Hank Moody

Congratulations! Guess I'll refresh my email a hundred times per minute now to see what fate awaits me

Based on the last few years at least, it seems like they send waitlists a week or so before rejections. Don't know what's up this time. Given its popularity and cohort size, I'd be surprised if none of the waitlisted people were logging it in the spreadsheet.

@JUSTVERDE glad to see you're providing the valuable service of lurking on this thread and downvoting random posts. We are collectively indebted to you for spending your invaluably precious time on us, letting us know what does not please you.

Has NYU send waitlists already and I missed it? Why are they sending out rejections before waitlists otherwise?

Listen, statistically speaking, we're 99.95% going to get rejected from Brown anyway but I don't think it's delusional to be suspicious of that lone acceptance that was not followed by waitlists and rejections right after. Historically (and for poetry this year) Brown has followed that pattern. And for some reason I think there was a fake earlier Brown acceptance last year too.

Right there with you.

I would assume so, they only take 4 or 5 people so I can't imagine they're staggering it. It was definitely surprise attack seeing that in the sheet on the weekend.

It has some legitimate crituqe for sure but it definitely also seems like an overblown emotional response to his personal experience that might not reflect how things currently are. I think Tony Tulathimutte had sensible things to say about the whole debate: https://www.salon.com/2014/03/06/stop_blaming_iowa_mfa_vs_nyc_is_a_phony_debate/

Same. It was mentioned in the UIUC fiction acceptance entry on the spreadsheet that 12 people were on the waitlist. At least one of them's gotta be on draft or here?

That's huge, congrats!

I swear to god! The worst part is that the subject lines always make it sound like it's good news.

My portal just updated with a rejection letter.

Now that'd be an exciting scenario. But yeah my last name is towards the end alphabetically too, so that's likely it. I mean I'm still waiting for JHU to reject me, presumably for the same reason.

Same here. Wonder what that means. Can't imagine it's good news at this point.

Not the literary arts one. I read that article. It's about the theater MFA that run in collaboration with a theater company and they had temporarily paused it after Covid. They're just doubling down on that decision now. Likey doesn't have anything to do with the current administration and not relevant to the literary arts department.