Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Coming Together

Schools that have sent notices:
Alabama- POSITIVE by phone
Arkansas - POSITIVE in poetry
Arizona- POSITIVE by phone and by mail in poetry, POSITIVE in nonfiction, NEGATIVE by mail
Arizona State- POSITIVE
Bennington College: POSITIVE
Bowling Green- WAITLIST
Brown- NEGATIVE by mail (acceptances via phone call also reported)
Cal Arts: POSITIVE
Colorado: POSITIVE by phone in poetry and fiction
Columbia - POSITIVE and NEGATIVE in both poetry and fiction
Cornell: POSITIVE and NEGATIVE
Emerson: POSITIVE
Florida: POSITIVE
George Mason: POSITIVE in poetry
Houston: POSITIVE in poetry
Indiana: POSITIVE in poetry
Iowa: POSITIVE and WAITLIST by phone and e-mail; NEGATIVE by mail
Johns Hopkins: POSITIVE by phone; NEGATIVE in both poetry and fiction
Maryland: POSITIVE
Massachusetts (Amherst): POSITIVE, WAITLIST, and NEGATIVE
Michigan: POSITIVE and WAITLIST in both fiction and poetry by e-mail, NEGATIVE by mail
Minnesota: POSITIVE (by phone), WAITLIST
Mississippi (Ole Miss): NEGATIVE by e-mail
Montana: POSITIVE in fiction by phone and e-mail, WAITLIST, NEGATIVE by letter
New Hampshire: POSITIVE (by e-mail notification)
New York University: POSITIVE
UNC Wilmington: POSITIVE and NEGATIVE
Ohio State: WAITLIST in poetry
Oregon: POSITIVE in poetry by phone
Oregon State: POSITIVE and WAITLIST
Queens University: POSITIVE
Sarah Lawrence- POSITIVE (poetry, fiction, and nonfiction)
Southern Maine: POSITIVE (phone)
Stanford (Stegner Fellowship): POSITIVE and NEGATIVE in both poetry and fiction
Syracuse: POSITIVE in poetry
Texas-Austin Michener Center- NEGATIVE, as posted on website; POSITIVE by phone; check status of applications here:(http://utdirect.utexas.edu/nr/appstat.html )
UC-Davis: POSITIVE
Utah: POSITIVE in fiction by phone, POSITIVE in poetry, NEGATIVE by mail
Vanderbilt: NEGATIVE in poetry by e-mail
Virginia: NEGATIVE as listed on website; WAITLIST by e-mail
Washington (Seattle): POSITIVE by e-mail
Washington U (St. Louis): NEGATIVE
Wisconsin- Madison: NEGATIVE and WAITLIST
Western Connecticut State: POSITIVE
Wyoming: WAITLIST

This is all I have heard so far. There is a little more in-depth discussion of these notifications being carried on in the comments section of the first post. There are rumors of other schools, but I am not comfortable posting them until someone submits them to this site. As to a question posted in the comments section: Yes, I would be happy to post results of non-MFA fellowships, if anyone sees fit to send them to me. Thanks for everyone's comments; I'll throw things on here as soon as they come in. Thanks to all those who have contributed.
A quick note: I've been a little hesitant to compile results from message boards, as many of you know, some people just can't be trusted. So, I'm a little wary of message boards and people who frequent them, but in the sake of keeping this interesting, I'll post most of their results anyway.

62 Comments:

Blogger washy jane said...

man, post updates!! we're all eager to see what's going on! thanks for this site. it's nice to have a community to stress with while we wait for our letters!

12:44 PM  
Blogger commanda said...

How'd you get the information from Michener online?

1:14 PM  
Blogger Yo said...

I am wondering if anyone has yet been rejected or accepted to the following MFA programs: UF, FSU, NYU, Hollins, Indiana, UMASS, & IOWA. Thanks...And I'll post if I hear from any of the above.

10:48 AM  
Blogger Yo said...

rejected by UMASS, letter dated 2/22/06!

1:34 PM  
Blogger at home in michigan said...

accepted at iowa, 2/24

7:00 PM  
Blogger Taylor Altman said...

Hey, I just came across your site. I'm a poet who applied to 9 MFA programs. I heard back from 3 (one acceptance at Maryland, two rejections elsewhere), and I'm waiting to hear back from the rest. I'm so nervous about Iowa! Good luck to all of you :)

2:51 AM  
Blogger hitch3b said...

Rejection letter from UMASS Amherst.

6:32 AM  
Blogger waiting said...

I'm sorry, what does Positive AND Negative mean??

8:15 AM  
Blogger Josh Mc. said...

