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UMD released both acceptances and waitlists last week, so pretty sure those are done. That’s it for me this year, see ya’ll for next cycle probably 😂

The general understanding from Draft is that any extra funding that comes into play will go first to anyone with an offer asking for more money. You’d probably get a tuition discount, but nothing extra. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!

From draft it looks like UCR’s waitlist went out earlier this week, so its looking like soft rejections for everyone who hasn’t heard back yet. (I’m in that boat too.)

I got my fiction rejection from Brown on 3/17 last year if that helps give you a target date for panicking. Assuming acceptances and waitlists go out a week or so before, as seems to be the norm with programs that don’t sit on rejections, I would guess the range is 3/9-3/16 for fiction. Poetry was all like one week before fiction.

A few folks in my undergrad class and who audited some of my classes across subject matters were middle aged or post-retirement and tbh a lot of them were more engaged than the rest of us. In my post-college online writing classes I’m usually the youngest or close to the youngest in the room by a decade (or several decades normally) and I’m in my late 20’s lol. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that skew against older applicants in the numbers is due to folks who haven’t really written before or haven’t been edited before submitting applications to fully funded program because it seems like an easy next step, while being totally unaware of how awful the competition really is. And then self selecting out of next year’s cycle when it doesn’t work out and going towards other avenues like self publishing, directly soliciting agents rather than waiting for an MFA, or applying to different low residency and writing retreat options instead. My recommenders last year were really upfront that it’s normal to take 3 or more rounds of applications to get any acceptances, and flagged my first round waitlist as a win. Not everyone, especially folks with kids or other family responsibilities, wants to or can pay for three cycles or more, let alone prolong this much stress over several years. (I have a feeling that I’m not making it this round and its hard to decide if I want to do it another time, its a fuckton of money.)

any news on UC Riverside for fiction? or should I count it as another unofficial rejection 😅 i’m heading towards another year of 0 offers, so I’m trying to manage my expectations lol

Looks like UCR notified poetry waitlists just now according to Draft. Anyone heard anything for fiction?

Does anyone know if UVA is interviewing their top choice candidates this year? They did last year, but I don’t see anything on their website for this round.

I’m assuming they’re still moving down the list, but are any other folks still waiting on the JHU rejection email? Also, anyone with info on UC Riverside? It looks like they released results around this time last year. Thank you!!!

Last year I got my rejection in March, so they’re really early this year. Maybe they rushed more than they’d meant to?

Apparently some people who never applied recieved rejections, which is wild to me

That’s probably good news! I think they do their rejections in waves, so you may be onto the next round.

Boston just emailed out a wave of rejections, fiction & poetry

It was like this for me last year too—my name is at the end of the alphabet and I got my rejection a couple hours after other people. Looks like it’ll be the same this year. (Shows how many applicants they get that the rejection process takes so long 😂)

JHU poetry rejections are going out now based on draft. So fiction will probably be out by this time next week if the week delay holds true for us as well