Just in case anyone is floundering in dejection, here's a joke my 89-yr-old grandpa just told me over the phone (After I moved from MI to WA, I started calling my grandparents every week).
An old woman was bust making a casserole for dinner when she gets a phone call from her daughter, Suzie.
"Hi, Suzie," she says, "Are you and your dad coming back from the store now?"
"Not quite, Ma." says Suzie.
"Well, why not?" asks the mom, "The casserole's almost ready."
"Well, you see," Suzie says, "I'm in jail."
"Jail?" the mom says, "How in the world did that happen?"
"Well," says Suzie, "Dad took me into the hardware store and told me to find a Black and Decker, so I did, and I punched her in the face."
***Yeah, it's kind of off-color, but I consider that part of its charm. This is my grandpa, after all. I actually quibbled before posting this because I didn't want to offend anyone.
Ah Wrecking Light, I remember that e-mail. Hardly had I hung up the phone on my Rutgers-N acceptance last year before I saw that e-mail from Sharon Amobi from Int'l admissions. In bold letters: "Your department has NOT offered you funding. Attached is a blah blah blah, please return it detailing the miracle that is proving you have $41K in your back pocket. With warm regards . . . " I chose to ignore that e-mail for a good minute, choosing instead to bask in the glory of what was an affirmation of my writing sample. It took 8 days for me to face facts: I would not be going to an MFA programme for Fall 2009. U're definitely in, but it seems the MFA peeps haven't been on top of notifying later acceptancees (Laura T found out by checking her status; you found out by that cock-blocker of an e-mail [to continue the impotence metaphor]). Anyway, you have other acceptances if I'm not mistaken. So, whatev, I guess.
Nadiya, I'm so happy for your success thus far. Other stuff is ahead, I know, but right now, this must be a good feeling.
Sooo. My cell phone hasn't been working lately. I'm replacing it today. But I can turn it on every now and again. I have a missed call from Temple University. Do I call them back? Or do I wait? :-X
I plan to apply to MFA programs in fiction this fall, but I'd like to wish everyone the best of luck as decisions continue trickling in over the next month or so. Congratulations to those who have already or will soon receive good news. If you don't get in this year, don't get discouraged, keep writing, and try again.
@Seth
You've alluded in the past to how much cachet would surround an MFA at Harvard. Well, I work there and am also a graduate student. I don't know whether anyone has referred you to the Report of the Task Force on the Arts, which was issued in December 2008. If not, here's a link:
http://www.harvard.edu/r/arts_report.pdf
(The most relevant pages are 14 and 30.)
Essentially, there are vague plans to roll out MFA programs in creative writing and other fields that would have an interdisciplinary focus and be fully funded. Keep in mind that the work of this task force took place largely prior to the economic downturn, even though the report was released well after the crash. As someone sort of in the know, I'd predict that Harvard will have an MFA program in creative writing eventually, but it likely won't be launched for another 3-5 years (which doesn't help people applying now).
Thanks everyone! You can imagine how excited I am...
I got an email saying they'd been unable to contact me by phone last week and could I call them. And then I got a call - was told details in the post. :-)
Yes, I'm aware of that doc -- actually posted the relevant sections on my old blog last year (and predicted, as you did here, a 5-year implementation window). Here's hoping it happens! It would be very exciting. Be well,
Quick question because I'm going insane--how many NONFICTION applicants out there have gotten acceptances? So far I've been rejected from Iowa (duh), and waitlisted at Univ. NC Wilmington. I got some random, "Thanks for your interest, and we hope you visit" email from the New School today which both excited and confused me...I realized it probably means nothing...
I also dreamt I got into Sarah Lawrence last night, which also means nothing. haha.
Do we have any idea what's going on with Irvine, poetry-wise? And do we think it's time for me to call U of Washington for another update? Can we tell I'm getting a little damn impatient????
Hi all--been following and being alternately encourage and discouraged for quite some time. Congrats to all the good news-ers! In the meantime, I got an email from Sarah Lawrence asking me about a missing piece of financial aid-- It says: We are in the process of reviewing financial aid applications. In doing so, I find that your application for assistance for 2010-2011 is incomplete. To date, we have received the following information:
2010-2011 ISIR (FAFSA)
In order to complete the initial application process, please submit the following immediately:
2010-2011 PROFILE (Not Received) 2009 Student Federal Tax Return- signed (Not Received)
I thought all I needed to do was the FAFSA and send it to them. Can anyone tell me what the profile thing is? It says I can find it at collegeboard.com, but nothing there looks like forms. I can contact them too, but I wanted to not look completely idiotic if this was something obvious...thanks!
Have you tried Jean Genet? I've read a lot ABOUT the guy, but his writing, from the information I painstakenly read on Wikipedia, reminds me a lot of Henry Miller.
BTW. Henry Miller is shiznit. Any young urban male writer should at least check out "Tropic of Cancer."
@ everyone who answered my question re: short fiction
Yeah, I was probably paranoid about not getting any word from the CUNY schools (is that a rejection I smell?). I still love writing short fiction, but if I decide to attend an MFA, I might attempt a novel for my manuscript. I already have some solid scenes in my head.
Re TNS: I'm happy I got in. Jackson Taylor said I even got a scholarship, but looking at the fin. aid and overall tuition (per term), it looks like it'll barely even make a dent to my overall balance. Might have to try other avenues, scholarship wise.
Still, I'm incredibly thankful, since I've only heard good things about the New School in this blog and during the research phase of my MFA applications (is Columbia THAT bad?). If only school wasn't so expensive...
I've never read Genet. Good suggestion! I kinda want to read the book Sartre wrote on him now, too. Cheers.
In the Miller oeuvre, I almost have to privilege Capricorn.
It's cool to see how later in life, in the Rosy Crucifixion, he writes about the same material but in such a different manner--less lyrical and bombastic, more objective, almost in a Flaubertian manner.
I agree. My apologies for being such an urban, douchy-snob. EVERYONE should read "Tropic of Cancer." It's made me wanna drop out of college and go live the vagabond's life in France so many times (a stupid fantasy, I know). I def. wanna check out Anais Nin's diaries too. I keep hearing so many good things about them.
@weights
I've only had the privilege of reading both Tropics and Black Spring. Miller is still a writer I'm jonesing to get more into, but stupid lousy college work keeps getting in the way.
His interviews are hilarious, though. I remember in one he kept talking about the writer Blaise Cendrars. Yet another writer I've tried looking for in bookstores here in Philly and in PA, to no success (I hate buying stuff online. I'm paranoid about my privacy).
It asks basically the same questions as the FAFSA, but there is also a section about your predicted income for the next year. I think it costs $18 to send it, but it might have been a little more.
Currently I'm in limbo, trying to decide between a two year program and a three year... I've come up with some pros and cons, but for the most part would enjoy some other thoughts on the year difference. Can anyone speak about this? I'm sure some have given better consideration to the cost/benefit, curious to hear some ideas. Thanks, here's to a prolific Wednesday!!
Why do I ask? I just got freaking admitted. I am seriously shitting my pants and screaming in the library. Shitting my pants is figurative. But screaming is not!!
Two years vs. three will all depend on funding for me... If I get into a three year program with funding, hell yes! But if I had two unfunded or partially funded offers to choose from, I would probably pick the two year so it would be less expensive...
But ideally, I would prefer a three year program. More time to write, more time to explore various opportunities and activities (teaching, working for a school's lit journal, etc.). Three years seems like the ideal length of a program to me.
We are very interested in having you join our 2010-2011 incoming class; however, at this time, we do not know our budget and thus can make no immediate offers. That said, as soon as we are authorized to make offers, we will contact you.
I, too, got word on acceptance to The New School yesterday, but for fiction. Where would you be coming from? You can e-mail me at lmoreno056 [at] gmail [dot] com.
CONGRATS TO COUGHDROP!!! Keep screaming, you DESERVE IT!!! YEAHHH!!!
And Nadiya, damn girl! Awesome news!
Woohoo to everyone who's gotten good news, and keep the hope alive for everyone who hasn't. (I'm sort of in-between those two groups, I guess?) We're only 2.5 days into March, guys! There's still a ton of WOOHOO's to go around!
also, @ JimfifeOH, thanks for all the UNCW insight and your encouragement. I hope you're right!!! I went over and looked at your big post on DH, too. It was very helpful too, obviously!
@ Laura T - you're AMAZING!!! I'm so happy for you. SO SO SOOOO happy for you! high-five/hug to you, bigtime!
@ Nefrettiti, kaybay, and Trilbe - thanks for your encouragement! *hug*
Congrats Coughdrop! How many is that for CCA? I'm still waiting on other schools, so I'm not sure if I'm heading out west, but definitely shoot me an email! Davies [dot] Michael1 [at] gmail [dot] com
As soon as I saw "The MFA Golden Table, or Precious Muse Platinum Bouquet," I started salivating. Gawd...if you told me when I was 15 that I was gonna be like this 13 years later...
if you're definitely considering going (I know it's still early, I'm waiting on hearing back from a bunch of schools still as well) and want to discuss, connect, etc:
It all comes down to a personal decision. Three years gives you a lot more time to work on your final thesis work and a lot more time in the MFA environment, but even when fully funded, it is another year where you don't have much of an income. If you are paying for it, then it's a whole HECK of a lot more money.
I personally think that the pace of a three year makes more sense to me, but I applied to a few really good two-year programs based on their funding/reputation. For a lot of people, three years out of the workplace and graduating with a degree that has no intrinsic job prospects is too much to ask for.
My wife just called them (for I am too chicken) and asked how far along they were in the MFA decision process. The person she spoke with said they'd be notifying applicants between March 15 and April 15.
That sounds a little weird to me-- I thought that 3/15-4/15 was OUR window to accept or deny. Unless the person meant that they'd be notifying on/by March 15th and then others through April 15th as offers were declined and spots opened.
I hope that's the case, because I can't take another 5 or 6 weeks of limbo.
