MischiefNotManaged

To be quite honest as a finalist for the past two years at CMU, I heard they are taking away all senior thesis productions, so I feel like you may be dodging a bullet.

I'm thrilled to share I received my offer for Rutgers today and accepted. Woohoo!

Sorry I was out of town when you replied! It went on for about an hour and a half and was a very organic conversation. How did you feel about your interview?

My interview with Rutgers was absolutely lovely. I felt very positive about the program. I'm a bit bummed to hear nothing from Brown or Hunter yet though

Me too!!! WOOHOO!

I received my rejection to Carnegie.

No No one's heard anything. Very, VERY weird.

Nothing yet. Still.

This is year three for me with Carnegie and I was a finalist two years in a row, so I'm so anxious about whether or not I'll get in now lmao... ugh the waiting!

I heard a friend was rejected.

Well, I got a "decision delay" email letting me know I'd hear back by Feb 10th... anyone else hear back? Anyone get an interview? I'm a bit stumped by this hahaha. Normally they just outright reject on this day if you're not getting in.

merry carnegie eve. I anticipate we'll likely hear first round of interviews go out tomorrow night around 10PM.

So, lol, I was affected by the UC San Diego snafu and I got an email about the cancelled application and was promptly refunded, thankfully. So that takes that off my list. Welp. Now I just wait patiently to see if I get into anything on round three.

Alright folx, this year I applied to: 1. Juilliard 2. Carnegie 3. UC San Diego 4. Columbia 5. Hunter 6. Brooklyn 7. Brown 8. Rutgers I forgot about Yale this year a little too late ? but I figured my chances there were slimmer anyways. I'd rather stay close to NYC, but I live in RI so Brown would be really nice. UC San Diego is a dream that would definitely take me out of the city but would be... a dream. Carnegie's waitlisted me but I'm intrigued to see how the program changed.

I'm sorry, Tomlette. I love getting to know other nonbinary writers perhaps we should start a groupchat? AHAHAHA.

Sorry update 2; per my recommendation, Hunter is updating the application for next cycle to have less dated terminology for trans people (eliminating "preferred" name and "preferred" pronouns to just be "name" and "pronouns"). I appreciate Christine's response and proactiveness in remedying the error, so all is good here.

Hey ya'll, thank you for the support. This is definitely a first for me as no other program has misgendered or deadnamed me. I did in fact respond to let her know the error and this is the response I received essentially: "Dear ____, I'm so very sorry about that, and will correct my records immediately. It seems like an administrative error of our application software, which used to automatically populate I spreadsheet I was using to track applications. I can see from your application that you clearly entered your preferred name as ____. My sincere apologies for not noticing this error when I was writing to you, and thank you so much for letting me know about this issue--I appreciate it." I have mixed feelings on this response because it is nice to hear an apology that I believe was in fact stemming from an error, but I also feel weird knowing that they wouldn't just use the preferred name section to begin with (I also... do not love the phrase "preferred name", as it implies that my name is a preference and thus subject to any sort of debate-- it's my name). EDIT: I also checked my last year's email from her-- she did not deadname me at all last year, which makes it all the more odd that it occurred at all this year. Hm.

Just got my rejection from Hunter, where they named my play correctly and let me know that I was a semi-finalist, but somehow managed to deadname me... which makes me suspicious as to whether or not they actually read my play, since my name is on... every single material I submitted.

Haven't heard from Hunter, Brooklyn, or been moved around Carnegie's waitlist yet; but I too received my Columbia rejection.

Hey there! I have not yet I will let you know when I do for sure. I'm assuming a rejection from Hunter, Brooklyn and Columbia on my end (my interview was fine but I didn't feel they were as interested in me as say, Carnegie), so the last two I'm waiting on are Carnegie to hopefully bump me from the waitlist to admission or Boston to offer me an acceptance. I'll be honest though I have been considering forgoing grad this year and staying in the city another year. I really love my apartment, I love my night job, and I produce a lot of my own theatre in the city and overseas and have a wonderful circle of collaborators who are itching for the next thing both here in NYC and across the pond. I really want to go to grad school to learn screenwriting because I think it's my weakest space (I just don't understand how to connect action to plot to shots in the way filmmakers do), but a few filmmaking friends of mine also have offered to collaboration in that direction, so I may get my start and see where that takes me? It's been a back and forth for me; I want to make films and video games but I also see my place as a playwright, so figuring out where to go next with that has been the journey. If I got into Carnegie or Boston though I'd likely go, but I also have a production offer that I'm contemplating taking for the fall that would absolutely conflict with grad school. I'm also considerably young and have had some amazing opportunities outside of school to develop my work; and I've noticed that being as young as I am isn't always the biggest interest to grad schools (I often get the good ol' "why are you applying at this age? go experience the world etc etc" haha) which is okay! Either way I think it's important in these grad cycles to remember that whether or not you get in and go isn't a determination of your talent or who you are as a person, really every program is looking for someone they can say they are proud to have as an alumni while also looking for someone they can teach. If they feel you are beyond their teaching or going to learn the same stuff without paying the graduate tuition, they may just be sparing you the pain of student loans for what may be as promising of a career ahead of you. That's how I'm taking it in, at least. Whether or not I go to grad school doesn't determine my worth as a writer, and it shouldn't determine yours as well.

I have not for either, but I also haven't heard anything at all from BU, so I sent an email to check in. Will update asap.

Got my Brown rejection earlier at work, which leaves me down to one waitlist with Carnegie, an interview with Columbia, and a rejection from Yale and Brown with Brooklyn, Hunter and Boston still pending. Honestly a better year than last year, so here's hoping.

Got mine! ❤️

Congrats! Did they call or email you by chance? I'm still waiting to hear back ? hahaha

I'm also waiting on Columbia, Brown, Hunter, Brooklyn and Boston so fingers crossed we hear back soon. I'm wondering if Columbia is also a little bit behind?