2025 Creative Writing MFA Applicants Forum

[zaira]

1 hour ago, exvat said:

Y'ALL I JUST GOT ACCEPTED TO NYU FOR POETRY ANYTHING IS POSSIBLLLLLEEEEE

I knew I was gonna run out of reacts before something like this happened and here we are. CONGRATS VIA ACTUAL WORDS AND NOT AN EMOJI HEART!!! I bet this feels amazing! 

[Jane Wyman]

1 hour ago, exvat said:

Y'ALL I JUST GOT ACCEPTED TO NYU FOR POETRY ANYTHING IS POSSIBLLLLLEEEEE

Hell yeah!

[obvswithoatmilk]

hi everyone!! longtime lurker, first time poster  congrats to everyone who’s heard back so far!!

i can’t access the draft and was wondering if there have been any posts about NYU cnf decisions? cnf seems like such a decision afterthought for a lot of schools…

[DiLo]

2 hours ago, exvat said:

Y'ALL I JUST GOT ACCEPTED TO NYU FOR POETRY ANYTHING IS POSSIBLLLLLEEEEE

Congratulations!!! I've been really rooting for you.

Edited Friday at 07:29 PM by DiLo

[pananoprodigy]

3 minutes ago, obvswithoatmilk said:

hi everyone!! longtime lurker, first time poster  congrats to everyone who’s heard back so far!!

i can’t access the draft and was wondering if there have been any posts about NYU cnf decisions? cnf seems like such a decision afterthought for a lot of schools…

Welcome! Looks like there was one CNF reported today; the rest are all fiction/poetry 

[KennyK]

I hope today is not another quiet day for me! 😭😭😭

[pananoprodigy]

7 minutes ago, KennyK said:

I hope today is not another quiet day for me! 😭😭😭

God I knowww this whole week has been brutal on my end

[Hjanep]

2 minutes ago, pananoprodigy said:

God I knowww this whole week has been brutal on my end

Same. Literally zero news. Still waiting on JHU 

[KennyK]

17 minutes ago, pananoprodigy said:

God I knowww this whole week has been brutal on my end

Literally so tempted to call and ask when we could expect results 😭 I’m getting antsy

[Cosmicinkwell]

Why is JHU like this...

[pananoprodigy]

15 minutes ago, KennyK said:

Literally so tempted to call and ask when we could expect results 😭 I’m getting antsy

Who are you waiting on? Hate to say it but it’s still relatively early-ish- still 46 days til April 15 🤪

[obvswithoatmilk]

46 minutes ago, pananoprodigy said:

Welcome! Looks like there was one CNF reported today; the rest are all fiction/poetry 

thanks!! it looks like i’ll keep being way too attached to my phone…

i resonate so deeply with y’all about the waiting!!!! i thought applying was hard, but between waiting for NYU and WashU, i’ve been an anxious wreck. grateful for my support system and for how y’all have been using this space ❤️ 

[seah0rse]

4 hours ago, everything bagel lover said:

Also, is anyone else else bringing along a partner/pet/dependant with you? How has that impacted your decision making process? My partner's happiness with the location has been integral to where I've applied to.

first lemme say hooray for the latest batch of good news! been rooting for all of you & so glad to see wins roll in.

when I started thinking about the mfa, I had a definitive list of 8 or so schools I wanted to apply to & felt that I’d move anywhere & risk anything for the opportunity. but when it came time to apply, I kinda changed my tune. I’m less enthusiastic about uprooting my life again after moving so often in my 20s / I didn’t want to be an expensive plane ride away from my family / I have a relationship & solid housing & strong community where I am. so I applied to just 2 schools. not necessarily because my partner did or did not want to relocate, but because I felt that relocating next year might be too destabilizing & thus impact my ability to do well in the program. a mentor advised me to only apply to programs I truly wanted to attend so my list dwindled from 8 to 4 to just 2 😅. I figured I wouldn’t get in anywhere this year & I’d take a year to recalibrate/prepare for big changes & reapply to the programs further away. But, to my surprise, I did get into one of the two. Now I kinda regretting limiting myself - because I want to know if I’d have made the cut at the other programs & might feel differently about moving if I had options. feeling the uncertainty & anxiety extra hard rn as I wait to hear back from the other program. so much to consider for a process that is a complete gamble to begin with 🫠

[KennyK]

6 minutes ago, pananoprodigy said:

Who are you waiting on? Hate to say it but it’s still relatively early-ish- still 46 days til April 15 🤪

Hahahaha that reminded me of that spongebob episode with Mr. Krabs counting the days! I’m waiting for Riverside . Last year on draft they sent out acceptances on Feb. 28th! 

