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Congratulations @smalliebiggz!!! @Tarantinoverse and @ZoraNeale2021 fingers crossed you get off the waitlist and get to meet each other/discover you’re long lost twins!
I found out this morning I got accepted to Hunter!!!! Really thrilled, have loved everyone I’ve talked to there!! 
Also part of the Columbia DHH Morgan Jenness interview crew, so wanna see things through there before making a decision.
Sending sunshine out there to soothe stinging rejections. I’m in the same boat as many with implied rejections from UCSD and UT Austin and no official word. Hoping for good news for all of us in the coming weeks!! 

Congratulations @smalliebiggz!!! @Tarantinoverse and @ZoraNeale2021 fingers crossed you get off the waitlist and get to meet each other/discover you’re long lost twins!
I found out this morning I got accepted to Hunter!!!! Really thrilled, have loved everyone I’ve talked to there!! 
Also part of the Columbia DHH Morgan Jenness interview crew, so wanna see things through there before making a decision.
Sending sunshine out there to soothe stinging rejections. I’m in the same boat as many with implied rejections from UCSD and UT Austin and no official word. Hoping for good news for all of us in the coming weeks!! 

Congratulations @smalliebiggz!!! @Tarantinoverse and @ZoraNeale2021 fingers crossed you get off the waitlist and get to meet each other/discover you’re long lost twins!
I found out this morning I got accepted to Hunter!!!! Really thrilled, have loved everyone I’ve talked to there!! 
Also part of the Columbia DHH Morgan Jenness interview crew, so wanna see things through there before making a decision.
Sending sunshine out there to soothe stinging rejections. I’m in the same boat as many with implied rejections from UCSD and UT Austin and no official word. Hoping for good news for all of us in the coming weeks!! 

Congratulations @smalliebiggz!!! @Tarantinoverse and @ZoraNeale2021 fingers crossed you get off the waitlist and get to meet each other/discover you’re long lost twins!
I found out this morning I got accepted to Hunter!!!! Really thrilled, have loved everyone I’ve talked to there!! 
Also part of the Columbia DHH Morgan Jenness interview crew, so wanna see things through there before making a decision.
Sending sunshine out there to soothe stinging rejections. I’m in the same boat as many with implied rejections from UCSD and UT Austin and no official word. Hoping for good news for all of us in the coming weeks!! 

Just got an acceptance into Iowa! Very excited.
Question for the group: Iowa is asking for a decision by March 15th. I still haven't heard anything from UCSD and UT so I'm assuming it's a no based on this forum, but would like to get the official word before I make my final decision. Any advice? 

Just got my rejection from Brown. I saw it coming, but it was my favorite so it still stung

This is good. So far, I've only got 2 rejections from 11 apps, and that's it - no interviews or anything else. Trying not to count myself out, but the crying and stress, and stress dreams, lol. I needed to hear this. ❤️ 

the next couple weeks (if last year's time line holds up) will be filled with decisions from many schools. i wanted to repost a blurb of something Jeremy O. Harris said on this very thread in 2016 about the process of applying to grad school:
"WE FUCKING WROTE FULL LENGTH PLAYS, WE WROTE MULTIPLE STATEMENTS OF PURPOSE, WE MADE PEOPLE PONDER THE UNIVERSES WE SEE WHEN WE CLOSE OUR EYES AND DREAM."
so, no matter what, we can't forget all the hard work we've done and how much it's made us grow as humans and artists. i'm scared and haven't been sleeping much, but i keep coming back to this.
xo

Yas Columbia interview squad! Just finished too. Not gonna lie... everything Morgan said kind of blew my mind. I was like - can I please just speak to you about every play I ever see or write for the rest of my life? Oof. Not gonna think about it too much. Wishing everyone luck.  

Had my Columbia interview early this afternoon! I spoke to David Henry Hwang and Morgan Jenness and it was absolutely lovely—they were both able to speak about specific aspects of my play and items on my resume in the short time that we had, which was really cool. Wishing the best to our other Columbia interviewees today and tomorrow!

hi! haven't posted on here a ton but I just had my NYU interview with Lucas Hnath--and it went super well! The program seems like a better fit for me than I thought and he was very kind, had read my play and liked it (!) and it felt very lowkey and low pressure. It was also very short, about 25 minutes. He did mention that he's not actually on the admissions committee so if you're interviewing with him keep that in mind.
 
I've been lurking here for a while and ruminating in all of your successes, so, hi, and also, congrats to everyone on their interviews and acceptances and also just for doing the damn thing!! we're almost at the end!!

