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Looks like someone heard from Brooklyn today with an acceptance! Congrats to whomever that is! Word is Hunter will be reaching out first week of March for interviews - but who knows! 

Looks like someone heard from Brooklyn today with an acceptance! Congrats to whomever that is! Word is Hunter will be reaching out first week of March for interviews - but who knows! 

Looks like someone heard from Brooklyn today with an acceptance! Congrats to whomever that is! Word is Hunter will be reaching out first week of March for interviews - but who knows! 

Looks like someone heard from Brooklyn today with an acceptance! Congrats to whomever that is! Word is Hunter will be reaching out first week of March for interviews - but who knows! 

Looks like someone heard from Brooklyn today with an acceptance! Congrats to whomever that is! Word is Hunter will be reaching out first week of March for interviews - but who knows! 

Hi all,
Received my first rejection of the cycle this morning from Michener. Womp womp.
I'm seeing very little info on Draft... seems like that's pretty fiction/poetry-dominated. That being said, has anyone heard anything from the following schools?
Boston University
Brown
Juilliard (Certificate)
Northwestern
Yale
TIA!

Who has started a new bizarre hobby in order to pass the time? I have been addicted to Street Easy and Zillow lately, just pretending to rent apartments I can't afford next to the programs I haven't gotten into yet, HA!
This list was created pretty haphazardly while combing through these 135 pages, but I'm offering it up to anyone who may find it useful. It seems like the general trend from last year is that schools took much longer to notify about interviews and acceptances. Things were towards the end of February and into March generally. Not all of this data has dates listed with it, so apologies on that front.
Timeline
Feb 1 - UCSD, UT Austin, and CMU interviews requested in the past
Feb 15 - Hunter, Northwestern, Brown, NYU, and UCLA Interviews requested and UCSD acceptances in the past
Feb 20-25 - Yale interview notification phone call, Brown, UT Texas, and Hunter interview notices and being conducted happening and UCLA too. UCLA also sends out invites now.
Feb 28 - March 14 - Brown notices came out this late in 2013.
March 2 - UT Austin acceptances and Columbia interview requests and Yale interviews (or interview invites in 2017). In 2022, this was when interviews went out for UCSD.
March 8 - Yale acceptances (note: in 2017, Yale interviews happened in mid March, March 18), or Columbia interview requests (2017), Iowa starts to send out interviews (2023)
March 11-12 - Yale interviews happened in 2013
March 26-April 8 - Iowa acceptances (April 8 in 2023)
 
Note: If you take a look at the results page from 2023 and search "playwriting" (or scroll backwards a few years), that has some fairly helpful timeline date. 

Congrats on applying for this round of applications! I agree with what others have said about timeline, as far as I can tell from past experience and spending a lot of time stalking this page. Last year, I got two interview requests and they came on February 20th and 24th. It was a pretty quick turnaround from the request to the actual interview, then back to the waiting game until mid-March. 
To your question about other websites, I checked out twitter a bit last year! Saw a small community of writers on there who were posting about acceptances, rejections, and interview requests, but it was definitely less centralized and harder to come across than this site. There is also a similar forum to this one for screenwriting, so if any of your applications are to programs crossed with screenwriting, check that out as well. 
Good luck! Hopefully we all hear good news soon.

Hi team,
Been a lurker on this site for a couple years now before finally applying this season. I have apps in for Brown, Columbia, Pace, and Yale. Brown has reached out to me because I apparently submitted my samples incorrectly, so I know they're in progress. Pace also asked for my second sample a few weeks ago, but I haven't heard anything since. 
For my writing sample I used an absurdist comedy about suicidal ideation I've been tinkering with for the last year or two. For the ones that wanted two different samples, I threw in a one-act political comedy I wrote and produced for Fringe last year.
This waiting is driving me nuts- a feeling I'm sure no one can relate to (he said, sarcastically). I keep checking the online portals and finding nothing. I'm debating whether or not to change my day-job lately and it's made all the more complicated by the potential of me moving for school in 6 months. A big looming time bomb of possibility just ticking away in the distance and I have no idea if it'll go off, and even if it does how will I pay for it 🥴
Anyone who's been through this before- do you know anything about when interview offers/decisions start to come in? I've always assumed mid-February through March, and then if I haven't heard anything by April I'm probably toast, but that's all circumspect. 
What other sites do you all check for the hot goss? I've mostly been poking around this forum, but I wonder if there are others?
Stay strong team! We're nearly there!

I know we will likely not hear anything for another 3-4 weeks minimum - but is anyone else obsessively checking their email/unable to think about anything else? I thought once I submitted the apps I'd be able to chill out since it was out of my hands but the anxiety is next level! 
I'm going to start a new play to try and distract myself a bit - but I think I'm just looking for some folks to commiserate with. The wait is unbearable! This sucks so bad! One moment I feel hopeful the next I think I'm kidding myself. Anyway - just blasting this message off into the universe to folks who also get it. I know I'm still a a real writer with exciting and worthwhile stories regardless of the results of MFA apps - but boy oh boy do I wish I just knew what was going to happen! Wishing you all the best. Thanks for listening to me whine lol

I didn’t apply to Carnegie Mellon, so no helpful news from me, sorry!
 
As for what types of plays I submitted, I grew up as a dancer, so I tend to blend realism with movement and a bit of poetry in my work.

