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If you applied to a graduate program and are still waiting to make your decision, I would strongly recommend you do so immediately if you have a good funded offer on the table. These offers may not be good until the usual deadline since universities are freaking out about budget.
Many/most universities are looking at huge budget shortfalls next fall due to Covid-19, and graduate funding is an obvious and easy place to cut, in part because at most places graduate funding is tied to enrollments in first-year writing courses, which are expected to drop.
I never thought I& #39;d have to say that a university could pull an offer before the deadline, but they absolutely can, and some will. It won& #39;t happen everywhere but it will happen somewhere.
If you& #39;re still waiting on a spot to open up at Dream Program X before committing to Great Program Y That Would Be Great, you risk losing both of these pathways forward if you wait too long.
Plus—and you know this—others for whom Great Program Y IS Dream Program X are waiting on you to make this decision.
As someone who& #39;s been in charge of admissions for a small MFA program that makes its decisions early, it& #39;s always been frustrating to wait on people waffling on offers and holding out hope for something better, even as I understand this is the game. But this year& #39;s different.
