Admission Information

Applicants are required to take the GRE (Graduate Record Examinations), and are urged to do so well in advance of the March 15th application deadline to ensure timely receipt of your scores by our department. We require three letters of recommendation. These letters should specifically address your experience or expertise in working with literature. We also request a writing sample. Ideally this should reveal your ability to treat literary texts critically, and to write cogently and persuasively, although critical, argumentative, and scholarly papers from related fields are acceptable. Criteria for admission seek to balance test results, letters of recommendation, and your writing sample, though in many cases a strong writing sample will count most heavily. 

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