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UC Irvine is all completed as of two weeks ago. Formal rejections will come out soon but no phone call two weeks ago then no dice.

Yep all done with UCI now.

Me. Probably going to Antioch as their faculty has been the most supportive of my writing. Plus I get to keep my day job here in LA.

I am not against the idea if this process were automated. However, the amount of unpaid labor to install this option I would be against. We tend to take people’s time for granted and the fact that Jess and her team have to volunteer to maintain spreadsheets plus three Facebook groups is a lot of unrecognized labor for a small team of volunteers.

Considering that there would be over 250 domestic MFA programs and 30-50 PhD. programs not including the international MFA/PhD programs to toss into a dropdown option menu, I am pretty sure that either the form will crash or the amount of labor by the team would be way too onerous at that point :D...

Alas you are correct: https://www.jotform.com/google-forms/dropdown-in-google-forms/ Regardless, I don't think that Jess and her team have the time or the funds to redo 7-10 years worth of data into dropdown style tables... Volunteer work for just maintenance is already hard enough.... unlesss You volunteered eh LOL?

The spreadsheet is autopopulated through Google Forms so a dropdown menu would not work via the current interface. If this were Microsoft Access then that’s another story.

Political situation is much worse in the US than it was six months ago.

For USC Ph.D. track it will be 3 folks per genre. CNF, poetry, and fiction. 9 total.

Grats and definitely a dope place! NYC is definitely the center of the literary world in the US so at least you are close by. Campus is really nice.

We are starting to see the USC Ph.D. results for fiction stream in this week. Since I am CNF, no clue when they will get to those but presumably later on this month.

This being the key reason why I didn't look at applying to Columbia due to the ICE raids on their campus and anti-Palestinian sentiment. As a radically leftist Sufist Buddhist writer, definitely not the environs I would feel safe at atm.

Yes, I definitely am crazy but I just submitted my Calarts MFA creative writing application tonight and just need 2 letters of rec... Hmmm maybe this is the golden touch? That means USC, Antioch, and Calarts for me left.

Thanks for the heads up. Probably rejected in that case but unsure. Going to pivot to my last two. USC and Antioch.

Perhaps. But honestly I wouldn’t go by a sample size of one and hearsay either.

I don’t think so. We still have two to three weeks left for UCI.

Another masterwork about the state of the publishing industry (and its collapse during the past few decades): https://cup.columbia.edu/book/big-fiction/9780231192941/

Nope... they are doing this in stages so expect something soon for UCI.

Is this confirmed that all notices went out for UCI? A tad early I suspect since they usually got out in March?

Finally got my first rejection today. That took forever. Got two left to go.

I didn’t apply. Never went there.

Also for sociopolitical reasons too (me).

For health reasons I can’t fast in fact. It conflicts with my ADHD and bipolar selves. However prayers have immense and full of divine openings.

It is hard being a Muslim and a writer here in LA. Ramadan is going well. Allah has blessed me to edit my fifteen year novel project which is going very steadily. Unfortunately I had to deal with ridicule and disdain as a Sufist both in art school and at my workplace. I won’t ever forget a tourist who told me that I was a fake Muslim guy because I subscribed to Sufism which is marginalized heavily. Also I combine my practices with Zen Buddhism. Writing for me has been this endless process of self-decolonization.

Nice I am also Muslim too…