superstitious

i can’t speak to whether the publishing credit will help at all but lit mag responses to your submissions (rejections or acceptances) might be a good driving force for revision (especially if any responses come with editor notes). that could wind up benefiting your sample/writing anyway. definitely don’t think they’d hurt

i’m also unsure of where the schools @koechophe mentioned fall (sorry!), but i’m surprised that’s UMiami doesn’t come up much in the fully-funded program conversation (and they’re pretty generous too)

Thank you!

Thank you! And this forum has been so helpful on the info front, just knew I had to return the favor

Hi y'all! First time poster, looooooooong time lurker. I received a call from Iowa for fiction yesterday, and the director flat-out told me that they're pretty far behind on notification calls this year. Also, I know of someone (from last app cycle) who wasn't notified until the second week of march.