I feel this so hard. I thought getting a waitlist notification would help me stop obsessing but it's just worse today. I got nothing at all done and I felt low-energy and tired. I'm so grateful that the process is started and I got a positive result but at the same time it's just reminded me how far we are from the process being over...
Anyone remember the post in last year or this year's draft that was like "Just got off the phone with [iowa faculty member] at this late hour!" and it was posted at 11:06 pm
I'm procrastinating real work that I need to do. So I decided to write a little poem about the situation we're all in. Mods delete if not allowed...
Perched on beds and chairs, aware
Of every passing second, sure
That any moment could arrive
With news attached, that YES or NO
or MAYBE SO... my inbox aches.
Assignments fester, French press breaks.
But in my heart a tiny bead
Of glowing hope, enduring light,
Persists through night and day to sing:
"You're a good writer anyway.
It doesn't matter what they say.
And if you don't get into schools,
Just know it's them who are the fools!"
oh yeah, someone said upthread they have a friend currently in poetry at Vandy who talked to a faculty member who said they haven't made decisions yet...
Thanks to everyone who congratulated me joining this thread yesterday paid off! And the 200 apps for Hopkins were just poetry. They didn't say anything about fiction.
I missed a call from an unknown number today... this shit has me frantically googling area codes like never before. I know speculation like this is silly and useless but it's got me thinking – does the area code even tell you anything? I'm assuming that there's not usually some kind of Designated Landline in the admissions office to inform admitted students, instead the department faculty probably just volunteers on a case-by case basis– don't they probably just use their cell phones anyway? I've been more curious about admissions procedures than ever before lately. It's a different vibe than waiting for a call about a job offer, or getting into undergrad. It really feels like the decision means something about the quality of my work. Idk. Just spouting thoughts on a Wednesday
Good luck! U got this! Maybe there's a world where we end up together at Michener. I actually didn't have it on my list but one of my recommenders had gone there and told me I must apply, apparently he had a really good experience.
Omg I'm a lurker and I made an account today bc things are heating up. Hearing that Cornell has started accepting poets has got me literally shaking in my boots. I applied to Cornell, Iowa, Michener, UVA, VA tech, JHU, Michigan, Brown, Syracuse, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern for poetry. Anyone else have a similar list? Another post on this forum made me think maybe Vandy is next.