I applied to relatively few three-year programs. I like the two-year model for a number of reasons. For one, I don't want to get "stuck" in a grad school world - there's a lot of other things I want to do. More importantly, however, I like the two-year timeline. Yes, three years gives you more time on your thesis, but I wanted to feel the burn to produce something in a shorter timeframe. With three years I would probably spend too much time second-guessing myself instead of just committing to a project and seeing it through.
Then again, in three years you could probably write a story collection AND a novel. Very tempting.
& Congrats to everyone. I started to go through and read all of the acceptances recently (there are quite a few) and then I got distracted by some necessary work outside. Good luck to everyone!
Thanks so much for posting the UNCG info! It helps to know that we won't hear anything from them until at least the 15th of this month (which is unexpected and seems pretty late for UNCG!).
For what it's worth, I agree with your interpretation of the month-long window they mentioned. It probably means they're going to kick everything off on March 15th, but will continue to make acceptances as people turn offers down.
Thanks again for sharing this. I'm relieved to have some definitive information on a program that's been so quiet! :)
@Laura T thanks so much! And yes, wouldn't it be nice to get lots of financial aid? Hah of course, it'd be nice to know I'm in first before paying the 25.00 to have PROFILE sent instead of just shelling out MORE money in this seemingly semi-fruitless quest...
There's another Lauren here now. Hi 'other Lauren' :) :) :)
And I got a FOE from one of the gateway schools of the NEOMFA. Ick.
And lastly, I am officially unemployed now -- I'd been told I'd get fulltime hours at another Barnes & Noble after my store closed, but they're scheduling me 10 hours a week. Severance + unemployment beats that by a mile, so, I'm taking the severance. I guess I've got plenty of time to write now. Yikes.
(Bonus: I can now keep up with all of you on this blog! Congratulations to Coughdrop and Nadia and everyone else who's heard good news!)
Yesterday, after a twelve-hour work day (parent-teacher conferences), I came home to an email saying that I have been accepted to Virginia Tech in poetry! I did a lot of shouting strange phrases that didn't make sense and then a decent amount of pacing around the house with a big smile on my face. I am really, extremely, incredibly excited.
This week has been MASSIVE for acceptances! I hope that they keep rolling in, especially for those of us 'round these blog parts!
Hey guys, Long time lurker here finally ready to start speaking. I've heard nearly nothing and I'm certainly hungry for some radness this month... week... today, preferably. My list (fiction)
In at Texas State for their MFA in Fiction!!!! I AM SO EXCITED! They called me and I missed it while I was on the phone with my gf. Got off and saw the voicemail and started jumping up and down in my living room. Oooh, finding it very hard to stop shaking :)
Has your online application status changed to say you've been accepted at Rutgers Newark? I got the same international student email (Dear Prospective Student, Congratulations! We have no money for you. Etc.) but my online status thing still says "No Decision." I wasn't sure what to make of that email and thought maybe they'd sent it by mistake, or I'd accidentally been accepted by the grad school but not the MFA program or something.
Can I really assume from this that I'm in? I love Jayne Anne Phillips and have only gotten waitlists and rejections up til now so it would be nice to be excited briefly before I start freaking out about lack of funding.
Also have other people been having trouble with the blog today? The number of posts keeps jumping back and forth from like 860 to 190 000 and sometimes they disappear entirely and I feel like I'm going bonkers.
I'm still waiting to get the Syracuse rejection email. I tell myself it's because they don't know what to do with someone so good at writing. I tell myself lots of things.
CON-FREAKING-GRATS TO ALL ACCEPTED TODAY!! LET'S KEEP IT COMING!!
@Jordan (I'm so sorry this is late!), please feel free to email me, I'm happy to swap samples and stories. My email is kbritten at yahoo dot com.
I'm irritated that I keep having to wait longer and longer :( I thought that all four schools left for me would be notifying this week and two (UNCG and UF) won't notify until AFTER the 15th! Argh!!!! I want news!! I caved and emailed FSU and I'm still waiting on the response, and I have no idea about Notre Dame (Waaaaaahh, accept me please), but the waiting is seriously messing with me!! It's freaking March people.
Still at "No Decision". I did call the admin side earlier, and they confirmed that I'd been admitted, and when I asked for confirmation about funding they said that their information was that I hadn't received any, but that I could check with Amy Ortiz (I left her an answering machine message - no response as yet).
I was admitted to Rutgers once in the past (with a personal e-mail), and had spoken with them at the time about how they may have had funding for 2010. This was before the economic downturn. Nevertheless, I applied again. I do know they have a Truman Capote Fellowship, but I'm not sure if that's limited to fiction (as you'd figure is the case).
As things stand, I appreciate the offer, but I'll be declining it on the simple basis of a lack of funding, as that is my main concern given my background. Rutgers is a good program, but it does seem to be hampered by its lack of funding, as a certain Sarah Lawrence College is.
Anyone know if New School is done notifying? It seems like a lot of acceptances have been notified... wondering if anyone has info on whether they are all done over there.
Anyone know if New School is done notifying? It seems like a lot of acceptances have been notified... wondering if anyone has info on whether they are all done over there.
sahaider, Congrats on Texas State! I hate to be *thisperson* but any chance you got any impression of whether or not all acceptances had gone out? Either way, I'm excited for you and I hope you get funding!
Also, congrats to everybody I have missed for acceptances over the past few days as I haven't been keeping up. Either way... yay for all of you! It's wonderful!
So I'm holding out for UNLV, EWU, Arizona, and Boston U. Though Iowa has said nothing yet, but I'm sure that they are done notifying, aren't they? :D
I also have assumed rejections from Vanderbilt and Indiana.
Anyway, I just found out I was accepted to the final interview for Teach For America yesterday. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do. Focus on Teach for America and then possibly get accepted to an MFA?
Maybe I should just move back to LA and get back into film? :) I live in MT btw.
MB The silence is tolerable, except when it is against the backdrop of so many acceptances.
Congrats to ya'll, btw.
To no one in particular: the chocolatier and I kissed last night.(After we spent a couple hours at the bar talking about how it is inevitable that we will eventually get biblical.) At least my distractions are fun?
i should probably just follow your ways, yoda, and allow for those sorts of distractions as well. they will at least work on keeping me minimally sane.
On a side note, I'm watching a live newscast on an escaped monkey. Swear to Jesus. Must be a slow news day. Haha, she just said "if you see the monkey, it is not advised to mess with the monkey" :D
i do have an acceptance to cca, yea, so maybe i shouldn't even slightly whine. its been weeks since i've heard anything from anywhere else and my heart has been selfishly set on NY. i'm going a little bonkers over the waiting game, esp when it seems like a couple of the schools i was really hopeful for are seemingly done making their elusive phone calls and such.
@ lady friends on this blog Thanks for your support of my chocolatiering endeavors. (I'm also the one with the 2-year-no-sex-streak!) One of these days, very very soon, he and I are gonna unblock my sex qi. (Hahaha, god that sounds disgusting.)
@ everyone else who has to read my comments to get to the *real valuable comments* I wish I had more to report than my chocolatier distraction.
That reminds me of the "important" news bulletin here in Atlanta about the zebra that escaped from the zoo and ran out onto the interstate. That happened about two weeks ago.
MB - I saw that too, all the way down here in Florida! I can't believe they made that big of a deal out of it. A herbivore is outside, stop the presses...
@ amanda Hahah, that cartoon is hilarious. Chocolatier guy had the gall to say to me last night, "I'm not an easy lay, you know?" Then he couldn't keep a straight face anymore and was like, "Hahah, I'm totally an easy lay!" Willy Wonka, he is not.
@ miss Good luck with it all though! A program is a program is a program!
@ MB I can ask my chocolatier if there's a secret social networking site where they all congregate to discuss how to ensnare vulnerable MFA candidates into making out with them. I'll let you know what he says and then maybe I can refer a chocolatier to you for distraction purposes.
I was wondering what all you are planning on doing if you get rejected from all your schools? As I am expecting just that, I am currently looking into ways of disappearing: joining a tribe in Africa, somehow transform myself into a boy (I am a girl), pretend that I am fifteen and show up all orphan-like at some mansion in Virginia. What made me think it was okay to tell people (everyone in the entire world!) that I was applying to grad school?
No problem kaybay! I'm trying to think of it as a hint that notifications will come closer to the 15th, rather than this week. (And since I'm fiction, perhaps poetry will be notified much earlier than what they told me?)
Kara- thanks for sharing in my inevitable shame. Though, there will be no "my," because their will be no "me," after I go completely missing. That'll show those jerk schools.
Hi! I have been a nailbiting lurker this year and last. I had the same e-mail/call from New School yesterday and am in for fiction. I am also wait-listed at UNCW, too, via e-mail.
Also, my list is: (with many assumed rejections...) The New School (accepted) UNCW (waitlist) Michener (rejected)
NYU Columbia Brooklyn Rutgers - Newark Michigan Vanderbilt Cornell Iowa Hunter
Good Luck to everyone still waiting on good news. Before yesterday I was on the verge of insanity - this is my second year applying.
ps - sorry for the overuse of too/also in the previous comment. with the anxiety of waiting, I have apparently lost the ability to coherently write anything.
I too am realizing I shouldn't have told ANYONE about applying...sigh. I know I shouldn't get all depressed and bogged down, but the stress and anticipation and anxiety that everyone's been talking about for weeks has finally come to fruition for me today, and I'm finding it a little hard to cope. I went to lunch with my cousin and forgot to leave my cc when the check came, got up and forgot to take my food with me, and then got to the parking lot and stood in the middle of it like a lost dog while my cousin hugged me and went to get into her own car. She thinks it's because I'm "in love." God, if it were that simple...
True congrats to everyone who got in, and everyone like me who is waiting for the paint to dry, your comments are keeping me sane right now. :)
Thanks! Hahaha, I read your congrats like it were all the other congrats for acceptances and it kinda cheered me up. Ha!
But ya'll ought to save the big congrats for when we's get biblical.
