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

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ Brown Acceptance 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ NWP Acceptance 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ all the logistics working out sorry for wonky circle🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

crickets for me since my Michener rejection and JHU silence-cum-rejection. only NWP and Brown left so I have 99% accepted my lack of MFA-ness this year. but would like to KNOWWWWW

hope the financial aspect works out for you, but either way, congrats lovely!!! hope you're very proud of yourself. also how does the apple card for aid work im so curious

once again here to say I'm absolutely beaming for everyone getting good news and sending the most smothering hug possible to those who are in the dark or in the light of clarity they would much rather not have. that being said, I'm going to start telling people that JHU was so stunned by my work they couldn't say anything back to me for all of eternity, for as long as writers and MFAs and the idea of correspondence will survive and be alive

Idk if this is relevant to this thread for you guys to know but I got rejected for a Fulbright scholarship last year. I wasn't gonna reapply, but just had a sudden urge to give another go, this time for an MFA. I don't know if it will work because post-Trump funding issues are all up in the air but, who knows and what if, etc etc etc

HELLL YEAAAA that sounds so cool!!! what was the story about, if you don't mind me asking?

No rejection from JHU still. I know it's a rejection - why can't you just tell me? Feeling situationshipped

nooo, though I did consider applying to that one. the one I applied to was their Comparative Literature track - whish is this hazy half-dream of mine lest the MFA never works out. Got a rejection from there a day after the Michener one so I was like lol double whammy! but we move. I did seriously consider applying to the MALS one except I was quite financially drained due to the apps already

Hey! I'm not sure where you're from, but I'm from Pakistan and I noticed that sending the IELTs score via the British Council is pretty reliable - just that it depends on the uni, how long it takes for it to show on the portal. For me it took a day on UT Austin, reflected almost immediately on Dartmouth for a non-MFA degree I applied to, and took quite a few days for Brown. If you've sent the uni a copy of your eTERF via the BC Portal, you don't need to worry, but nothing wrong in emailing for clarity's sake

hahaha not insane at all and that makes sense, I didn't even think of that! very likely, since I'm based somewhere in south asia

yep, nothing from JHU