Emerson MFA Creative Writing

[erinajinzx]

Hi, everyone, hope you are doing well.

I was accepted to Emerson's creative writing program on March 8th with a $32500 fellowship. I have tried to research this school but found the info is minimal out there (there is no blog post--like the MFA years posts--about the program or current students' thoughts about it). I was wondering if anyone knows this program well and could thus fill me in on it. So far, it seems like this is not a super competitive program and not too hard to get into, and the size of the applicant pool just seems like a mystery to me... I would love to hear everyone's thoughts. Many thanks! 

[GallifreyGirl]

Hi erina!

Based on my research, Emerson accepts like 40-45 out of an applicant pool of 100-200. I'm not sure if that fellowship is on top of a tuition waiver? Tuition is about $30k/year there so if you have to pay tuition out of the fellowship, that doesn't leave much to try to live on (and Boston is not cheap).

As for reputation, I've only heard good things about Emerson; they have a specialization in Publishing and Popular Fiction, which bodes well if you ever want to write something other than straight literary fiction, and their grads seem to have a pretty good track record of publishing work.

Hope this helps. Good luck writing!