PS So not getting into school. Ugh. I hear ya'll about the embarrassment of it. And trust me, I can't be emailing my recommenders saying things like, "Hi, here's an update: I didn't get into any of those ten schools I applied to and you had to write LORs for. But me and chocolatier got down. Regards, pencore."
@ pencore yesss chocolatier love (I almost wrote "chocolate love" but realized that your chocolatier is likely some shade of vanilla. [...] I'm pretty sure what I just said makes zero sense.) Anyway, I'm semi-dating a bartender. It's definitely come in handy these past few weeks. You know what else succeeds in distracting me? Sex. Thank God, I haven't completely transformed into an MFA applicant-zombie (yet).
@ Rachel Hurn I know how you feel -- I definitely wish I hadn't told anyone (except maybe my mom). All my friends, coworkers, etc. just roll their eyes when I tell them I'm probably not getting in anywhere. NO, REALLY, GUYS, I SWEAR
And yes, stay hopeful!!! This is only March 3rd -- so many schools haven't even STARTED notifying, and others are still deep into notifying/waiting for decisions/notifying waitlisters, etc. There is still a ton of time! Just try to distract yourself with something else (you can refer above to what I said to pencore for some pointers). Seriously, though, I have my fingers crossed for you!
Does anyone know anything about Carlow's program? So far I've only gotten information from the college itself. I was wondering if anyone had personal experience, or knew anybody who went there.
I was accepted for fiction, and the idea of Ireland sounds fantastic...but honest opinions are always good to hear.
Big ups to the "semi-dating" scene. I think my vanilla (you're right) chocolatier and I might be working on that. The biggest hindrance to this chocolatier semi-dating thing is that the kid is kinda... how do you say?... ignorant? A couple weeks ago, he asked me what a person of color was. Ugh. Thank goodness he's pretty.
I applied and was accepted to Carlow. I'm still researching myself and looking for other info. I tried to get the discussion going here: http://www.pw.org/speakeasy/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=174881;page=86;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25; So, maybe if you post it there, we will get some response?
I keep looking back on my application and just shaking my head in shame. I think about the format for my self-assessment essay (SoP) kept messing up--since it was 4000 characters spaces included--and it just makes me feel like shit about Columbia College, and I really want to go here, too.
Maybe I should just go ahead and finish my application for teaching in Japan and get it over with so I can just disappear.
I was rejected from all the schools I applied to last year and was quite devastated. My friends and family, my writing group: no one realized how hard it was to get accepted to these programs – including me. I knew everyone was thinking: how do you expect to have a career as a writer if you can’t even get into an MFA program. And yes, telling my recommenders was the worst, but they were understanding. And they didn’t balk when I asked them to write me recommendations again this year. So it's not pretty, but it’s survivable.
In some ways, the previous rejections were the push I needed to really buckle down. And there are lots of ways to develop your craft in the coming year: writing groups, online workshops, reading craft books, and of course, writing. Inevitability, it doesn’t matter what anyone else says, the only person who can stop you from writing is you.
@MB Wells AHHHH! Congrats Congrats Congrats!! Who around here is now secretly hoping the next time they are self-doubting, that they'll suddenly get the acceptance they want? :)
Congrats AGAIN and I applaud you for remaining in class - I don't have that sort of self-control!
@MB Wells AHHHH! Congrats Congrats Congrats!! Who around here is now secretly hoping the next time they are self-doubting, that they'll suddenly get the acceptance they want? :)
Congrats AGAIN and I applaud you for remaining in class - I don't have that sort of self-control!
@pencore I think you ought to write a story about the chocolatier, just so that you can use that word over and over. Raise your hand if CHOCOLATIER is your new favorite word!
Rejected - Oregon State, University Colorado Boulder (heard snail mail today), U Wyoming, Hunter Have not heard - Louisiana State, George Mason, Vanderbilt, New School, UNH, U Washington, U Montana, Columbia, American
Congrats, sahaider, burlaper, Melissa, and MB Wells!
I think we should all write posts about how we really wanted to attend program x, because as MB Wells has shown, doing so will insure an acceptance call from them within minutes.
Does anyone know if George Mason is done notifying? I know a few people on here have heard, and a lot of people are waiting. Should we give up hope? I tried to call last week, but no one answered. I haven't heard back, either...
Gah, the stress!
Oh, an I finally got my official UMass rejection. Must nicer paper than Iowa, but the tone was somewhat lacking...
So this is my new fantasy. That you go to iowa for poetry, that i get in next year, that we become the most bosomy of buddies.
But, failing that, I'll take whatever I can get on this blog. Thanks for only sending out good juju...
@nadiya, laurat, mbwells, Congrats!!
Also this morning I started reading a book, in which one minor character's name is Vargina. Yep, Vargina. So no news sucks, but Lipsyte makes it somewhat better.
So, has anyone not heard anything from Montana in regards to fiction like myself??
I know some people got in and then I know a bunch of people got rejection letters. Why I haven't I heard either way? Did Montana forget me? Is my mail slow? I wish I knew.
I got an enormous envelope from Rutgers-Newark today with an official acceptance letter in a nice folder, with some information about the school and a little brochure... I was really hoping that big envelope would also contain a funding decision. I am DYING to get a TAship there. I know the international acceptances have that awful funding situation, but any news about US acceptances and funding? Their website kind of makes it sound like they give a lot or at least a fair amount. I talked to Amy Ortiz the other day and she said no funding decisions had been made. *prays for TAship*
@pencore--sorry, I should've specified, I applied to Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program. They finished notifying forever ago and already sent out letters.
Sorry to be throwing out questions of various schools but is anyone else not able to get to their admissions status check for UF? I swear I saw it the other day. I can't figure out if I am crazy or if its gone?
I was also accepted to the final interview for Teach for America. It came as a complete shock! I applied when I was panicking about not having heard from schools yet and needing a backup plan, but I fully expected not to even get a phone interview with Teach for America, with barely any teaching or leadership experience.
Now that I've been accepted to MFA programs, I think I will withdraw my Teach for America application. I am actually thinking of reapplying for Teach for America after I finish an MFA program. By then I'll have teaching experience hopefully, so will feel more comfortable with the prospect of managing a classroom, etc.
@ DigAPony That's not a bad strategy. Moments before I got the email from New School I was literally melting into a pool of anxiety on my desk at work and about to complain to my coworker for the 100000000th time about how all was lost. Maybe complete and utter despair sets things in motion. (ha wishful thinking)
Melissa, I think that maybe despair does somehow set things into motion... I've seen so many people on the blog post that they have given up getting in anywhere, and then they get accepted! This happened to me! It's crazy.
@Woon, me too! Given, I gave my emphasis as LaForgian mechanics and my Math GREs were not stellar... yet I have hope that my essay on deep-space ethnography will win them over in the end.
@Gena I emailed LSU today, because I saw that peotry notification as well. (I am fiction) and this is the response I got when I asked about the status of my app: "Decisions are not final at this point. We will be sending letters alerting applicants of our decision." Which says really nothing ... *sigh*
Hello! I've never posted on here before, though I've been lurking for a long time. I got a telephone call yesterday morning from the Creative Writing MA program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and am so very, very happy. I got a teaching assistantship that will result in full funding, too! PHEW! Now that I'm not paralyzed by my fear of not getting in anywhere, I can finally post! Everything I've read about the program sounds really good; but I was wondering if anyone knows anything about this school or program? I'd like some information that didn't come from the school's website.
Is it weird that I was disappointed not to receive my expected rejection from Montana today? Like, come on! don't string me along... we both know it's over!
@Gena - I hear the latest literary kick centers around Cardassians frolicking on Risa. Too bad my writing samples were about Ferengis on Taurus IV. D'oy!
I just got home from class (longest last hour of my life); thanks for the congrats, everybody!
@DFW1986
I don't really know because I missed the call. Shawn Shiflett called the house while I was at school, so my mom ended up getting the news from him.
Probably five minutes after this and twenty miles away, I looked down at my phone and see that I have a missed call from an unknown number. I walk out in the middle of lecture, call home, and Mom tells me that I'm in!
I'm quite surprised that I didn't cry or piss my pants.
Congrats! I know nothing about Miami of Ohio but I'm at an undergrad college about 30 minutes away so I have this to say about Oxford:
GO to Rohan India (indian restaurant) as much as possible. It will make your dreams come true. and if you see any dirty hippies there wave at them as they are from my school. ALSO it is a really beautiful campus and I'm sure you will love it!
Do some of you worry that when a famous literary figure from XYZ MFA program calls, your mom will answer the phone? I don't live with my mom but when I was younger, my worst fear was having her reveal to my friends that I was in the restroom "for the past hour" or "he's in his room listening to Barry Manilow. Hold on, I'll go get him."
For the MFA, I'd hate for my mom to answer and reveal to Deborah Eisenberg, for example, "Oh, my son Woon is so talented. Did he send you the story about the death of his pet dog Skiffy? It was so touching."
Yikes!
p.s. I do not live with my mom now. Also, my real name is not "Woon."
@Woon I totally have that fear! I don't live with my mother, (as I am away at school) but some of my apps had my cell phone and my home number. So, I have no idea what number they would call if they did. Lord, only knows what my mother would say! She would probably forget half of what they are telling her too!
When did you get the Hunter rejection? And was it through snail mail? E-mail?
My apologies if I come off as heartless. I just haven't received any word from them at all.
**
@everyone
What a terrible, sinister cycle this app process is.
Just hours after I cheered my one and only acceptance, I now find myself as worried and anxious as I was these past few months because I'll have to probably take out a boatload of loans just to attend classes.
So I've went from stressing about whether I'd make it, to stressing about whether I'd be able to pay for the MFA after I made it.
I just wanna go home and fall into a deep, deep sleep.
Congrats to all the acceptances.
And those in limbo: I'm sure you'll be hearing some very good news soon.
[totally hating self right now for not applying to schools in the South and Midwest]
Kate Johnson (poetry director at Sarah Lawrence) called my house when I was at school and my mom answered. Luckily my mom does not (generally) say embarrassing things! She just asked for the number where I could call back later.
