Celebrating Clients’ Admissions Success
Johns Hopkins ~
NYU ~
Northwestern ~
UMass-Amherst ~
Virginia Tech ~
Bowling Green ~
Ohio State ~
Illinois Urbana-Champaign ~
Michigan Ann Arbor ~
Syracuse ~
Tennessee Knoxville ~
Washington St. Louis ~
Cornell ~
George Mason ~
Nevada Reno ~
New Hampshire ~
Southern Maine ~
Oregon State ~
New Writers Project ~
UMass Boston ~
Columbia ~
Chatham ~
Stony Brook ~
San Francisco ~
Rutgers Camden ~
Notre Dame ~
Western Washington ~
Johns Hopkins ~ NYU ~ Northwestern ~ UMass-Amherst ~ Virginia Tech ~ Bowling Green ~ Ohio State ~ Illinois Urbana-Champaign ~ Michigan Ann Arbor ~ Syracuse ~ Tennessee Knoxville ~ Washington St. Louis ~ Cornell ~ George Mason ~ Nevada Reno ~ New Hampshire ~ Southern Maine ~ Oregon State ~ New Writers Project ~ UMass Boston ~ Columbia ~ Chatham ~ Stony Brook ~ San Francisco ~ Rutgers Camden ~ Notre Dame ~ Western Washington ~
In the 2023-2024 application cycle, my clients have received
* All offers are recorded here anonymously, with genres and/or offer details specified when clients had granted permission for them to be shared publicly.
Fully funded MFA offers from
Bowling Green State University
Cornell University (Fiction)
George Mason University (Fiction)
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
with the Wiley Birkhofer Fellowship for Poetry
Northwestern University (Poetry)
Ohio State University (Fiction)
Rutgers University-Camden (Fiction)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
with a fellowship nomination
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Nevada-Reno (Fiction)
University of Syracuse
Virginia Tech University
Fully Funded MFA Waitlists from
Ohio State University (Poetry)
Oregon State University (Poetry)
University of Massachusetts, Boston (Fiction; top of waitlist)
University of Notre Dame
University of Syracuse
University of Texas at Austin, New Writers Project (Poetry)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Washington University in St. Louis (Fiction)
Washington University in St. Louis (Poetry)
Partially funded MFA offers from
Columbia University (Poetry)
$20k per year scholarship
Columbia University
New York University (Poetry)
half tuition scholarship
Stony Brook University (Fiction)
with modest stipend
University of New Hampshire (Fiction)
half tuition scholarship
University of San Francisco (Fiction)
$10k fellowship; $2.5k per semester
University of San Francisco
$8k fellowship; $2k per semester
Unfunded MFA offers from
Bennington College (Fiction)
Chatham University (Fiction)
Saint Mary’s College
Stonecoast: University of Southern Maine (Fiction)
Partially funded/unfunded MFA waitlists from
Western Washington University
In addition, a dear client received undergraduate offers from
Amherst College
Early admission (~140 students selected).
Boston University
$25k Presidential Scholarship
Brown University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Emory University
half tuition liberal arts scholarship
Harvard University
Northwestern University
New York University-Stern
Princeton University
Rice University
$20k Trustee Scholarship
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
University of California-Berkeley
Early admission with invitation to interview for the Regents & Chancellor's Scholarship (top 2% of students).
University of California-Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, & San Diego
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Honors program (top ~10% of students), assured enrollment into the Journalism/Media program.
Washington University in St. Louis
Early admission as a Howard Nemerov Writing Scholar (10 scholars annually)
Williams College
Yale University
…and was waitlisted at
Barnard College
Columbia University
Georgetown University
Northeastern University
Pomona College
University of Michigan
University of Notre Dame
Vanderbilt University
Congratulations to all! Check out this Twitter Thread to see when the offers were celebrated in real time!
Hollins ~
North Carolina State ~
Florida ~
New Mexico ~
Notre Dame ~
Howard ~
Nebraska Lincoln ~
UNC Chapel Hill ~
Boston ~
Michigan Ann Arbor ~
Tennessee Knoxville ~
UT-Austin New Writers Project ~
Wisconsin Madison ~
Cornell ~
NYU ~
Northern Michigan ~
UVA ~
Virginia Tech ~
Columbia University ~
Brooklyn College ~
The New School ~
Sarah Lawrence College ~
Hollins ~ North Carolina State ~ Florida ~ New Mexico ~ Notre Dame ~ Howard ~ Nebraska Lincoln ~ UNC Chapel Hill ~ Boston ~ Michigan Ann Arbor ~ Tennessee Knoxville ~ UT-Austin New Writers Project ~ Wisconsin Madison ~ Cornell ~ NYU ~ Northern Michigan ~ UVA ~ Virginia Tech ~ Columbia University ~ Brooklyn College ~ The New School ~ Sarah Lawrence College ~
In the 2022-2023 application cycle, my clients have received
Fully funded MFA offers from
Boston University
Boston University
Hollins University
New York University
with the biggest fully funded fellowship within genre
New York University
with the biggest fully funded fellowship within genre
North Carolina State University
Northern Michigan University
University of Florida
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of New Mexico
University of Notre Dame
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Washington University in St. Louis
Fully funded PhD offers from
Howard University, English
with Frederick Douglass fellowship
University of Nebraska Lincoln, Creative Writing
with extra funding
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Comparative Literature
with extra funding & academic fellowship pending
Partially funded MFA offers from
Brooklyn College
Columbia University
The New School
Fully Funded MFA Waitlists from
Cornell University
University of Maryland
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of Texas at Austin, New Writers Project
University of Virginia
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Virginia Tech University
Unfunded MFA offer from
Sarah Lawrence College
My client also entered Phase II/Round 2 from
University of Mississippi
University of Mississippi
Cornell ~
NYU ~
Washington St. Louis ~
Virginia Tech ~
Alabama ~
George Mason ~
Nevada Reno ~
Houston ~
Rutgers Camden ~
South Florida ~
Arizona ~
Maryland ~
New Mexico ~
Washington Seattle ~
Western Washington ~
Temple ~
Arcadia ~
Eastern Oregon ~
Lesley ~
Pacific ~
Kansas State ~
British Columbia ~
Edinburgh ~
Tennessee Knoxville ~
Cornell ~ NYU ~ Washington St. Louis ~ Virginia Tech ~ Alabama ~ George Mason ~ Nevada Reno ~ Houston ~ Rutgers Camden ~ South Florida ~ Arizona ~ Maryland ~ New Mexico ~ Washington Seattle ~ Western Washington ~ Temple ~ Arcadia ~ Eastern Oregon ~ Lesley ~ Pacific ~ Kansas State ~ British Columbia ~ Edinburgh ~ Tennessee Knoxville ~
In the 2021-2022 application cycle, my clients have received
Fully funded MFA offers from
Cornell University
George Mason University
George Mason University
Louisiana State University
New York University
University of Alabama
University of Nevada-Reno
University of South Florida
Virginia Tech University
Washington University in St. Louis
Waitlisted MFA offer from
Rutgers University-Camden
University of Arizona
University of Houston
University of Maryland
University of New Mexico
University of Washington, Seattle
Virginia Tech University
Western Washington University
Low Residency offer from
Arcadia University
Eastern Oregon University
Lesley University
Pacific University
Low Residency waitlist from
University of British Columbia
Unfunded Full Residency MFA offers from
Temple University
My client also entered Phase II/Round 2 from
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
In addition, my clients received offers from
Kansas State University, MA, fully funded with extra funding
University of Edinburgh, MSc
*photo credit to the image below: Elías José Beltrán