2021 Applicants Forum

[sylviaplate]

To anybody that applied to Houston or WashU - did you receive login info for a school-specific application portal? Looking through my emails / submission verifications, all I have for these schools are the applyweb portal links.

[mrvisser]

1 hour ago, sylviaplate said:

To anybody that applied to Houston or WashU - did you receive login info for a school-specific application portal? Looking through my emails / submission verifications, all I have for these schools are the applyweb portal links.

I applied to WashU and I think I only have the applyweb portal.

[gustav3]

10 hours ago, eternalwhitenights said:

You did great. You've got this. You're going to be okay, promise. ❤️

 

3 hours ago, CayceCamus said:

We have heard of a few alleged acceptances, but those in no way correlate to every school rejecting you, not even close! We are so early in the season and universities are sluggish places. We still got acceptances, wait lists, and then maybe some rejections ahead. Nothing is set in stone yet! ☺️

eternalwhitenights, consider a more fact/evidence based attempt to reassure. CayceCamus's post is a little more fact based. Everyone knows Shakespeare's poem on this:

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
     And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
     As any she belied with false compare.

[eternalwhitenights]

2 minutes ago, gustav3 said:

 

eternalwhitenights, consider a more fact/evidence based attempt to reassure. CayceCamus's post is a little more fact based. Everyone knows Shakespeare's poem on this:

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
     And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
     As any she belied with false compare.

Umm....huh? Lol. 

[jujubee]

3 hours ago, sylviaplate said:

To anybody that applied to Houston or WashU - did you receive login info for a school-specific application portal? Looking through my emails / submission verifications, all I have for these schools are the applyweb portal links.

Houston applicant here. I only have Applyweb, too.

Sucks to be officially rejected by Berkeley and have an implied rejection by FSU (PhD Poetry). Still, the others are right @pattycat, it's too early to tell. As long as you don't have that rejection letter, don't lose hope. It's a wild season but as a writer, you know anything's possible! 

Meanwhile, let me do some day drinking to ease the pain haha

Edited February 4, 2021 by jujubee

[pattycat]

9 hours ago, Starbuck420 said:

makes sense, I guess, and this is certainly what we've all been told to expect this year, but it's interesting to me because Illinois (the only other school to release this info yet, afaik) reported many fewer applications than usual. ofc, the sample size is currently 2 so it's possible Illinois is just an anomaly, but it's also possible that the ruined economy is wreaking havoc with the numbers, rather than increasing the number of applications all across the board. but, again, too early to tell

I also wonder if it's because FSU's app fee is only $30 and it had a late deadline. Makes it an easy add-on for someone already applying other places.

[pattycat]

9 hours ago, CayceCamus said:

Don't put yourself down! We have heard of a few alleged acceptances, but those in no way correlate to every school rejecting you, not even close! We are so early in the season and universities are sluggish places. We still got acceptances, wait lists, and then maybe some rejections ahead. Nothing is set in stone yet! ☺️

Thanks for the encouragement! Just preparing myself. But I know...it's not over till the parking lot's empty.

[pattycat]

5 hours ago, jujubee said:

Sucks to be officially rejected by Berkeley and have an implied rejection by FSU (PhD Poetry). Still, the others are right @pattycat, it's too early to tell. As long as you don't have that rejection letter, don't lose hope. It's a wild season but as a writer, you know anything's possible! 

So sorry about the rejections! And you're right, it's too early to tell. Who knows what could happen. 

5 hours ago, jujubee said:

Meanwhile, let me do some day drinking to ease the pain haha

I'm strictly a night drinker, but I'm right there with you!

[Ydrl]

1 hour ago, pattycat said:

 

I'm strictly a night drinker, but I'm right there with you!

I would either day or night drink but I’m on too many meds that’ll kill me if I do so hard pass. I’ll drink some Welches though. Who wants some grape juice?

[Botanica]

10 hours ago, sylviaplate said:

To anybody that applied to Houston or WashU - did you receive login info for a school-specific application portal? Looking through my emails / submission verifications, all I have for these schools are the applyweb portal links.

Hi! I applied to WashU as well and only have the applyweb link. 

[Ophelias pansies]

Anyone who applied to Helen Zell (Michigan,Ann Arbor) the "How to Apply" page updated and said that decisions will be made in early March! Hope this eases some February nerves! 

[tippybug]

13 hours ago, pattycat said:

It's possible. Historically, though, they've done all fiction acceptances in the same day. ?

I already feel out to be honest. All my programs are such long shots.

