JanShell

Wohoo congratulations!! Also, do you mind my asking what pushed you to choose Pitt? I'm waitlisted there for fiction and accepted elsewhere. I really love the other school I'm in at, but suddenly this week I've been running a lot of what ifs in my head about what I'd do if I do suddenly get off the Pitt waitlist! Getting off the waitlist has felt like such a long shot this whole time, so I didn't end up doing a campus/city visit, and I haven't had the same opportunities to chat with the cohort/faculty there as at my other school. Now I'm feeling like if I do get in, I'll have to make a snap decision with a lot of info about one school and not enough about the other, so I'd really appreciate any insights you might have

No, although I didn't ask much about that. I asked where most people in the program live, and they said off campus. That's what I'd likely do anyway, so I didn't really press the topic.

I was accepted for fiction last week! It has been raised substantially - currently just under $28k, but I was also informed that the grad student union is currently negotiating with the university administration, and that number is likely to go up substantially prior to the start of next year or the university will risk a strike.