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Just got waitlisted for ole miss. Gosh, so close!

Grats! What genre did you apply for? i'm in the same boat as you with only waitlists. It's tough, but gives me hope for next round (if none turn into A's).

only a few schools do 'rounds' - ole miss and arkansas are the only two i applied to this time that use 'rounds'. what it means is instead of the 'full application', including fees, lor's, etc, you send in just your writing. from there, they ask a smaller group from that 'first round' to submit the 'full application' for round two. it's a great system imo!

ole miss round 2 fiction seems to be in a weird state - 1 waitlist in results here, but no acceptance/rejections listed here or in draft. Poetry results seem to be all out though! I thought i'd be hearing one way or another from them today (praise be the summoning circle).

Just got waitlisted at Arkansas! My magic isn't as strong, but the summoning circle works.

I'm starting my on call rotation at work this week, so there's also a worst third option for me!

🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ❤️ Ole Miss & 🕯 🕯 Arkansas 🕯 🕯 fiction 🕯 🕯 summoning 🕯 🕯 circle 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 (just in case)

GRATS!!!!!

I officially let my apartment know i'm not renewing my lease. I now have 59 days to either get an acceptance and move to wherever wants me, or find another apartment around here for another year while working on next years applications. As if the process couldn't be more stressful 😮‍💨

careful y'all, this website just downloaded another malicious .exe on my computer. How absurd!

I'm sorry to hear it. I ran into the 'more rejections than pending, no acceptances or waitlists' wall yesterday and it hit me hard. I hope the best for you!

Just checked the portal for NWP and i'm rejected. Dang, that was my number two school. The rejections outweigh the pending now. Gonna have to start thinking about what my life looks like w/ no acceptances. Blah.

I think scribe is just trying to say they got waitlisted. (acceptances and waitlists for NWP just went out today).

wishing you wont need it!! but do you wanna share your list for next year? I gotta start making mine as well.

as a current mid thirtys applicant, i hope so! If your life circumstances still line up with being able to move across country, change careers (at least for the duration of the MFA, if not after), and live off the small stipend, then nothing else has changed imo, go for it again.

GRATS! Heck ya!!! That school wasn't on my radar; I just checked the faculty and it's STACKED. That would be an amazing school! I hope the best for you (and i'm definitely applying there next year if I don't get anywhere this year!).

I don't know if 'theo' or 'getty' from the draft spreadsheet are here, but they're a great example of what we're always talking about: they have many rejections -- and then an Iowa acceptance! I love this roller coaster of admissions, it's so cool we crowd source all this information and can follow along. (also, grats if yall are here!)

oof I didn't realized NWP only let in three people. I was feeling rather confident about that one until just now! I wanted to live in austin texas so I could pretend I was in Friday Night Lights. Two dreams dying with one rejection!

David Attenborough voice over: Here we see the anxious writer, a creature of frayed nerves and jittery anticipation. It subsists on stale coffee, expired snacks, and the faintest glimmer of hope. The air bristles with false promise. Days blur, punctuated by obsessive email checks and muttered pleas to unseen literary forces. Sanity frays. Should a sacrifice be made? An old rejection letter burned as an offering, perhaps? And then... a chime. The pivotal moment. The anxious writer freezes. Will this be the sound of triumph, or the final, echoing note of defeat? But alas, it is neither. The writer deletes yet another spam e-mail, wondering how they never noticed so many newsletters before. For this one, the wait continues.

I'm going to say no out of pure copium.

This has been the toughest week yet. I'm glad yall are here to get through this together with!

unranked is based on vibes. so if someone similar to your work drops out, then you'd move into acceptance. If it's a larger program, the odds can be pretty good! Wishing the best for you!

Just got my Syracuse rejection. This one hurts!!! We have a little cry and move on. I still have more pending than I have rejections, so I haven't lost hope! Once the rejections outweigh the pending (and assuming no acceptances) then i'll start spiraling, i'm sure.

fiction waitlists from Syracuse up on draft 👀 maybe all acceptances out as well.

I was expecting the Alabama rejection since we saw acceptances/waitlists go out a while ago. But I also thought the rejections would come out in a large wave -- I seem to be the only one rejected so far! Not sure if that's a good or bad sign, hahah. edit: wave is happening!