitt. I'm the only person they've accepted with funding. If I decline, you may well be next. The funding offer is amazing, so stay tuned. 

[Carly Rae Jepsen]

1 hour ago, HomewardBound said:

 

@Carly Rae Jepsen I'm also probably your hold up for Pitt. I'm the only person they've accepted with funding. If I decline, you may well be next. The funding offer is amazing, so stay tuned. 

Dr. Mecchia said they'd get back to me in a few days, no hurries though, take all the time you need to decide! 

I just realized we have exactly a month to decide tomorrow. Time flies, I recall when we were all waiting for acceptances lol

[Saltshaker]

1 hour ago, HomewardBound said:

@Saltshaker I'm in State College, PA now. I just reread my offer letter. It looks like they want to hear my response soon, as I'm their hold up. I guess that means you're waitlisted? I'll try to make my decision soon. 

 

@Carly Rae Jepsen I'm also probably your hold up for Pitt. I'm the only person they've accepted with funding. If I decline, you may well be next. The funding offer is amazing, so stay tuned. 

Hm, interesting. No worries, please don't feel rushed! At this point, I don't even think I'd accept an offer if they made me one. Are you enjoying the visit?

[Monsieur Vénus]

Finally home from the UMich visit! (I hope your flight home was okay, @Saltshaker!) I really enjoyed it, and the program there seems great. Classes are in English, which isn't what I was really looking for, but that's really the only con for me so far with their program.

[madamoiselle]

Withdrew myself from NYU (got note that I was at the top of the waitlist), so good luck to everybody else who's waiting for news from them!! 

@Monsieur Vénus Glad to hear Michigan went well, it's really a fantastic program! 

Edited March 15, 2018 by madamoiselle

[HomewardBound]

@Saltshaker I'm loving my visit. The fit is good, and I think I'd grow personally and professionally here. More visits to go, though!

 

[awhiterussian]

52 minutes ago, madamoiselle said:

Withdrew myself from NYU (got note that I was at the top of the waitlist), so good luck to everybody else who's waiting for news from them!! 

@Monsieur Vénus Glad to hear Michigan went well, it's really a fantastic program! 

Thanks!!  Did you ask if you were on the waitlist or did they let you know?

[madamoiselle]

@awhiterussian They let me know! They said decisions have to be notified by April 15th (as they typically are) and that they're hoping to have responses by late March from all the acceptances!

Edited March 15, 2018 by madamoiselle

[awhiterussian]

6 minutes ago, madamoiselle said:

@awhiterussian They let me know! They said decisions have to be notified by April 15th (as they typically are) and that they're hoping to have responses by late March from all the acceptances!

That makes me nervous as I haven’t heard anything from them yet!

[madamoiselle]

@awhiterussianGive it some time! I went to visits and about 1/3 of us were auto-admits, the rest on the waitlist. It should cycle through relatively quickly, don't abandon hope just yet! 

Edited March 15, 2018 by madamoiselle

[awhiterussian]

Got my response.  Was rejected for doctoral program, but accepted to masters program with what looks like will be full funding.  Will keep weighing my options I suppose!

[Green.Mango]

@Carly Rae Jepsen and @meliboeus good to know your visits at Stanford went well. Hope you hear good news soon!

@Monsieur Vénus glad to hear that you had a good visit at UMich.  Did they tell you that all classes were in English? coz that's strange. Like the others have said, it's usually the cross-listed ones that are in English and others are in French.

@awhiterussian congrats on the funded masters at NYU! You have some amazing offers for a PhD as well right? Tough choices ahead. All the best!

I had a great visit at IU! It seems like a really good fit and they have a very good department and program. 

Got to know I'm kind of on a waitlist at Boston University, so will only know their final decision by the end of this month.  

And I finally heard back from NYU and it's a NO from them... a little disappointed because it was a really good fit and they were keen on my application.  

 

 

[Monsieur Vénus]

@Green.Mango I can't remember if they said *all* classes were in English, but I certainly got the impression that a class in French is *very* rare. It seems like it's largely due to the fact that the number of French PhD students in the department is really small, so they need to get more enrollment from other departments. Their explanation was also that, because UMich is a really "interdisciplinary" (I can't count the number of times that word was repeated, haha) where students are encouraged to take lots of courses in other departments, they couldn't truly be interdisciplinary if only French-speakers could take the French courses. I'm trying to grapple a little bit with how big of an issue this is for me because, in some ways, I could probably better succeed in an English-language classroom, but I did notice in a course I sat in on that allowing people to work from either the French original or an English translation seemed to create some difficulties for having a conversation that really closely analyzes a text both because of language differences and different paginations in different language editions. I still thought the conversation I observed was very interesting and very intelligent, but it was pretty different from almost every other literary course I have taken wherein staying as close to the text as possible has been largely enforced.

[Carly Rae Jepsen]

@Green.Mango thank you! Glad to know your visit to IU went well and you liked the department, it strikes me as a diverse department and I've heard Bloomington is a nice town. I'll be visiting next week and I'm excited.

[Green.Mango]

@Monsieur Vénus Ah, that's got to be a weird mix to follow... some students referring to the original text in French and some referring to its translation. But I guess that's what you get for being truly "interdisciplinary"  hehehe.

On a serious note, the small number of French PhD students can be an understandable reason to open the course up to others and it does help in getting multiple perspectives on the topic. I sat in on a grad level class at IU which was in English too. But from what I was told, the term papers and everything that the grad student needs to submit must be in French. I think that's how it'll be at most departments.

[Green.Mango]

12 minutes ago, Carly Rae Jepsen said:

@Green.Mango thank you! Glad to know your visit to IU went well and you liked the department, it strikes me as a diverse department and I've heard Bloomington is a nice town. I'll be visiting next week and I'm excited.

Good luck with the visit! Everyone is really nice there! Really! And yes, the department is really diverse and they're doing some interesting courses. 

[Monsieur Vénus]

@Green.Mango I think I know what course you sat in on (the professor who teaches it is also the professor for one of my undergrad courses and mentioned that potential students were sitting in on her grad course, haha). That course is cross-listed with the theater department, correct? I hadn't realized it was taught in English! The grad seminar I'm currently in here is entirely in French

[Frenchlady]

I don't know. I understand the need for interdisciplinary classes... I understand we have to take theory classes in English and other classes in other departments that will be taught in english. But it really doesn't sit well with me that classes listed as French classes are being taught in English. How do you want to call yourself a specialist on French or francophone Literature if you have not spoken French in 5 years?  

That is my main concern (with stipend) but I'd rather take a smaller stipend and go to a Uni that teaches in French in order to encourage to keep what seems to become an exception , that get more money and have all my classes in English. So, for me, I think LSU it will be.