tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post5557667851869629996..comments2024-03-28T02:14:08.783-07:00Comments on THE MFA BLOG: One more mailbag....Friday, March 5, 2010Tom Kealeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11913868167191023096noreply@blogger.comBlogger2265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-88397108580194371522010-03-24T16:22:42.860-07:002010-03-24T16:22:42.860-07:00Anyone else heard from Miami?
I noticed some of y...Anyone else heard from Miami?<br /><br />I noticed some of you have "assumed" rejections, but at least one poster informed us that letters were mailed a couple of days ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-68140220081619870362010-03-19T09:51:15.212-07:002010-03-19T09:51:15.212-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.MFQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16019599964261542531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-8023339105667279612010-03-18T12:42:21.215-07:002010-03-18T12:42:21.215-07:00can someone post the link to the new mailbag, I ca...can someone post the link to the new mailbag, I can't find it.Kitty in a Cathousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15201313834117941190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-40125241923432167182010-03-16T18:23:24.842-07:002010-03-16T18:23:24.842-07:00I posted a couple of times but it's been awhil...I posted a couple of times but it's been awhile. I have been peeking once in awhile but I'm really trying, with minimal success, not to obsess. <br /><br />My status is this (all CNF):<br /><br />Accepted: WVU<br />Waitlisted: GMU ("very high" on the waitlist)<br /><br />No word: American, LSU, GCSU, Memphis<br /><br />The silence is really frustrating, but I would be thrilled to go to WVU. In fact, even if I am accepted at any of the others I am likely to choose WVU.<br /><br />I am going to withdraw from consideration at Memphis. There is nothing they could offer that would compete with WVU. <br />I think I am going to take me name off GMU's waitlist. I applied there becuase it is local (and cheap) and I could keep on working part time and go to school part time. But I visited and was very unimpressed. I also think I really want the immersion experience. So I am going to withdraw there -- the rest of you can move up a little!ositacolleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14276222025025386482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-15916814627702610592010-03-16T10:44:59.839-07:002010-03-16T10:44:59.839-07:00@Ali,
I wish you luck as well! And uh...yeah...ma...@Ali,<br /><br />I wish you luck as well! And uh...yeah...maybe it's because I submitted my application in December! hehehe<br /><br />@George Mason Poetry Waitlisters<br /><br />I just had to decline an unfunded spot in the program.Vannihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940966492866473464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-47331563948136941792010-03-16T08:43:07.419-07:002010-03-16T08:43:07.419-07:00Accepted:
City College NY
Waitlisted:
The New S...Accepted: <br />City College NY<br /><br />Waitlisted: <br />The New School<br /><br />No word yet from:<br /><br />NYU<br />BC<br />Hunter<br />Queens College<br /><br />Very happy about the CC acceptance. Anyone else leaning towards CC?burly birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07241124116919850006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-45410989989351251342010-03-16T07:53:08.352-07:002010-03-16T07:53:08.352-07:00@nefrettiti-Congratulations!@nefrettiti-Congratulations!Sudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03409556895927176003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-1314810171440393162010-03-16T07:04:22.381-07:002010-03-16T07:04:22.381-07:00@ Laura T
I see that Emerson is first on your lis...@ Laura T<br /><br />I see that Emerson is first on your list for teaching. Can I ask why? I too am looking to teach after completing the MFA and got into Emerson as well (along with Lesley and UMASS Boston) and finding the decision making process so difficult. I am wondering if you could share your Emerson teaching notes/thoughts/reasonings with me. <br /><br />Please feel free to email:<br />christinaboling@gmail.comchristina bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05486554756985157696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-11596337672836113692010-03-16T07:00:10.112-07:002010-03-16T07:00:10.112-07:00http://backwhenweweregrownups-lynn.blogspot.com/
...http://backwhenweweregrownups-lynn.blogspot.com/<br /><br />great time waster...cipherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01643374286560722810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-47633852203526318092010-03-16T06:45:34.219-07:002010-03-16T06:45:34.219-07:00@Emily Walker