However, this was actually very funny that my mom answered the phone when Sarah Lawrence called. Because my mom hates Sarah Lawrence. All along, she said she knew I would get in there, because she didn't like the school, haha. She hates it mostly because she went with me to visit, and we got lost and almost ended up in the Bronx. No one in the world hates the Bronx more than my mom.
So she called my cell and said guess what, I told you so, you got into Sarah Lawrence. I have since tried to persuade her to like it, but no luck!
@Anti -- knowing that your writing sample "passes muster" with at least one group of faculty members, you should feel confident that it could do just as well with other groups. Is applying next year to the Midwest and Southern schools not an option?
I totally feel you. I will not be able to breathe easily or sleep well until I have not only an acceptance, but an acceptance I know I will be able to afford. Right now I'm unfunded at one school and waiting for two to make their funding decisions. Also with seven schools I have yet to hear from. Hoping I will get enough funding at at least one!!
I also didn't apply to schools in the Midwest and South, even though that's where most of the fully funded programs are. I just didn't want to move that far away from family, friends, boyfriend. Should I have sucked it up in order to get a better shot at fully funded offers -- maybe. But the idea of moving that far away makes me feel all panicked too.
There is just no rest in this process, really! Always the worrying and second-guessing and wondering...
I was just accepted to Texas's Michener Center for Writers in Fiction.
It's a little weird; they notified me by email. This is all wonderful and surreal.
Thanks again to everyone on this blog who gave me a place to release my anxiety over the months of waiting. I'm completely overwhelmed by the turns this process has taken. I feel very, very, very lucky to have the opportunities I am getting now, and I'm hoping good things will happen for you guys too. Thanks again to everyone for being cool and nice and making this a place where people can be anxious/happy/miserable/hopeful.
Sorry for an even more delayed response than yours.
Well, I didn't take a Shakespeare class with Anne. But! I was a Webster student in 2005, I wrote the one-act that opened Surfacing that year - the one actor play about the burn-scarred lady cop in the wheelchair. That the play you're thinking of? You can drop me a line at andy.hobin AT gmail DOT com if you want to bypass the boards.
I'm thinking about it (app. Southern/Midwestern schools), especially if I can't gather any cash by the time I have to make a decision regarding which school I'm going to. Might be a blessing in disguise since I've been wanting to work on a certain longer project for some time now (the outline keeps getting bulkier and bulkier, so I'm guessing it's a good thing), and I can use an excerpt as a writing sample next year.
To have at least one faculty think my writing sample is "promising" gives me confidence with the other schools I've applied to. You're right on the money with that one.
@Laura T
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. I'm crossing my fingers for an acceptence to one or two of the CUNY schools I've applied to (hopefull there's a possible TA ship, though the schools are indeed much, much cheaper...).
If you're going to Rutgers, prepare to see the color crimson on EVERY SINGLE BLEEPING THING OUTSIDE OF THAT AWFUL, AWFUL SCHOOL (I went there for like a semester. Nightmare, though the RU education is, admittedly, top notch).
I'm sure you've heard of the RU Screw...Google it if curious.
I shoulda applied to Sarah Lawrence. Was the GRE a requirement?
No, Sarah Lawrence didn't require the GRE -- they actually said they don't want it at all.
I applied to two CUNY schools too (Hunter and Brooklyn) because the low tuition would be great!
I'm curious about what you didn't like about Rutgers, if you don't mind me asking. I had not actually heard of the RU Screw but a google search provided lots of stories... Actually sounds a bit like my undergrad university though, haha.
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Just checked my ISIS account, and it still says my application is under review.
Just in case anyone is floundering in dejection, here's a joke my 89-yr-old grandpa just told me over the phone (After I moved from MI to WA, I started calling my grandparents every week).
An old woman was bust making a casserole for dinner when she gets a phone call from her daughter, Suzie.
"Hi, Suzie," she says, "Are you and your dad coming back from the store now?"
"Not quite, Ma." says Suzie.
"Well, why not?" asks the mom, "The casserole's almost ready."
"Well, you see," Suzie says, "I'm in jail."
"Jail?" the mom says, "How in the world did that happen?"
"Well," says Suzie, "Dad took me into the hardware store and told me to find a Black and Decker, so I did, and I punched her in the face."
***Yeah, it's kind of off-color, but I consider that part of its charm. This is my grandpa, after all. I actually quibbled before posting this because I didn't want to offend anyone.
Ah Wrecking Light, I remember that e-mail. Hardly had I hung up the phone on my Rutgers-N acceptance last year before I saw that e-mail from Sharon Amobi from Int'l admissions. In bold letters: "Your department has NOT offered you funding. Attached is a blah blah blah, please return it detailing the miracle that is proving you have $41K in your back pocket. With warm regards . . . "
I chose to ignore that e-mail for a good minute, choosing instead to bask in the glory of what was an affirmation of my writing sample. It took 8 days for me to face facts: I would not be going to an MFA programme for Fall 2009.
U're definitely in, but it seems the MFA peeps haven't been on top of notifying later acceptancees (Laura T found out by checking her status; you found out by that cock-blocker of an e-mail [to continue the impotence metaphor]). Anyway, you have other acceptances if I'm not mistaken. So, whatev, I guess.
Nadiya,
I'm so happy for your success thus far. Other stuff is ahead, I know, but right now, this must be a good feeling.
Sooo. My cell phone hasn't been working lately. I'm replacing it today. But I can turn it on every now and again. I have a missed call from Temple University. Do I call them back? Or do I wait? :-X
Hmm. Now I'm concerned about these New School FOEs. I applied and haven't gotten a single email since I submitted it.
Nadiya!! Congrats, that is so awesome!! Did you get a call today?
Laura, girl, call them!! Sounds like good news!
I plan to apply to MFA programs in fiction this fall, but I'd like to wish everyone the best of luck as decisions continue trickling in over the next month or so. Congratulations to those who have already or will soon receive good news. If you don't get in this year, don't get discouraged, keep writing, and try again.
@Seth
You've alluded in the past to how much cachet would surround an MFA at Harvard. Well, I work there and am also a graduate student. I don't know whether anyone has referred you to the Report of the Task Force on the Arts, which was issued in December 2008. If not, here's a link:
http://www.harvard.edu/r/arts_report.pdf
(The most relevant pages are 14 and 30.)
Essentially, there are vague plans to roll out MFA programs in creative writing and other fields that would have an interdisciplinary focus and be fully funded. Keep in mind that the work of this task force took place largely prior to the economic downturn, even though the report was released well after the crash. As someone sort of in the know, I'd predict that Harvard will have an MFA program in creative writing eventually, but it likely won't be launched for another 3-5 years (which doesn't help people applying now).
Thanks everyone! You can imagine how excited I am...
I got an email saying they'd been unable to contact me by phone last week and could I call them. And then I got a call - was told details in the post. :-)
Hi everybody,
I just wanted to let everybody know that I have been accepted into the MA program at Liberty University. My genre is fanfiction.
Hi Nick,
Yes, I'm aware of that doc -- actually posted the relevant sections on my old blog last year (and predicted, as you did here, a 5-year implementation window). Here's hoping it happens! It would be very exciting. Be well,
Seth
Quick question because I'm going insane--how many NONFICTION applicants out there have gotten acceptances? So far I've been rejected from Iowa (duh), and waitlisted at Univ. NC Wilmington. I got some random, "Thanks for your interest, and we hope you visit" email from the New School today which both excited and confused me...I realized it probably means nothing...
I also dreamt I got into Sarah Lawrence last night, which also means nothing. haha.
Anyone? Anyone?
@Whitney
Thanks for the quick update on UNCG. Fingers crossed they're able to notify by the end of this week.
But for now, I'll continue to compulse and read this blog like it's my job (while working my real job). haha
Do we have any idea what's going on with Irvine, poetry-wise? And do we think it's time for me to call U of Washington for another update? Can we tell I'm getting a little damn impatient????
LOL at the fanfiction MA from Liberty University
Hi all--been following and being alternately encourage and discouraged for quite some time. Congrats to all the good news-ers! In the meantime, I got an email from Sarah Lawrence asking me about a missing piece of financial aid--
It says:
We are in the process of reviewing financial aid applications. In doing so, I find that your application for assistance for 2010-2011 is incomplete. To date, we have received the following information:
2010-2011 ISIR (FAFSA)
In order to complete the initial application process, please submit the following immediately:
2010-2011 PROFILE (Not Received)
2009 Student Federal Tax Return- signed (Not Received)
I thought all I needed to do was the FAFSA and send it to them. Can anyone tell me what the profile thing is? It says I can find it at collegeboard.com, but nothing there looks like forms. I can contact them too, but I wanted to not look completely idiotic if this was something obvious...thanks!
Thanks so much, and good luck to everyone!
oops. please excuse typos...
video killed the radio star,
Is it fanfiction for Twilight? I heard Liberty only accepts Jacob supporters.
Zenith--here is the link to the CSS/Profile:
https://profileonline.collegeboard.com/prf/index.jsp
(I put two kids through college, so this stuff I know!)
LOL @ smiling raindrops
Uuuughhh I keep answering random unknown phone numbers hoping for an acceptance only to be met by a telemarketer of some sort. So frustrating.
Does Liberty University offer a slashfiction focus?
@Nadiya wow wow wow wow IOWA - you have cracked it dear!!!!
@weights
Have you tried Jean Genet? I've read a lot ABOUT the guy, but his writing, from the information I painstakenly read on Wikipedia, reminds me a lot of Henry Miller.
BTW. Henry Miller is shiznit. Any young urban male writer should at least check out "Tropic of Cancer."
@ everyone who answered my question re: short fiction
Yeah, I was probably paranoid about not getting any word from the CUNY schools (is that a rejection I smell?). I still love writing short fiction, but if I decide to attend an MFA, I might attempt a novel for my manuscript. I already have some solid scenes in my head.
