woweezowee Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 (edited) ... Edited April 1, 2021 by woweezowee Blackhole 1
porta Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 3 minutes ago, woweezowee said: Why should anyone take your advice re MFA programs, since you weren't able to get into one and have been consistently and factually wrong about the merits and qualities of so many colleges and universities? There is no good reason someone should take my advice other than it is not the standard BS you'll find everywhere else. MFA's are opaque. Advice here is more art than science. There is a wiki article on the College of General Studies and Harvard Extension. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AColumbia_University_School_of_General_Studies
porta Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 Just now, woweezowee said: Cool, nice link -- I don't need it. You're definitely completely wrong about General Studies. Please stop posting your misinformation and using this page to advance your personal vendettas. My only vendetta is against disinformation (which is the word generally preferred over misinformation). It used to be considered a fake word, but by now, is just unorthodox. woweezowee and DeepSyntax 2
Blackhole Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 1 minute ago, porta said: My only vendetta is against disinformation (which is the word generally preferred over misinformation). It used to be considered a fake word, but by now, is just unorthodox. wikipedia is not the best source.just saying. maybe you think I am not a writer. I am certainly a journalist and Wikipedia is not very reliable. you are always advised to verify information that you get on wikipedia.
porta Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 4 minutes ago, Blackhole said: wikipedia is not the best source. in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king woweezowee and lenagator1997 2
Blackhole Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 2 minutes ago, porta said: in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king haha
Ydrl Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 Every time someone argues with the troll, the more I don't want to be on this website. Cristie, FairleyAlfy and DeepSyntax 3
Cristie Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 16 hours ago, cecsav said: Did you receive a funding offer from UMKC? They emailed me about a TAship today, but I will still be turning them down for ASU No word from them yet, this was New Orleans. cecsav 1
Cristie Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 Well, just found out I was waitlisted at Charleston. Strange, no word from them at all and just the portal staring back at me saying "under review". So I emailed them.. btw...you are waitlisted in fiction--but they only take 6.
Cristie Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 46 minutes ago, Ydrl said: Every time someone argues with the troll, the more I don't want to be on this website. We just need a middle finger emoji on the reaction thingy. Ydrl 1
Blackhole Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 5 minutes ago, Cristie said: We just need a middle finger emoji on the reaction thingy. we can't always tell if someone is a troll. that's all. Cristie 1
Ydrl Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 9 minutes ago, Blackhole said: we can't always tell if someone is a troll. that's all. Oh we can't always, but I've been here with this asshole so long that the speech patterns, general content, and stupid arguments kind of give it away...
Blackhole Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 2 minutes ago, Ydrl said: Oh we can't always, but I've been here with this asshole so long that the speech patterns, general content, and stupid arguments kind of give it away... I can imagine. I just didn't know. I thought he/she/others was trying to be helpful but it was a lot of disrespect for others. but thanks for pointing it out. Ydrl 1
oubukibun Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 (edited) Well, BU told someone they'd have results out by the end of the first week of April (if I'm remembering correctly?), and yet here I am, haha, with zero news. It's okay, BU, truly. Just mass-send those emails. It continually boggles my mind why non-personal rejection emails are staggered or delayed once all acceptances have been sent out. I just don't see the purpose of that, and since waitlists also go out (not sure if BU even sends out waitlist notices) around the same time as acceptances, one would think the process wouldn't need to be dragged out so much. If the pool of accepted and waitlisted folk is always small, then just do away with the rejections via those same mass-emails everyone who's not in receives? Anyway, no idea. Um, godspeed everyone! And remember to go Plus Ultra! Edited April 1, 2021 by oubukibun
chefjuice Posted April 2, 2021 Posted April 2, 2021 Hi. Did Rutgers-Newark already send out all waitlists and acceptances? And if so, WHYYYYY have they not rejected me already
lenagator1997 Posted April 2, 2021 Posted April 2, 2021 6 hours ago, Ydrl said: Every time someone argues with the troll, the more I don't want to be on this website. Big mood. Maybe that troll should spend more time writing instead of being vindictive and wasting everyone's time. If we ignore it...maybe it'll go away...? FairleyAlfy and Blackhole 2
SMSM1229 Posted April 2, 2021 Posted April 2, 2021 For those who applied to Columbia and were either waitlisted or accepted, can you tell me a bit about what you wrote for the response to a piece of literature published in the last 10 years? I'm a bit nervous that I botched that essay. I'm definitely not saying that is the only reason I was rejected, but I definitely would like to try to figure out where I may have gone wrong outside of my writing sample. Thank you so much for any info! Blackhole 1
Bdelly Posted April 2, 2021 Posted April 2, 2021 2 hours ago, oubukibun said: Well, BU told someone they'd have results out by the end of the first week of April (if I'm remembering correctly?), and yet here I am, haha, with zero news. It's okay, BU, truly. Just mass-send those emails. It continually boggles my mind why non-personal rejection emails are staggered or delayed once all acceptances have been sent out. I just don't see the purpose of that, and since waitlists also go out (not sure if BU even sends out waitlist notices) around the same time as acceptances, one would think the process wouldn't need to be dragged out so much. If the pool of accepted and waitlisted folk is always small, then just do away with the rejections via those same mass-emails everyone who's not in receives? Anyway, no idea. Um, godspeed everyone! And remember to go Plus Ultra! Hey. Same boat waiting for that BU response. I feel on a whole other level.
