Anyone has some info on the Stonecoast program? It's reputation, publishing record, anything? Does it fare well against good full-res programs? Thanks everyone!

Accepted with full funding and an additional fellowship; very friendly series of emails with a few professors! Considering declining for another offer, since my spouse and I received equal, slightly better funding elsewhere.

Accepted 3/26, waitlist for funding (apparently they can fund one person per genre, but admit one or two more). Followed up with phone call 3/28; really kind people there, and the funding sounds great!

Accepted off of waitlist

Got a call from Robin Talbot today. I was so excited I don't entirely recall the whole conversation, but I got in!

Poster below: I do know that with Iowa's admissions process, students, fellows, read first rounds. There are between 1000 - 1400 manuscripts to go through. The pool gets smaller and smaller as it goes up the chain. Samantha Chang doesn't read until the pool has been considerably reduced. While she signs every response letter, if you didn't get a personal note, there's a good likelihood she didn't actually read your manuscript. So, I wouldn't take it as a personal rejection from her. You should certainly try again in future, when you feel ready.

Basic letter. No special note. A lot of people here have received a special note from the Lan Samantha Chang and it makes me feel like my application and portfolio must have truly been that bad. If so many people are getting special notes, then there must be a few of us who really had stunk. I don’t know if that means that I should even apply next year, given that I didn’t receive such a note. Has anyone applied again after a basic letter? Any personalized response after that?

Email today in my spam folder.

Received an email from the Assistant Director of Creative Writing, stating "As a small program, we are able to accept only a fraction of the promising applicants whose work we read each admissions cycle. Thank you for sharing your writing with us."

Accepted off waitlist

I was waitlisted 3/20. Super stoked! 5a/8r/1p

4a/1w/8r/1p

Got off the waitlist today!

Email said that they only took 5-6 students this year.

0a/0w/7r/2p

"your application has not been successful" lol, knew it was coming, glad i finally heard something! 0a/2r/2p

Can y'all, like, not? 0a/0w/17r/0p

I knew it was going to be the case, but at least I tried! Congrats to Jose who got in / waitlisted. Wish you the best! And to the rest of us: don’t let this get you down. Your talented isn’t measured by just one school. Keep writing. We need your words.