corgeel14

Hey guys! I had thought myself logged out for the year but...UC Irvine had other plans. Just received a waitlist this morning. It's a bit funny because I've just seen it 10 hrs later, bc I had really thought everything was over and done with after months of checking my email every 3 minutes. That leaves me with two waitlists (NYU) and two acceptances (SLC and TNS). SLC and TNS are virtually offering me no money, and over the past couple days my thought process has been leaning towards that meaning its just not the right time for me. Especially just getting out of undergrad, going to either of those programs would mean me depending on my parents for moving costs and day to day until I can find a job, and they're older so I just don't want to do that to them. I'm not really holding out much hope for NYU based on what I've heard about how their wait list either. I would welcome any news/advise on how UCI's waitlist tends to work. Outside of that, it's starting to look like I might do a one year political science masters which has a sort of pipeline to human rights organizations at the same school i'm graduating from next month, I'm hoping that might lead me to a bit of job security, and even writing inspiration. Honestly without this forum I'm sure I would've gone insane around February. Godspeed! & wishing you all the best!

Which U.K programs did you apply to? I applied to Oxford (like a crazy person), and not too shockingly was denied. I was planning to apply to Edinburgh w/ their late march or even June deadlines but then some east coast schools came through, and since the biggest thing keeping me from them is $$$$ it doesn't seem to make sense just adding more schools I cannot afford to the equation lol *cries softly* . Still, since I'm (apparently a glutton for punishment) considering doing this all again next year, I might take another look at U.K programs at that time.

LMAO at this point I figured but it still kinda hurts. Wish they could just send out rejections...I mean it can't be that hard to do...like it'd be nice to at least be worth being told NO. Sigh. I guess thats to be expected of a fully-funded program in California.

I just meant in the context of doing something you know is safer. I'm sure a lot of us on this forum can agree that there are other careers paths that you don't hear nearly as much people warning you that you'll go hungry in. I obviously respect that kind of professional work or I wouldn't be considering it at all. That's to say, for me I fear I could be doing it out of self-doubt and fear of the future, and that seems weak. Not that anyone who wants to do that kind of work is weak for wanting that.

Thanks!! NS came at 8:30pm and CU came at 9:15pm. Both for poetry concentrations!

Denied from Columbia and Accepted at The New School all within 30 min of each other. I was also not chosen for a merit scholarship at The New School so I'm going to have to see what aid is looking like...thats the same issue I have with Sarah Lawrence who offered 20k in loans a year lol. I also got into a masters program in Peace and Conflict studies at my current uni. I expect they'll have much more to offer in the way of aid, so I find myself being seduced into the "go traditional for a little bit and then once you're more secure, apply to MFA's" mind set. That scares me a bit. I don't want to be one of those people gets too comfortable to chase their dreams. I have always wanted my career to be as much about advocacy and human rights as it is writing, so its not that this other masters means I've given up my values all together. Idk. It just feels like joining the literary world in NYC is my dream, and not doing that because the other path seems like a pipeline to a safer version of success is weak. But is that actually just my immaturity? Still holding onto lifelong dreams of "taking the city by storm" Is that the kind of mind set that lands writers at the unemployment office? Just having a slight existential crisis. Edit: Still waiting on my very last response from UC Irvine

I have one as well wtf?? Mistake or should I be screaming right now? But i'm fairly certain it wasn't there this morning when the first person posted....Edit: Just saw the person explaining who called them. Well. So I guess just more days of confusion....

The New School is literally INSANE ppl lmao. No one can convince me otherwise. Not them changing their response timeline on the website. They ALSO emailed me saying Mid-March last week. And I knew that meant either they had to release this week or they were just lying and going to push again seeing as we're well past "mid March". Ugh. And still ofc if I get good news my tone will do a complete 180 and I'll pretend I always worshipped the ground they walk on lol

WAITLISTED AT NYU. JUST NOW. I KNOW THATS NOT NECESSARILY THE BEST NEWS BUT THEY WERE MY TOP CHOICE AND I FEEL LIKE THIS IS STILL SO VALIDATING RN??? ITS NOT THE WORST NEWS??

Any news from UC Irvine????

Hey yall, just wanted to update about this as it may offer some insight for any people who still haven't heard from The New School. I emailed them and received a response that the email wasn't a glitch, and that they'll send out responses mid-March (which basically means next week at this point lol). I applied for poetry and only knew of one acceptance on that 8th/9th time frame between here and draft, so my thought process is that they just actually release acceptances in waves. Either that or they cruelly decided to renew my hope just to see it crushed again next week. Hoping for the former. God speed!

So on the 8th/9th, when all those New School acceptances came out, I got an email the morning of the 9th that said "application update" but it was just saying they had received all my materials (again) and were under review. Was that a mistake? A way of saying to keep waiting? I applied for poetry and haven't seen any poetry acceptances but that could just mean that whoever got in wasn't on this or Draft I know......What do ya'll think?

Schools who haven't sent out responses by know should all be indicted for slow torture. This is HORRIBLE.

NYU, Columbia,The New School and then non-NY UCI, all for poetry.....o_o

BIG BIG CONGRATS!! BUT ALSO to fellow ppl waiting on the NY schools...AHHH SHIT. This could be the beginning of the storm. I desperately have wanted an answer but now the anxiety is eating me up. Well, Godspeed yall!