Boomer not Ok Posted April 2, 2021 Posted April 2, 2021 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Bdelly said: Hey. Same boat waiting for that BU response. I feel on a whole other level. I can’t speak for poetry, but on fiction I think it’s wrapped up at BU. There seems to have been an initial wave of rejections last week but a poster here indicated who’d gotten in for fiction they were just waiting to hear back from one other fiction acceptance. Which reminds me, if you accept going to a program, I guess ethically you must release your waitlist spots at other programs. But I wonder how many people really do this? What if you don’t give up your waitlists but you commit to one place and then get a better offer on April 15 at another program, can you rescind your acceptance? Do the schools talk to each other? Would you be blacklisted? Just wondering... Edited April 2, 2021 by Boomer not Ok
Bdelly Posted April 2, 2021 Posted April 2, 2021 2 minutes ago, Boomer not Ok said: I can’t speak for poetry, but on fiction I think it’s wrapped up at BU. There seems to have been an initial wave of rejections last week but a poster here indicated who’d gotten in for fiction they were just waiting to hear back from one other fiction acceptance. Which reminds me, if you accept going to a program, I guess ethically you must release your waitlist spots at other programs. But I wonder how many people really do this? What if don’t give up your waitlists but you commit to one place and then get a better offer on April 15 at another program, can you rescind your acceptance? Do the schools talk to each other? Would you be blacklisted? Just wondering... Yeah, it's poetry. Waitlisted at two of my other schools and rejected by one. It's all going to be ok.
Boomer not Ok Posted April 2, 2021 Posted April 2, 2021 Just now, Bdelly said: Yeah, it's poetry. Waitlisted at two of my other schools and rejected by one. It's all going to be ok. You may be ok then. I’m waiting on fiction from them but know at this point it’s gotta to be a ‘no.’ Hope it comes through for you.
DeepSyntax Posted April 2, 2021 Posted April 2, 2021 54 minutes ago, SMSM1229 said: For those who applied to Columbia and were either waitlisted or accepted, can you tell me a bit about what you wrote for the response to a piece of literature published in the last 10 years? I'm a bit nervous that I botched that essay. I'm definitely not saying that is the only reason I was rejected, but I definitely would like to try to figure out where I may have gone wrong outside of my writing sample. Thank you so much for any info! Hi, I think I saw your post on draft. I'll respond here. In spite of the unkillable troll on this board, I find the people on draft weirdly more aggressive when it comes to Columbia. In the info session, I think the Columbia admin said something like they wanted the essay to be "deeply nonacademic" and they wanted to know "what makes you the most excited" about the book while seeing you "address the text in a voice that feels authentic to you." I tried to look at it like coming up with a creative metaphor for a book you really like. I also tried to choose a book that feels significant but still speaks to my particular reading niche: a short, somewhat surreal book published in translation that had won a major prize in its country of origin. I write literary fiction, and it felt like the book I chose for my response piece was a bit different than the pieces I submitted. They did mention that the sample and the response essay were the most important components of the submission, so it's good that you are thinking about it! For the other troll victims on this board thinking about Columbia, I kind of think the "chosen one" stuff they espouse is B.S. By and large Columbia is very stingy with funding, so even the "top candidates" are getting what amounts to small discounts. Columbia is an academic brand, and if it weren't perceived to be worth the money they wouldn't get away with charging so much. If you live in Ohio and work at Starbucks it looks like a ton of money. If you live in New York (or another major urban center) and work in media, it doesn't seem quite as crazy. At the end of the day, your employer, agent or publisher won't care if your program was funded or not. It's about the work you do and who you know. It's ironic to see people sit around on these internet boards all day trying to tear down other posters for considering Columbia and preying on insecurities about money, talent etc. Just seems like the ultimate sour grapes. I mean it in the nicest possible way when I say: Get a life! Blackhole, rroseselavy, turtlesfordays and 2 others 3 2
SMSM1229 Posted April 2, 2021 Posted April 2, 2021 Just now, DeepSyntax said: Hi, I think I saw your post on draft. I'll respond here. In spite of the unkillable troll on this board, I find the people on draft weirdly more aggressive when it comes to Columbia. In the info session, I think the Columbia admin said something like they wanted the essay to be "deeply nonacademic" and they wanted to know "what makes you the most excited" about the book while seeing you "address the text in a voice that feels authentic to you." I tried to look at it like coming up with a creative metaphor for a book you really like. I also tried to choose a book that feels significant but still speaks to my particular reading niche: a short, somewhat surreal book published in translation that had won a major prize in its country of origin. I write literary fiction, and it felt like the book I chose for my response piece was a bit different than the pieces I submitted. They did mention that the sample and the response essay were the most important components of the submission, so it's good that you are thinking about it! For the other troll victims on this board thinking about Columbia, I kind of think the "chosen one" stuff they espouse is B.S. By and large Columbia is very stingy with funding, so even the "top candidates" are getting what amounts to small discounts. Columbia is an academic brand, and if it weren't perceived to be worth the money they wouldn't get away with charging so much. If you live in Ohio and work at Starbucks it looks like a ton of money. If you live in New York (or another major urban center) and work in media, it doesn't seem quite as crazy. At the end of the day, your employer, agent or publisher won't care if your program was funded or not. It's about the work you do and who you know. It's ironic to see people sit around on these internet boards all day trying to tear down other posters for considering Columbia and preying on insecurities about money, talent etc. Just seems like the ultimate sour grapes. I mean it in the nicest possible way when I say: Get a life! Thank you SO much this is all incredibly helpful and encouraging info ❤️
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