PS Personal Statement: Please send through Interfolio a copy of the Personal Statement from your online application. The Personal Statement should discuss your research interests and your interest in the English graduate program at Temple University, your career goals, and your academic and research achievements, if applicable. CV Resumé or CV Fee Submit the application by paying the non-refundable $60 application fee online using either a credit card or a bank account drawn on U.S. funds. RL Three (3) letters of recommendation from persons in a position to evaluate applicant’s past work, as well as their ability to do graduate work in literary criticism or creative writing. Request signed, confidential letters of recommendation from your evaluators through your Interfolio account. After your letters have been uploaded to your Interfolio account, you will be able to send them electronically to us without seeing their contents. Your evaluators do not need to also send paper copies of their letters by mail. Transcript Transcripts: Two copies of all your transcripts must be submitted, one official copy by mail, and one unofficial copy electronically. Request that official transcripts from all institutions of higher education previously attended (including Temple, as well as institutions from which you did not receive a degree) be mailed to the Temple University Department of English at the mailing address below. We ask that you also scan and upload copies of all your transcripts to your Interfolio account and submit them electronically with the other application materials (see below). These can be unofficial or student copies of transcripts.