cecsav

I’n resisting the urge to buy a new work bag because I only have acceptance so far. But I want it so badly!!

I've been mulling your friend's viewpoint and while we need to take care of ourselves, I think we also have to consider our impact on our larger community as well.

While the OSU debacle certainly will instill some nervousness (and is clearly a huge fuck-up on their part), I think the difference is that those are technically considered informal offers w/out the contract. Once the contract is out--typically later and by email--any school part of the CSG (basically all of them) must abide by it until the April 15th deadline.

So, if you are waiting on another school, by all means, hold on to your other choice(s), but I think if any of us are fortunate enough to be accepted into multiple programs, we should respect them and do our peers a solid by helping them get their own show on the road as soon as we know that school's not going to be the one.

All in this together.

HA! More Shrek is always a good thing!!

I just received a notification from UNM that they've received my FAFSA but can't do anything with it "until the admission process is complete." I'm like, yeah, well, WHOSE FAULT IS THAT!?!?!?!? Accept me or don't already! 

I just received a notification from UNM that they've received my FAFSA but can't do anything with it "until the admission process is complete." I'm like, yeah, well, WHOSE FAULT IS THAT!?!?!?!? Accept me or don't already! 

I mean, its not too late. Sure, Texas took a million years to process my fafsa but it’s definitely good to start it incase.
I submitted my fafsa for everywhere I applied immediately after I submitted my application. Granted, I did remove Minnesota and WashU, and added SJCNY recently. I think you’re supposed add up to 10 schools on the Fafsa (so pick favorites), ‘cause I’m not sure they can give you financial aid without it on file.

Just received an email from University of Alabama letting me know I've been waitlisted. 

Twins! Congrats! It seems like they might be doing staggered emails/calls, which is interesting. 

Amazing! Congrats, Cecsav. ON fire!

Congratulations!

Just received an email from University of Alabama letting me know I've been waitlisted. 

Just received an email from University of Alabama letting me know I've been waitlisted. 

Just received an email from University of Alabama letting me know I've been waitlisted. 

Just received an email from University of Alabama letting me know I've been waitlisted. 

Just received an email from University of Alabama letting me know I've been waitlisted. 

Just received an email from University of Alabama letting me know I've been waitlisted. 

Just received an email from University of Alabama letting me know I've been waitlisted. 

Just received an email from University of Alabama letting me know I've been waitlisted. 

Just received an email from University of Alabama letting me know I've been waitlisted. 

Just received an email from University of Alabama letting me know I've been waitlisted. 

Just received an email from University of Alabama letting me know I've been waitlisted. 

Hoping for good news for you! 
I think it’s not unusual for them to send out rejections later on in the cycle. I don’t know what the justification is, but it seems like certain schools will send out acceptances in mid feb, for example, and then the rejections will start popping up closer to the notification deadline in April. 
 
It makes me grateful I found this site. Otherwise I’d still be holding onto hope for ASU! 

Also wondering about FSU!!!

Do schools ever just leave applicants wondering without a definitive rejection? I compulsively check my portals and my spam folder, but there are many many schools from whom I've heard nothing. I've still yet to receive news from FSU and U of AL, though both have had results posted weeks ago. 

Sending you all some positive energy this Monday. You are talented regardless of rejections/acceptances. And you are pretty amazing for working so hard for something you care about. I am hoping for the best for you all!
I haven't posted in this thread yet, as I applied to both Creative Writing PhDs and Literature PhDs this round.. I've mostly been in the other thread. But I am currently in the final semester of my fiction MFA program. This year my MFA program decided to pick one student from each genre who is in their final year and add them to a sort of admissions review committee. Since I was chosen as the fiction representative, I get to look at incoming fiction applications and give my feedback to the department. I won't say which program I'm in (confidentiality and all that), and I wanted to stay away from this thread because I didn't want to accidentally stumble upon someone applying to my program. But I wanted to say that there are so many talented people applying. Rejection doesn't mean you aren't talented...from what I've seen it just means that the people in the department at the time just aren't a good fit for your that year. And of course...funding is limited. I've worked with literary journals and have similar things to say with that...there are amazing stories that we reject because they just aren't a fit for the journal, or because the Editor just isn't feeling it (it sucks lol). 
Saying all this doesn't change the fact that rejection doesn't feel good. I got rejected from every MFA program I applied to except the one I'm in now (and even then I barely made it off the waitlist). I have no publications in any literary journals. Rejection doesn't feel good at all and it is okay to feel disappointed. You're allowed to have feelings. You aren't wrong for your feelings. I just wanted to send you some encouragement from someone on the other side who is very familiar with rejection. 
I am sincerely hoping for the best for everyone. And I hope you get into the programs that would nurture your talents the best. ❤️ 
If anyone has questions about MFA programs, feel free to message me. I won't talk about my current experience with admissions review because it is confidential and I would never talk about someone else's submissions, but I'm happy to talk about anything else!