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I hear you but it seems this year results are actually coming earlier than usual. I heard early from one of 28 and I think it made my expectations unrealistic. Be patient. Good things. Congrats to the Cornell acceptances and condolences to the rejectees. I really wanted to apply there but I fucked the dog.

OOh. I love Chopin too. did a bit of work on her as an undergrad.

No one is talking about being rejected or how long that process takes. There are three categories, each with one general letter. In the acceptance, there may be a few tweaks with respect to fellowships or other specifics. Waitlists may or may not include a ranking or other particulars, but those too tend to go out together. It takes exactly as long to determine acceptances as waitlists and rejections. The fact is, once the first two are completed, all you have to do is change the date on last year's rejection letter and c&p the new recipients. Moreover, we've seen plenty of schools get this right already. Let's stop making excuses for those who haven't.

Another question for the hive: Has anyone actually checked a portal and seen a real status update? I've looked a few and many don't seem to even have a space to indicate an actual status.

THIS is what I'm talking about. People being treated like shit is a baseline and has been for so long it isn't even recognized. We are NOT privileged to have the internet anymore than those 40 years ago were privileged to have the postal system. It's the way it is. Wow! I thought I was old. "You kids don't know how lucky you have it; in the old days..." Well that was the old days. And another thing dammit! Even if you are correct about there being a lot of moving parts or about a twenty first century computer system in what is one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the country being powered by hamster wheel, not fixing it is pretty good evidence of the value they put on the rest of us. I could mass email 450 plus people in an hour or two. And I AM an imbecile.

Look, a director at John’s Hopkins is not an imbecile. They’ve heard of the internet. They know people communicate and they know people are waiting for communication from them. So do it. It doesn’t take much to send out a thanks but no thanks email. Hit enter- once. It’s that easy. As for waiting for the acceptance/waitlist to play out, why? Is there a double secret waitlist? Once a waitlist has been established send out the rejections too. There’s no reason no to. And if this is standard practice, it’s a pretty low standard.

Lol. At JHU.

Be mean. Be cruel. Be arrogant. Don’t be dismissive. Don’t ignore humans.

It means they’re assholes.

Let an old man give some advice: This is nothing. It's everything too, but it's only one everything in a lifetime of everythings. I've heard a bit about privilege here, the idea that there's some unearned advantage or ability that makes unfair one process or another, or perhaps more importantly gives one some advantage in coping. In a process so inherently unfair, it can be difficult to see the privileges one has themselves. If you are young and hanging your future on an acceptance, you can absorb this loss - the race is long. If you are miserable where you are and think this change will cure it, you may be right - but there's more change than this. You took the risk here. You can and will take others. Why wait to be forced. If you are in need of validation, remember this is rejection season not just for us, but for the programs. It's why god created waitlists. Iowa's worth is not determined by the number of applicants or who applies or who turns down their offer. The worth is determined by whatever students attend while they attend. To repeat, we find ourselves engaged and embroiled in a process unfair by any measure. There are to many variables for chance not to have an outsized roll. Life.

i nearly fell off the couch laughing at this. these are very much my people too. Think of brad Pitt in "burn after reading"

you know what would be horrible, if someone was messing with the poster. like someone called the poster as a prank and they really believed it.

wait what? that happened??

ah, that was you. in other news, a question for the hive: 11 people on draft have been waitlisted for fiction at Bloomington. i saw a great number of waitlisted for poetry as well. however, i've seen no acceptances. does this seem weird to anyone else?

that is incredibly impressive! congrats! genre?

Someone on draft posted an interview notification but I don’t feel comfortable doing that yet. This sounds like I should just be happy for the committee that they’re enjoying the application review.

no one laugh at me. what does this mean? “Dear applicant, An update: The Admissions Committee for the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literature—Southampton, New York City, and Stony Brook in between—is reading your application now. The readers on the Lichtenstein Center committee are poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers and we are impressed with the quality of writing samples in the works we have read. To keep you apprised of the process, we will soon be setting up interviews. As we continue the admissions process we want to make sure that you have a supportive cohort. We want to be certain that the workshops we offer will support you in the best ways possible during your literary quest. Stay tuned. You’ll be hearing from us soon. Best wishes, XXX XXX XXXXXX Admissions Director”

Ugh. Why are people like this?

CONGRATULATIONS!

This.

Congratulations! Me too. Is this typical?

Looks like USF is dropping fiction notifications too.

OH NO! YOU'RE RIGHT!

truth. here's another question, does anyone know how long one usually has to prepare for an interview? like if they called, would i have time to remember whatever i said in my SOP? Who their faculty is, etc?