Re TNS: I'm happy I got in. Jackson Taylor said I even got a scholarship, but looking at the fin. aid and overall tuition (per term), it looks like it'll barely even make a dent to my overall balance. Might have to try other avenues, scholarship wise.
Still, I'm incredibly thankful, since I've only heard good things about the New School in this blog and during the research phase of my MFA applications (is Columbia THAT bad?). If only school wasn't so expensive...
@Anti
I've never read Genet. Good suggestion! I kinda want to read the book Sartre wrote on him now, too. Cheers.
In the Miller oeuvre, I almost have to privilege Capricorn.
It's cool to see how later in life, in the Rosy Crucifixion, he writes about the same material but in such a different manner--less lyrical and bombastic, more objective, almost in a Flaubertian manner.
Got a very dry and impersonal rejection letter from UNM today. My genre was CNF. Still waiting to hear from my first choice, UA.
@Anti
Any young male urban writer should check out Tropic of Cancer?
I happen to think rural women writers should too.
Especially rural women (writers)!
I wish Bataille wrote more fiction..
@ Jennifer
I agree. My apologies for being such an urban, douchy-snob. EVERYONE should read "Tropic of Cancer." It's made me wanna drop out of college and go live the vagabond's life in France so many times (a stupid fantasy, I know). I def. wanna check out Anais Nin's diaries too. I keep hearing so many good things about them.
@weights
I've only had the privilege of reading both Tropics and Black Spring. Miller is still a writer I'm jonesing to get more into, but stupid lousy college work keeps getting in the way.
His interviews are hilarious, though. I remember in one he kept talking about the writer Blaise Cendrars. Yet another writer I've tried looking for in bookstores here in Philly and in PA, to no success (I hate buying stuff online. I'm paranoid about my privacy).
Congratulations to LJ, WreckingLight, Nadia, Courtney, video, and to all the New School admits! You guys are owning :)
Sending my very best vibes out to everyone else (like me) who's still waiting...
@LJ
This is all you need to know about UC Davis, that it's home to this guy...
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/02/2574609/uc-davis-student-pushes-new-math.html
@ zenithapproach,
Sarah Lawrence requires the FAFSA, the Profile, AND a copy of your tax return and W2 sent to their office.
(I am hoping that all these financial aid requirements mean that they will give me a lot of financial aid, hehe.)
Here is the website for the Profile:
profileonline.collegeboard.com
It asks basically the same questions as the FAFSA, but there is also a section about your predicted income for the next year. I think it costs $18 to send it, but it might have been a little more.
Hope that helps!
Currently I'm in limbo, trying to decide between a two year program and a three year... I've come up with some pros and cons, but for the most part would enjoy some other thoughts on the year difference. Can anyone speak about this? I'm sure some have given better consideration to the cost/benefit, curious to hear some ideas. Thanks, here's to a prolific Wednesday!!
Where the HELL are my CCA friends????
Why do I ask? I just got freaking admitted. I am seriously shitting my pants and screaming in the library. Shitting my pants is figurative. But screaming is not!!
@Coughdrop
YAYAYYYY!!
you joined our party!!!!
woo hooooo. congrats to the tenth power dude. :)
Congrats, Coughdrop!
Congrats, coughdrop! My cousin went to CCA, and she loved it.
Congratulations Coughdrop! And congratulations Nadiya!
Congratulations, Coughdrop!
Sorry, Nadiya, I totally spelled your name wrong. But my intentions were good. Yay you! Iowa, lady, what a rockstar :)
@ mickey,
Two years vs. three will all depend on funding for me... If I get into a three year program with funding, hell yes! But if I had two unfunded or partially funded offers to choose from, I would probably pick the two year so it would be less expensive...
But ideally, I would prefer a three year program. More time to write, more time to explore various opportunities and activities (teaching, working for a school's lit journal, etc.). Three years seems like the ideal length of a program to me.
Yeah Coughdrop!!!
Hey everyone, PARTY at CCA.
GNE from Western Michigan (poetry):
We are very interested in having you join our 2010-2011 incoming class; however, at this time, we do not know our budget and thus can make no immediate offers. That said, as soon as we are authorized to make offers, we will contact you.
Hmm...
CONGRATS, NADIA!!! SOOOOO EXCITED FOR YOU!
@Nadia
I, too, got word on acceptance to The New School yesterday, but for fiction. Where would you be coming from? You can e-mail me at lmoreno056 [at] gmail [dot] com.
I can't stop smiling!
In at Minnesota! (Off of the wait-list, if anyone was wondering.)
Thanks to everyone for the congrats on LSU the other day as well. I haven’t been on the blog much since then. So I’ll say it now: Thanks!
@Megan (in regards to LSU): that would be great! Feel free to e-mail me at [aaronaapps [at] yahoo.com].
Best,
Aaron
Congrats Coughdrop and Nadiya!
CONGRATS TO COUGHDROP!!! Keep screaming, you DESERVE IT!!! YEAHHH!!!
And Nadiya, damn girl! Awesome news!
Woohoo to everyone who's gotten good news, and keep the hope alive for everyone who hasn't. (I'm sort of in-between those two groups, I guess?) We're only 2.5 days into March, guys! There's still a ton of WOOHOO's to go around!
also, @ JimfifeOH, thanks for all the UNCW insight and your encouragement. I hope you're right!!! I went over and looked at your big post on DH, too. It was very helpful too, obviously!
@ Laura T - you're AMAZING!!! I'm so happy for you. SO SO SOOOO happy for you! high-five/hug to you, bigtime!
@ Nefrettiti, kaybay, and Trilbe - thanks for your encouragement! *hug*
And now to Aaron as well!
I'm digging this good-news-every-day thing.
@Aaron Congrats, man! What genre at Minnesota? Twin cities?
Congrats, Aaron!
Congrats Coughdrop! How many is that for CCA? I'm still waiting on other schools, so I'm not sure if I'm heading out west, but definitely shoot me an email! Davies [dot] Michael1 [at] gmail [dot] com
@Coughdrop!
Whoooo! Good job! You give me hope for the rest of us younglings :P.
@Nadiya
Wowee to Iowa! Good show!
@ Meredith,
Thank you!!! I'm hoping so much that you will get some good news soon!!
@WreckingLight
As soon as I saw "The MFA Golden Table, or Precious Muse Platinum Bouquet," I started salivating. Gawd...if you told me when I was 15 that I was gonna be like this 13 years later...
@ all the CCA acceptances
if you're definitely considering going (I know it's still early, I'm waiting on hearing back from a bunch of schools still as well) and want to discuss, connect, etc:
rachel dot n dot bovee at gmail dot com
:)
@mickey
It all comes down to a personal decision. Three years gives you a lot more time to work on your final thesis work and a lot more time in the MFA environment, but even when fully funded, it is another year where you don't have much of an income. If you are paying for it, then it's a whole HECK of a lot more money.
I personally think that the pace of a three year makes more sense to me, but I applied to a few really good two-year programs based on their funding/reputation. For a lot of people, three years out of the workplace and graduating with a degree that has no intrinsic job prospects is too much to ask for.
Anybody who's waiting on UNC Greensboro...
My wife just called them (for I am too chicken) and asked how far along they were in the MFA decision process. The person she spoke with said they'd be notifying applicants between March 15 and April 15.
That sounds a little weird to me-- I thought that 3/15-4/15 was OUR window to accept or deny. Unless the person meant that they'd be notifying on/by March 15th and then others through April 15th as offers were declined and spots opened.
I hope that's the case, because I can't take another 5 or 6 weeks of limbo.
I applied to relatively few three-year programs. I like the two-year model for a number of reasons. For one, I don't want to get "stuck" in a grad school world - there's a lot of other things I want to do. More importantly, however, I like the two-year timeline. Yes, three years gives you more time on your thesis, but I wanted to feel the burn to produce something in a shorter timeframe. With three years I would probably spend too much time second-guessing myself instead of just committing to a project and seeing it through.
Then again, in three years you could probably write a story collection AND a novel. Very tempting.
@Henry
So depressed by those UNCG notification dates. God help us if they intend on making us wait until April..ahh!
Chelsea,
Yeah, I know what you mean. I wake each morning with a "this could be the day!" feeling.
(well, on my good days)
I'd rather not be robbed of that.
@Kate: Yeah, Twin Cities & Poetry.
& Congrats to everyone. I started to go through and read all of the acceptances recently (there are quite a few) and then I got distracted by some necessary work outside. Good luck to everyone!
Best,
Aaron
@Vanni.
Haha - you know, I'm surprised Seth didn't start salivating, thinking perhaps that I had said, "MFA Golden Ratio".
@Henry -
Thanks so much for posting the UNCG info! It helps to know that we won't hear anything from them until at least the 15th of this month (which is unexpected and seems pretty late for UNCG!).
For what it's worth, I agree with your interpretation of the month-long window they mentioned. It probably means they're going to kick everything off on March 15th, but will continue to make acceptances as people turn offers down.
Thanks again for sharing this. I'm relieved to have some definitive information on a program that's been so quiet! :)
@Laura T
thanks so much!
And yes, wouldn't it be nice to get lots of financial aid?
Hah of course, it'd be nice to know I'm in first before paying the 25.00 to have PROFILE sent instead of just shelling out MORE money in this seemingly semi-fruitless quest...
Hi everyone,
There's another Lauren here now. Hi 'other Lauren' :) :) :)
And I got a FOE from one of the gateway schools of the NEOMFA. Ick.
And lastly, I am officially unemployed now -- I'd been told I'd get fulltime hours at another Barnes & Noble after my store closed, but they're scheduling me 10 hours a week. Severance + unemployment beats that by a mile, so, I'm taking the severance. I guess I've got plenty of time to write now. Yikes.
(Bonus: I can now keep up with all of you on this blog! Congratulations to Coughdrop and Nadia and everyone else who's heard good news!)
HUGE CONGRATS to Nadiya and Coughdrop!!!
