I Am Retarded (grad school woes)

Grad School

So I’m applying to grad schools for a creative writing MFA, and the process is so horrible. It wouldn’t be so bad if there was some kind of uniform to schools’ websites so you could find everything in one location. I’ve already spent 20 minutes on one site looking for GRE school codes.

Somebody has to say this directly

Seth Abramson is a con-man in plainclothes. I’m not going to explain who he is, so just look him up if you don’t know.

Basically if a person cannot decide where they want to go to grad school to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing they shouldn’t be consulting some one else to tell them where they should apply.  Abramson is charging $230-ish (I don’t know the exact figure) to look over a person’s manuscript, judge it, and point them in a direction of schools to apply to. (Is it just me, or is this something that should’ve happened with you and your professors in an undergraduate institution?)

Let me just say this, because it’s important. If you need somebody’s advice on where you should to go grad school, you should probably reconsider. Especially if that person is being paid by you and has no other connection with you (ex. if you talk to a professor you have classes with them, conferences…you get to establish a relationship with another human being that may give you better advice than some manuscript consultant.)

Honestly, if you’re dumb enough to give this clown money, then you deserve to be taken advantage of. It’s called Trial and Error, you might learn something.

To tell you the truth, I’m just bitter that I didn’t think of it first.