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Thank you so much everyone for your comments on this, I realize it was a pretty self-indulgent irrelevant post haha so I so appreciate you taking the time to humor me. I just found out I was accepted at COLUMBIA. What the fuck. So now it's even more complicated, not because I want to accept there (that's simply too much debt......), but bc now I am really thinking if I spent more time I'd have a real chance next year to get into the fully funded places. I know New York is expensive, but Brooklyn offers a lot of work on campus, adjuncting your second semester for good money and editing the Brooklyn Review, which I thought would be especially interesting as it would serve as double-way into the literary world of nyc, as a student/writer and as an employee. In a way that you may not get at like IWW, I want to learn how to work in literature, too. In other words I'd making more money and be more connected than if I just showed up in new york, which I was sort of planning on doing anyway, and that would be worth the bit of debt to me. Also honestly I'm ready to hustle a little, I've been cruising for the last years... But now I have no fucking idea what to do, and so little time to decide. Going to call my undergrad advisors and see what they have to say. Thanks again everyone ❤️ Best of luck in all your writing and studying and decision-making endeavors!

Hi new here! Thanks for letting me read and be anxious and happy with you all I applied to only 4 schools, all of which I was really interested in, and was rejected from IWW, Brown, probably Columbia but I actually haven't heard back (can't afford it anyway...). This was my first time applying. And honestly it was all a little last minute, I got together my IWW and Brown app in like 2 days (not the writing obviously).... I've been accepted into Brooklyn College's poetry cohort and I'm really excited about this — Ben Lerner and Anselm Berrigan are on the faculty and are some of my favorite writers. They offered me the grant that only one applicant across all all genres gets, and its a CUNY, so I'd walk away with around 15k in total debt. I know this is obviously a personal decision but does this sound reasonable for an MFA? My undergrad debt is currently just over 5k (maybe TMI) I know it's a great program esp. for more experimental writing, though perhaps not as well known outside of the East Coast. I want to move to New York and honestly have been feeling so aimless recently, so it's a really good time for me to settle back into school. But Am I so stupid for not trying again at the fully funded places in a year? Will I regret this forever......... PLEASE HELP