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Yeah, reading that article about Penn terrified me. I can't imagine quitting my job, breaking my lease, and getting ready to move just for the rug to be pulled last minute. and it might happen at any time for the duration of the program.

I agree with this. Last year it took them 3+ weeks to send out all rejections, but no waitlists/acceptances came out after that first batch (or at least they weren't reported).

I'm not international and JHU hasn't sent my rejection yet. I like Hank's idea that I offended them by even applying.

i also haven't picked up my JHU rejection yet. Which is kind of weird, since draft has 3 acceptances and 3 waitlists for fiction, so i don't think there is any room left for anything but a decline.

*hides five dollars in a copy of Battleborn by Watkins and slides it your way* why don't u admit my friend mr honest abe here.

it's gotta be soon! even the weekend is a possibility imo.

I'm in the same Irvine and JHU boat (but my Syracuse ship has sailed). It sounds like Irvine is still real possibility, but JHU is a 'maybe there's a waitlist spot still available' situation at this point.

grats! 3 acceptances in a row is amazing. Any word on when Naropa might let you know about funding?

jadedoptimist had the right move for this last year that got them into brown, imma bring it back for us: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ❤️ wyoming 🕯 🕯 fiction 🕯 🕯 summoning 🕯 🕯 circle 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

you must have reminded alabama to send our their rejections with this post! more are hitting.

don't give me hope, i've considered JHU a soft rejection for a week! A lot of people don't report! They've one of the oldest programs, they're definitely very competitive. Are you maybe having a bit of a Groucho Marx moment (“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”)? I'd wanna go to alabama just for the chance to work on BWR alone! Plus their option of using a 4th year to ~vibe~ is rad as heck.

Grats! flagstaff is very nice. It's near sedona, which is one of my favorite places in america.

GRATS!

rat enthusiast from the draft sheet is like thanos with the full gauntlet. holy cow!

I'm with ya, he's one of my favorites. To make it sting less, I keep reminding myself he lives in CA and probably wouldn't teach anything at Syracuse if I did get in... (plus, with his story club presence online, i can learn from him anyway)

i wrote a python script that monitors the draft spreadsheet for me. It writes out each new row to a pretty ascii table; it also moos when it does this, so i know to look. it moos because a cow moo was the first mp3 i found. it also tells me the other schools the applicant has applied to. It color codes those results with green for admit, yellow for wait, red for rejection. it's basically my emotional support cow.

The cow was going crazy so I told the cow to only look at the sheet every 10 minutes now, and only moo once if it changed (it was anxiously mooing at every line!). Maybe I can tell it to moo louder/quieter based on how many new lines appear in that 10 minute chunk. 1 line only gets a tiny meow of a moo 20 new lines gets a MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

We wanted a big week, and we got a big week! (another rejection; good bye Syracuse Dreamin)

I saw one poetry acceptance posted last week, but nothing for fiction. I'm waiting for my rejection today from them now

vanderbilt dream is dead, rip. i wanted to live off of hot chicken sandwiches

My michener portal updated to declined finally! fun to hope while it lasted. it's my official 2nd decline, but 5th counting soft rejections. we still have hope for the 11 pending!!!!

Michener is making my cow moo like crazy.

no clue how their system works. i like to think that yeah they mark waitlists/acceptances and then rejections are automated, but who knows. UT austin seems to use a proprietary software. The Michener Center application is labeled “Writing.” (mines still in review) edit: looking at last year, rejections did come in waves, two days apart. double edit: not just two days, but weeks! rejections will be coming in for a while, it seems.

ditto, but i'm near the bottom of the alphabet. with 900 apps, i'm assuming it'll just be a bit until it changes. not to be a doomer, but without a call or email otherwise, i don't particularly imagine this is anything but a decline for myself.

gang, we ddos'd ut austin to the ground. (Michener results are in portal... which is now down) edit: it's back! (mine has no results so far.... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm)