Saw the poster earlier. Letter attached at the bottom of status page. 1a/1w/5r This will do it for me.

SO... my ultimate goal is to get my PhD in Creative Writing. I am currently pursuing an MFA and was accepted to a full-time program with funding Minnesota Mankato). Mankato is not very highly ranked currently, although it is on the "top 25 underrated programs" list. I also have been accepted to a top-ten ranking low-res program (USM Stonecoast). My question is this - which would be better for me in terms of applying later for a PhD? Could I even apply for a PhD with a low-res MFA? Please respond - I have to accept or decline TODAY my TAship at the fully funded program. Thank you.

0a/0w/6r/3p someone hold me :(

To fellow accepted/waitlisted applicants waiting for my answer: I am 80% certain that I will accept NMSU. I'm waiting on another school regarding GAship, but they are so disorganized. They literally JUST told me I had to fill out a separate application sheet for the GAship, and the deadline to respond is NEXT WEEK! I'm probably going to wait it out and see because there are more pros for me in Ohio than NM, but I don't know if I want to deal with Ohio's BS anymore. With NM, I got GAship. So if you're waitlisted for the GAship, then sorry for making you wait. This is also a heads up that 8/10 I will accept NMSU. I'll probably post again before I respond.

After ten rejections over two years, this feels sublime. Waitlisted for a graduate assistantship. (Good luck to those still waiting at this stage -- there's still hope!)

Hey there. Just wondering if anyone was planning on declining their acceptance into the University of Oregon. Thanks again.

Speaking of programs... could someone please gie me some insight about the reputation of UNCW? I was accepted there, UMASS Boston and Hollins, all with funding, and I have to choose because of the TAship offers TOMORROW. Please help with some info and advice! Thank you.

Also wow, that was full of typos. hmmm makes me think my english sucks indeed... Sorry guys I'm still delirious from the shock of the bad news this morning.

NYU is a great program with amazing faculty. If you have funding there and no other offers, take it.

Well, the last "OTHER" poster just decided the debate over what counts with prestigious schools when they make their selections. Remember guys the poster who went to low-ranking schools but had a great manuscript (he/she said it was nominated for several awards) and he/she was accepted by all the not-so-prestigious schools, including some highly ranked programs, but not even waitlisted by any of the prestigious ones (yet he/she was accepted at Iowa)? And then someone else posted that he/she went to a low-ranking school as well and was not accepted anywhere "fancy" either, despite a 99 percentile GRE and top GPA? Here is a poster who did not score high on the TOEFL therefore his or her English cannot be that great (I can say this because I have taken the TOEFL so I know what I'm talking about, and being a non-native speaker myself I am not being culturally insensitive), he/she has a GPA under 3.0 BUT he/she went to a prestigious school - and he is now on a wait list for Cornell and several Ivy-ish schools. No offense to anyone, but the fact is, where you went to school matters, despite programs stating that "it is all about the writing quality." In fact where you went to school seems to matter more than GREs,TOEFL scores and GPAs. Like another poster suggested, I doubt programs even get to your manuscript if you don't make the cut otherwise. As for the advice to the OTHER poster - if you definitely want to stay in the US don't take chances with the wait list. Pick a program you have already been accepted to; the one you like the most and, if finances matter to you, one that gives you good funding. If finances do not matter disregard funding criteria. Good luck and don't take what I have said about the TOEFL score to heart - language can be acquired.

Has anyone heard about movement on Michigan's waitlist? It's my top choice, but I've got another offer I'm happy with and not sure if I should wait it out...seems like in previous years, more people had gotten off the waitlist by now

To the poster below wondering about fiction applications, I was waitlisted by email a few weeks ago

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Thank you UNM poster. You put my mind at ease!

Very kind email "hope to contact you with more definite news in the near future".