The reason behind it was behind I hadn't really considered applying to any for Fall 2018, I haven't taken the GRE yet so that kind of limited my scope, I had planned to apply to UBC as well as Hunter, but Hunter was the most feasible and felt like the program that I had the best shot at getting into. My mother is an alumna, I'm from New York so I'd get full funding if I were accepted, and it's in a part of NYC that I see myself being in and achieving my best as a student and writer.
It is risky indeed, but a colleague of mine only applied to SUNY Purchase, which he was accepted to, so to each their own, and Hunter is the only place I'd seriously go to at this juncture in my life...