AyvaM

bumping this in case it got missed to see if anyone might have any insights ? this is re U Pittsburgh notifications

I just came here to wonder about that, because checking Draft notifications from last year I just noticed that ALL the Interview requests people posted were for Fiction and Nonfiction and there were no Interview Requests listed for Poetry - simply acceptances and rejections for all three genres at the end of February. I'm trying to figure out if I should be freaking out for not having got a request because i applied for poetry but maybe they don't even interview the poets????

Has anyone screamed yet today? I think we should scream. A little. For health.

The one on the 9th was a liar. People were chatting about it a few pages back 🌻🌻

Hello all! I've been lurking on previous threads the past few weeks in an effort to get my application questions answered by those of you who have been here before, but I figured it was time to finally make an account and say hi. This is my first time applying to MFAs and I'm applying to 9 programs (!!) for Fall. This feels like a big number to me - and has been a terrible amount of essay writing, but the math on how many acceptances versus applications (~1-5%???) made it seem like I should aim wide just in case. I'm a poet and have a few publications but nothing particularly big or marketable to MFAs, if those are things they care about. In case anyone would like this info, my hopefuls are: Vanderbilt, Michener (UT Austin), Wash U in St. Louis, Randolph College, UC Irvine, Iowa WW, John Hopkins, UMich (Helen Zell), and Pittsburgh. Anyway, I keep vacillating between these two extreme spirals, one being that I get into NONE of the programs I applied to (or maybe worse in a way, get into solely the single non-funded one I applied to and then can't go because of money), and the other extreme of thinking that my writing sample is so stellar that surely EVERY school will want me, even Iowa despite the fact that I earnestly doubt I'm "marketable" enough for them. Just swinging between constant self-doubt and extreme unearned self-confidence lol. 🥲 I am possibly losing my mind. Is this relatable? Whatever. All my applications are in so now it's in the devil's hands.