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GUYS I GOT INTO MICHIGAN FOR POETRY OMFG

Ok minor (unrelated) writing success today! I've submitted stories to the New Yorker before, and never heard back on any of them. (From their website: We regret that, owing to the volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to call or e-mail unless a story is accepted for publication.) In January, I submitted one of the pieces I used for my grad application and THEY REPLIED! They still said it wasn't a fit for their magazine, but they said THERE WAS MUCH TO ADMIRE ABOUT IT! This may be the most excited I've ever been about a rejection 😆 I feel like being a writer is so much about finding ways forward through rejection. Especially waiting on grad school admissions, it's nice to get something that encourages me to keep writing, and to try again.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I JUST GOT INTO CSU I'M SCREAMING AND CRYING OH MY GOD

I'm an Iowa waitlist! Just got the email, am losing my shit.

Ok had the NYU call! Full tuition funding + fellowship! Highest level of funding they offer!

Can we manifest "everybody gets good news this week"?

Guys --- I just got the call. Full funding at Northern Arizona. I'm in complete shock. edit: AND I WAS SO AWKWARD ON THE PHONE OH MY GOD lmao

GUYS I GOT WAITLISTED AT OSU! 😭🥹

YALL I GOT A TASHIP AT NAU LETS GOOOOO

I just got an email where I got waitlisted. For Vanderbilt. I am too stunned to speak. Are my chances real?

got accepted to UW-Madison!! my first acceptance and one of my top programs I’ve only heard back from IU so far (waitlist) so I feel like I can finally calm down now.

Got accepted into ASU last night! Yippee!!!

YALL I JUST GOT A CALL FROM NATALIE FUCKING SHAPERO AT UC IRVINE I was such an idiot on the phone but she was soooo nice about it 😭😭😭😭😭 I'm just screaming over here. Baby's first acceptance

I’m in shock. I got the call.

I just got accepted in to Naropa! No word on funding but I’ve got my fingers crossed! And regardless it’s nice to kick off the season with an acceptance! ❤️

Y'ALL I JUST GOT ACCEPTED TO NYU FOR POETRY ANYTHING IS POSSIBLLLLLEEEEE

ACCEPTED TO WASHU FOR POETRY!!

Y'all I just got a call from NAU, I'm accepted and 1st on the waitlist for funding!!!! (I'm on an insane killstreak so far all acceptances and simultaneously no guaranteed funding but I trust the process ❤️)

Just got waitlisted for UC Davis Fiction, if anyone's waiting for news from there - we keep it rolling

I got into Iowa for fiction over the weekend. Hi everyone! I have not posted at all but I've read everyone's posts. I got an acceptance call from Iowa over the weekend and wanted to let you guys know what Sam Chang said she's going to be making calls for probably this whole week. So if you haven't heard anything, it's still possible! also, for those of you getting discouraged, I reapplied. It's so random and crazy. Last year I was waitlisted at five programs and this year I was rejected from all five of those same programs. I thought, Jesus, I guess I got worse in the last year. And right when I was feeling down, I got the phone call. Keep goiiiiiiinnnnngggggg!!!!

Hey everyone! Out of reactions for today so thank you for all the congrats! But I just wanted to respond to the general things I’ve been seeing lately and recent posts. This was my second time applying. Last year I applied to 9 programs and was waitlisted at the NWP at the University of Texas at Austin. I was rejected from the 8 other programs. I never made it off the waitlist at NWP. But I turned my frustration into motivation. This was not the first time in my life when people doubted me, and I knew it was because they could not see the potential I saw in myself. So I decided to show them. I read through my application again. I wrote about a project I would do if I go into an MFA program. So I just did the project on my own. I went through archives, read books on my topics, spent months researching and writing. I started writing the poems I vowed to write in my application. At the same time, I went to a summer writing workshop at one of the programs I hoped to attend. I took in every ounce of feedback. I sought out other writers to give me feedback on my SOP essay and my writing sample. I listened and changed and became a better writer. Today, as I mentioned, I got into Michigan!! I was rejected by them last year. I have 2 acceptances until my belt this season, 3 rejections, and I think 12 pending. This season is going great for me, but it’s my second try at it. It’s not the end of the world to try again. Please have hope. Please keep writing. Whatever happens, let it motivate you to try harder, be better. There’s always room to improve. And nobody can take writing away from you. ❤️

If you're anything like me, you need reminders from time to time of the Great Subjectivity of all this--all this being not only acceptance to MFA programs but also publication and literary ""success"" in general--because it's easy to get discouraged. So, here's another reminder: today, I received an acceptance to Indiana for poetry. Up to this point, I've been rejected by three so-called lesser programs (though, due to the Great Subjectivity, I don't think the 'prestige' of programs matters much...). So, obvious lesson though it may be, there's another reminder of its truth. THIS IS SO SUBJECTIVE! Even if you're rejected at such-and-such school, assume nothing about other schools. Don't write yourself off. And, regardless, keep writing!

