Heard back from another school; I got on the waitlist. Which I don't feel too bad about, because they accept only 5 people. This also means, I think, that the wait list probably isn't humongous. After all, would they expect every one of the applicants they accepted to decline, and then the first five on the waitlist, etc.? The respondant also said that naturally, she expected a "writer of [my] caliber" would have been accepted at some program or other. That's very nice of them. But of course if every program said that, I'd be screwed. :)