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got a waitlist email from BU! would assume that most accepts are out

brown and boston fiction are driving me crazy!! one accept each on draft so i am assuming soft reject...but i just wish they'd tell us...

i graduated undergrad at columbia in december, and i have to say––campus atmosphere, if that's something that's important to you, is incredibly changed in recent years, from how it was my first year. Police everywhere, closed gates, general fear/tension/uncertainty, and a student body deeply angry with the administration. It's hard to picture it unless you're there. I mention this because my college experience (and honestly, my perspective) was deeply changed by the events on campus last year (not that my experience is nearly as crazy or upsetting as the experiences of others), and perhaps i had a more extreme experience as an undergrad, but i can imagine that graduate students were also deeply affected. not a warning against columbia, but i'd definitely take this into account for people considering the program there. (FYI i got accepted today, and will be taking another offer one hundred percent, not just because of the funding, but because of my disillusionment with admin and the exhaustion of living in that tense atmosphere for the last few semesters). this is not to talk down to anyone/necessarily discourage anyone applying or planning to accept - it is truly a wonderful program, and some of the mfa students ive met there are absolutely fabulous talented people. but campus atmosphere (and the national attention it gets) really has the ability to shape any students' experiences there, and so definitely keep that in mind folks <33

draft reports BU fiction call yesterday!

not sure on the nyu front but i had a friend take a class with him when he was visiting our undergrad institution and apparently he's 'kind of insane' is what she said...i think he said like a lot of out of pocket stuff in class. dunno what he's done at nyu though

Lots of people have heard back with rejects from BU, but there's still a couple of us waiting

same...im super interested in their global fellowship program... there's at least two other people on draft still waiting for fiction, but cannot really make out beyond that! BU's accepts came out around this time last year though so hopefully this week??

the boston university wait is killing me!!!! still radio silence from them, and the week before BU's spring break too...atp i just want an answer ...

I am the waitlist from draft... sorry i just signed up for a grad cafe account! didn't receive an official notification but rather a faculty email that said i had been put on 'a short unranked waitlist'. they didn't tell me much about when i could expect to hear from them except 'in the next few weeks'...which is not really a lot of info lol. but from the email it seems like they've sent out their first round of acceptances, at least informally.

hello! finally made an account after lurking on this thread. I was one of the people who got the acceptance call from NYU and put it on draft. wanted to confirm that the call was more to confirm special funding rather than to just give acceptances - so if you havent heard from them i wouldn't despair just yet, it's possible to have an acceptance without special funding and they'll probably send out the accept emails soon.