Graduate School Admission Results

This letter is in regard to your application to the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Washington University in St. Louis for Fall 2025. After careful review of your application, we regret to inform you that we cannot offer you admission to the program. We make our admission decisions only after reviewing each application very carefully. We received a large number of applications from extremely well qualified candidates and are able to accept only a few. We appreciate the effort you put into your application to WashU and wish you the very best in your future academic pursuits.

We regret to inform you that your application for admission into the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon has not been accepted. Out of the hundreds of applications received, we can only extend 10 offers of admission (five in fiction; five in poetry). While we are not able to comment on individual applications, we appreciate your interest in our graduate program and wish you the best in your writing career.

Brief email. Bummer.

0a/0w/1p/5r We regret to inform you that your application for admission into the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon has not been accepted. Out of the hundreds of applications received, we can only extend 10 offers of admission (five in fiction; five in poetry). While we are not able to comment on individual applications, we appreciate your interest in our graduate program and wish you the best in your writing career.

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Email to check portal

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kind email but stated they would not offer insight into the ranked waitlist---if you are settled on declining your acceptance, please do so soon! 1a/2w/5r/3p

very kind email. accepted 2.5% of applicants and waitlist is not much larger. hoping a spot opens up! 1a/2w/5r/3p

All I gotta do is pray.

screaming crying giving up

email to check portal, 300 applicants for 10 spots, very kind form rejection email. 3a/2w/4r/5p.

Personal email from program director! 2a/0w/0r/5p