Hello Waiting,

"Positive AND Negative" means that people have received both acceptances and rejections.

9:49 AM  
Blogger Lincoln said...

COLUMBIA sent me a POSITIVE by phone yesterday. Also a fellowhip.

Didn't see them listed yet, so maybe you can update with that.

11:22 AM  
Blogger Lincoln said...

This was for fiction, if you need to know that.

I haven't heard anything form the other 10 schools.

11:24 AM  
Blogger waiting said...

Oooh, I'm sorry. I thought this was your own personal list. I didn't realize it was a bunch of people's. Thanks!

11:59 AM  
Blogger Peter J Gloviczki '06: CIS Journalistic Ethics said...

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4:05 PM  
Blogger Lincoln said...

I imagine many of you are nervous about this and wish the site was updated, so here a live journal site that is doing the same thing.

11:01 AM  
Blogger Lincoln said...

Here is what they have different as of 3/05/06:


Arkansas - one person got accepted in poetry. no idea about fiction.

Columbia - poetry and fiction acceptances and rejections. not sure if they've notified everyone.

George Mason - poetry acceptance.


Indiana - poetry acceptance.

Johns Hopkins - rejections reported in fiction and poetry. no acceptances yet.


Montana - notified a fiction person of acceptance over the phone.

Ohio State University - one person waitlisted in poetry. haven't heard about fiction.

Stegner - people have been notified of acceptances over the phone in both poetry and fiction.

Syracuse - one person got in for poetry, no word on fiction.

Utah - called acceptees in fiction. no word on poetry, and also sent rejections.

UWisconsin Madison - rejections updated online, a couple of waitlist notices in fiction. no idea about poetry.

Wash. U St. Louis - lots of rejection notices by post, one person reported an acceptance in poetry.

11:04 AM  
Blogger Say said...

just to add, i've been waitlisted at syracuse (via snail mail). (this is in poetry)

6:47 PM  
Blogger kjo said...

accepted at New College for MFA in fiction via phone and then during a personal interview. Beginning of February.

9:21 AM  
Blogger Sarah said...

psst--I got into Wash U. St. Louis on Friday (for poetry).

11:53 AM  
Blogger Lincoln said...

the lack of updates is killing me here. Would someone like me to start a different MFA acceptances blog? I could update it daily...

12:47 PM  
Blogger Josh Mc. said...

Lincoln's obviously distressed about the lack of updates. Well, I update this blog as I receive information from other people; it's not as if I'm any sort of insider. In fact, I updated the page quite thoroughly last night, and there are not any acceptances/ rejections that I have heard of since. If you want to start your own blog, please do so and send me a link. I'll post it on our frontpage.

4:13 PM  
Blogger TinyShiny said...

Really, Josh, I'd prefer if you could not only update more frequently but also actually force the schools I'm waiting on to send me some acceptances. Seriously!

4:30 PM  
Blogger Josh Mc. said...

No kidding. I've gotten rejected from four schools so far: Vanderbilt, Cornell, Michigan, and Iowa. I could use an advocate myself.

9:17 PM  
Blogger Lincoln said...

Hey man, not trying to butt in on your thing, its just that when I posted that comment you hadn't posted any updates (that I could tell) in 10 days.

I thought maybe you had abandoned ship or something.

10:47 PM  
Blogger hitch3b said...

Acceptance from Minnesota!

7:18 AM  
Blogger washy jane said...

Has anyone received a waitlist notice from Austin yet? I know rejections and acceptances have gone out...

11:41 AM  
Blogger V said...

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5:16 PM  
Blogger jennymck said...

I checked my Iowa admissions page and I've been "not admitted" to the creative nonfiction program as of this morning.
: (

7:36 AM  
Blogger xx525xx said...

Accepted, UofArizona, by phone

2:37 PM  
Blogger The Dinah Shores said...

- accepted by Alabama, by phone, about a month ago
- rejected by Iowa and UMass about a week ago
- waitlisted by Montana about a day ago

5:46 PM  
Blogger washy jane said...

any of y'all fellow acceptees to amherst fiction? if so, are you planning on attending this fall?

6:13 PM  
Blogger nick0102 said...

Has anyone heard back from Virginia, Irvine, or Texas-San Marcos for fiction?

6:30 PM  
Blogger mkt27 said...

accepted by UofAZ by phone,
rejected via mail- Iowa, Syracuse, Umass Amherst, Michigan, Cornell, John's Hopkins (all fiction)

7:31 PM  
Blogger staircar said...

i've been accepted to UMass fiction, and so far i'm planning on attending.

i also have rejections from Syracuse and Wisconsin, and i'm waiting on NYU, Alabama, and Indiana.

