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I guess a lot of the answer to this depends on what you plan to do while getting your degree. Brooklyn College is a program with a sterling reputation in NYC and well-connected faculty. There's no doubt you'll get a good education, and it's an amazing option for people who want to keep their day jobs. Do you currently live in NYC and plan on working while doing your MFA? If so, I'd accept the offer. If you plan on not working at all as one might somewhere like IWW or Brown, it may be a dicier idea to get into that sort of debt, but it's also not so bad compared to what you'd incur at, say, Columbia.
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What a choice to make! Both of these schools have amazing reputations, and your colleagues will likely be lovely at both institutions. At Cornell your class size will be much smaller (4 vs 9)--i've heard arguments both toward and against large and small cohorts. With large cohorts, there's more diversity of opinions, you're more likely to find people that you jive with but you may have less individual attention. With small programs you'll have more attention from faculty, but it might have an "echo chamber" effect because your cohort is just the same people over and over again. Which of these is more important to you? Location: Cornell's quite isolated and very beautiful, I've heard Ann Arbor is quite quaint and mid-sized (admittedly, i've never actually visited either--if you can visit both places, that might be extremely helpful for making your decision). Both seem very much to be college towns. Can you imagine yourself being happier in one of these places? It sounds like you're leaning a bit more toward Cornell--if teaching and having more time to work is important to you, that may be the way to go. What is your gut saying? Either way, you really can't go wrong. Good luck with your decision, excited to see where you end up!
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One person on Draft was waitlisted at UNM about a week or so ago! I believe they were in fiction.
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CONGRATS!!! you've worked so hard, amazing to see it come to fruition!
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The drafter is applying in CNF, and neither syracuse nor uva offer cnf! so curious to know also.
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yea, you got in. Congrats!!
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it looks like this year they've only accepted 7 students. On draft, it looks like both acceptances and waitlists have come out for all genres. Unfortunately, as someone who didn't get any notification also, i believe that if you didn't get notified of an acceptance / waitlist by now, you can assume to be rejected.
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This sounds about right, my feeling (unfounded upon any kind of fact except observing general trends from previous years, and also as someone not applying in fiction) is that there'll be 1 or 2 more fiction rounds of notifications.
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From what i've extrapolated from previous years of draft, it looks like each genre has its own process. For poetry, it looks like they interview more than they accept / waitlist (someone a previous yr got a straight reject after interviewing). For CNF (at least from what i've seen), it looks like the people they interview are either accepted or waitlisted. I don't think they waitlist anyone they don't interview. Of course, none of this has been confirmed, though I myself think it's pretty accurate lol. edit: there's not enough data for me to make any claims on the fiction process.
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Kado reacted to a post in a topic:
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Hi Kado! from draft I believe that michigan acceptances, waitlists, and rejections have come out for both poetry and fiction. That's a bit unusual that you haven't heard anything, hopefully this means they're still mulling on your application? (or, have you checked your spam?)
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i have, for cnf. 2 people on draft got in for fiction, one fiction waitlist, and one cnf waitlist.
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I mean, these people are in fact humans who have a tremendous capacity for improvement--and i'm sure they have improved within the intervening years! And as @questioningquestions said, I hope that they do get into the programs that they wish to attend. The sort of troubling bitterness that wishes ill will upon another can really corrode a person.
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