MoJuiced

Hey pdh, meant to respond to you yesterday on this very topic. I'm rapt with eager anticipation, listening to a deafening chorus of crickets... but boy is it exciting, erm, anxiety-inducing, erm, agonizing, erm, excruciating. Three rejections so far, from WUStL, UT Austin Michener Center, and Cornell -- very prompt. Still awaiting word from Indiana, Brown, Michigan, Oregon, Alabama, Vanderbilt, UC Davis, and UMass, but not feeling so hot about any of them. I'm interested in the programs in the UK. Are there very many funding opportunities? I was strongly advised to not go further into debt for an MFA and I'm not awash in cash. I dreamed of going to Edinburgh, having gone there for a study abroad trip. Inquired at Oxford and it didn't feel quite like the full graduate experience I was looking for. Perhaps I'm wrong. There certainly is a lot to learn about and even though I went mad researching and prepping, there's still so much I don't know. I do know a couple kids who attended Kent for undergrad.

I've been shouting in twitter. I consider it a form of modern prayer. "ACCEPT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I'm don't know what my friends think of this.

This thread is torturous for me since I've not been accepted anywhere. Congratulations everyone.

You're gonna make it after all! How many programs did you apply to?

Never before has my email been so exciting. I feel like I have an insight into what it feels like to be a gambler -- every chime on my phone, with the slight delay to my inbox (I work online all day), sets my nerves on edge and leaves me breath held, heart in throat, clutching whatever I have in hand, thinking IS THIS IT?! I had the misfortune last week of a site I'm a moderator on adopting a new format for the forums and then spamming all mods with dozens of emails that you had to opt out of, and this happened just 20 minutes after I saw a friend announce on facebook that they had been accepted to a program I've also applied to. That just about wrecked me. Every other second I get a heart-stopping false alarm. Needless to say, I had to go opt out of that ASAmf'nP.

phd12, I haven't heard back from Indiana yet, but I can barely stand the suspense as someone I know got accepted there, though she may have been fiction. I really really want to go there since they place such a premium on preparing to teach. I also have a good friend in the sociology program there. It would be really nifty if we both got in and could look back on meeting on these forums ;-) I wish you very well. I'm already planning on doing round two if I have to -- one way or another, they're gonna recognize me. I'm climbing this mountain and nobody can stop me!

Seeingeyeduck said it well and comprehensively. None of my schools are fall back options, so I've got my fingers crossed for 1/11! So, far three rejections. As an aspiring writer I have actually mentally trained myself to like rejections -- it just adds fuel to the fire. There is plenty of applicable fortune cookie wisdom: "Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down" "Fishing: if it were easy, they'd call it catching" "Diligence is the mother of good fortune"

I applied to 11. I wouldn't call a single one of them a back up plan either. I do not wish I had applied to more; I only wish my portfolio was stronger (even though I worked myself crazy for six months working on it). There's a distinct possibility I'll be doing this again next year. All I need is one! C'mon somebody! Accept me!

I'm also wondering about this. I've seen posted results and heard from others regarding rejections/acceptance from schools I've applied to. And yet, I haven't heard word one way or another. I'm sincerely hoping that no news is good news and I'm still in the running...