2:08 PM  
Blogger washy jane said...

Staircar, would you choose NYU, Alabama or Indiana over Amherst?

4:01 PM  
Blogger Coolshoes said...

Rejected by Queens University (Charlotte) in nonfiction, by letter yesterday

7:03 PM  
Blogger staircar said...

washy jane-
i'm in love with the UMass program, but if i didn't get a TA position there, and got full funding at one of the other schools, i'd have to do some thinking.
right now, i'm thanking my lucky stars just to have gotten into one!

11:23 AM  
Blogger movintomissoula said...

accepted in prose at montana, by email.

12:21 PM  
Blogger Taylor Altman said...

accepted at University of Arizona (poetry), letter dated 3/7!!

5:37 PM  
Blogger washy jane said...

has anyone been waitlisted at amherst in fiction?!? i saw this reported on gradcafe.com

10:11 PM  
Blogger kjo said...

waitlisted UC Davis 3/15 via email.

11:38 AM  
Blogger jennymck said...

rejected from Pitt Thursday via snail mail in nonfiction.

11:20 AM  
Blogger mermelior said...

Accepted to Iowa's Nonfiction by phone, offered Arts Fellowship.

2:07 PM  
Blogger jennymck said...

acceptance at Sarah Lawrence, nonfiction as of today (Saturday) via letter.

5:21 PM  
Blogger Miss Adventure said...

Accepted by phone and snail mail, Arizona.
Accepted by snail mail, Sarah Lawrence.
Accepted by phone with fellowship and teaching, Colorado.
Now, waiting for $$ on those first two...

7:18 PM  
Blogger washy jane said...

In at California College of the Arts Writing MFA this week!
Waitlisted at The University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Fiction).

9:36 PM  
Blogger Askinstoo said...

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6:46 PM  
Blogger nick0102 said...

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11:01 AM  
Blogger nick0102 said...

Still no word from Irvine or Virginia?? Isn't it getting late at this point?

11:02 AM  
Blogger Nervous in L.A. said...

In at Wilmington in fiction. (By e-mail.)

9:48 AM  
Blogger James said...

Columbia-yes, phone and mail
Cornell-no, mail
Boise St-yes, phone
Texas St-yes, phone
U-Washington-no, email (email!)

Nothing thus far:
UC-Irvine
SF St
Cal Arts
Art Inst Chicago

Good work doing this!

11:21 PM  
Blogger nick0102 said...

To James Yeh: Congratulations on the acceptances (San Marcos was not quite as thrilled with my application), and yes, the Zombies, when not too flowery, are great. As is Dylan's New Morning, which has had a second life of sorts in the past few weeks.

Here's to Irvine...good luck.

8:07 AM  
Blogger washy jane said...

James, I was rejected from SAIC this week.

Anyone have any info about California College of the Arts in San Francisco? I'm thinking of enrolling there...since I got in, yeah!

6:51 AM  
Blogger washy jane said...

Does anyone have any information about City University London's MA program in Creative Writing (novels)? Thanks!

3:32 PM  
Blogger cdmitchell1964 said...

Hey. I received a letter from USM accepting me to the fiction PHD. Has everyone on that email been accepted? I assume everyone has received the email that it will be April 17th before any funding decisions are made. Anyone going to USm feel free to contact me at cdmitchell1964@yahoo.com

1:54 PM  
Blogger USM said...

USM excellent fellowship offers already went out.

1:00 PM  
Blogger Jason MacLeod said...

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7:15 PM  
Blogger Jason MacLeod said...

Hey, if anyone is heading to the Montana MFA next year, feel free to e-mail me with any questions. I'm in the program and will be around all summer here in Missoula. jmmacleod@gmail.com. Also, we have a rather goofy unofficial website with various events & pictures listed. www.montanamfa.org

7:18 PM  
Blogger Writing_PA said...

I applied to one school for my Master's and got accepted! Wilkes University, here I come! :-)

11:42 AM  
Blogger Miss Something (or other) said...

Mills - waitlisted, fiction

Purdue - rejected, fiction

8:55 AM  
Blogger Miss Something (or other) said...

Rutgers - Accepted! Financial Aid pending.

7:06 PM  
Blogger Marcelisima said...

Anyone been accepted to Iowa? I'm attending this fall 2007 and would like to meet folks also attending. Any genre.

http://iowamfa.blogspot.com

thanks!

1:13 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

UFL Gainesville-- accepted by email for fiction as of 3/6!

Still waiting on Syracuse fiction-- anyone out there heard yet?

5:52 PM  

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