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Yeah these were my dream list of schools but I removed them last minute in my application process after looking over my undergrad transcripts, hahah.

Looks like a lot of alabama acceptances/waitlists went out yesterday, but nothing hit my email! I was really excited or that one, gonna start mourning it now though.

You got Syracuse, my top one! I guess it goes to show how relative and subjective this process is; if I got into Syracuse, no rejections would sting at all, because i'd already have won. I keep thinking 'i only need one acceptance'. I'm never going to get into all that I applied for.

someone on draft posted they got an acceptance with an email just saying 'check portal' so it's definitely worth it to check!

i didn't fill out a fasfa at all? considering i'm only applying to fully funded programs, is a fasfa needed for that?

just got the wash u in st lou rejection.

Fiction, someone also just posted on draft they got notified for poetry. thanks! IDK how many people move from phase 2 to admission, but it does feel like a good sign

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i just got an email from ole miss saying I'm in round 2!!!!

yes, that's what i meant, hah! also! Grats on whoever listed their WashU acceptance!! I applied there, it looks great!

wow, emailing the director of JHU and personally asking they were declined is a rather bold move.

yeah, interesting, last year their round 2 notifications went out end of jan, with actual acceptances hitting end of feb. I suppose it's possible round 2 already went out, but no one here or in draft got past round 1, but i hope not!

I see one acceptance for UC Davis but nothing for irvine.

grats! wow that's really low, did they mean 200 apps for poetry only or total including fiction? JH had the best looking program and I was going to apply but I didn't last minute cause my undergrad grades are rough lol.

that's wild! I got a spam call today for the first time in like a year (and of course I thought it was the call.)

I'm not sure what to think about Mississippi. Is someone contacting their dept for clarification on if the website is accurate for this year, but the date is wrong?

you're onto something! i just checked my spreadsheet and i told my letter recommenders that they will hear back in January if I made it to round two. well, shucks!

I haven't heard anything, but I see this on their site: "Each year, we receive hundreds of applications to fill only a handful of spots in fiction, poetry, and literary translation. Applicants should not expect to hear about their admissions status until mid- to late-March."

That Syracuse response is an outlier; last year nearly all responses from them came in march, so I don't expect to hear anything for a month or so more from them.

I looked at last years draft notifications and noticed there was quite a bit of activity during AWP. I'm hopeful we'll hear back from Washington University in St. Louis this week, based on last years timeline.

I did something similar in my SOP's. If it ties into your writing and makes your voice unique, then I don't think it's a 'kiss of death'. That subreddit skews VERY heavily to STEM. I imagine writing 'i have (unmedicated) adhd' in a STEM application is indeed the kiss of death. And, too, writing something like 'i'm bipolar and stay unmedicated since I only write during manic phases' would be an instant disqualification for us. But using your unique history in the SOP is what it's all about. I wouldn't worry about it (but i'm also just some random person, maybe we should both be worrying about it!).

I am too in a lot of ways, especially regarding my SOP and one of my story choices (I submitted the same two 10 page shorts to every program). This is my first time applying, so it's definitely a learning experience. if I only get rejections this round, the silver lining is I'm making a list of a lot of great schools I didn't know about/apply to that I will next time.

Grats! It sounds like most acceptances/waitlists might have gone out for u of oregon this week, and we'll see a wave of rejections maybe in a few weeks (that's my assumption, having applied and having not heard back yet).

i'm glad this wasn't one of the schools i applied to; i'm sorry to anyone who did, what a terrible thing to happen. How could they only know in the middle of applications that they would have no spots? Seems like a very weird situation.

Irvine and Iowa were both on my list to apply until I saw the hard copy requirements and I dropped them. I wonder, even with the big name prestige, if their application pool is a lot smaller because of it.

i saw someone say each rejection comes with its own full grief process, which seems true. We put a lot of work into a dream that dies mildly with each one.