[obvswithoatmilk]

5 hours ago, everything bagel lover said:

Also, is anyone else else bringing along a partner/pet/dependant with you? How has that impacted your decision making process? My partner's happiness with the location has been integral to where I've applied to. I'm also less stoked about UNLV because it'll be hard to find arrangements for my dog during the study abroad component, even though that's an aspect that really excited me when applying. 

my partner is moving with me wherever i get into school (i’m a cnf applicant with 1a(NY,)1w(CHI,)0r,4p(STL, CHI, & NYC,)) and i was really anxious at first about what if he didn’t want to live wherever i wanted to go, but it ended up kinda being a nonstarter lol.

we’ve been having ongoing convos, and we both were on the same page about where we wanted to live and where we didn’t want to live (neither of us wanted to live in iowa, and i didn’t want to apply somewhere where i didn’t want to live, so that was an easy choice.) my partner is very excited for any of the three cities i’ve applied to but is most reluctant about STL, so we decided that we’re going to visit the city/cities of the school(s) that offer admission before i submit a deposit (and we’ve budgeted accordingly.) he has ultimately said that he wants me to go where i want which takes some of the pressure off.

[itsgivingliterary]

Has there been any fiction UC Irvine news here/on draft? Last I heard they were deliberating but that was weeks ago, so I'm assuming I missed something.

[prufrock_]

13 minutes ago, itsgivingliterary said:

Has there been any fiction UC Irvine news here/on draft? Last I heard they were deliberating but that was weeks ago, so I'm assuming I missed something.

a hand full of irvine rejections in fiction went out a while back, but no other news yet. 

[pananoprodigy]

44 minutes ago, KennyK said:

Hahahaha that reminded me of that spongebob episode with Mr. Krabs counting the days! I’m waiting for Riverside . Last year on draft they sent out acceptances on Feb. 28th! 

Hope you hear soon! Riverside's such a cool town and the campus is lovely!

[Cosmicinkwell]

So happy for all the latest accepts and waitlists (I'm on my phone and quoting is hard). You all rock!

[sgrad]

hey guys, is there any word about Chapman in draft? 

[pananoprodigy]

8 minutes ago, sgrad said:

hey guys, is there any word about Chapman in draft? 

Just checked for ya, no Chapman reports yet!

[sgrad]

2 minutes ago, pananoprodigy said:

Just checked for ya, no Chapman reports yet!

thank you!!!

[widfara]

Hi all! This is my first time applying and I'm still awaiting decisions from 5 schools. No concrete yeses yet, but yesterday I found out I was waitlisted at Iowa! Iowa is my dream program and it's hard to imagine anyone saying no to an acceptance there. I know there's no way to know what'll happen, but I was curious if anyone has heard about how long their waitlist generally is? Is it common for people to get in off the waitlist there? From the email, they said it is a "short, unranked" list.  

Any insight would be much appreciated! Wishing you all the best of luck!

[snottlebie]

12 minutes ago, widfara said:

Hi all! This is my first time applying and I'm still awaiting decisions from 5 schools. No concrete yeses yet, but yesterday I found out I was waitlisted at Iowa! Iowa is my dream program and it's hard to imagine anyone saying no to an acceptance there. I know there's no way to know what'll happen, but I was curious if anyone has heard about how long their waitlist generally is? Is it common for people to get in off the waitlist there? From the email, they said it is a "short, unranked" list.  

Any insight would be much appreciated! Wishing you all the best of luck!

Don’t have any insider knowledge but judging from the Draft spreadsheet and posts here I’d guesstimate 15-20 if not more. It’s ‘short’ maybe in comparison to the cohort size, but still sizable, unfortunately. (Ex. Virginia Tech admits 4/genre but the fiction waitlist is 22 people. Syracuse admits 6/genre but waitlists 14. So a 25 person cohort probably waitlists at least 25, but it depends on their retention rate. More selective schools most likely have smaller waitlists.)

Edited Friday at 10:17 PM by snottlebie

[Southron]

Missing calls gives me so much anxiety right now. A Florida number called me, was it UF? just a telemarketer? should I call it back? Ugh

Edited Friday at 10:22 PM by Southron