michelleee

Posted in the results form but I received a confusing waitlist email from Iowa (poetry) that said nothing about a waitlist but said my application was still being considered? Does anyone know waitlist stats for Iowa or any advice for what to do now to increase my chances?

Most of my decisions havent shown up on the portals at all, so I wouldnt say its a good or bad sign

Waiting for Iowa state and ASU also. Neither will answer my calls it's bizarre

Also, I called Iowa and they said that poetry decisions were sent out in the mail today--I'm assuming that means they're done notifying acceptances on the phone, and it's probably just waitlists and rejections from here on out. I'm surprised since the poetry cohorts are usually like 20 people and we only heard about a handful of acceptances on here--usually it's a lot more!

I'll never understand when people post a waitlist for a program but the note is 'has anyone heard from this program' on the results board--Im pretty sure you cant even reply to those posts? I feel like if people are religiously checking the board anyway theyd post their results when they got them you know

Im sorry its got you down :// If it makes you feel better my first couple decisions were rejections, then a couple waitlists, and the last two have been acceptances (into better programs??) so this whole admissions process is just unpredictable and I wouldn't let a couple rejections get you down if you still have more news coming.

sorry it's taken me awhile to make an official post about my progress--ive been waitlisted three places (south carolina, new mexico, oregon state) and rejected from wisconsin--still waiting on like 5 others (michigan which is being weird but prob a rejection, colo state and iowa which are apparently notifying, and also idaho and iowa state). so many waitlists has me really freaked out but thank you to everyone who has been posting and keeping all us lurkers diligently updated (especially those who share what they see in draft since im not a part of it and cant bring myself to request) it has both saved my life and stopped my heart multiple times. none of these schools have given any numbers or sense of placement on the waitlist to me and it's been hellish but i also understand that they're in a weird position since it seems like everyone either gets a ton of acceptances, a ton of waitlists, or a ton of rejections lol, very rarely even numbers of each. ugh idk just venting at this point. i know my work is good but my personal statement was really iffy to be honest and one of my recs might have been weird so i can see what's holding me back pretty clearly and i hope they can overlook it. this is my first time around and im 21 so im grateful to be seriously considered! also btw i study poetry lol. thank you again to everyone!!

Hi everyone! If I have a small typo in my portfolio, would it be better to A. send a modest email to the school saying that I noticed this upon another read through and apologize or B. just hope they don't notice? It's not super noticeable but it's an obvious grammatical error ugh. I triple checked everything I don't know how I missed this one.