Yesterday, after a twelve-hour work day (parent-teacher conferences), I came home to an email saying that I have been accepted to Virginia Tech in poetry! I did a lot of shouting strange phrases that didn't make sense and then a decent amount of pacing around the house with a big smile on my face. I am really, extremely, incredibly excited.
This week has been MASSIVE for acceptances! I hope that they keep rolling in, especially for those of us 'round these blog parts!
Congratulations, Burlaper!
@WreckingLight
mmMMMM "MFA GOLDEN RATIO"
NOW YOU'RE TALKING! HAHAHAH
Yaaaaay burlaper!
@burlaper
YAY! congrats! that's great news! especially after such a long day. :)
any nyu news guys?
Hey guys,
Long time lurker here finally ready to start speaking. I've heard nearly nothing and I'm certainly hungry for some radness this month... week... today, preferably.
My list (fiction)
Wisconsin (rejected)
Iowa (presumed rej)
MN (ditto)
Michigan (double ditto)
Indiana
OSU
UCI
UVA
Lots of silence. Lots of waiting.
Huge congrats to the accepteds!
@PolishMuse -- that's a TOUGH list.
Big Congrats to Nadiya, Aaron and Burlaper. And all the CCA & NS people. Let's keep the good news coming.
In at Texas State for their MFA in Fiction!!!! I AM SO EXCITED! They called me and I missed it while I was on the phone with my gf. Got off and saw the voicemail and started jumping up and down in my living room. Oooh, finding it very hard to stop shaking :)
@WreckingLight
Has your online application status changed to say you've been accepted at Rutgers Newark? I got the same international student email (Dear Prospective Student, Congratulations! We have no money for you. Etc.) but my online status thing still says "No Decision." I wasn't sure what to make of that email and thought maybe they'd sent it by mistake, or I'd accidentally been accepted by the grad school but not the MFA program or something.
Can I really assume from this that I'm in? I love Jayne Anne Phillips and have only gotten waitlists and rejections up til now so it would be nice to be excited briefly before I start freaking out about lack of funding.
Also have other people been having trouble with the blog today? The number of posts keeps jumping back and forth from like 860 to 190 000 and sometimes they disappear entirely and I feel like I'm going bonkers.
Is anyone else still waiting on a Syracuse rejection? I should probably just call or send an e-mail, but part of me enjoys remaining in the dark.
Tim,
I'm still waiting to get the Syracuse rejection email. I tell myself it's because they don't know what to do with someone so good at writing. I tell myself lots of things.
CON-FREAKING-GRATS TO ALL ACCEPTED TODAY!! LET'S KEEP IT COMING!!
@Jordan (I'm so sorry this is late!), please feel free to email me, I'm happy to swap samples and stories. My email is kbritten at yahoo dot com.
I'm irritated that I keep having to wait longer and longer :( I thought that all four schools left for me would be notifying this week and two (UNCG and UF) won't notify until AFTER the 15th! Argh!!!! I want news!! I caved and emailed FSU and I'm still waiting on the response, and I have no idea about Notre Dame (Waaaaaahh, accept me please), but the waiting is seriously messing with me!! It's freaking March people.
Whew.... it's out, I said it, I'm fine now.
:P
congrats to sahaider and burlaper and anyone else who got good news today!
@ everyone: here's a couple of clips of what we have to look forward to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whBrTOzj0Kw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsLPqdFNxm4
@Charles.
Still at "No Decision". I did call the admin side earlier, and they confirmed that I'd been admitted, and when I asked for confirmation about funding they said that their information was that I hadn't received any, but that I could check with Amy Ortiz (I left her an answering machine message - no response as yet).
I was admitted to Rutgers once in the past (with a personal e-mail), and had spoken with them at the time about how they may have had funding for 2010. This was before the economic downturn. Nevertheless, I applied again. I do know they have a Truman Capote Fellowship, but I'm not sure if that's limited to fiction (as you'd figure is the case).
As things stand, I appreciate the offer, but I'll be declining it on the simple basis of a lack of funding, as that is my main concern given my background. Rutgers is a good program, but it does seem to be hampered by its lack of funding, as a certain Sarah Lawrence College is.
Congrats to all of today's admits! That is so awesome.
But on the other hand, I'm dying here! It seems as if the days are just crawling by the closer it seems I get to receiving a decision.
Maybe I need a vacation.
congrats to all today's acceptances!
Anyone know if New School is done notifying? It seems like a lot of acceptances have been notified... wondering if anyone has info on whether they are all done over there.
Still empty mailbox/inbox/voicemail. aghhhhhh.
congrats to all today's acceptances!
Anyone know if New School is done notifying? It seems like a lot of acceptances have been notified... wondering if anyone has info on whether they are all done over there.
Still empty mailbox/inbox/voicemail. aghhhhhh.
Coreyann, you are not alone in your aloneness.
Ugh x infinity over here too.
@ coreyann and pencore
I'm with you guys all the way. Sometimes I feel like they're driving us insane on purpose.
sahaider,
Congrats on Texas State!
I hate to be *thisperson* but any chance you got any impression of whether or not all acceptances had gone out?
Either way, I'm excited for you and I hope you get funding!
Also, congrats to everybody I have missed for acceptances over the past few days as I haven't been keeping up. Either way... yay for all of you! It's wonderful!
So I'm holding out for UNLV, EWU, Arizona, and Boston U. Though Iowa has said nothing yet, but I'm sure that they are done notifying, aren't they? :D
I also have assumed rejections from Vanderbilt and Indiana.
Anyway, I just found out I was accepted to the final interview for Teach For America yesterday. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do. Focus on Teach for America and then possibly get accepted to an MFA?
Maybe I should just move back to LA and get back into film? :) I live in MT btw.
Oh, this is my first post! haha.
MB
The silence is tolerable, except when it is against the backdrop of so many acceptances.
Congrats to ya'll, btw.
To no one in particular: the chocolatier and I kissed last night.(After we spent a couple hours at the bar talking about how it is inevitable that we will eventually get biblical.) At least my distractions are fun?
@pencore
i should probably just follow your ways, yoda, and allow for those sorts of distractions as well. they will at least work on keeping me minimally sane.
Has anyone here actually reported an acceptance to Vanderbilt? I see lots of assumed rejections but haven't heard anything myself either way.
miss,
I thought you received an acceptance or a waitlist, no?
HOLY POOP THERE WAS A WAITLIST REPORT FOR UF POETRY. I'm fiction, but still, oh bugger...
Hey CCA people,
I've sent a couple of you emails but if anyone wants to chat my email is jepaslay@gmail.com
Congrats to everyone who has been accepted today!
@pencore, ALL RIGHT!!
@ pencore: you crack me up. go get biblical. also, your comment totally reminded me of this nataliedee i just read:
http://www.nataliedee.com/021310/the-only-way-of-not-getting-some-is-not-trying-to-get-some.jpg
on P&W btw
On a side note, I'm watching a live newscast on an escaped monkey. Swear to Jesus. Must be a slow news day. Haha, she just said "if you see the monkey, it is not advised to mess with the monkey" :D
@pencore
i do have an acceptance to cca, yea, so maybe i shouldn't even slightly whine. its been weeks since i've heard anything from anywhere else and my heart has been selfishly set on NY. i'm going a little bonkers over the waiting game, esp when it seems like a couple of the schools i was really hopeful for are seemingly done making their elusive phone calls and such.
@ lady friends on this blog
Thanks for your support of my chocolatiering endeavors. (I'm also the one with the 2-year-no-sex-streak!) One of these days, very very soon, he and I are gonna unblock my sex qi. (Hahaha, god that sounds disgusting.)
@ everyone else who has to read my comments to get to the *real valuable comments*
I wish I had more to report than my chocolatier distraction.
@ pencore
That's true. I just wish I had my own chocolatier to kiss.
@ Chrissy H.
I don't know about on here, but the only acceptance I've heard from Vandy was over on DH, in fiction.
@ kaybay
That reminds me of the "important" news bulletin here in Atlanta about the zebra that escaped from the zoo and ran out onto the interstate. That happened about two weeks ago.
@Kaybay - UF told me yesterday that notifications should go out BY the 15th, not after. (Though the "should" does give them some leeway.)
And wow there were a lot of new posts between me starting to write that last message and posting it.
MB - I saw that too, all the way down here in Florida! I can't believe they made that big of a deal out of it. A herbivore is outside, stop the presses...
@ amanda
Hahah, that cartoon is hilarious. Chocolatier guy had the gall to say to me last night, "I'm not an easy lay, you know?" Then he couldn't keep a straight face anymore and was like, "Hahah, I'm totally an easy lay!"
Willy Wonka, he is not.
@ miss
Good luck with it all though! A program is a program is a program!
@ MB
I can ask my chocolatier if there's a secret social networking site where they all congregate to discuss how to ensnare vulnerable MFA candidates into making out with them. I'll let you know what he says and then maybe I can refer a chocolatier to you for distraction purposes.
Raine - THANK YOU! Although now I'm back to stress mode. Especially with a waitlist out (even if it's not my genre). It implies acceptance elsewhere.
@kaybay, where did you see the UF waitlist comment? i can't find it?
On the P&W board in the "waitlisted" thread. Rebussaret was the name, or something like that.
I was wondering what all you are planning on doing if you get rejected from all your schools? As I am expecting just that, I am currently looking into ways of disappearing: joining a tribe in Africa, somehow transform myself into a boy (I am a girl), pretend that I am fifteen and show up all orphan-like at some mansion in Virginia. What made me think it was okay to tell people (everyone in the entire world!) that I was applying to grad school?
No problem kaybay! I'm trying to think of it as a hint that notifications will come closer to the 15th, rather than this week. (And since I'm fiction, perhaps poetry will be notified much earlier than what they told me?)
