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Hey yall maybe someone has some advice/reassurance? So I decided to accept Arkansas's extremely last minute offer which they sent via email late afternoon on the 15th. I replied to the email accepting the offer that night a little before midnight. Didn't hear anything yesterday. This morning I sent a follow up email to confirm they had everything they needed (they had asked for a CV and transcripts) and asking if there was a student handbook I could have. That was a few hours ago and I still haven't heard anything. I need to tell NAU I'm rescinding my acceptance (which I'm super stressed about), but I'm hesitant to do it without some kind of confirmation from Arkansas. Is that silly? I don't want to be pushy and obvi it's usually not a big deal if an email goes unanswered for a couple of days, but I feel like it's weird to drop a last second acceptance that requires an immediate response and then not be available for questions or whatever. Idk what do you guys think?

Good vibes your way✨ I'm so sorry, this is a lot to deal with and I hope you're able to get some good news soon ❤️

Tysm I appreciate hearing this! From what I'm seeing it looks like I could easily (?) find a 1 br in Fayetteville for under/around $1000, which is unheard of in Flag. 2/2 is definitely a lot, but I was looking at teaching 1 class + writing center time as well as an outside P/T job at NAU. So I really don't know. 😓 The story that would be my thesis is set in northern arizona so that feels like a huge draw but the money is really stressing me out. From what they've told me I'd be getting at Arkansas I could probably swing just living off the stipend.

I just got an email that I got accepted off the waitlist at Arkansas 😵‍💫 I already accepted NAU and I'm feeling a little frazzled/overwhelmed. The stipend they offered is about the same or a wee bit more than what I got at NAU, but COL in Fayetteville is soooo much lower than Flagstaff. It's also a 4 year program vs NAU's 2. Idk just feeling major decision fatigue and needed to vent

I applied for fiction and haven’t heard anything

Kinda bewildered rn -- I just got a copy of Passages North, Northern Michigan's lit mag, in the mail. No note or anything, just this big fat book in a box. Surely they don't send it out to all their applicants, do they? And if not, why did I get it lol. I had been assuming they were a rejection but I haven't heard anything since I applied. And as if that's not odd enough I went to the grocery store right after getting it and saw a guy in a Northern Michigan sweatshirt -- I live in Los Angeles. edit: Assuming this is just the universe's way of making me second guess myself the minute I've actually, finally, made a decision LOL

I'm committing to NAU @everything bagel lover can't wait to get bagels with you in flag!

Take this with sooo many grains of salt because I obviously know nothing, but I think if I were you, I would probs hang in there and wait for final word from CSU before you accept NAU. I haven't gotten any indication in any of my convos with people at NAU that our offers there are in danger of being revoked/deferred/whatever...Now, obviously, as we're seeing, anything can happen, but I feel pretty confident in the NAU offer's sticking power, at least for now. I would just hate for you to end up in the super awkward position of getting your dream CSU funding offer and having the excitement of it all marred by having to back out of an NAU offer you accepted. Of course that wouldn't be the worst thing ever, but I think esp since April 15th is still a wee bit aways, I would probably wait. edit: THAT BEING SAID, I feel firmly that at the end of the day we all have to put ourselves first in this process. These schools are a lot like companies, and I think it's so valid to treat them the way you'd treat potential employers during a job search -- i.e. you don't owe them anything. Obviously we don't wanna burn bridges but like also...see above re: don't owe them anything.

I think it's definitely smart and totally appropriate to send an email letting them know what you said here (that they're your #1 and you would accept a place in the program immediately). A lot's been said here and on draft about how knowing that can realllyyy make a difference, given that these adcoms want the process to be finalized almost as bad as we do. If they're choosing between offering a spot to someone they know will accept it versus someone they're not sure will, oftentimes they'll go with the former. I hope you make it off the waitlist!!

AMAZING!!! Congrats! I published a piece in BER last year (year before? idk) and the whole squad over there was so wonderful. I def didn't win the $1000 prize though - that's HUGE and I hope you're celebrating big tonight!

I see that Boise did poetry interviews in early Feb, but there are no reports for fiction. Last year's spreadsheet only shows interviews for poetry as well. Do we think they only interview poetry for some reason? i.e. as a fiction writer who didn't get an interview, should I count them as a soft r?

I want to say a massive ✨Thank You💫 to everybody who responded to my tiny wee crash out post the other day: @exvat, @curfew, @zaira, @everything bagel lover, @Sumire11, @Tuxedocat, @Chex. I'm so sorry if I missed anyone but I read them all with so much gratitude. Your words were so kind and I'm just really grateful for this community. edit: And for reporting purposes I also got my Brown rejection today. Taking Ls left and right and still we rise lol

Hey guys, mopey ass bummer of a post coming through so if you're feeling fragile like me please ignore lol. I'm just having such a hard time today. Having done this whole shebang last year I knew how competitive it is and I applied to so many programs hoping I would at least end up with a few options. I feel like I don't really have a right to complain since I have a funded offer at NAU, but the stipend simply isn't livable on its own and if I haven't been able to get a job in my current city (I've been unemployed for 5 months) I don't see why it would be easier to get one in flagstaff which is a fraction of the size. I'm just so, so tired of being broke all the time. All I do is apply to jobs and all I hear back, if I'm lucky, is no. My ego is sooo bruised from these applications. I was finally getting to a point in my life/career where I felt like I had a wee bit of credibility as a writer; I finished an mfa in screenwriting, did a cool residency, got some short stories published, etc. But now it's all evaporated and I just feel like I'm in a never ending flop era. On top of all this my cat, my best friend in the world, died unexpectedly on Sunday night. He was kind of all I had going for me and now I'm just sitting here in my empty apartment feeling lost. Sorry to trauma dump, I just don't have anybody irl who really gets how taxing this process is and how it seeps into every other aspect of your life.

Just got my U of Oregon rejection (haven't reported it in draft yet)

Just checked mine - under Admissions Decision it says "In Progress" (I got my letter in the mail yesterday fwiw)