Deferment offer since the program doesn't have funding this year; I'm most likely declining. At least the application fee was already waived!

Thank you for your application to the PhD program in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at Bowling Green State University. The doctoral faculty have reviewed your materials, and we are impressed with your credentials for doctoral studies. However, we cannot offer you admission and an assistantship this year. There are no admissions and funding packages available, nor do we expect any to become available for the 2022/2023 academic year. Would you be interested in a one-year deferral of your application? A one-year deferral would mean that with no further application charge, your application would be reviewed next year, that is, to begin the program in the 2023/2024 academic year. We are offering this one-year deferral only to a few applicants like you, that is, applicants who are highly ranked and qualified for doctoral studies in rhetoric and writing, but whom the program cannot admit this year. If you would like for us to defer your application, respond to this message no later than April 15, 2022. This time will allow you to consider other offers you may receive for your doctoral studies. If we do not hear from you by the April 15 deadline, your application will be marked as Denied. Again, thank you for your interest in our doctoral program, and all best wishes for your continued studies.

IGNORE INTERVIEW - Has anyone received any news? The website says the virtual open house for prospective English graduate students was the 25. Does not sound too good.

Please decline offer if not interested.

This is an update to my 2/16/2010 post. I received a phone call verifying my acceptance as well as tuition remission, a stipend, and teaching duties.

Very excited to receive this email today! My number one choice and I will be accepting this weekend!

Accepted off the waitlist with funding!

Emailed the department to check on my status and they told me if I had not heard yet that I was waitlisted and should know by April 15. Congrats to anyone who got in and good luck to anyone else on the waitlist.

Very pleasant email from DGS.

I am the poster below, wait-listed on April 10. After learning full details of the funding that might become available, I declined the wait-list. I have also declined funded admission offers from Kent State, Michigan Tech, Northern Illinois, Virginia Tech, and UNCG and an unfunded admission offer from Ball State. I hope this helps someone else waiting on Rhet/Comp acceptances!

From program director: "Our program has only a limited number of funding packages to offer each year, however, and we have already made our initial offers. We’ve also identified some very strong files, yours among them, to work with as funds become available. I anticipate having additional assistantship funding available in the next few days."

Fully funded for four years with scholarship and assistantship.

Admitted from waitlist. No funding.