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Nope! Wondering if NYU allows its non-funded admitted cohort later than April 15th to decide, thus lengthening the waitlist time? I’ve seen no evidence of anyone accepted off the waitlist.

Have any NYU waitlisted folks heard back?

Did you take another offer, or was funding not ideal? Good luck with whatever comes next!

Any NYU fiction accepted people considering turning down the offer?

Does most waitlist movement happen on or before April 15th? Also thinking about NYU.

I had the exact same question. Has this happened before?

NYU fiction? Surely they're not done based on past years..? Always a follow-up of email-only notifs.

The Columbia faculty is fantastic -- I also applied even though it looks like I didn't get in this year. It would be hard to turn down a tuition free offer from them. I do think NYU is maybe better in terms of faculty and prestige, but since waitlist admits seem to get less funding, might be hard to accept in lieu of the others. Congratulations!

Brooklyn, Brooklyn....

With NYU seemingly not happening, I'm still hopeful for Brooklyn, Hunter, and Columbia this season. NYC rise up!

Hate to be this guy, but any NYU or Brooklyn College acceptees thinking of declining their offers? Lol. Just wondering if I should expect anything with these waitlists.

In the same boat re: the fiction Waitlist to NYU! Would love to know more info -- I'm getting the hunch that it's a sizeable waitlist, but I think they have semi-large class sizes.

Do we feel like Iowa is done? There a spate of acceptances in the third week of February but I haven't seen anything since...

Congrats! If it was me, I wouldn't want to turn everything else down until I had accepted a confirmed offer. Because I'm scared of wild off-the-wall scenarios like a school losing all its funding in a nightmarish situation and rescinding my offer lol (which to be clear I've never heard happen). So maybe if I were you I'd turn down one of those other offers? And then turn down all as soon as you accepted wherever you end up going to.

Let’s all remember that a lot of these places have incredibly low acceptance rates.. Harvard Law School has an acceptance rate of 7-10%, Harvard undergrad has 3-4% — nearly all fully funded (or even partially funded) programs that I know of are more selective than that. Less than 1%, in the cases of the programs that have like 5 seats (Vandy, Cornell, etc.) So rejection is definitely not a totally negative referendum on your writing! It ‘is’ however a reality check, reminding us that our cultural environment does not allow for the support of that many full-time studying/working creative writers. So we do have to dig in if we want to be one of those, and continue to improve via workshops and other community collaborations while we can. i know someone who applied to MFAs three times without any success, then got into Michener on the fourth try. I know a novelist who runs a selective workshop program who finally was able to publish their first novel a couple of decades into their writing career. So, these things are possible. But they take work and time. signed - someone on their third application cycle who is also definitely feeling the lows right now lol