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just so you guys know, Sharon is unfortunately not teaching at NYU anymore. Her last workshop was fall 2023. I think Catherine Barnett is there full-time now instead, which is why she's not at Hunter anymore

Is it normal for there to be such a long gap between Iowa dropping fiction and poetry results? Getting kind of antsy about potential funding issues, especially considering yesterday's announcement about the International Writers' Program, but hopefully I'm just being conspiratorial

finally some good fucking news

Last I heard he was back on the course catalog for this spring and people were upset—has something changed recently? If so, rest in piss. If not, I'm praying on his downfall

Okay sorry for double posting, I finally figured out how to multi quote on here. Thank you all so much for your kindness. I really appreciate it. And a satire is far from off the table tbh. @exvat I am very happy to talk to you about the program in any capacity that might be helpful to you—feel free to hmu at any point!! As far as the Hunter interview, they interviewed me on a Monday night and sent the letter Tuesday afternoon. Prayers up you get your letter today! Thank you—unfortunately I think I've already blown my cover here because I asked if I could visit before the 13th so I could have more time before the 14th deadline. I'm gonna do a little more poking around about the 4/15 res but yeah, worst case scenario I'll accept and if something else comes up that offers more security, I'll bite the bullet and be like heyyyyy guys nvm. Across-the-board rejections from this point onwards would make my life easier tbh. Hope everyone has a lovely day filled with good news!

Alex is a noted sex pest who has come onto both his graduate and undergraduate students. I can name multiple male students of his whom he's tried to initiate sexual shit with. There are also rumors about him "flirting" with teenage boys but I feel gross even alleging that in writing. He is genuinely just super inappropriate with his students. I never took his class because I was never a fan of his stuff, but apparently I dodged a bullet. His NYU classes were always at half capacity bc nobody wanted to be in his classroom lol, partially bc of this but also because I haven't heard m/any good things about his teaching style either. I have a friend who took his classes as an undergraduate at Columbia and he would always tell her weird things about his anorexia and how he wasn't eating bc he wanted to be skinny? Why are you sharing that information with a twenty year old girl as a forty year old man. His brain is full of holes from Floridian and Parisian coke. Like people legit signed a petition for him to be fired, he's that bad.

Yeah, there's a handful of fully-funded/stipended fellowships that include free health insurance etc etc and everyone else gets the 50% off tuition/guaranteed teaching position package. It just felt unnecessary to me, especially given the size of the program. Probably ~15-20 people per genre-specific cohort each year? They definitely help you out more than, say, Columbia, but yes, it absolutely attracts a certain type of person. My friend who got into NYU with one of the fully funded packages this year was offered a $35k stipend. Love her to death and she deserves it but giving one person in your program $70k over two years and others nothing is just strange in my opinion. Creates an unnecessarily inequitable social environment. This is why I was leery of mixed-funding programs this time around. Yeah, def attracts a certain type of person. All of this is obviously my opinion and said opinion is colored by the way my time in the program ended, but the NYU program is definitely not for everyone. If you want to be a literary hot girl in NYC, NYU is definitely the school for you, but I am not and will never be, lol. There are lots of people who are very good at what they do and others who are not. There are many talented people who decline NYU's offers because they can't afford the tuition, even with the 50% discount and teaching opportunities. So I think they do end up admitting some dodgy people who just pay their way. The Palestine thing was crazy because I got snitched on by another guy in my poetry cohort. He is apparently kind of a social pariah there now and nobody talks to him, but the fact remains that one of us is banned from the mf property and the other will graduate with an mf A. Lmao. Also his poetry is mid. I am kind of doxxing myself here but I honestly don't care because this is part of the downside of a big cohort and people should know this. You can't know everyone's true intentions and some people are fucking weirdos. He weaponized the political environment at NYU against me after sitting in workshop with me for a semester. Keep in mind that I am early/mid twenties, and he's in his thirties. The fact that he did that after learning very intimate details about my life in workshop kinda stunned me, and is a big part of why nobody talks to him now. I thought we were peers, he thought I was a crazy little girl he needed to tattle on. Thankfully, none of you will be at NYU with him, because he graduates this spring. His debut will sell ten copies and the only buyer will be his mother. They also rehired Alex Dimitrov after a significant portion of the students in the program petitioned for him to be fired but that's none of my business xoxoxo ETA: thank you for the congrats haha. Sorry forgot to say that cuz I got too busy going off on this tangent. I agree, it's a bummer what happened but ultimately I will find a better place

Hey! I don't seem to have any messages in my inbox, but I am also a boomer on the internet so could be missing something. I will try messaging you and see if that works. Really appreciate this—thank you! And yes, happy to talk NYU with you. One sec lemme try to dm

Hey everyone! Been lurking for months now, told myself I wouldn't make an account, and finally caved today bcs I do have a question. I don't have Draft so I can't ask people there/my results aren't on the spreadsheet. I received a fully funded offer from Hunter for poetry. They emailed me telling me I was shortlisted, interviewed me, then sent an official offer letter. Their program deadline to accept the offer is March 14th, at which point if I haven't accepted they will "reluctantly move on to the next candidate on their list." The cursory research I've done points to Hunter having signed the 4/15 resolution, but it's under the name CUNY Grad Center, so I'm not 100% sure if this program specifically is covered. I was surprised their unofficial deadline was so early—I understand doing it in rounds and wanting to finalize the cohort asap, but the admitted student visit is the night before their deadline, which feels silly. I was recently accepted to Brooklyn as well and am on the Michigan waitlist—obviously, I want to keep my options open re Michigan and stuff. And these schools might not even be done notifying by the 14th—I'm still waiting on half of my schools' results. Anyone have anymore knowledge on whether Hunter counts as having signed the 4/15 resolution thing? + how should I go about bringing this up with the program director in a classy way? They seem really lovely and I do think I'll probably end up there, but I want to keep my options open, especially considering that Michigan would offer more financial security. Brooklyn also doesn't expect an answer from me until 4/15, so the Hunter deadline being so early feels kinda random. Happy to answer any questions about the interview or anything if anyone is curious or has one coming up. All hope is not lost if you haven't heard from Hunter—I feel like they probably send out acceptances in phases depending on who accepts their offers. (PS re NYU—I was in their MFA program for a year and basically got soft expelled by the admin behind my program's back this summer for Palestine-related reasons. The money situation is strange because some people receive MUCH more financial support from the program than others. I personally didn't like the social dynamic the mixed funding setup created. Some people received thousands of dollars a month and had fellowship-provided jobs related to the program, some people got nothing. And of course only a certain type of person can afford to pay half tuition at NYU. If I were Deborah Landau I would cut the program in half and fully fund everybody. But I digress. If anyone has questions about the NYU program I'm happy to answer them to the best of my ability. Got my Ocean connect and dipped so I consider my time there a success lol)