Already have a novel published in the US and ten years teaching in English literature and writing both academic assignments and creative writing in fiction and CNF.

Rejected off the waitlist in April, then an offer unexpectedly in June! So excited.

Waitlisted for funding. Accepted to program

Automated acceptance email from grad division came at 4 AM!

Received no notification at all via email, phone, mail... nothing, all through the end of April. Kept checking the application portal, it still read "awaiting decision". Wrote twice in April to the contact email for MFA Creative Writing as I had other offers pending and needed to make a decision; one contact was via the portal, other via direct email, and still received no response. After May 1, thinking maybe I was on the wait list and they were waiting to see if a space opened up after others replied to offers, I finally contacted graduate admissions, who said the department had not yet notified them to send my decision, and they suggested I contact someone else in the Creative Writing department, which I did. Here was the response: "I'm sorry you have not received word from the Graduate School yet. Notices should have been sent out a month ago. Perhaps we have the wrong email address for you on file. I'm sorry to say that your application was not advanced to admission for the 2025 academic year. We hope you will consider reapplying next year and wish you the best of luck in all your future endeavors." Bogus - they had my email on file and no notice was posted on portal. Glad I have another offer to accept and don't have to deal with a program that can't give the courtesy of a response to applicants after multiple attempts to get an answer on a decision.

Rejected off the waitlist. Congrats to everyone who got in!

Well I figured

Hadn’t heard back so I emailed— here’s the response— The offers of admission have been sent out and so have the rejections. You should check your application portal to confirm whether you have received either of these notifications. If you did not receive either notification, then you were on our waitlist, and we were hoping to be able to admit you. However, at this point, we have made all the offers we expect to make for the Fall 2025 semester. Due to the statewide hiring freeze by the governor of Louisiana, we will not be making any offers after April 12. The earliest we may resume the process is in July, barring any extensions of the hiring freeze. I’ve accepted an offer at another school anyways but just wanted my answer. Best of luck to anyone else who is on the waitlist (?? at least I think I’m on the waitlist) 2a/9r/2w/0p

Rejected with an email. Good luck to everyone else.

accepted off the waitlist, but will decline !

Accepted in March to MFA but had no funding. On 4/7, waitlisted for TLF (20% tuition scholarship). They can't tell me until August 1 if I'll come off it or not... I will be declining. I can't (and nobody should) wait that long.

No communication from the dept at any point in this. Came as a surprise. Only 3 years? guaranteed funding.

I got in off the waitlist for fiction but have already committed to USC. Whoever was #3 on the waitlist for fiction should be getting their offer soon!

Got offered a spot at UL Lafayette with funding. Feels really late in the season & I already accepted an offer somewhere else so I turned it down. Funding is 2,000$ per month for nine months, so $18,000 per year. Teaching load is 2/2.

Finally found out only after the portal updated. Disappointed but not surprised. I never received a physical letter. I emailed on March 20th to request a digital copy, but my email was not responded to. When I called admissions over a week later, there was no one to answer the phone, so I left a voicemail that never received a call back. I don't know if maybe there was restructuring in the admissions department, but it felt very unprofessional.