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If you’re on draft, I think Jess posted a good pdf you can only see on a desktop of what to ask. GL!!

I’m assuming soft R from JHU and Iowa, waiting on Montana, NYU, UCI, Brown, UVA, UVic BC, Stegner (lol) all for fiction

I think JHU is waiting for Iowa etc results to roll out to have a more firm idea if they need to elongate their waitlist before they reject the rest of us

What time zone are you in out of curiosity? I wonder if that’s part of the calculation

Fwiw last year they sent some “your app is still under consideration” emails to the waitlist and snail mail rejected everyone else (post marked early March maybe the 3rd). I think everyone has until 4/15 to decide for all these fully funded programs

Yeah looks like it

This process is so excruciating. This is my second year applying and I’m still waiting on a handful of schools but have a mixed bag of soft and hard rejections so far and am just feeling so exhausted and anxious and beaten down. Up until this point, I thought this year would be easier because I’ve already been through it but instead it’s like the now years-long waiting period is compounding on itself. And I keep thinking about people like Alejandro Puyana who got in after four tries but also had his admission story featured in The Best American Short Stories that year and it makes an actual acceptance somewhere I want to go feel that much more insurmountable. But also the way the news dribbles out is incredibly anxiety inducing. It’s not like an admission guarantees anything re: future work beyond time and more resources but it feels like the end-all be-all when it’s so top of mind for such a sustained period of time. Ok rant over

I got into NYU off the waitlist last year and decided to reapply this year (because not full funding, NYC is expensive, etc). So far I’m sitting on a handful of rejections but I will say the second round of apps was a lot easier. Obviously no guarantees but they shouldn’t go to a program they aren’t excited about imo

I know. I audibly gasped.

Same here

Yes also asked someone there about this and they said they’re still deciding on fiction.

Yup

I think so, (that acceptances and waitlists for fiction havent gone out yet) there are people who still haven’t heard which makes me think they’re still in it

Yeah last year it took a couple days for them to all roll out. Same boat. Assuming I’ll get my real R from them sometime in the next 24 hours 🤷🏼‍♀️

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