nauseated

same here! think I'm gonna wait at least a couple of years to reapply to MFAs but still an insane learning curve nonetheless

received my Brown rejection. season done for me. Thank you all, and good luck for everyone waiting on news! Fingers crossed for all of you!!!

rooting for u so massively ❤️

My cycle is pretty much over - only waiting on Brown which I'm pretty sure is a soft rejection. But I just wanted to say I'm insanely grateful for this community. I applied in a bit of a panic. I was a few months out of undergrad, jobless, feeling like I was wasting time, and had built it up in my head that a masters degree from outside my country is the only option, for prestige and qualification reasons. I don't think I think that way anymore. I'm 23, and I'm nowhere near the writer I want to be, and I highly doubt I'm ready for an MFA either. I have a job working in academic administration, and it's nice and slow, even if I may not like it much anymore. All of this combined with the general hijinks around the Trump admin and some unis turning into cute little fascism cafes has really made me question whether the pinnacle of success lies in moving westwards. Don't think I would have thought of these things if it hadn't been for this place - so thank you all, for sharing your triumphs and hesitations - it has helped even if you didn't mean for it to. I've been rethinking some things. I've dipped my toes into sports writing for the past couple of years, so maybe I might look towards getting a journalism degree here at home. Keep writing nevertheless. Trying to not be too harsh on myself as someone who is fairly young and bound to make mistakes at this stage in her career - not sure while I'm sharing all this but it's a strange and tentative place to be in. But I think I'll be okay. As will you all

Just got my NWP rejection (email to check portal update)

that's an incredible and really significant jump though, good job!!

My next application sample will be a metafiction exposition into the MFA application process, and to really get the tempo of the panic across I will intersperse the text with an increasing frequency of screenshots of the draft spreadsheet

In an alternate universe, produced after photocopying this one, dyeing it blue and stretching it through a pasta-machine, all cats have a secret third eye on their foreheads. Corn is genetically modified so that each kernel is the size of an apple. There are unlimited reactions on Gradcafe, Elon Musk is a philanthropist, who is best friends with Greta Thunberg, and together, they organize a successful hunger-strike to stop Big Pharma from gatekeeping an ubiquitous, all-applicable cure for cancer. They do this while wearing Luigi Mangione T-shirts. In this universe, JHU replies to me. My life is a joke because as I was typing this, I got my rejection notification on the portal. So if anyone else wants to hurry up a result, they can probably just type a bunch of nonsense to manifest it

Been reading your posts for a while and I'm so so happy for you! Fingers crossed it turns into an acceptance! Congratulations ❤️

No word from NWP, Brown ORRR JHU! Want to send a fruit basket to whoever does admin at Michener for at least giving me a clean rejection

Thank you for sharing - that's really helpful and I'm sure it must have been so stifling. Congrats on your other offer, too! I hope you find a wonderful cohort and lots of success and peace. And yeah - that is what I was thinking of, too. Everything I've seen online has been so... repulsive that for the past couple of years I have seriously been reconsidering if I ever want to pursue grad school in the States, especially under this admin. Not like I can do so anyway with no acceptances yet, but would be a much more heavier decision if the time ever comes

Once again congrats to everyone! Something that's been on my mind these last few days, ever since the Columbia incident, is that I'm not sure if I have a lot of respect for these universities anymore. It had been dwindling since the crackdown on pro-Palestine protests anyway, but the silence about Sunday has really cemented it. Wondering now if it's for the better that I might not get in anywhere this cycle, considering my country might come under Mr. Orange's travel ban, too

having a bit of a crashout bec I've realised my SOPs didn't really do justice to the specificities of the programs I was applying to. sort of understandable because I did the whole process on my own with no one to run them by but its so hair-clawy because !!! such an obvious and preventable thing !!!

I have only 2 programs left - NWP and Brown. Assumed NWP a soft reject because people reported waitlists. Then I remembered JHU never replied to me so I have 3! out of 4 programs left. This is a lot of ominousness, especially because I've made my peace with a sweep of rejections. Very appropriately named myself nauseated here since I haven't been feeling much else lately

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