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i haven't gotten a letter from iowa and would love to join the delulu train. let's fuel it: my iowa portal still says under consideration. Would anyone who has received a rejection letter from iowa be able to confirm their portal is updated? (also sorry for picking at your scabs, please only look if it wont hurt!)

Wyoming acceptance posted in draft just dropped to my knees in a wawa.

Got more info on cu boulder; it's a toss up on if i'll get funding (i'm not first on the funding waitlist). I'll wait it out, see what happens, and keep hoping for the Wyoming. to anyone in the future looking here from google: everyone at cu boulder is very kind, but their website does not lie. they are not fully funded. That said, they do work with you the best they can! If i lived in CO, i'd probably risk trying to navigate what funding options they have, even if not offered the 3 year TA ship (which 6 students are offered!). My theory/guess on why that person in draft said it is fully funded: everyone who gets the funded TA offer goes. those who do not, do not. so if you ask if every student there is funded, the answer is probably yes lol. cu boulders tuition is 75k total after 3 years if you have no funding, so i don't imagine many people take that offer of 'you can come here... if you pay us near six figures.'

grats!!! the pacific northwest is so pretty!

i also found this a bit strange, it made me wonder if it was a waitlist for a moment. compared to last years wording: "We are sorry to tell you that we cannot offer you a place at this time. We received many fine submissions this year, but we can only offer admission to a few applicants." - they removed this second sentence, too. I guess they didn't find this years submissions particularly fine.

there's two ways i simultaneously look at it: 1) as long as it's before april 15th, then they're not 'late'. We shouldn't technically know that other people already got in/waitlisted/declined. we only know because we're anxious little freaks (affectionate). 2) they probably know we know yet still they aren't putting us out of our misery so its fair to be upset.

I'm in the same spot w/ those three. "I've never met this man in my life" - JHU to all of us, somehow.

I am not sure, i'm sorry. Their website says they fund about 70% of the cohort. The rumor was that it had full funding, and maybe that was true before, but it does not seem to be the case for this year.

Thank you!! i hope so too. based on their website, i'm guessing they admit about 7 people a year between all genres and fund 5. so, maybe only two people on the funding waitlist? complete guesswork though. if i end up there and you end up in naropa (or 🕯️wyoming 🕯️), i'll walk around that 5x5 reading and ask people their bagel preferences, which, really, should be a standard conversation opener anyway.

I did get in! but in that saddest way: no funding -- BUT! they are very nice and i'm on a waitlist for funding, so we will see how things shake out. I'm not sure if this breaks your streak, and i'm sorry if it does; I have no further intel on if more offers are going out, or their total cohort size.

the funniest thing just happened.

ah so it kinda make sense (though still bad!). STEM grad applicants are rather objective like that.

oof. is that from the generic grad school or the actual english dept?

if last years draft accurate (and i don't think it is -- programs appear to be a week behind relatively), i should be hearing from my last 7 schools this week. I'm excited to get a definitive answer; my lease is expiring in two months and I need to either renew or not by april 1st!

I didn't apply to boulder last year because yeah from their website i did the math and it seemed like even if you got 100% everything you still walked away with 20 grand in debt by the end. I applied this year just because of that draft post saying it's secretly funded (and last year someone on the draft reported everyone was funded as well). Boulder is such a dream program for me (location and faculty), but i'm scared i'll get in and only be offered tiny funding -- or even worse, funding that's so mishmash it's a gamble year by year. I'd hate to get to year 3 and them be like 'okay pay us 60 grand for the last year, buckaroo'

i feel like it's rather subjective, but my most rewatched comfort shows are Friday Night Lights, Scrubs, Monk and Taskmaster (UK). The first two are deep and can get dark, but are generally uplifting. The last two are just fun.

a hand full of irvine rejections in fiction went out a while back, but no other news yet.

ah! yeah, I did go with a transgressive and dark piece as my lead, which probably wasn't the best of moves.

I've had quite a few moments like this, especially the last few weeks. I'm sitting on 11 rejections this round (and I am counting Iowa as a soft rejection) and it's my second round. I think the whole process has inspired me to write my best stories, and I don't regret the time / energy / MONEY of doing it all. but it's so hard to pretend that every rejection doesn't come with its own grieving process. i know the programs would never do this for many good reasons, but i really wish we had an option of getting 'brutal truth rejections' instead of these lovely rejection emails. I imagine there are three levels of rejection. I want to get a rejection that tells me which level I was, like: 1 'we received 900 applications. we read half your first story, got bored, and threw out the packet. we didn't even read your sop, let alone your second story. this isn't for you.' vs 2 'you made it through the first round of readers, but got cut in the second. you got close, but not close enough. be 10% better and you'll have a shot next round' vs 3 'you made it though all the rounds of readers. But, after reading your sop and looking at transcripts, we decided you wouldn't fit in here due to xyz (things probably not even in your control).' Again, i know it wont happen, and not everyone has thick skin and would want to know. But i'd rather know if i'm being delusional with applications and that first situation is happening to all my apps, or if i'm actually close.

grats! do respond, but don't lie. If you don't say 'youre my number 1!' then i don't think it's implied that you're an auto-accept.

one of my favorite writers (Stephen Graham Jones) got his BA from there, so i've never though of it as a 'tech' school. i don't think an mfa from anywhere is a guarantee to anything, so i'm not worrying about prestige. Sure, JHU or an ivy will get you a second look down the road, but an MFA is an MFA. If you think you would enjoy your time there, and you would grow as a writer, and you wont incur massive debt in the process, then i think it's worth going.

yup, nothing for me as well yet. I'm still assuming it's nothing but a rejection.

ah! that's very cool. And a good reminder to email all your favorite living authors fan mail!!

yes, they take a two weeks+ to reject everyone for some reason based on last years data (i also haven't picked up a rejection from them yet). I can only assume it's a non automated system and whichever admin does it all just takes their time.

Dang, between iowa and notre dame, i've picked up quite a few soft rejections lately. I started this round with a waitlist that really gave me hope, but that's been my only good news the entire time. But! I still have quite a few pending schools, and as we always say, you only need one. We march on.