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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.

Yeah, I wonder what he meant as well. In this day and age, so many of the most objectively "successful" writers out there are also professors.

Huh? What is this supposed to mean?

I totally went through this, but during the mad rush of drafting my writing sample lmao. My brain woke me up at 3-4 AM every day to think about how my story sucked and I was doomed. I think this forum and others are really nice sources of camaraderie, but they do lead me to think about app outcomes way more frequently than I would otherwise. I think I'm going to limit myself to checking only once or twice a day, if that. I hope you're able to relax and your sleep irons itself out soon!

Same boat in terms of regretting my number of apps. Also have had to force myself to stop thinking about mistakes I made w.r.t. my sample, SOP, LORs...but it does make the prospect of 0 acceptances easier, knowing I'll prob be a lot better prepared next year.

Happy weekend, everyone! Hope we can all enjoy it without thinking too much about all this shieeeeet

I'm a little confused by this. What do you mean by "seeing how the offers shake out"? Would many people who are accepted really commit/decline at this early stage, before seeing how other apps pan out?

Oh, I assumed that the request to shorten to "EAH" was made by the actual person submitting as Edgar Allan Hoe lol.

LOL yes. A whole ecosystem of anonymous lil animals huddling at the watering hole

Thank you for providing this insider's perspective! I really enjoyed reading your first two articles. I'd love to learn more about just the nitty-gritty of your day-to-day MFA experience: what it's like to be in workshops with a small cohort, whether egos collide, what (if any) guidance students receive when it comes to finding an agent and publishing, what mentorship from faculty actually looks like in practice...

Oy, I wasn't aware that Brown isn't coming out till late March. So late.