Rejection #3

Iowa rejection is number three, via mail. The letter itself is short and sweet, fifty words at most. Interesting bit of information: "This year, eight hundred forty-two people applied for twenty-five spaces." That's for fiction, which is a 3% acceptance rate. Yikes. There's also been rumblings about how the school has had to make financial cuts this year due to the economy and flood damages, and how some of the funding money that would've normally been there in previous years (at least for the first year students) isn't there this year. While an acceptance would've been nice, I have to wonder how hard of a decision it would've been to get an acceptance from the top writing school in the country, but with no financial support at all. Silver lining, but I'm glad I don't have to make that choice.