- 149 colleges and universities are listed in the 2008 Data Bank of Application Responses
- 97 of these colleges and universities (65%) have not sent out any acceptances yet
- 52 of these colleges and universities (35%) have sent out an acceptance in at least one genre
- However, of those 52 colleges and universities that have sent out an acceptance in at least one genre, 34 (65%) have not sent out acceptances for all genres
- In other words, only 18 colleges and universities from the listing on this website (12%) appear to have notified all applicants for all genres
- The fact that only 149 colleges and universities are listed here means there are probably at least 50 others that are not listed here
- Therefore, it's likely that only 9% or so of all colleges and universities with MFA programs have notified all their acceptees
- Even at schools which have notified all their acceptees, it is only their initial acceptees, meaning that at most of these schools it's still likely that additional candidates will be wait-listed and ultimately accepted off the wait-list
- There are well over seven weeks left before April 15th, or (looked at another way) nearly two months
Sunday, February 24, 2008
[MFA Applicant Resources]
To all those waiting for responses from MFA programs, I thought the following data would interest you. It emphasizes how early in the process we still are:
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4 comments:
Seth - thank you for this broader perspective. I've stopped hyperventilating, at least for the day, and I'm happy to give you the credit.
Deonne
Seth,
This might not be the right place to ask, but I had a question about the "funding-only" rankings that you alluded to in an earlier post. How are you going to take into account the "size" of a particular program? For example, a program like Cornell, or UT, is small and can therefore afford to fund all of its incoming students very generously, whereas a program like, say, Iowa is fairly large, and though they can't afford to give every single student a full fellowship, they're still a very well-endowed program (from what I hear) that goes out of their way to make sure every single student gets funding. In fact,considering the size of Iowa's program, I'd say their funding situation was pretty superb, at least compared to other big programs. But how does one factor that in? After all, if Iowa chose to reduce its incoming class to five fiction writers and five poets, they could give all of those students pretty hefty fellowships. But then, wouldn't something be lost? Isn't the size of the program and the community at Iowa part of what makes Iowa great? I'm using Iowa as an example, but the same could be said of other large programs. In other words, should large programs be penalized simply because they're large. Or, is that something you're factoring in? Just curious, really. I don't even know why I'm thinking about this, but it just occured to me when I was reading that post.
Thanks, Seth, and keep up the great work!
Thank you for this post. I've been slowly gnawing my hands off waiting to hear, feeling disheartened at every indication that programs have begun notifying the accepted candidates. I'm thrilled there's still hope!
i agree with deonne. i need to just stop hyperventilating and just wait it out. thank you.
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