In response to the poster below, yes, BU has started notifying for fiction. Don't know if they went out all at once or are going out in waves though. I received an email from Ha Jin yesterday, saying they are accepting 10 students for the cohort.

0/7. Damn, didn't make it in my first round. I knew I applied to some really competitive programs but I was hoping to get one or two. Does anyone here not have an English/Creative Writing background? My degree is in something completely unrelated and I pieced my portfolio together from what I've done in a couple weekly workshops. That's all the feedback I have ever received. Any advice would be great since I mostly applied with a section of a novel-length work and have never written short stories. I think I would have had a better chance with that.

4a/7r/3p

Pleasant enough email that said they wished they had better news. I guess that wraps up this season. Good luck everyone! 2a/1w/2r

Rejected via email. Pretty devastated as I really wanted to go here, but I understand there are very few spots. Congratulations to those accepted and waitlisted. (8a/0w/2r/4p)

1a/2w/5r/2p

No email to check portal or anything. I just stumbled upon this rejection while obsessively checking all of my application statuses. I'm sure there will be an email to notify everyone else soon. Best of luck!

Did anyone else get an email? Received an email from Patrick Rosal, preview-able sentences read "Thank you for your application to the MFA program at Rutgers-Camden. We have read your application with great interest..." Since I'm checking this site more frequently than my own inbox, I assumed this was my acceptance letter. Then the reveal. "...Unfortunately, we are unable to recommend your admission at this time. Competition for admission was especially intense this year. Given the limited number of openings, we must turn away many qualified applicants. Decisions about admissions are a complicated judgment by our creative writing staff about our resources and those writers whom we feel we can most help. Please don’t take the admissions decision as discouragement about your writing. We truly wish it were possible to accommodate more writers of potential. I hope you will accept my best wishes for your future writing."

Checked portal. After all that writing, pining, and an expensive app fee, I am left with eleven words: "Your application has been reviewed, and the Committee has denied admission." (7a/1r/0w/4p)

Denied. 2a/6r/2p

"Your application has been reviewed, and the Committee has denied admission." woof. 1a/1w/4r/3p

Does anyone else from WVU plan on turning down their acceptance offer?