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I'm definitely feeling anxious waiting on these results. Anyone else writing new material during this period and wishing they could go back in time to add it to their writing sample? ?

It was Miami University, not University of Miami. Whoops!

It appears that someone in Draft got an acceptance email for the University of Miami today. I have a feeling WashU and NCSU will be next week. Potentially others, but I imagine it's not always so predictable.

I'm honestly not sure how someone would be able to quantify this unless they were part of an admissions committee this cycle or had access to the data. (This is my first cycle, so I don't know how active Draft was in years past.) However, when I was speaking to one of my letter writers, she mentioned that the last two years of applications were a bit crazy and that she anticipated this year was going to be calmer. I have no idea how she made that estimation, since I spoke to her in November and my alma mater had a deadline in January. Here's to hoping that it's a smaller pool of applicants—hah! Edit: University of Michigan actually has statistics on number of applications to their program. It looks like from 2018-2021, the number of applications was near or over 1,000. However, in 2022 it was 800, whereas overall graduate school applications increased. Not sure if that's a trend or explained by some other phenomena, or if should even be applied to the MFA pool overall.

can i ask why you post on here? i'm not really sure how it's rational to waste energy making comments like this.

i've been out of undergrad for 8 years. thankfully, my parents aren't worried about me, (and have respected my stubbornness—haha!) but i also rationalized this move by not making money/capitalism/career/etc into a moral argument against myself. that is to say, "i'm not a bad person for wanting to be a better writer." not sure if that will convince your parents, but hopefully it's helpful nonetheless!

I'm applying to a few of these as well! (Iowa, Michigan, Idaho, South Carolina, to be exact.) I've been out of undergrad for quite some time now, and I am feeling just a tiny bit desperate to leave my office job... I'll try to remember to follow up if I get into any of these in case we end up in the same cohort!

Hey all, Hope everyone is having a decent time putting together their portfolios and applications! This is my first time applying to programs, so I'm fairly nervous. I'm applying to 8 schools, all fully funded, with 4 being "higher ranked" programs and the other 4 being smaller/"underrated" programs. I have my poems completed, but I need to really tidy up my SOP and get another letter of recommendation, (been out of school for 7 years eeep!)