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I'm going to be attending a program at Depaul University in Chicago. They have funding.

Yep, looks like it. Meanwhile, the grad coordinator said--" I'm hearing word that decisions should be made within the next couple of weeks. You'll receive a notification when they're ready. Thanks for your patience..."

I did give in and mail the grad coordinator. He informed me I was not accepted. Good luck to everyone else! This wraps up the season for me.

Yep. And she said she hasn't heard back from Missouri either. I am totally stressed out too. One school= BAD, BAD ODDS.

Poeteer, my friend has been waitlisted at Texas Tech. Will keep updating, but I don't want to post on the results forum.

Sure thing! I don't know if she applied elsewhere, though.

Just had a friend accepted to their CW poetry PhD. They've invited her to visit, so I can talk to her and get back to you in a bit.

I don't feel like I'd have a chance either. Still--could those of you admitted tell us when exactly the open house is, so I can look forward to my rejection email around a week from then?

MFA decisions have been made in the school I went to. SERIOUSLY. I am shuddering at the prospect of my POI poring over each word in my poems and shaking her head.

Thank you so much, Stately Plump! Sending lots of lit-love your way as well!

Oh, I live in Chicago and my husband has a stable job (while I am unemployed and on one of those immigrant visas that doesn't allow me to work), which means UIC is my only hope.

*Jealous* Now I really want someone to back out so I can get a shot. (Yeah, like I'm first on the waitlist ).

I wanted to apply, but what's the point? I can't move there. :-(

Uchicago folks--what can you tell me about Leela Gandhi? She is my POI and she was travelling when we corresponded, so I am still entertaining some last minute delusions of possibly being waitlisted or something.

Wow. Chicago IS my dream school and I'd give anything to even get on their waitlist, let alone get accepted! Congrats!

Strangely enough, that makes me despair even more. I polished the poems as much as I could, but I can't help be paranoid that this specific project isn't going to get me in. (I'm doing collage based on Tamil/ Hindi cinema and archetypal characters and I am not getting particularly great responses from editors I'm sending it out too--again, this has happened in the last one month. Boo, early deadlines).

Thanks, poeteer!That's really helpful. I know I love my scholarly work, esp. papers, so I am not altogether opposed to CW courses and an academic dissertation (as long as I get to teach a poetry workshop every now and then). Sure, I'd prefer to work on my poems, but if, as you said, having an academic project is more likely to get me hired, I'll definitely apply.

Perhaps some of the loss of recognition for the MFA as a valid terminal degree stems from this bias, yes? I mean, sure, a PhD is exciting in the sense that it provides us an opportunity to plan a a critical and creative project simultaneously, but surely all the "studio" work one does in the MFA should have its own rewards in the academic community. Clearly I'm just asking for too much. Bah. Btw, I had a similar conversation with a professor about class composition in our MFA program (all the 10 accepted were women; one guy switched from fiction to poetry later on).

Yeah I didn't even take the GRE Lit. because a) most schools I was applying to didn't want it, the ones asking for it didn't have programs that really appealed to me, and c) because I most certainly would be somewhere in the 30th or lower percentile range.

I've applied to UIC (poetry PhD, whatever that means) and I'm terrified of even looking at my application status. I spoke to someone at their program and she said they do have to take a bunch of theory courses, which was fine by me. I'm actually from India. I got my MFA here and my critical sample has to do with feminist translation theory (The Bhagavad Gita, to be specific). I am not sure to what extent those interests will really converge with/on my own writing, but I tried to make a case for it. Mainly, I just feel like my writing is stagnating because I'm not longer in school and there isn't that drive to really make a connection between scholarship/research and craft. Unfortunately, I could think of no other programs in the vicinity (Chicagoland) to apply to. But then I realized that I didn't even give Milwaukee a shot. Boo. I suppose there's always next year. Can those of you who've applied to more programs tell me if there's any more in the area that I could apply to next year?

Methinks it's time for another cup of tea. Oh well, you're probably right.

I wonder what this means for the rest of us. My application status hasn't changed at all. Waiting for more time is going to KILL me! :-(

I applied to NW and I had the same problem with the SOP word count and proofing! From what I gather, it shouldn't matter--the proofing errors or going over by a couple of hundred words. I spoke to someone who is in the Poetics program and she speaks very highly of the faculty and the program.