Sending patience everyone’s way as we anxiously click refresh on our inboxes every day…moment…millisecond. Or maybe it’s just me and everyone else is as chill as a carrot on Frosty’s face. I think my Frosty’s face is melting off from anxiety, so my carrot is slightly less chill.

Posting this here because I thought it was really awesome.

I received an email from Columbia University to share information about a funding opportunity for playwrights applying to a select few universities by the Dramatists Guild Foundation — the Hansberry-Lilly Fellowship. The funding is 25,000 dollars and the requirements are as follows:
Persons Wishing to Apply Must:
- Be a person of color  
- Be a woman or non-binary 
- Be a first-year/newly accepted into one of these graduate dramatic writing programs:  Brooklyn College, Brown, Columbia University, Julliard, NYU-Tisch School of the Arts, Northwestern, Yale, University of California at San Diego

I don't qualify but thought to share this to the rest of the community
More information on the fellowship can be found here

Hope this helps someone out. 

(Also this is awesome to see from a university you are applying too. Makes me glad I put in my app too that they are sending this information out to people who it could potentially help ) 

Don’t worry friends, you’re not alone with the obsessive thinking, checking, doubting, hoping, and then some. We are all frantically paddling our rowboats in this hurricane with no horizon to follow.
For Columbia applicants, don’t forget about your FAFSA and financial aid app due Feb. 1. That’s always a nice, mindless distraction, HA. 😂

I know we will likely not hear anything for another 3-4 weeks minimum - but is anyone else obsessively checking their email/unable to think about anything else? I thought once I submitted the apps I'd be able to chill out since it was out of my hands but the anxiety is next level! 
I'm going to start a new play to try and distract myself a bit - but I think I'm just looking for some folks to commiserate with. The wait is unbearable! This sucks so bad! One moment I feel hopeful the next I think I'm kidding myself. Anyway - just blasting this message off into the universe to folks who also get it. I know I'm still a a real writer with exciting and worthwhile stories regardless of the results of MFA apps - but boy oh boy do I wish I just knew what was going to happen! Wishing you all the best. Thanks for listening to me whine lol

Oh absolutely. I check portals, I check here, read grad posts on reddit. Like it really is just unbearable lol. But I also know if I did check my email and saw a status update I’d still just be anxious to open it. 
 
You are not alone fellow playwright. Not in the slightest. 
 
only consolation is that it’s already end of January? 

I know we will likely not hear anything for another 3-4 weeks minimum - but is anyone else obsessively checking their email/unable to think about anything else? I thought once I submitted the apps I'd be able to chill out since it was out of my hands but the anxiety is next level! 
I'm going to start a new play to try and distract myself a bit - but I think I'm just looking for some folks to commiserate with. The wait is unbearable! This sucks so bad! One moment I feel hopeful the next I think I'm kidding myself. Anyway - just blasting this message off into the universe to folks who also get it. I know I'm still a a real writer with exciting and worthwhile stories regardless of the results of MFA apps - but boy oh boy do I wish I just knew what was going to happen! Wishing you all the best. Thanks for listening to me whine lol

All finished with my apps! Submitted to Brown, Hunter, Iowa, Northwestern, and UCSD. It's my third time applying, so hopefully third time's the charm... Best of luck to everyone!!

It's my third year applying so I'm trying to stay optimistic. I've submitted apps to NYU, Carnegie Mellon, Boston, Hunter, and finishing up Northwestern now. Also considering applying for the Dramatic Writing MFA program at the Royal Central School in London.
Out of curiosity, does anyone have experience applying or going to graduate school abroad? I think it would be a fun oppurtunity but also not sure if getting a degree in London will give me the connections and such I need to make things happen in the US.
Good luck everyone

Hi playwright pals! Happy New Year! 
I officially have all of my apps in! What a wild and emotionally draining process! Now for the excruciating waiting. 
Sending you all the best vibes as we get these apps in! 
 

Happy New Year!!! Congrats on getting it all done. This process can absolutely be draining. I also finished my apps over the holidays and felt so excited and simultaneously an anxious wreck.

Sending out the best for this community as it really has helped me to connect with others going through the same process. 

Wether you have posted on here before, or if you are silently lurking, thanks for being you and telling the stories you do. Regardless of outcomes.

Hi playwright pals! Happy New Year! 
I officially have all of my apps in! What a wild and emotionally draining process! Now for the excruciating waiting. 
Sending you all the best vibes as we get these apps in! 
 

Just wanted to wish people here a happy holidays and new year. I know we are just starting the app season as I know I have a few deadlines coming up.
 
Just wanted to say wishing everyone in this community the best going into the new year! 

Hey y'all!
In my last year at UCSD. We're accepting applications this year so let me know if you have any questions on the program.
All the best!

I'm applying to Hunter, Brooklyn, Julliard, Brown and Yale. (Sending in Yale and Julliard apps next week 🙃)
Last I heard Rutgers is taking 2023 applicants - although looks like their site isn't updated yet. Not sure about Ohio.

Best of luck everyone! I'm applying to UT Austin, Northwestern, Iowa, Brooklyn, Hunter, Brown, San Diego, and Rutgers (if they're indeed opening their application this year)! This might be my last cycle applying, so it's definitely the most schools I've applied to at once...