Admissions
All applicants enter the program as PhD students. We do not award a terminal M.A. All incoming graduate students are fully funded through a tuition waiver and a fellowship. There is no specific grade point or GRE score required for admission to the PhD program, but we look for high achievement in a range of undergraduate English courses and in at least one paper submitted to us as a writing sample.
The department’s internal deadline for admission is January 4th, 2008. The application and all supporting materials must be received by then. Your application must include:
- application which includes the scan sheet
- $35 application fee
- GRE scores (both the General Test and Subject Test)
Send these to Office of the Dean, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Washington University, Campus Box 1187, One Brookings Drive, St Louis, MO 63130 (314/935-6821).
You may also apply to the PhD program online at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences homepage and follow specific instructions.
In addition, please send directly to the English Department:
- a statement of purpose describing your motivations and goals
- transcript(s) of previous work
- 3 letters of recommendation, preferably on or attached to Washington University forms, but we will accept dossiers from college placement services or through the on-line system
- a recent paper on a literary subject which MUST be sent via postal mail NOT included with the on-line application
Send these to the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, Washington University, Campus Box 1122, One Brookings Drive, St Louis, MO 63130 (314/935-5120).
To request an information and application packet from the English department online, click here.