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Just got my Iowa rejection letter via email. It did include some kind and encouraging phrasing, so tbh I’m hella happy lol.

Anyone hear back from Chapman? I just received word I was accepted but didn’t get any info about funding, so I’m assuming I wasn’t awarded a fellowship.

Yeah…damn. Assuming I’ve been rejected by Syracuse at this point. This is rough, fam.

I think we just decided. Haha

I believe rejections go out in March. It looks like last year there were two rounds of rejections, one in February and one in March.

Yeah, I'm really sad about Irvine as well. Sigh.

This is now canon

Heyo @gafoo, just wanted to shout you out bc I saw your acceptance in Draft. Congratulations!!

Please MFA gods, please some news this week. GIMME DAT SWEET SWEET CLOSURE

Yeeeeep...

God, I hope Friday brings some news

Congratulations!!!

I could’ve written this word for word. Will be reading too!

I know this isn't very helpful, but please know that this random stranger is proud of you for trying.

Big caveat that I can't pretend to be able to contribute any kind of expertise here, but my gut sense is that you should take what your advisor said to heart! Personally, if I were an admissions reader, I'd be open to viewing your academic background as a refreshing source of diversity (e.g., it might shape your stories' subject matter in an interesting way). If this does prove to be an issue, maybe you can join a writing group or extension course to get some workshop experience under your belt? In any case, there's nothing you can really do about this now, so I hope you don't worry too much about it! Easier said than done, I know.