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@pattycat @mrvisser I miss you. I won't ask for you to you come back to this chaotic anxiety fueled dumpster fire, but what if...you popped in and said hello? ??? 

wanna upvote but also don’t wanna change the trio. here’s my axe in stead 
 

Do you mean the College of Charleston in Charleston SC? Or is there a University of South Carolina MFA program at a charleston campus?
 
I used to live in Charleston and can attest wonderful things to the CofC faculty and alumni. The city also has a fantastic bookstore there called “Blue Bicycle Books.” 

Here is the difference between me and the rest of you. I too just got a tweet from the President. Guess what? I'm not even faving it. Only the First Lady sometimes gives a personalized invitation to the annual White House barbecue. And I already know what the President's tweet is going to say. So, to those who are still clinging to delusion, take note there is one gal not even grilling anymore.  

Well, I got the “rejected” from Notre Dame, which is a bummer as a current Bend resident but a relief in other ways. Still waiting on Iowa State, Utah, and Idaho. hmu if you know what’s up with those programs in fiction. As of last Monday, Idaho was still only “halfway through” their admissions process. 
 
also, a huge round of congrats to all y’all for sticking it through, showing up for yourselves, and being kind to each other. It is so encouraging to see how thoughtfully people are using this process to fuel writing and self examination as well as contribute to other’s investigations. 
 
 

Well, I got the “rejected” from Notre Dame, which is a bummer as a current Bend resident but a relief in other ways. Still waiting on Iowa State, Utah, and Idaho. hmu if you know what’s up with those programs in fiction. As of last Monday, Idaho was still only “halfway through” their admissions process. 
 
also, a huge round of congrats to all y’all for sticking it through, showing up for yourselves, and being kind to each other. It is so encouraging to see how thoughtfully people are using this process to fuel writing and self examination as well as contribute to other’s investigations. 
 
 

A professor of mine once gave all of us students as sophomores in college the job of editing a poem “submitted to the school lit magazine.” It was a little known Yeats poem, and we eviscerated it. The week prior we had just voted Yeats as eminently worthwhile. 
That is to say, sometimes writing hits different depending on its context, and I agree: keep writing!!! 

A professor of mine once gave all of us students as sophomores in college the job of editing a poem “submitted to the school lit magazine.” It was a little known Yeats poem, and we eviscerated it. The week prior we had just voted Yeats as eminently worthwhile. 
That is to say, sometimes writing hits different depending on its context, and I agree: keep writing!!! 

Well, I got the “rejected” from Notre Dame, which is a bummer as a current Bend resident but a relief in other ways. Still waiting on Iowa State, Utah, and Idaho. hmu if you know what’s up with those programs in fiction. As of last Monday, Idaho was still only “halfway through” their admissions process. 
 
also, a huge round of congrats to all y’all for sticking it through, showing up for yourselves, and being kind to each other. It is so encouraging to see how thoughtfully people are using this process to fuel writing and self examination as well as contribute to other’s investigations. 
 
 

A professor of mine once gave all of us students as sophomores in college the job of editing a poem “submitted to the school lit magazine.” It was a little known Yeats poem, and we eviscerated it. The week prior we had just voted Yeats as eminently worthwhile. 
That is to say, sometimes writing hits different depending on its context, and I agree: keep writing!!! 

A professor of mine once gave all of us students as sophomores in college the job of editing a poem “submitted to the school lit magazine.” It was a little known Yeats poem, and we eviscerated it. The week prior we had just voted Yeats as eminently worthwhile. 
That is to say, sometimes writing hits different depending on its context, and I agree: keep writing!!! 

Well, I got the “rejected” from Notre Dame, which is a bummer as a current Bend resident but a relief in other ways. Still waiting on Iowa State, Utah, and Idaho. hmu if you know what’s up with those programs in fiction. As of last Monday, Idaho was still only “halfway through” their admissions process. 
 
also, a huge round of congrats to all y’all for sticking it through, showing up for yourselves, and being kind to each other. It is so encouraging to see how thoughtfully people are using this process to fuel writing and self examination as well as contribute to other’s investigations. 
 
 

A professor of mine once gave all of us students as sophomores in college the job of editing a poem “submitted to the school lit magazine.” It was a little known Yeats poem, and we eviscerated it. The week prior we had just voted Yeats as eminently worthwhile. 
That is to say, sometimes writing hits different depending on its context, and I agree: keep writing!!! 

I JUST GOT INTO SARAH LAWRENCE !!!!!

I’m endlessly pacing in the airport right now waiting for something, anything, on this front. 
 
This is the third school where acceptances have gone out according to the results page, and I’ve yet to hear anything: no rejection, no portal update, and certainly no acceptance or waitlist. 
 
Fingers crossed for you and me and anyone else out there waiting on the Dame.

Hello! I got an acceptance for poetry via portal and then phone call for Iowa State University on Friday (portal)/ Saturday night (phone call). I was taking the weekend to be offline and heal from what I thought was just a suite of rejections, so the good news was SHOCKING. I was so overwhelmed, and then got a phone call from UNLV on Sunday night to throw me for a whole second loop. 
 
I couldn't be happier with these two programs, I write exclusively about place and space-- I spent a LOT of my undergrad abroad (I did my classes via email correspondence and lived in France for a year, went to Berlin multiple times for my thesis, and then wrapped up college and moved to Malaysia for a year), and then I literally started a journal of ecopoetics. So! Having one international program and one environmentally focused program is bananas. I feel like these two acceptances, more than any acceptances anywhere else, shows that what I'm trying to do in my work is legible. I am a genuine fit for these places, and the fact that they see that shows that my work is doing what I've been working to make it do. 
 
So much love for this forum, I wish I could make everyone as deliriously happy as I've been this weekend. 
(and now, I have the most terrifying, overwhelming decision of my life)

As someone else said, rankings are way too subjective to be defined, and that's why Poets and Writers stopped doing them. That said, Syracuse is always one of the most sought-after schools, seemingly just below that Iowa-Michener-Virginia tier, and schools like Hunter generally aren't as competitive as that because you don't have 1,000 kids competing for schools that aren't even fully funded. 

As someone else said, rankings are way too subjective to be defined, and that's why Poets and Writers stopped doing them. That said, Syracuse is always one of the most sought-after schools, seemingly just below that Iowa-Michener-Virginia tier, and schools like Hunter generally aren't as competitive as that because you don't have 1,000 kids competing for schools that aren't even fully funded. 

As someone else said, rankings are way too subjective to be defined, and that's why Poets and Writers stopped doing them. That said, Syracuse is always one of the most sought-after schools, seemingly just below that Iowa-Michener-Virginia tier, and schools like Hunter generally aren't as competitive as that because you don't have 1,000 kids competing for schools that aren't even fully funded.