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I'm with you on the round two idea... It must be foolishly optimistic, but I feel really good about trying again. I might speak for all of us first-time app-ers when I say it's been quite a learning experience! And I feel like my poetry has developed so much more since I submitted my manuscript... I look back at it and shudder. MoJuiced, I feel like I'm living vicariously through your decision tumult...that red lettering, god!

Hey! You applied to Kent and Aberystwyth, too? I've been accepted to both for Creative Writing...do you know if Kent will notify us of funding? I'm American, so I'm used to our system, which I think is different from over there..

Oh Jeez-- I just got an email from Indiana's administration-- They've already filled "a few" spots in their program, but have (only!) a few more seats to fill, which will be done by next week!!!!! I think our chances are even slimmer now.

Hey! Congratulations!!! Is that your first acceptance? Awesome. I seriously dread hearing back from Indiana and Columbia now, but OH how I crave it!

Anything with the word "refer" sounds like Really good news!!! Congratulations! This makes me feel soooo antsy! So the Indiana secretary never responded to your ever-so polite inquiry?

Have any of you considered CompLit programs??? I was accepted to the MA @ SUNY Binghamton (no word on funding, yet), and wondered if anyone had any info about the school or program. Did anyone else apply to UMass??? I applied for a Phd, but still haven't heard back ..

I have a feeling some of us might here back this week! The Utter Agony!!!!!!!

Seriously, you pay Insanely Good Money to go to school, and Pay their salary. Hell yes they need to write your damned letter!

Speaking of PhD's, did you guys check out Denver's for Poetry? They only take those who haven't yet got a MFA. I know someone who got their MFA at UMass then PhD in Buffalo, NY.... I was thinking francophone and anglophone African countries and India for the faraway bits...I've worked for the government's State dpt. for African embassies and speak Urdu, so that's where I'd be able to communicate. I feel like there's not enough poetry in the world!!

In the ideal world I'd love to facilitate workshops dedicated to exposing people to poetry reading/writing in faraway lands!

Yes! Way to test the ethical fabrics of academia, and perhaps receive a nugget of golden clarity! Edit to say: this forum culture is so surreal!!!!!!

So inspiring!

Hey, IU applicants! Will one of you please dare to prod the admissions contact, again? Maybe she'll let loose some notifications if someone asks.... I can't bare this any longer!

Melanie, your words are a soothing balm, you seem really emotionally well-rounded. And yes! I read 'The Arrival', it's gorgeous. I had wondered about Emerson, too! They gave me a free application, but I haven't fully completed it, fearing that I'd be accepted with no funding (which feels like an insult, in a way). Is that the case? Do they only partially-fund their MFA students? Hmm...

I'm dying to go to IU, but looking back at my application I realize I have less than a margin of a chance....in my SOP I talked about my interest in translation thinking the MFA had an inclusive translation tract, but got it confused with Iowa! It is a New England fault--all those states in the midwest are the same to us! Do you think I could send the admissions committee that disclaimer? ;p My desire to pursue poetry studies has only deepened during this app process. So happy for you, smiling-picture-girl, who has secured an interview!

YES!!!! The absolute glory! But staring at it has become extremely disturbing...I don't know if I should throw up or feel bad about society.

Yes, Hope is a worthy thing. You seem to have a great chance as first on a short list! Maybe there's a good chance that someone gets a better offer, like from Harvard or something. Then you'd be in. Thanks for the luck, too! I will covet it.

A kindred spirit!!! I got into the Cultural Narratives program. How do you know you're the first? The worst part is knowing that only a fool would turn down their scholarship, and I don't think they accept fools. Unfortunately.

I can vouch for the emotional horrors that await the funding waitlister. I've been waitlisted for Erasmus Mundus funding, really an amazing program, with almost no chance of getting bumped up. They should buy me a consolation massage! Can I get a whatwhat?!?!

I feel so tortured! I was accepted to this phenomenal Erasmus Mundus program (for my interests), but Waitlisted for funding! And they were very clear in saying that my chances were less than slim, and anyway I wouldn't hear until the End of May (gah!). If nothing else, we're probably all learning the value of a steady personality... take it all in strides, people!

Is this some kind of weird inner mother-bone? I feel so proud of you stranger internet folk!!

If anyone's applied to Indiana, I corresponded with the program administrator and she said not to expect any news until the 2nd week of March.

If anyone app'd to Columbia: does your status just say "submitted"?? Mine does! Shouldn't it say 'in progress' or something imbues with more potential??

PS, (please don't steal) =)

It may be a waste of time to dwell on it now, but is anyone willing to share a poem from their manuscript? Here's one that I included: Spring Mounds of moss' mouths are right now opening at once mosses of mound's mouths are chewing the petals doing the work of the mortar and pestle filling with powders of petals. Mouths expanding to mountain size the skies are shaped by the fragments of pollen escaping from the corners of sly smiles expanding like mountains. The children tilt their faces toward the lilac saturation stretch their tongues wide catch the incantations.