We can continue this discussion in ...@Emily Walker<br /><br />We can continue this discussion in the next mailbag, but I just wanted to say that I haven't seen anything but acceptances from Portland State. I have yet to receive a decision notification from them, as well.Jimmy Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15873181728274530055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-57416043537006501232010-03-16T06:06:14.301-07:002010-03-16T06:06:14.301-07:00I'm thinking the waiting season is pretty much...I'm thinking the waiting season is pretty much over for me -- just haven't heard from Brooklyn and Temple so assuming rejection. Counting those as rejections, I'm coming out of this craziness with seven rejections and five acceptances, which is such an amazing shock. If anyone remembers reading my posts around January-February, I was convinced I wouldn't get in anywhere.<br /><br />Now that the acceptances have come in, I'm being bombarded by advice from all directions! My parents say, "Save money!" and also "Go to Boston, it's only an hour away from home!" My professors say, "Go to Sarah Lawrence! The amazing faculty! The connections!" Yesterday a pretty famous writer came to give a reading at my school, I went over to get my book signed and chatted with him, talked about grad school and he said "Go to Sarah Lawrence!"<br /><br />Eep!<br /><br />Sarah Lawrence is my first choice for faculty. So many of my favorite poets are there. But it costs so friggin' much. I got my financial aid letter and got a little scholarship, and a pile of loans! To all the people who are telling me to go to SLC, I want to say, "Sure! Do you want to pay for it?"<br /><br />Emerson is my first choice for teaching, interdisciplinary work, multi-genre work, and location. The faculty is great but I haven't been obsessively reading their work for years, like I have with the SLC faculty. I would have a cheap place to live in Boston because my boyfriend and a bunch of friends share a house there. (And also, would not have to struggle through long-distance with the boyfriend.) And I actually would like to be only an hour train ride away from my family and friends at home. It's cheaper than SLC and I haven't got my fin aid letter yet, but they allegedly give more merit aid, and assistantships, which I'm really hoping I got.<br /><br />Or, I could get a TAship from Rutgers (Maybe? little chance?) and that would throw another wrench in the decision-making process.<br /><br />But, give up the amazing once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at SLC to work with my favorite poets ever? It'd probably be worth it not to disappear under a mountain of debt as soon as I graduate. *sigh* Decisions.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243317741313446829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-87924449149267773902010-03-16T05:59:43.744-07:002010-03-16T05:59:43.744-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243317741313446829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-41000172969145062362010-03-16T05:54:13.136-07:002010-03-16T05:54:13.136-07:00Accepted to Louisville's MA program.
Waiting t...Accepted to Louisville's MA program.<br />Waiting to hear about the funding situation.pdghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452940049748994550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-41363076559110014092010-03-16T05:52:17.771-07:002010-03-16T05:52:17.771-07:00New mailbag just went up.New mailbag just went up.Nancy Rawlinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612031503087329517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-73760661618058703042010-03-16T05:28:47.671-07:002010-03-16T05:28:47.671-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Santhihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02716794138534304141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-59360798205583675432010-03-16T05:22:49.637-07:002010-03-16T05:22:49.637-07:00Hi, all. Congrats on all the acceptances and wait...Hi, all. Congrats on all the acceptances and waitlists!<br /><br />I still have no good news to report, but I thought I'd check in to let you know I received my Cornell rejection by mail on Saturday and my Purdue rejection by e-mail last night. <br /><br />This brings my official rejection total to 10 (out of 24). That's not counting the many presumed rejections.<br /><br />My only good news remains the Indiana waitlist. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Indiana will turn into an acceptance. It's only been one week since I found out I was on the waitlist, but it feels as if I've been in this excrutiating waitlist purgatory for weeks.