Apr 01
Our Sweet Sixteen: Help Us Determine the Best Writin’ School in the Land
categories: Cocktail Hour
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Once again it is time to scientifically determine the best writing school in the country. This year’s seeding is based on last year’s results. Can Vermont defend its title? Stay tuned.
We ask that you leave your vote on the comments page of this post. Only one vote per person per school this round please. But if you like you can vote for two schools, yours and another. This next round of voting will determine the final 2! Because how long can we really keep this up?
LAST YEAR’S RESULT’s
1. Vermont College: 192
2. Bama: 64
3. Ohio State: 51
4. McNeese: 44
5. Goddard: 43 (a spate of late votes would have made G number 3, but…..)
6. George Mason: 35
7. UNCW: 23
8. Ashland: 22
9. SDSU: 21
10. Virginia Tech: 15
11. Arizona State: 13
12. BGSU: 9
13. New School: 7
14. Arizona: 7
15. Iowa: 7
16. Penn State RIP: 5
Roll tide. That is to say: Bama, obviously.
And Arizona, just b/c Ander Monson is there.
Roll tide!!!! Bama.
Alabama
Virginia Tech
RMFT. BAMA.
Roll Bama Roll Tide Roll
Bama! Roll Tide!
Bama (roll tide) and Ashland (roll amish).
ALABAMA!
Alabama ROOOOOLLL TIIIIDDEEEE
Roll one for the Tide!!!! Alabama!
George Mason!
Alabama. RTW!
UNCW!
RMFT ALABAMA!
This is charming. But so many schools are unrepresented! I’m surprised there isn’t a hi-res and low-res distinction, too.
Regardless, I’d vote for Wyoming in any MFA battle. (They even have an MFA intramural basketball team, while we’re talking brackets.)
I’m taking this way too seriously.
Go Wyoming. Wild card!
With Brad Watson’s there, we’ll count all votes for WYO double. And then subtract for Dick Cheney, though I know he’s from Casper.
Alabama!
I’m voting for my ghost of a school anyway: PENN STATE.
Um, U of WYOMING for the write-in win! We have Brad-freakin-Watson for heaven’s sake! And Danielle Pafunda! And an intramural basketball team.
PLUS, we’re at over 7200′.
BGSU
The University of Western Quebec in Toporia, Quebec! The faculty is unknown outside of themselves, but they will have published a total of 29 novels by the end of the next decade. They fund most of their students and everyone who is admitted is invited to pour the cement that will form the foundation of the university. They are so selective that their acceptance rate is an imaginary number, but next year they hope to offer two dead poets a spot in their coveted “dead-poets corner” next to what they hope will be a TA office.
This one wins.
Mason
BGSU–obviously.
Alabama
Shockers come from behind to storm this bracket, too! Wichita State for the win.
Bowling Green!
Ashland!!!
Ashland University
Ashland!
Ohio University, you silly geese.
Go Ashland!!!
Ashland!
ALABAMA . . . . . Roll Tide, weirdos!
Gotta go with Middlebury!
SDSU!
Ashland
I want to vote for Ashland, how do I do that!
Ashland
ASHLAND
SDSU
Who ARE you people? Syracuse is number #1–how is it possible they’re not even on your list? AND we could take you all in March madness b ball as well.
Last year a write-in won!
Vermont College of Fine Arts
SDSU.
Indiana University-Bloomington!!
Where’s Middlebury/Breadloaf?
In Vermont.
And worthy of a vote!
BGSU!
UNCW
Don’t we have nepotism rules?
Ashland all the way, baby!
That was a terrible fall Penn State took near the sidelines last year. They are only in this tourney as a ghost, I’m afraid.
Ashland