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Thank you! and LOL not even close! Hosting some writing sprints in the facebook group has helped me stay productive also during the wait time - are you waiting on your schools also?

Ngl I feel a bit lost again because I hadn't looked at the spreadsheet in the Facebook group for AWHILE until today, when I didn't receive an email from VCU. Every time I am banking on hearing from a school, I hear from a different one, or it's just complete silence lol. I am excited for my Waitlist at Temple, but I have the same reservations about "did everyone get the same 'high on the ranked waitlist' email? So I still have my fingers crossed as I would love to attend if it's funded!! It was validating as a fiction writer to get a waitlist this year, regardless. I also saw Notre Dame started interviews, so I may not be up for that anymore, but who knows. Either way, still waiting to hear from 6 more schools... I have tentatively been rejected from 5 of 11 schools I applied to, with three not sending out a formal rejection yet lol. Congrats to everyone who has been waitlisted and accepted this month!! Hoping for more good news for everyone!!

Congrats! I got waitlisted at Temple!

I saw the first Temple hit the draft sheet... hoping I will hear tomorrow!! and nothing from Vandy yet (maybe a silent waitlist?)

Yeah, I think you might be referring to the Lit Mag the person is doing. The workshop/writing sprint is open it's just a peer group

That's such a good show to binge. I watched Gilmore Girls and Maxton Hall. If anyone is in the Facebook workshop group on Messenger, an extension of MFA Draft '26 we are doing a writing sprint tonight 5pm EST to 8pm EST. We are holding more sprints this month but so far that is the first one scheduled.

I assumed "email" meant the notification email to check the portal, so I think you're fine. You can always email or call grad admissions to ask if it's a ranked or unranked waitlist. Usually, the portal is updated first, I think.

I doubt they send emails on the weekends. I heard everything is up on the portal before emails are generated, typically, so if you're going to check anything.

Crazy how in a month our whole lives could change.

I'm sorry you're bedridden! But that's awesome, you had that many acceptances. Thanks for the insight. What made you want to pursue a PhD after completing a manuscript at Vandy? Is your goal to be more so be a professor rather than a published author? I'd love to know about your journey with that, and if you also applied to numerous PhD programs and had a similar application season experience.

This is great to know. Congrats on getting into Vandy during another season -- can I ask which schools you had applied to? That's awesome that you got 7 acceptances and had options. What did you do to pass the time until the big domino in March?

It's on the Facebook MFA draft group '26

I think the only ones on my list that may be are VA Tech and Notre Dame.

At least for interview selection, today is the first/only day for the 2026 cycle that people seem to be hearing from Amherst. Last year, someone reported it the next day also. So I assume today and tomorrow for Amherst interview notifs based off the spreadsheet data. Does anyone know how to tell which schools do interviews, vs. the ones that don't? I didn't realize that was a thing for some schools

Maybe try calling a grad admissions person to ask? I think in the portal, they assign you someone to contact related to grad school admissions -- depending on the school. They can also probably let you know more specifics about it, too.