<br /><br />I continue to send best wishes to all of you!phillywriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14910278963444908856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-83966671031498270592010-03-16T04:07:39.786-07:002010-03-16T04:07:39.786-07:00I am impatient. My file for the PhD program is com...I am impatient. My file for the PhD program is complete except for the GRE scores--which have yet to arrive--and the grad admissions department won't forward my file until they get the scores. Grrrr. I shouldn't have started this whole process so late, I know, but this was my new Plan B.<br /><br />I'm just venting, because my family doesn't get it. <br /><br />I emailed the head of the admissions committee to ask if they'd request my file without the scores. They're already considering me late, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to push it a bit more. If GRE scores really aren't important, as so many here have said, they may just do it.MommyJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04041202705049426880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-87151977838358533922010-03-16T02:57:01.185-07:002010-03-16T02:57:01.185-07:00I'm annoyed. I shouldn't be because I'...I'm annoyed. I shouldn't be because I've at least been accepted somewhere but here's where my status stands now. <br /><br />Accepted: UBC<br /><br />Rejected: Oregon State, University of Texas<br /><br />HEARD NOTHING, NADA, ZILCH AND EVERYONE ELSE HAS: Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, Texas State, Houston, University of San Francisco, Portland State, University of Guelph.<br /><br />I'm diligently checking online statuses, my mailbox, and that my phone is charged. <br /><br />I really didn't want to harass some poor admin assistant, but should I just start calling these schools?Emily Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17951808925148842980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-78994125591553309322010-03-16T01:52:08.150-07:002010-03-16T01:52:08.150-07:00by the way, my michener application was for fictio...by the way, my michener application was for fiction. 700 applications for five slots. yikes.ManilaWriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12429559381591486659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-76234342233874172552010-03-16T01:48:54.925-07:002010-03-16T01:48:54.925-07:00Hi, people. I've been lurking here for a while...Hi, people. I've been lurking here for a while. I just got my Purdue rejection today and I'm feeling pretty down. Anyway, here's my list:<br /><br />Waitlisted:<br />Michener<br /><br />Rejected:<br />Wash at St Louis<br />Purdue<br /><br />No word yet from:<br />Florida (assumed rejection)<br />LSU<br />Miami<br /><br />I got waitlisted for the MPhil in English Literature at the University of Hong Kong, but for you guys that's probably irrelevant.<br /><br />For some reason I feel weird. And depressed.ManilaWriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12429559381591486659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-39254623506110466112010-03-16T01:37:20.852-07:002010-03-16T01:37:20.852-07:00U. of Arizona sent me a "ummm F. U absolutely...U. of Arizona sent me a "ummm F. U absolutely not" letter via snail mail today. <br /><br />sad face. That one's upsetting. I'd liked them a lot. <br /><br />I'm scared that I'll get two more no's and my only option will th The New School...which I'm SUPER PUMPED about doing in theory (incredibe faculty and philosophy and NEW YORK CITY), but the funding is really scaring me. I need to get in touch with them, ask for information about all the questions I have, talk to as many people in the department as possible, both faculty and past/present students. Get the info!<br /><br />Also: Tips/advice for finding work and an apartment in New York City? Anyone? nadia[dot] waggener[at] email[dot] cudenver[dot]edu<br /><br />thanks y'all and HANDS IN THE AYUH for all you rockstars gettin' in left and right. YOU RULE!Nadiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12386436017418572842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-25300853202541828122010-03-16T00:34:15.172-07:002010-03-16T00:34:15.172-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Santhihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02716794138534304141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-27126212929322019292010-03-16T00:31:56.130-07:002010-03-16T00:31:56.130-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Santhihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02716794138534304141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-57341654150239252412010-03-16T00:13:03.693-07:002010-03-16T00:13:03.693-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.m.elisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04392093392164518244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-52750882518258457902010-03-16T00:11:13.523-07:002010-03-16T00:11:13.523-07:00and by here, I mean "hear"and by here, I mean "hear"Mickey Kennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09902236576214431755noreply@blogger.com