Came home to be greeted by:
- an official rejection from Umass
- waitlist notification from Rutgers-Camden
Now seems as good a time as ever to include my other rejections and the schools I'm (anxiously) awaiting word from
UMass - Rejected
U of Mich - Rejected
Vanderbilt - Rejected
Rugters @ Camden - Waitlisted
Waitiiiing:
UNCG
TNS
Sarah Lawrence (?rejected)
UNH
LSU (?rejected)
Columbia College Chicago
All in poetry, folks :)
I once had an incident with a rogue moose.
Ah, America. Land of the free.
Moose.
So I saw there was a Fiction acceptance at American on March 1st. Anyone else heard anything from them?
@Chelsea -- I haven't heard anything from U of Michigan. When did you hear your rejection?
Does anyone know if U of Michigan has finished announcing their acceptances?
my plan B ... http://www.circuscenter.org/index2.html
join the circus.
Kara- thanks for sharing in my inevitable shame. Though, there will be no "my," because their will be no "me," after I go completely missing. That'll show those jerk schools.
EmilyA--
I've been rejected by American (twice! two letters two weeks apart) but I haven't heard about anyone else being rejected or accepted.
Hi! I have been a nailbiting lurker this year and last. I had the same e-mail/call from New School yesterday and am in for fiction. I am also wait-listed at UNCW, too, via e-mail.
Also, my list is: (with many assumed rejections...)
The New School (accepted)
UNCW (waitlist)
Michener (rejected)
NYU
Columbia
Brooklyn
Rutgers - Newark
Michigan
Vanderbilt
Cornell
Iowa
Hunter
Good Luck to everyone still waiting on good news. Before yesterday I was on the verge of insanity - this is my second year applying.
ps - sorry for the overuse of too/also in the previous comment. with the anxiety of waiting, I have apparently lost the ability to coherently write anything.
@ Melissa
Congrats on your TNS acceptance.
I too am realizing I shouldn't have told ANYONE about applying...sigh. I know I shouldn't get all depressed and bogged down, but the stress and anticipation and anxiety that everyone's been talking about for weeks has finally come to fruition for me today, and I'm finding it a little hard to cope. I went to lunch with my cousin and forgot to leave my cc when the check came, got up and forgot to take my food with me, and then got to the parking lot and stood in the middle of it like a lost dog while my cousin hugged me and went to get into her own car. She thinks it's because I'm "in love." God, if it were that simple...
True congrats to everyone who got in, and everyone like me who is waiting for the paint to dry, your comments are keeping me sane right now. :)
Let's try to remain hopeful.
@pencore
Congratulations on the kiss! Very exciting! :D
YAY COUGHDROP! Another CCA Acceptee! I'm so excited/excited for you!!
My CCA peeps: hit me up at cjwid87 at hotmail dot com!
@ Mila
Thanks! Hahaha, I read your congrats like it were all the other congrats for acceptances and it kinda cheered me up. Ha!
But ya'll ought to save the big congrats for when we's get biblical.
PS So not getting into school. Ugh. I hear ya'll about the embarrassment of it. And trust me, I can't be emailing my recommenders saying things like, "Hi, here's an update: I didn't get into any of those ten schools I applied to and you had to write LORs for.
But me and chocolatier got down.
Regards, pencore."
@ Jason J
I mean, we all need a little hella in our life..
@ pencore
yesss chocolatier love (I almost wrote "chocolate love" but realized that your chocolatier is likely some shade of vanilla. [...] I'm pretty sure what I just said makes zero sense.)
Anyway, I'm semi-dating a bartender. It's definitely come in handy these past few weeks. You know what else succeeds in distracting me? Sex. Thank God, I haven't completely transformed into an MFA applicant-zombie (yet).
@ Rachel Hurn
I know how you feel -- I definitely wish I hadn't told anyone (except maybe my mom). All my friends, coworkers, etc. just roll their eyes when I tell them I'm probably not getting in anywhere. NO, REALLY, GUYS, I SWEAR
And yes, stay hopeful!!! This is only March 3rd -- so many schools haven't even STARTED notifying, and others are still deep into notifying/waiting for decisions/notifying waitlisters, etc. There is still a ton of time! Just try to distract yourself with something else (you can refer above to what I said to pencore for some pointers). Seriously, though, I have my fingers crossed for you!
Does anyone know anything about Carlow's program? So far I've only gotten information from the college itself. I was wondering if anyone had personal experience, or knew anybody who went there.
I was accepted for fiction, and the idea of Ireland sounds fantastic...but honest opinions are always good to hear.
@ Meredith
Big ups to the "semi-dating" scene. I think my vanilla (you're right) chocolatier and I might be working on that.
The biggest hindrance to this chocolatier semi-dating thing is that the kid is kinda... how do you say?... ignorant? A couple weeks ago, he asked me what a person of color was. Ugh. Thank goodness he's pretty.
I applied and was accepted to Carlow. I'm still researching myself and looking for other info. I tried to get the discussion going here: http://www.pw.org/speakeasy/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=174881;page=86;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25;
So, maybe if you post it there, we will get some response?
@ChoiceD-I just responded to your question without putting your name...so look for my name!
I keep looking back on my application and just shaking my head in shame. I think about the format for my self-assessment essay (SoP) kept messing up--since it was 4000 characters spaces included--and it just makes me feel like shit about Columbia College, and I really want to go here, too.
Maybe I should just go ahead and finish my application for teaching in Japan and get it over with so I can just disappear.
@ Kristen, Kara & Rachel
I was rejected from all the schools I applied to last year and was quite devastated. My friends and family, my writing group: no one realized how hard it was to get accepted to these programs – including me. I knew everyone was thinking: how do you expect to have a career as a writer if you can’t even get into an MFA program. And yes, telling my recommenders was the worst, but they were understanding. And they didn’t balk when I asked them to write me recommendations again this year. So it's not pretty, but it’s survivable.
In some ways, the previous rejections were the push I needed to really buckle down. And there are lots of ways to develop your craft in the coming year: writing groups, online workshops, reading craft books, and of course, writing. Inevitability, it doesn’t matter what anyone else says, the only person who can stop you from writing is you.
HOLY SHIT.
Forget that rant I just post about my self-assessment essay, because I just got a call from Columbia College Chicago, and I'm in for fiction!!!
MB!
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CONGRATS! That's way awesomer than making out with a chocolatier!
Thank you, pencore!
I'm sitting in class right now freaking the fuck out, unbeknownst to my classmates.
@MBWells
That's AWESOME! That probably was THE BEST foot in your mouth moment you've ever had; all so that in the end, you're in!!
CONGRATS!
@MB Wells
AHHHH! Congrats Congrats Congrats!! Who around here is now secretly hoping the next time they are self-doubting, that they'll suddenly get the acceptance they want? :)
Congrats AGAIN and I applaud you for remaining in class - I don't have that sort of self-control!
@MB Wells
AHHHH! Congrats Congrats Congrats!! Who around here is now secretly hoping the next time they are self-doubting, that they'll suddenly get the acceptance they want? :)
Congrats AGAIN and I applaud you for remaining in class - I don't have that sort of self-control!
@pencore I think you ought to write a story about the chocolatier, just so that you can use that word over and over. Raise your hand if CHOCOLATIER is your new favorite word!
HA! MB Wells, that's hilarious. Perfect timing! Congrats, man!
Congrats MB Wells. That's super exciting. Mind sharing how the phone call went?
Also, strangely enough, I've been looking online for the past twenty minutes to try and find out how many people they accept (to no avail).
Update for CNF:
Waitlisted - University North Carolina Wilmington
Rejected - Oregon State, University Colorado Boulder (heard snail mail today), U Wyoming, Hunter
Have not heard - Louisiana State, George Mason, Vanderbilt, New School, UNH, U Washington, U Montana, Columbia, American
Congrats, sahaider, burlaper, Melissa, and MB Wells!
I think we should all write posts about how we really wanted to attend program x, because as MB Wells has shown, doing so will insure an acceptance call from them within minutes.
Does anyone know if George Mason is done notifying? I know a few people on here have heard, and a lot of people are waiting. Should we give up hope? I tried to call last week, but no one answered. I haven't heard back, either...
Gah, the stress!
Oh, an I finally got my official UMass rejection. Must nicer paper than Iowa, but the tone was somewhat lacking...
Chrissy,
You've already received your Iowa denial letter?
@Justin O
No official from Michigan. Assumed. Sorry I didn't clarify.
@Chrissy
I felt the same way on UMass' rejection letter. Ho Hum.
@trilbe
So this is my new fantasy. That you go to iowa for poetry, that i get in next year, that we become the most bosomy of buddies.
But, failing that, I'll take whatever I can get on this blog. Thanks for only sending out good juju...
@nadiya, laurat, mbwells, Congrats!!
Also this morning I started reading a book, in which one minor character's name is Vargina. Yep, Vargina. So no news sucks, but Lipsyte makes it somewhat better.
So, has anyone not heard anything from Montana in regards to fiction like myself??
I know some people got in and then I know a bunch of people got rejection letters. Why I haven't I heard either way? Did Montana forget me? Is my mail slow? I wish I knew.
I got an enormous envelope from Rutgers-Newark today with an official acceptance letter in a nice folder, with some information about the school and a little brochure... I was really hoping that big envelope would also contain a funding decision. I am DYING to get a TAship there. I know the international acceptances have that awful funding situation, but any news about US acceptances and funding? Their website kind of makes it sound like they give a lot or at least a fair amount. I talked to Amy Ortiz the other day and she said no funding decisions had been made. *prays for TAship*
@pencore--sorry, I should've specified, I applied to Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program. They finished notifying forever ago and already sent out letters.
rejected from UNM CNF, mail, blah.
There's a poetry waitlist notification for U of Florida over on the P&W Speakeasy.
Sorry to be throwing out questions of various schools but is anyone else not able to get to their admissions status check for UF? I swear I saw it the other day. I can't figure out if I am crazy or if its gone?
@ Justin Olson,
I was also accepted to the final interview for Teach for America. It came as a complete shock! I applied when I was panicking about not having heard from schools yet and needing a backup plan, but I fully expected not to even get a phone interview with Teach for America, with barely any teaching or leadership experience.
