Hey PSU inquirer-- my last name starts with "T". Also, I found their email in my "Promotions" folder on my gmail account. Which was weird, because every other email they've sent me has come to my direct inbox. Check all your folders just to be sure. Good luck!

Thank you for applying to the MFA@FLA. Our teaching faculty is grateful for your application and for the opportunity to read your work. We regret that we will not be able to offer you a place in our program. As you perhaps know, our program is relatively small and admission quite competitive. (Between 5% and 10% of applicants in poetry are admitted; in fiction between 2% and 3%.) We try to accept writers whose work is best suited to the strengths and interests of our particular faculty. These are the candidates we feel we can best work with, who will best profit from what we as individuals can teach. It is a difficult process, this selecting, one that makes us decline the candidacy of accomplished and unaccomplished writers alike, and it does not confer a negative judgment upon the work of those whom we cannot admit. We hope you can locate a program that feels it can speak to your strengths as a writer, and we wish you the best with your creative work.

2a/0w/10r

To poster below: they told me the same thing last week: "strong consideration." I pictured muscles being overexerted and twisted. It must be some sort of an informal waitlist behind the formal waitlist. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Email to check website. I also died a little inside. 4r/0w/2a

I emailed the coordinator and he told me. I wasn't surprised, but it was nice to dream. rn1a/0w/2r (I am assuming Irvine leaving me in the dark means they have rejected me)

declined. Vivian Gornick "I think the writing programs are illegitimate. Because they are a cash cow, because they are indiscriminate in their admissions, because they need to constantly keep feeding themselves with mobs of people who are either mediocre or less. There are a few people who are so bad you don’t know how on earth they got in at the other end. And in the middle is this mass of people who have tiny amounts of writing capacity, nothing will come— '

Last one! It's over! It's over! Well...except for these four pending waitlists... 1a/4w/5r

Aaaand we're done! 1a/1w/12r

got an email to check status on the website, then died a little on the inside

oh well, I guess.

Had to email the department head to get my rejection. He said they forwarded the application decisions last week and everyone should be hearing from the graduate school soon.

From London, still called me. Feels kinda fantastic, doesn't it?

My top choice! Just waiting to hear about funding, so if you've been offered a GTA and know that you won't be attending, please please notify them!!! Would be a dream come true