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Cool! we have three schools in common! good luck....I'm pretty sure Applyweb will not change, I don't even check it.

How mean. They really should have sent an E-mail or something when you originally applied (UMich did this; FinAid has some residency classification updates) rather than sending an 'update' ?

Good luck ! Keep your chin up.

I found this article while compulsively doing all the things people do in February, if you haven't already; https://readtheworkshop.com/2016/03/14/next-year/ Lara Prescott went on to write "The Secrets We Kept," apparently the first chapter was a short-story she submitted for her apps. Really, really inspiring at this point of time.

Good Luck! Hang in there.

Isn't that great? You should hear back very soon from atleast one school. I don't even want to imagine having to wait till April.

I think closer to second or third week of February.

It is officially February, and now the clock begins to tick loudly, loudly.

I can stand behind each word in my statements 1000% in terms of things like literary influences/ writing aesthetic/ future goals/ Why I want to go there for an MFA. I just couldn't get myself to mention faculty, when I cannot know for sure whether I want to work with them. I just hope I won't get passed over for this reason alone.

I never felt comfortable mentioning faculty. I mean, how do we know that a famous author is going to be a good teacher, or for that matter, even know that you want to work with a particular faculty without actually working with them before?

Lucky for me I haven't mentioned any faculty in any of my statements (Program name is correct, thank god.!) Also, I'm getting a mini heart attack every time my E-mail dings with a gradcafe alert.?

Ah....somehow, I just thought of this, which made me open my personal statement, in which I found a blunder. Oh well...

Does anyone know how many of the 12 seats at the Michener program are for fiction?

Okay... Elizabeth McCracken is tweeting.

Amy Hempel and The Southampton Review! Excellent! Good luck with funding!

Congratulations!!! So, so happy for you.?

It's weird though. JHU had a Dec 15th deadline; same as most other schools that notify in late Feb or March. I wonder what's different this year.

Looks like Johns Hopkins started notifying as well. I feel like notification started too early this year, compared to '19?

I chose it mainly for the diverse faculty, the teaching opportunities and the location (NY vs. RI) and also, the lecturer-ship opportunity at the end of the program is super.

Great! I write very, very traditional fiction.

I wished I'd applied to Brown and Alabama. I even filled out the form but didn't submit. I thought a lot about it and chose to apply to Cornell instead.

I applied on December 15th! I hoped that submitting early would give me early decisions as well. BU seems to have wide variations in notification dates. Some as late as April. Good Luck! I love the program at BU.

I read this before applying and laughed! this advice has such clarity compared to programs that say stuff like 'I was prose to sing, lift off the page and shudder!'

For the schools I applied, the dates are pretty well-known (per the results boards going all the way back to '16 I should expect to hear by the third week of February). If you don't have an idea, I doubt there is anything negative associated with sending a polite query (unless they specifically request applicants to not ask)

Looks like Minnesota and Northwestern are notifying?