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Yeah I didn’t want the GRE to tell me I’m mediocre for $160 so I didn’t take it. I didn’t apply to any schools that required it though.

I hope WashU is kind to the both of us, but especially you.

WashU and Syracuse should be the first or second week.

It’s ticking as loud as my frantic heart is beating haha. Wish I had some answers already... In other news, happy February everybody!

I know right? What ever happened to the poetry acceptances? I would at least like to realistically live vicariously through other poets lol.

I don’t think they’ll pass over you for that. Don’t worry about it. My priorities are just really specific. I don’t think every single applicant who got in their dream schools mentioned the faculty. It’s statistically impossible.

After reading this I understand a bit more about not mentioning faculty. If you praise faculty without being genuine, that’s probably not going to help. Another reason I mentioned faculty with every application is kind of complicated. I have a recommender that I’m close with who reads my work and gives me criticism. Having a good relationship with a faculty member is a must for me, so I want to make a good first impression.

I didn’t pick the famous ones to talk about. The famous ones aren’t my favorite ones to read. I honestly mentioned faculty that I would like to emulate/write surreal poems like. I looked at poems, looked at interviews, and asked my recommenders about the poets they knew. Some I took a gamble on, sure, but I figured if I didn’t like working with them, I’d transfer to someone else for advising. I thought mentioning faculty was a safe bet so long as I did the research to back it up.

One blunder shouldn’t make a huge difference, unless that blunder is messing up the program/faculty names of course.

Anyone else ready to email Syracuse, WashU, or a program that usually gets back to people around this time? I have a half complete draft to Syracuse but I’m irrationally scared.

Oh boy haha, well at least we’re getting better.

The ads for Iowa (and WashU) are killing me. I swear to god I see them everyday when I check gradcafe. Thanks gradcafe, for teasing me like that. TT_TT

Oh heck yeah! So so so happy for you, hopefully this is a season full of victories and generous funding!

Dear god, I hope the forum is back for good today. @feralgrad are you the GMU acceptance? I hope it was you.

Too late, but hey it got us all talking again. I’m relatively traditional, however a few of my poems enter prose poetry territory which isn’t all that rare, but still a little weird.

I know this wasn’t directed at me, but Cornell has a lot of resources including a rare books library. That and the professors, the location, the curriculum, and too many things to list tbh. There’s just a whole wealth of information on their website and I was so enthused that I dropped the 105 dollars on it.

Brown and Alabama have a reputation for loving experimental fiction and poetry. Experimental poetry is really my least favorite type to read and write. Idk exactly what experimental fiction is per say, but if you look up examples it might help.

Brown was on my list for a long time until I had to choose between it and Cornell. Cornell is the dream, so I didn’t bother finishing my brown application. I only found out about it’s reputation later.

It does help when programs either have a direct way of saying what they want, or have a reputation for one thing (brown and alabama).

I was just thinking of asking Syracuse or washu but I’m scared. If someone agrees to take Syracuse I’ll do washu or vice versa.

I haven't read much Welsh poetry either tbh, I just love the language. It's so interesting and complicated. And it's good that they seem to let us have free reign over which language we want to translate!

I really really hope UNLV has resources for me to learn welsh. I want to translate welsh poetry but it’s so hard to find welsh textbooks let alone a welsh teacher.

I started laughing out loud. That’s a dream that I want to have. Instead I have nightmares about working as a bridal stylist mixed with acceptance dreams.

I had another dream about Syracuse. Something’s happening to all of us.

Yay another person who applied to UNLV as a poet! And hopefully you hear good news from Purdue.