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Northwestern takes 3 students every year, including this year. I also wish Brown were recruiting, I hope the program continues to exist--it's now two years in a row they haven't recruited. I was really impressed by how personal the interview with Alberta was--none of the impersonal "why grad school/why now" questions I got from schools last year (which I'd already throughly answered in my essays) but instead specific and thoughtful questions that pertained to my essays and the work in my portfolio. It was a really fun conversation, and they seem like attentive and caring faculty. They also left a lot of time for me to ask them questions as well. Being from the states, I had not heard of their program before, but after the interview I'm looking into them seriously.

This is my second year, and I applied to Yale, Northwestern, and the URTA schools. Received a no from Yale, haven't heard anything from Northwestern, and I got my URTA requests today (5 schools, 2 of which had already reached out to me). I'm feeling encouraged because last year I only got 2 interview requests through URTA (and there were more schools recruiting), so that feels like improvement! @sycamore I'm curious to know what drew you to Alberta--they weren't on my radar at all until URTA, but now I'm find their program really intriguing. (Feel free to DM if you wanna chat!)

I received a rejection from Penn State about two weeks ago, but only after reaching out and specifically asking if I was still on the table (due to other offers I needed to respond to). They said they were already moving forward with other applicants. So, it sounds like if you haven't heard from them, you're probably in the same boat as me, but they're probably not sending out official rejections until they have their candidates locked in?

Got an acceptance from Brooklyn yesterday, waiting on Penn State--haven't heard anything from them since the second interview two weeks ago. @theatreartist31are you in the same boat, no updates since the second interview?