milil
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19 hours ago, rooguild said:
last year, there were fiction applicants who received acceptances via letter only. I was waitlisted at iowa last year and also only ever received notifications (my waitlist letter and the letter confirming that I had not gotten in off the waitlist) via post-- no one ever communicated with me through phone or email.
I don't think this reflects well on the program, to be honest. if they don't have time to call all their accepted students, how could they possibly be able to attend to all 100 people in the program?
Thanks for this! I'm hearing so many conflicting things. I guess grad school admissions procedure is a wild card with how they decide to tell applicants?
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Just read this in the results search for Iowa Writer's Workshop
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- Someone posted here yesterday that some of the acceptances might be mailed. Just in case you saw that, I thought I would post here that I contacted admissions to confirm this and she simply replied "None of the admissions have been mailed out," pretty much evading my question. It is my personal opinion that no acceptances will be sent through mail without an email or phone call first, (there is zero reason to believe this and I think it's just clinging to false hope) but I do think it's possible that a waitlist notification might come this way.
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3 hours ago, LazyEmergency said:
Looks like he deleted the tweet, so it's not showing up in my original post. It was an English prof from Iowa, snarking about a cliché phrase in many of the applicants' Statements of Purpose. Just what we needed to perpetuate the tailspin of anxiety involved in this process
How lovely for all the applicants out there
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5 hours ago, Sallyj said:
Iowa has said (according to Draft) that they'll be sending out all letters by mail. A few people have gotten phone calls, so it's unclear if those letters will include other acceptances or not.
Hang in there!
(PS this is for fiction...poetry applicants were all emailed. Haven't heard anything about non-fiction)Thanks for the update -- has there been anyone who received an acceptance via letter only? This is MFA Draft 18, right?
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Has anyone heard from Iowa Writer's Workshop yet? How do they send out rejections, by letter or email? I've seen quite a few acceptances in the results page last week but haven't heard if they're still giving acceptance notifications.
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On 2/20/2018 at 5:04 PM, post_it_online_twice said:
Does anyone know how long Iowa’s notification window is for acceptances? I see two fiction ones have been listed.
Still wondering. There's been a few more since last week.
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Has anyone heard from Iowa Writer's Workshop yet? How do they send out rejections, by letter or email? I've seen quite a few acceptances in the results page last week but haven't heard if they're still giving acceptance notifications.
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Anyone heard back yet?
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On 2/20/2018 at 5:04 PM, post_it_online_twice said:
Does anyone know how long Iowa’s notification window is for acceptances? I see two fiction ones have been listed.
any updates on this?
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On 2/20/2018 at 4:54 PM, LazyEmergency said:
Wow, it seems pretty uncool for an admissions committee member to be criticizing applicants when the process is ongoing:
What admissions committee member said this? Can you link me to their tweet?
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On 2/20/2018 at 9:29 PM, npc said:
If it makes you feel any better, he said "otherwise great." If his annoyance at a perfectly acceptable, if slightly cliché, phrase keeps you out of Iowa... I don't even know what to say about that. I hope you will get good news soon @LazyEmergency .
I really think it was just him venting. It's a petty thing he selected to pick on. If that is his main complaint, the applications must be looking pretty good this cycle, and that should be more worrisome. (Just kidding)
I think there's always the potential that our SOP could rub the adcom the wrong way and there's no way to know if they've just happened to read several that are quite similar to yours.
I'm also overthinking and despairing with you. I found a typo in my writing sample I submitted to my dream program and I've been obsessing over that. Then I let it go, because I can't change it now and the sample's purpose is to show my potential. It's far more likely that my writing is not a fit for them, and that's why I don't get in -- not because of a mistyped word.
MFA Creative Writing Acceptance/Rejection Letters
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Posted · Edited by milil
I've always wondered how many people Columbia actually admit to their MFA program? I hear it's 100 in total for the three programs (poetry, CNF, and fiction) but that's 33 per stream then?