MFA Graduate School Admission Results

Got a voicemail (I was at work) indicating my acceptance, followed by an email. YAY. 7a/2w/3r/3p

1a/6r/3p - Enthusiastic email from the director of the Writing Program!

no interview at all, just reject me by sending me email.

2R/6A/1W

Email from Patrick Rosal. 1W/6A/2R

With funding!!!

First Acceptance. Telling my amazing undergrad professors I got in was the highpoint of my day! 1a/3r/0w/4p

1a/5r/0w/1p

To the person asking about Columbia: I also got in there and with pretty good funding (as far as Columbia goes), and I've been rejected from Michener, Brown, and Iowa. I was waitlisted at one other program of a similar caliber to those 3. I think it's all a bit random, but Columbia is probably on the easier side to get into just considering that it's so much bigger than many other programs. But I think it's still quite competitive.

Signed with a major lit agent yesterday, rejected from yet another program today (with no note!) These programs clearly need to reconsider their criteria. You can teach fancy prose, but you can't teach appeal. 0a/1w/6r/6p

To the poster asking about Columbia, I was accepted there with funding, and also Michener and UC Irvine, was waitlisted at IWW, rejected at Brown and still waiting to hear from one more.

I'm on the wait list & rejected by everywhere else... was anyone accepted and thinking of not going? If this isn't the year for me then it isn't the year for me but god I'd love to get in.

Simple, sweet email.

Poster below about the job/program decision: TAKE THE JOB!! Taking the job will allow you to live for a while, save some money, continue writing, and apply again to fully funded programs. MFAs will be around for a while, but that corporate job will find someone else. The great thing about writing is that it doesn't cost a dime (other than a pencil and paper or whatever), and great programs recognize that. I hope it all works out for you!