Congrats @cheesy and @nickelmoop, hopefully you’ll end up being the UT Austin dynamic duo!!! Does the “may” in your message mean you’re still deciding if you’ll accept?
Congrats to everyone doing Columbia interviews!!! I haven’t done a 20-min MFA interview myself (had one for something else where I felt like I was being shot down a water slide), but I’m gonna focus on staying relaxed and being myself, because as others mentioned, they already liked our samples! Of course, if anybody else has more advice to offer on short interviews, that would be welcome!
@PlayWitch yay for your NYU interview!! Sorry the staggered interview requests were making you feel shitty, glad this has picked up your spirits! This is my first time through and the whole process is definitely draining and has been at times very discouraging. Glad we have each other here.
@smalliebiggz Congrats on your Iowa interview!! Welcome to our little warm, informative, supportive corner of the vast, vast internet!!

Congrats @cheesy and @nickelmoop, hopefully you’ll end up being the UT Austin dynamic duo!!! Does the “may” in your message mean you’re still deciding if you’ll accept?
Congrats to everyone doing Columbia interviews!!! I haven’t done a 20-min MFA interview myself (had one for something else where I felt like I was being shot down a water slide), but I’m gonna focus on staying relaxed and being myself, because as others mentioned, they already liked our samples! Of course, if anybody else has more advice to offer on short interviews, that would be welcome!
@PlayWitch yay for your NYU interview!! Sorry the staggered interview requests were making you feel shitty, glad this has picked up your spirits! This is my first time through and the whole process is definitely draining and has been at times very discouraging. Glad we have each other here.
@smalliebiggz Congrats on your Iowa interview!! Welcome to our little warm, informative, supportive corner of the vast, vast internet!!

Congrats @cheesy and @nickelmoop, hopefully you’ll end up being the UT Austin dynamic duo!!! Does the “may” in your message mean you’re still deciding if you’ll accept?
Congrats to everyone doing Columbia interviews!!! I haven’t done a 20-min MFA interview myself (had one for something else where I felt like I was being shot down a water slide), but I’m gonna focus on staying relaxed and being myself, because as others mentioned, they already liked our samples! Of course, if anybody else has more advice to offer on short interviews, that would be welcome!
@PlayWitch yay for your NYU interview!! Sorry the staggered interview requests were making you feel shitty, glad this has picked up your spirits! This is my first time through and the whole process is definitely draining and has been at times very discouraging. Glad we have each other here.
@smalliebiggz Congrats on your Iowa interview!! Welcome to our little warm, informative, supportive corner of the vast, vast internet!!

Congrats everybody!!! Rockstars!!
 
UT send they'd send the full financial package/info in a week so I'm also still playing the field until then. Also interviewing with Columbia & Sarah Lawrence this weekend! Good luck everyone. 
 
From what I know though I will probably end up at UT like @cheesy
 
You probs already know all of this but some questions I was glad to have had thought of concise answers to for the interview were : why playwriting, why an MFA and why NOW, why this program, tell us about work you love/questions you have/things you're excited to explore at this program. And then of course just being really honest about the kind of art you like and artist you are. I definitely don't only want to write plays - I act and direct and wanna build a company. A lot of the way I think about writing comes from my acting background. I thought owning that would hurt my prospects but I think it actually helped. You are valid and good in and away from all of this! Gluck all! 
 
 

Congrats @cheesy and @nickelmoop, hopefully you’ll end up being the UT Austin dynamic duo!!! Does the “may” in your message mean you’re still deciding if you’ll accept?
Congrats to everyone doing Columbia interviews!!! I haven’t done a 20-min MFA interview myself (had one for something else where I felt like I was being shot down a water slide), but I’m gonna focus on staying relaxed and being myself, because as others mentioned, they already liked our samples! Of course, if anybody else has more advice to offer on short interviews, that would be welcome!
@PlayWitch yay for your NYU interview!! Sorry the staggered interview requests were making you feel shitty, glad this has picked up your spirits! This is my first time through and the whole process is definitely draining and has been at times very discouraging. Glad we have each other here.
@smalliebiggz Congrats on your Iowa interview!! Welcome to our little warm, informative, supportive corner of the vast, vast internet!!

