ewoj

Hi all -- I'm entering the game for next year as well, planning on using these forums (and elsewhere) to help trade information and so on. Married with a two-year old in Brooklyn. We're looking for a big change in our lives, at least for a few years, and suddenly I'm looking at a CW program. The prospect is pretty fearsome. I've inhaled a ton of information, am trying to whittle schools down to probably about twelve. Sweating my portfolio. I would be entering in on the fiction side. I'm from Texas, mostly, and received a Masters previously from Indiana University. We've cut horrible weather states out. My wife has nixed certain other areas, as is her right, and as an interracial couple, I don't think we'd feel comfortable in certain other areas of the country. Full funding is a must, although we can probably stretch to pay a little bit. No desire to gather more debt. At the moment I'm thinking Brown, Johns Hopkins, some mix of Big Ten schools, Florida, FSU, Texas, Texas State, Houston, Arizona, Arizona State, Irvine, USC, Riverside. This is entirely provisional. Even realizing there are no safety schools in CW, I want to try to best ensure my chances are as high as possible. There are outliers - Pacific NW, Colorado, North Carolina schools, which seem dodgy about funding... Anyway - it's good to know we're a full six months out from the first deadlines... Eric