 

My fingers are crossed for you!! Keep your head up. I hope you hear lots of acceptances soon ❤️

[tippybug]

1 hour ago, Ydrl said:

I would either day or night drink but I’m on too many meds that’ll kill me if I do so hard pass. I’ll drink some Welches though. Who wants some grape juice?

What about smoking a fat doink? That's whats been keeping me going hehehe....

[pattycat]

1 minute ago, tippybug said:

My fingers are crossed for you!! Keep your head up. I hope you hear lots of acceptances soon ❤️

Me too! And thank you!

 

[pattycat]

14 hours ago, spacedumpster said:

Haha, nah I don't know anything about the program--just a longtime denizen of the void of corn and soy who loves to trash the motherland. I'm sure it's a fine school!

Ha! I grew up in Indiana and most of my writing is set there. And yes, it is full of mostly corn, soybeans, and despair. 

I lived in Bloomington for three years, though, and it is actually quite a lovely town. There's a Burmese restaurant there that I always stop at when I'm in the area and IU campus is gorgeous.

Edited February 4, 2021 by pattycat
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[mrvisser]

Someone says they were rejected from the University of Washington, not through email, but by checking the site. I just checked and my status just says my application has been received and will be reviewed, so I'm not sure what that's all about.

[Ydrl]

WashU people, I forgot to say this earlier but the decision is going to be on the applyweb portal whenever they come out. That’s what happened last year for me.

[Starbuck420]

3 hours ago, pattycat said:

I also wonder if it's because FSU's app fee is only $30 and it had a late deadline.

Ooooo I didn't know this. gotta assume that this contributed to those crazy numbers

[tippybug]

On 2/2/2021 at 5:10 PM, Graceful Entropy said:

*Throws glass across the room* HUZZAH!

Thank you!!!!

 

On 2/2/2021 at 3:55 PM, eternalwhitenights said:

You're amazing!!!! Congratulations!!! Oh my gosh, how cool would it be if literally every single one of us got into our programs??? And for a PhD that is AMAZING. Yo. Do you think you're going to go for your PhD or MFA?

Thank you!!! I hope we all get into our dream schools ❤️ my heart definitely belongs to creative writing, so if I get a fully funded offer to an MFA program, I don't think I'll be able to turn it down. But I'm pretty stoked on this offer, so if none of my MFA options are great, I will definitely be taking it. Plus, i LOVE Madison, WI. Such a cute, hipstery, liberal town... omg... ❤️ 

[tippybug]

4 hours ago, pattycat said:

I also wonder if it's because FSU's app fee is only $30 and it had a late deadline. Makes it an easy add-on for someone already applying other places.

Is this true for a lot of Florida schools? I applied to UCF in CS and was amazed by its low application fee. The second cheapest program I applied to was, like, $75, and several were $105.

Edited February 4, 2021 by tippybug
Forgot a word...

[spacedumpster]

15 minutes ago, tippybug said:

Is this true for a lot of Florida schools? I applied to UCF in CS and was amazed by its low application fee. The second cheapest program I applied to was, like, $75, and several were $105.

USF and UF were each $30 or $35 if I remember correctly, so yes that does seem to be a commonality.

[Botanica]

1 hour ago, mrvisser said:

Someone says they were rejected from the University of Washington, not through email, but by checking the site. I just checked and my status just says my application has been received and will be reviewed, so I'm not sure what that's all about.

That’s what mine says too- seeing the reported rejection definitely got my heart rate up though!

[JPReinhold]

2 hours ago, pattycat said:

Ha! I grew up in Indiana and most of my writing is set there. And yes, it is full of mostly corn, soybeans, and despair. 

I lived in Bloomington for three years, though, and it is actually quite a lovely town. There's a Burmese restaurant there that I always stop at when I'm in the area and IU campus is gorgeous.

I also grew up in the Midwest and most of MY writing is full of corn, soybeans, and despair! *extends hands to shake* 

[Yellow62]

2 hours ago, Ophelias pansies said:

Anyone who applied to Helen Zell (Michigan,Ann Arbor) the "How to Apply" page updated and said that decisions will be made in early March! Hope this eases some February nerves! 

This actually stresses me out more lol. I want my rejection already. Give it to me straight, doc!

[JPReinhold]

2 minutes ago, Yellow62 said:

This actually stresses me out more lol. I want my rejection already. Give it to me straight, doc!

I hit the REJECT ME ALREADY, YOU COWARDS wall about a month ago. I've been living on dread and Little Debbie oatmeal snack cakes. 

I feel so lucky that I got an acceptance a week ago because the SPIRAL, people. THE SPIRAL. 

Edited February 4, 2021 by JPReinhold