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Ncsu is no longer a soft rejection. finally.

i saw that and it made me think they might be moving faster than has been rumored? and maybe fiction comes soon? and maybe... whatever. best of luck to you and the other cnfers.

First, thankyou for your service. second, as i said to cowboifairy earlier, if you're going to do it, I believe you should do it soon. Where were you accepted? and where are you waiting for funding? I would NOT go into debt. I was accepted to columbia and live in new york. my housing is secure, my wife is employed, and I will have a small to moderate passive income stream. if they offered me 75% I wouldn't take it. If they were my only option and they offered me 75% i wouldn't take it. as far as the hard deadline, the question is really how hard? I hate to suggest this, but i'm not really sure what happens if you accept and then rescind. I wouldn't approve of it normally, but let's be honest, this is all under duress and I'm not sure you could do a damned thing if they accepted you and changed their mind. this is for all the marbles.

i'm not an expert, but my understanding is if you're going to negotiate do it asap. This makes sense as there's only so much money available and if it goes somewhere else or to someone else first, you're SOL. I'm not sure at all about waiting on other schools, but as far as I know, the April 15 agreement holds whether or not the offer is renegotiated. As for how to bring it up, again i've never done it - I'd start with saying you want to attend their program. you're entertaining other offers at programs your less excited about because you're afraid of biting off more than you can chew financially and not being able to dedicate enough time to writing and studying because you need to earn more on the side. be prepared for them to ask who is offering what. do NOT misrepresent your other offers. it may not work, but you have nothing to lose. following.

I'm considering them a soft r. but that package tho.

Exactly. I only applied because a professor told me I should. she said i wouldn't get any money but i might get a free ride. I'm not keen on it anyway but if i got a scholarship I'd have to think about it. I'll fill out their stupid form over the weekend.

Columbia. Go me. Looks like no package but i have to fill out a form to be sure. "Just found out I got onto the waitlist for nyu 😢. Is this like a "pretty much everyone gets waitlisted if they weren't accepted" kind of thing or is it like an actual thing?" it is an actual thing. congratulations.

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YES! YES! that's fucking great! congratulations.

Sheesh. Apparently it's illegal to live in a van in orange county. fucking fascists.

Awesome. I'm considering them a soft rejection, but don't know anything about the timeline for hunter or houston. i didn't apply to brown. when you know, you know. hunter definitely won't give you the cabbage ncsu does anyway.

Ha! As we speak, I'm googling california songs.

how is there not a lmao emoji here?

Good

That was a congratulations also, what genre again?

linked in lets you know who searched you.

well, without trying to compete for the greatest humble brag of all time - i have other offers and the treated me like something on their shoe. I know damn well I'm lucky to get waitlisted anywhere, let alone accepted at Stony Brook, let alone be offered any kind of financial package. I do. but they told me i was accepted, didn't follow up, and sent out other - maybe every other - official offer. I had to go chase after them. the i get an email saying to check the portal where they rewarded me for goping "back to school ("who's a good boy? who's a good little boy?") with a one time hit for 1000 bucks. again, lucky to have it, but then they threatened to take it away if i didn't reply fast enough. balls on them! finally, when i declined the offer they asked why and where i was going. it felt good to put down a public ivy but then the drop down was full of community colleges? eventually i was able to type out the school and in the box to explain why i said "full tuition and [5 figure stipend amount] is more that a 1000$. I would never have been so ungrateful, had they just been a little bit professional. I'm going to decline others and I'm already working on my praise for them. I'm even going to send thankyous to the schools who rejected me but were prompt and courteous- syracuse, and uva to name but two. I too was surprised when @Rixor said this. I was under the impression this was at least an average year, if not better than average. if you snoop around some schools websites, there are areas that disclose the hard numbers but this year and even last year are likely not yet available. Becca McKay told me she knew the exact number but couldn't disclose it.

I know someone who took some classes there years ago, they said it was fine, she went on to emerson. as far as the others being open admission rip off schools, no. just no. I won't get in to how good or why but they're among the finest educational institutions in the world. anyone who even suggests nyu or columbia are diploma mills should be asked where they were on january 6. but know, don't pay for an mfa. see below all this. and more to the point of art not being about making money, it shouldn't be about starving in debt either. no output is guaranteed, but an mfa as a financial investment is on the low scale - at best. a significant number of people want the paid program, not for the letters or the agent or the job after. For them, it's about nothing more than the room of one's own. and as an artist, what more could you ask?

I'd like to think it means they've narrowed down the list enough to bother checking our social media. on 2/29 they searched me.

You’re not preaching to the choir, you’re singing with us.

Declined my first offer. and i was a dick about it.

Attention UWash applicants. on 2/29 they were checking you out.

This is a wonderful problem to have. Be sure to triple check cost of living, ask about campus housing, local transportation, and travel home. talk to current students as well as the school. and enjoy every fucking minute of it.

congrats @Mxxyr!