Now that I've been accepted to MFA programs, I think I will withdraw my Teach for America application. I am actually thinking of reapplying for Teach for America after I finish an MFA program. By then I'll have teaching experience hopefully, so will feel more comfortable with the prospect of managing a classroom, etc.
But yeah, completely shocked about that one!
So, has anyone received a rejection from Montana for CNF?
Congrats to the March Radness victorious today!
I'm still waiting for my rejection letter from Starfleet Academy.
@ DigAPony
That's not a bad strategy. Moments before I got the email from New School I was literally melting into a pool of anxiety on my desk at work and about to complain to my coworker for the 100000000th time about how all was lost. Maybe complete and utter despair sets things in motion. (ha wishful thinking)
Melissa, I think that maybe despair does somehow set things into motion... I've seen so many people on the blog post that they have given up getting in anywhere, and then they get accepted! This happened to me! It's crazy.
Solution: feel despair; get accepted.
Universe, I want you to know exactly how much despair I feel at this moment. Thank you in advance.
@Woon, me too! Given, I gave my emphasis as LaForgian mechanics and my Math GREs were not stellar... yet I have hope that my essay on deep-space ethnography will win them over in the end.
PS, has no one heard from the fiction side of LSU? I saw a poetry notification hit yesterday.
@Gena
I emailed LSU today, because I saw that peotry notification as well. (I am fiction) and this is the response I got when I asked about the status of my app:
"Decisions are not final at this point. We will be sending letters alerting applicants of our decision." Which says really nothing ... *sigh*
Thanks M Cat. I'm glad some people have the fortitude to call. And while it's vague... it's not completely hopeless. I'm holding to that. :).
Hello! I've never posted on here before, though I've been lurking for a long time. I got a telephone call yesterday morning from the Creative Writing MA program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and am so very, very happy. I got a teaching assistantship that will result in full funding, too! PHEW! Now that I'm not paralyzed by my fear of not getting in anywhere, I can finally post! Everything I've read about the program sounds really good; but I was wondering if anyone knows anything about this school or program? I'd like some information that didn't come from the school's website.
Bri, congratulations! I don't know anything about the program so I can't help you out there, but it's great that you got in with full funding!
Is it weird that I was disappointed not to receive my expected rejection from Montana today? Like, come on! don't string me along... we both know it's over!
@Gena - I hear the latest literary kick centers around Cardassians frolicking on Risa. Too bad my writing samples were about Ferengis on Taurus IV. D'oy!
I just got home from class (longest last hour of my life); thanks for the congrats, everybody!
@DFW1986
I don't really know because I missed the call. Shawn Shiflett called the house while I was at school, so my mom ended up getting the news from him.
Probably five minutes after this and twenty miles away, I looked down at my phone and see that I have a missed call from an unknown number. I walk out in the middle of lecture, call home, and Mom tells me that I'm in!
I'm quite surprised that I didn't cry or piss my pants.
@Bri
Congrats! I know nothing about Miami of Ohio but I'm at an undergrad college about 30 minutes away so I have this to say about Oxford:
GO to Rohan India (indian restaurant) as much as possible. It will make your dreams come true. and if you see any dirty hippies there wave at them as they are from my school. ALSO it is a really beautiful campus and I'm sure you will love it!
Do some of you worry that when a famous literary figure from XYZ MFA program calls, your mom will answer the phone? I don't live with my mom but when I was younger, my worst fear was having her reveal to my friends that I was in the restroom "for the past hour" or "he's in his room listening to Barry Manilow. Hold on, I'll go get him."
For the MFA, I'd hate for my mom to answer and reveal to Deborah Eisenberg, for example, "Oh, my son Woon is so talented. Did he send you the story about the death of his pet dog Skiffy? It was so touching."
Yikes!
p.s. I do not live with my mom now. Also, my real name is not "Woon."
can i safely assume that i have been rejected from VTech. BTW, any word from Brown or ASU
U of San Fran (deferred) Accepted last year no funding
Syracuse rejected
Brown< not holding my breath
ASU???
VTech assumed rejection
@Woon
I totally have that fear! I don't live with my mother, (as I am away at school) but some of my apps had my cell phone and my home number. So, I have no idea what number they would call if they did. Lord, only knows what my mother would say! She would probably forget half of what they are telling her too!
LOL @ Woon!
Fortunately, I do not have the kind of mom who spills forth the wonders of my writing.
She did have a little "OMGGG!!!" moment at my expense, though.
@ Liz
When did you get the Hunter rejection? And was it through snail mail? E-mail?
My apologies if I come off as heartless. I just haven't received any word from them at all.
**
@everyone
What a terrible, sinister cycle this app process is.
Just hours after I cheered my one and only acceptance, I now find myself as worried and anxious as I was these past few months because I'll have to probably take out a boatload of loans just to attend classes.
So I've went from stressing about whether I'd make it, to stressing about whether I'd be able to pay for the MFA after I made it.
I just wanna go home and fall into a deep, deep sleep.
Congrats to all the acceptances.
And those in limbo: I'm sure you'll be hearing some very good news soon.
[totally hating self right now for not applying to schools in the South and Midwest]
@ Woon,
Kate Johnson (poetry director at Sarah Lawrence) called my house when I was at school and my mom answered. Luckily my mom does not (generally) say embarrassing things! She just asked for the number where I could call back later.
However, this was actually very funny that my mom answered the phone when Sarah Lawrence called. Because my mom hates Sarah Lawrence. All along, she said she knew I would get in there, because she didn't like the school, haha. She hates it mostly because she went with me to visit, and we got lost and almost ended up in the Bronx. No one in the world hates the Bronx more than my mom.
So she called my cell and said guess what, I told you so, you got into Sarah Lawrence. I have since tried to persuade her to like it, but no luck!
@Anti -- knowing that your writing sample "passes muster" with at least one group of faculty members, you should feel confident that it could do just as well with other groups. Is applying next year to the Midwest and Southern schools not an option?
@ Anti-,
I totally feel you. I will not be able to breathe easily or sleep well until I have not only an acceptance, but an acceptance I know I will be able to afford. Right now I'm unfunded at one school and waiting for two to make their funding decisions. Also with seven schools I have yet to hear from. Hoping I will get enough funding at at least one!!
I also didn't apply to schools in the Midwest and South, even though that's where most of the fully funded programs are. I just didn't want to move that far away from family, friends, boyfriend. Should I have sucked it up in order to get a better shot at fully funded offers -- maybe. But the idea of moving that far away makes me feel all panicked too.
There is just no rest in this process, really! Always the worrying and second-guessing and wondering...
@Laura T - family, friends, boyfriend are temporary. An MFA is forever.
I just got a phone call from Eastern Washington. I'm in for fiction.
I was just accepted to Texas's Michener Center for Writers in Fiction.
It's a little weird; they notified me by email. This is all wonderful and surreal.
Thanks again to everyone on this blog who gave me a place to release my anxiety over the months of waiting. I'm completely overwhelmed by the turns this process has taken. I feel very, very, very lucky to have the opportunities I am getting now, and I'm hoping good things will happen for you guys too. Thanks again to everyone for being cool and nice and making this a place where people can be anxious/happy/miserable/hopeful.
-Arna
Arna!!! You are amazing. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Rose too!!
Rsse and Arna!
Congratulations!
@ klairkwilty
Sorry for an even more delayed response than yours.
Well, I didn't take a Shakespeare class with Anne. But! I was a Webster student in 2005, I wrote the one-act that opened Surfacing that year - the one actor play about the burn-scarred lady cop in the wheelchair. That the play you're thinking of? You can drop me a line at andy.hobin AT gmail DOT com if you want to bypass the boards.
@Woon
I'm thinking about it (app. Southern/Midwestern schools), especially if I can't gather any cash by the time I have to make a decision regarding which school I'm going to. Might be a blessing in disguise since I've been wanting to work on a certain longer project for some time now (the outline keeps getting bulkier and bulkier, so I'm guessing it's a good thing), and I can use an excerpt as a writing sample next year.
To have at least one faculty think my writing sample is "promising" gives me confidence with the other schools I've applied to. You're right on the money with that one.
@Laura T
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. I'm crossing my fingers for an acceptence to one or two of the CUNY schools I've applied to (hopefull there's a possible TA ship, though the schools are indeed much, much cheaper...).
If you're going to Rutgers, prepare to see the color crimson on EVERY SINGLE BLEEPING THING OUTSIDE OF THAT AWFUL, AWFUL SCHOOL (I went there for like a semester. Nightmare, though the RU education is, admittedly, top notch).
I'm sure you've heard of the RU Screw...Google it if curious.
I shoulda applied to Sarah Lawrence. Was the GRE a requirement?
@arna, congratulations! So well deserved, can't wait to see your own section in the bookstores.
@ Arna and Rose
WOW, congratulations!
wow, impressive stuff arna. you've been accepted by the top five programs, no?
is michener your top choice? obviously, they give out the most cash.
congrats
@ Rose
Congrats on acceptance into another fine program.
@ Arna
Jeez, have you like maxed out yet? Wow.r
@ Anti-,
No, Sarah Lawrence didn't require the GRE -- they actually said they don't want it at all.
I applied to two CUNY schools too (Hunter and Brooklyn) because the low tuition would be great!
I'm curious about what you didn't like about Rutgers, if you don't mind me asking. I had not actually heard of the RU Screw but a google search provided lots of stories... Actually sounds a bit like my undergrad university though, haha.
@Arna,
Wow, I was wondering if any human person would get accepted into that program and if we'd hear from them! Congrats!
@Rose,
Yay! I'm in at EWU for fiction as well.
oh wow! arna is cleaning the board! :-) Great job!
Everyone else with acceptances, you guys rock.
Congrats to Arna & Rose!
Holy Shit, Arna. Did any place reject you? It's well deserved though. You must tell us where you decide to go and why.
Arna!! Where did you get your magic fairy dust???
and by that I mean CONGRATS!
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