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Update about Boston U for fiction. Called yesterday and Catherine answered (she's super nice, so I wouldn't be too scared to call her with questions); she said that the initial 10 offers have already been made, but that there is a possibility of movement and further acceptances depending on who declines from those first ten, and that they're hoping to finalize everything by the end of the month. Not sure if there's an official waitlist or if it's a secret one. She said not to "lose hope," so I'm assuming it's the latter? Either way, not feeling great.

Well, I just heard that my travelogue Van Life was awarded top honors in the Northwest Book Awards Festival! Grand winner! So happy...

For those who are waiting UNCW, I got a three-sentence email this morning from Mark Cox, read: "I know I promised you news around March 1st. You have been very patient.  Bear with me another couple of days at most and all initial notifications will be made.

Great point. I finally got into Draft (and learned the suspicious pizza superstition), and did a "math post" on it last night. If 80% accepted students are funded in school A, and A's acceptance rate is 10%, that's 8% chance to be funded. Meanwhile, if school B funds all its accepted students, with an acceptance rate as low as 5%, applying to school B actually has a lower chance of getting fully funded.
That was my point last night. 
Now I have a second thought. Thanks to you. I imagine myself sitting in an MFA classroom, being the only one (or two) student without funding. That's terrible. Also, when hanging out with my fellow writer classmates, they might be talking all over about their stupid undergrad students, how to teach them the ABCs of creative writing as a TA, and complaining about the school's "poor" funding and other forms of financial aids...eventually I'll stop going out with them. 
In programs that fully fund half their students, (NYU for instance), I also can picture the tension between fully funded students and the other... 

@HortenseThank you for the Draft updates. I've been lurking for a while. I'm an international student, and haven't logged on my FB account for some time. It seems to have been stolen and used to post some undesirable trash, and it got deactivated. I recently opened another FB account, and tried to join Draft. No response so far. Your Draft updates prove very helpful, thanks.

@HortenseThank you for the Draft updates. I've been lurking for a while. I'm an international student, and haven't logged on my FB account for some time. It seems to have been stolen and used to post some undesirable trash, and it got deactivated. I recently opened another FB account, and tried to join Draft. No response so far. Your Draft updates prove very helpful, thanks.

For anyone not on Draft, there were many Iowa poetry acceptances today, a couple of Iowa non-fiction acceptances, and an Ole Miss fiction acceptance.