@sadringham may indeed! while i'm 99% sure i'll end up accepting, i want to make sure i see things out with the other schools / groups i applied to through the end. so, being that i won't hear from most until april, i will hold off on officially accepting, but again, i've been looking at places in austin already so i'm pretty sold bahaha!
and congrats congrats congrats to everyone! such good news, love the positivity that stays generating in here!!! ❤️ wishing you all thebest always. and again, echoing off of everyone, an mfa does not define you and i hope that this process is more encouraging vs destructive.
also my toilets broken so ive been trying to fix it all day, gonna continue at it lol
happy wednesday!

@sandringhambeing shot down a water slide is the perfect way to describe a short interview!!
I just had my Northwestern interview and it was literally only 10 minutes I feel like I actually blacked out it happened so fast...they asked multi-part questions and there were four professors there oh my gosh what a freakin' whirlwind...BUT I think this may have been my last interview (haven't hear anything from Brown and Hunter so I'm assuming I'm rejected considering everything...honestly at peace with this. And then there's still Brooklyn to hear from but they don't do interviews so...) I FEEL RELIEVED. No matter what happens, my part is over, and I really feel like I did everything I could. Let the waiting commence...
and cheeeeers to everyone with upcoming interviews! 

@sandringham Well, aren't you a sweetie pie! Thank you!
 
It was basically the lighting round, because I got the email this morning and had the interview this evening! I feel pretty good about it! I came in with a few thoughtful questions about the program, and we had a nice rapport. My interviewer was very familiar with my application and had a lot of nice things to say. Such a huge difference from last year when my interview hadn't even read my application. The waiting continues!

Congrats @cheesy and @nickelmoop, hopefully you’ll end up being the UT Austin dynamic duo!!! Does the “may” in your message mean you’re still deciding if you’ll accept?
Congrats to everyone doing Columbia interviews!!! I haven’t done a 20-min MFA interview myself (had one for something else where I felt like I was being shot down a water slide), but I’m gonna focus on staying relaxed and being myself, because as others mentioned, they already liked our samples! Of course, if anybody else has more advice to offer on short interviews, that would be welcome!
@PlayWitch yay for your NYU interview!! Sorry the staggered interview requests were making you feel shitty, glad this has picked up your spirits! This is my first time through and the whole process is definitely draining and has been at times very discouraging. Glad we have each other here.
@smalliebiggz Congrats on your Iowa interview!! Welcome to our little warm, informative, supportive corner of the vast, vast internet!!

Congrats @cheesy and @nickelmoop, hopefully you’ll end up being the UT Austin dynamic duo!!! Does the “may” in your message mean you’re still deciding if you’ll accept?
Congrats to everyone doing Columbia interviews!!! I haven’t done a 20-min MFA interview myself (had one for something else where I felt like I was being shot down a water slide), but I’m gonna focus on staying relaxed and being myself, because as others mentioned, they already liked our samples! Of course, if anybody else has more advice to offer on short interviews, that would be welcome!
@PlayWitch yay for your NYU interview!! Sorry the staggered interview requests were making you feel shitty, glad this has picked up your spirits! This is my first time through and the whole process is definitely draining and has been at times very discouraging. Glad we have each other here.
@smalliebiggz Congrats on your Iowa interview!! Welcome to our little warm, informative, supportive corner of the vast, vast internet!!

Congrats @cheesy and @nickelmoop, hopefully you’ll end up being the UT Austin dynamic duo!!! Does the “may” in your message mean you’re still deciding if you’ll accept?
Congrats to everyone doing Columbia interviews!!! I haven’t done a 20-min MFA interview myself (had one for something else where I felt like I was being shot down a water slide), but I’m gonna focus on staying relaxed and being myself, because as others mentioned, they already liked our samples! Of course, if anybody else has more advice to offer on short interviews, that would be welcome!
@PlayWitch yay for your NYU interview!! Sorry the staggered interview requests were making you feel shitty, glad this has picked up your spirits! This is my first time through and the whole process is definitely draining and has been at times very discouraging. Glad we have each other here.
@smalliebiggz Congrats on your Iowa interview!! Welcome to our little warm, informative, supportive corner of the vast, vast internet!!

First time poster. I got an email from Lisa from Iowa late last night for an interview, hope that helps.
Just found this forum, and it is truly amazing. Thank you all for the information and kind energy. It's such a nerve-wracking process, living in the unknown. This is giving me waves of relief.

Just got an interview with NYU! I was really starting to feel like a total reject since is this my third cycle, so I'm very relieved! 

Same here with Columbia! I am such a babbler when I'm nervous, so we'll see how these 20 minutes go. And CONGRATS to those who have heard back from their programs!!!!!!!! Time to celebrate.