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Does anyone know anything about Indiana? It’s my last one, so I’d like to find out already. I saw there are some acceptances/waitlist from weeks/months ago, but I’ve checked my portal multiple times and still haven’t seen a rejection or anything. Kind of a dick move to make me sit here for a month or more if I’m just getting rejected.

I haven’t.

Has anyone posted any fiction or poetry acceptances from there?

I haven’t - very anxious.

I’m too scared to check.

I did as well. Fingers crossed!

You’re too kind. I hope the same for you

Thanks everyone. It wasn’t my top school or anything, but it sucks for sure (plus I think they paid the most lol). It just sent me in this whole anxious spiral about getting rejected from everywhere. Fingers crossed for WashU coming up...I’ll be really bummed if I don’t get in there. Congrats to everyone who got accepted thus far

Yep. I got rejected from Northwestern.

This is for the MA/MFA program, yeah? Unless I had a complete break with reality for a couple months (possible), the deadline was 12/15 (the actual application said 12/16? But either way, mid-December).

FWIW, Austin is a very progressive city and as little as I can say as a straight white male and all that, I think you'd be pretty set there. Obviously irrelevant now since you didn't apply, but my two cents. As someone else mentioned, the South gets a bad rap overall (and deservedly so for its rural regions), but I've lived in places like Nashville and Atlanta and there are definitely spaces for POC and LGBT people. Though of course I would trust your feelings over mine. However, you are correct in avoiding Texas with regards to its location. I have a friend that lives in Austin and it is absolutely miserable there heat/humidity wise. As I said, I've lived in the South and even that was too much for me.

Hey everyone, thought I'd chime in (whatever that's worth). I was last on this site in 2015/16, when I was applying for MA/PhD programs in English Lit. I had a niggling thought in my head during that process that what I really wanted to do was creative writing (which was my focus for my English major in undergrad), but I ignored. Well, turns out I don't really like studying lit and theory and all that nearly as much as writing and after suffering through two years of an MA and accruing copious amounts of debt to make up for what I missed out on in undergrad, I decided to jump headfirst into another excruciatingly anxious application process. Took a graduate fiction workshop at UC Davis last year and really enjoyed it, so I'm really, really hoping I get into a program. I loved the workshop environment and I miss teaching at a college level, so I would be extremely grateful to get something like and get paid for it! (this last bit felt halfway like I was writing my SOP again or something). I applied to: Notre Dame, Brown, WashU in St. Louis, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, UVA, Vandy, Syracuse, and Northwestern (which is an MA/MFA program, but I think I can stomach the MA aspect if I get time with creative writing and I have faculty that actually work in my fields of interest). Best of luck to all of you and glad we can support each other/commiserate.

This is made easier with the Colorado acceptance, but good god does Washington take forever. They're my number one choice and the last school I'm waiting on, so dragging this out is killing me.

I think Emory and UC-Irvine have strong programs for postcolonialism but I can't remember for sure. As for David Foster Wallace, Texas has been proposed as a strong choice since they have his archive there. There's also Maryland, who has Lee Konstantinou, and Missouri, who has Samuel Cohen. Those two edited The Legacy of David Foster Wallace. Ohio State has a professor who's written a good amount about Pynchon. I hope this is at least somewhat helpful haha.

Thanks for the offer, I'll PM you tomorrow!