I got into Yale!

I got into Columbia for poetry this morning! 40k scholarship per year! 3a/3r/0w/11p

I got my first good news of the season! Moved on to round 2 at Ole Miss. Although, I'm not sure what the chances are of it turning into an acceptance since there aren't as many schools that do phases. but I'm very thankful and excited either way!

i’ve moved on to round 2 at ole miss!

Guys I just heard from IU Bloomington - I'm on the waitlist for fiction!!!!

waitlisted at syracuse.........

Not to give false hope here, but I wanna remind anyone who needs it—as my loved ones have been VERY quick to remind me today—that it truly ain't over 'til it's over. I called my cycle a failure on Friday (with "98% of precincts reporting")... And then got accepted to my last two schools. It ain't over 'til it's over.

I got my first Waitlist from GCSU! I really needed some good news cause I was starting to feel sad haha!!

I also got the Iowa waitlist email!! Screaming, crying, etc etc

just got accepted to Rutgers via phone call!

First reply from any of my apps i got waitlisted at Hopkins for poetry. Considering clawing all my skin off, can't wait to wait more 🤪

nothing much or useful to say except that I WANT TO THROW UP

I just got accepted to Columbia for Poetry!!! With an Apple gift card for financial aid!!! Feels amazing but almost certainly gonna have to turn it down due to money.

Just hoping for hugs here... I usually feel great and upbeat but as responses are coming through on the spreadsheet from my top-wanted programs, I'm starting to feel a little bummed out.

I just got offered a fellowship at Naropa!!!!!! OMGGGGG

Just got into my top choice program.. I think I’m in shock lol

I got a call today from West Virginia University letting me know i'm accepted for CNF! Its fully funded and am really excited that it is three years instead of two like some of the other places I have been admitted to. Has anyone heard anything, good or bad, about WVU's program? I'm trying to get as much info as I can and would love to hear others experience there.

so with the way things are shaping up it looks like i'm going to be seeing some of y'all again for next year's forum, so i wanted to reflect on the process this year (i'm a first time applicant) and thank y'all again for building such a supportive community! i don't know if anyone else had a similar experience, but i think it's pretty common: going back to your sample submissions and cringing and thinking, i could definitely have done better. honestly if i learned anything from these past few months and from that cringe feeling it's that i don't think i was fully ready to apply this year, even though i might have thought i was back in november. of course we're all going to be improving in our writing for the rest of our lives, so that's not the best metric of whether or not we're "ready," but i think there's a point at which your improvement on your own kind of slows down and that's when something like an mfa is probably the most helpful. if i did get in somewhere this year, now that i have the chance to really reflect on all this, i don't know if i would be capable of making the best use of it. i have learned, though, that putting myself through the mfa (at least in the abstract) is still really important to me, and i'm hoping to push myself a lot more this year and assess whether or not i'm "ready" in the fall. anyway, thank you all for your support these past few months! there really is something about suffering in purgatory together

accepted to pratt's fiction program yesterday afternoon at 5 pm! still waiting to hear back from 6 other schools in the NY are (CUNY city/hunter/brooklyn, the new school, nyu columbia) – good luck everyone!

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ Brown Acceptance 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ I heard this worked in the past so 🤞

Just got my acceptance to Chapman for their dual MA/MFA program!!!! Waiting to hear about funding tho. I can't believe this is happening. I was rejected from USC two years ago, and rejected from Northwestern this year, so I really didn't think I'd get Chapman either. I could cry. Congratulations!!!! @KennyK I'm also waiting on Riverside, but haven't heard a peep. My portal still says "Awaiting Decision." I'm rooting for you!

UMass Amherst, UMich, Vandy, Michener, Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, and Cornell all gave me form rejections, and I thought the rest of app season would go like this. So, if you've gotten nos across the board so far, don't give up hope.

Received an email from New Hampshire about 2 hours ago, and I was so sure it was a rejection, because it was an email, but I just checked aND IT WAS AN ACCEPTANCE!!!!! So, uh, New Hampshire fiction acceptances are going out. I am losing my mind. I really thought it was gonna be a wash this year, and I was trying to gear up to do better next year. I keep oscillating between laughing and crying and my hands are shaking. Admittedly, I don't know about funding yet, but fingers crossed 🤞

Wishing everyone an acceptional Wednesday ✨

YESSSSSS LETS FUCKING GO!!! I just got mine too!!!!

THANK YOU I LITERALLY CANT BELIEVE IT lol

Just got the Phase 2 notification from Ole Miss. Progressed to Round 2 for Fiction. Congrats to you, too, @Mystic_Sunshine!

yeah i think president’s day should be cancelled this year for two distinct, unrelated reasons….