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@manandcamel that's amaziiiiiiiing!!!!

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Yea, and also it's fun to hear of the shenanigans from a distance. Like...what kind of drama? Are people hexing each other?

Either way, this experience is making you stronger. If you don't get in this year, you'll have a much clearer sense of where and how you'd like to apply for next year---and you'll be unerringly better about how you curate your work and statement. Throw the rejections right out of your psyche and forge ooooooooooonnnnnnnnnn

noooooooooooo

@manandcamel Good luck though! I hope the dream comes alive for you.

@manandcamel Since it's still Monday, you could wait a couple days, then email the administrator rather than faculty. She's quick with responses, so you would have your answer by friday (...if it's bad, I guess). I've shot myself in the foot enough to suggest patience is key......

@Hortense Wow, thanks for that realness update! It's kind of amazing that it held out for so long--it usually starts with one antagonizer and then erupts from there. How has your season been so far? Did you mention earlier that you got into your dream school? so many people on draft seemed like they were going to be successful this year (maybe it's always like that?), I sort of wish i was witnessing all the acceptances, but this distance is bliss @zen fang grateful for that interview share!!

Ahh the woe and sinking!!! I love that vote of confidence, and you echo my only concerns: red midwestern state & Christianity school. How are they so great in such a juxtaposed place?! Everyone on the program-specific faculty seem amazing, Joyelle has been unfailingly kind, and they're undocumented student funding thing is the shiz...but then it's all trumploving beyond the sanctuary. But then, that's all the more reason to get over there and stir up some change...eh this got political fast sorry

@Hortense No, I didn't! funny story though--I applied there in '15 and got waitlisted, and the adcom member I emailed said it was because my poetry was "too intellectual"---it was...strange, but they seem great And a Cornell fiction acceptance is up!!

have there been any Amherst poetry acceptances on draft? everything's blurring together

@riverrun I know the feeling! It depends on your interests, though. For example one good route could be to ask about interdisciplinary opportunities, or you could ask about how the program folks (faculty and current students) are active in the community---these are things I'd be curious about, personally, and an interview's a great chance to really hear first hand. A website can only show so much

@conch, wondering the same--what's the action on draft look like lately?

@riverrun Good luck!. Some ideas: -- do whatever research you can into the faculty (their interests, how they correlate with your's, etc) --have questions ready, even if they're a little vague, it's a good way to be engaged/reciprocate their inquiries. --be ready to articulate the trjectory of your work. I don't think name-dropping analogs is as important as just being able to speak through the way you think about writing. edit: disclosure: I've interviewed for comp lit phd's, but I think these suggestions are relevant

And Johns Hopkins and Iowa have started notifying in poetry!

@slouching, it sounds like you're making Very Wise choices, which is reason enough to rejoice! It's still so early in the notifying process, and keeping away from the Internet is seriously the best thing any of us could do....though here I am so... GOOD LUUUUUUUCK also: THANKS to everyone--the positivity is so appreciated!!!

@slouching I was wondering how you were doing! Any news yet? I'm virtually/vicariously rooting for you!

Was accepted to notre dame this morning for poetry---really wishing you guys all the best luck. This was the first program I've heard back from, and I'm in love with it.

Yea, the response was fairly vague, I think a result of email inundations. And a Boston U fiction acceptance is up--

I'm feeling deep languish. these days, and have yet to hear from any of my schools! Amherst is an absolute dream boat, and the promise of impending falling axes makes me cry on the inside

Barbara from Umass Amherst says poetry applicants should hear "within the next couple of days"

WHAAAAA the train keeps running us overrrr

That's amazing! we're taking this game to a whole new level. amherrrrrrrsssstttttttt love meeeee

@aheather OMG DO IT!!! Then dutifully report back to us xD (and i'm unreasonably clinging to the hope that you're right)

But think of all the folks that don't obsessively post their news on these websites....I mean, they only accept 10 poets, doesn't it seem likely that 9 of them are ''opposed to the aesthetic'' of sharing such news.... o.o a little pessimistic, but