<p>If anybody on the boards has personal experience with the Creativ Writing program, could you please send me a PM? Thank you in advance!</p>
<p>Creative writing classes are notoriously hard to get into. Basically, you won’t be able to take creative writing unless you are miraculously lucky and get an early enough registration time (which won’t happen as a freshman) . There are 25 spots for fiction and 25 for poetry,and a waitlist of about 50 people for each. So don’t count on getting into these classes to begin with.</p>
<p>In short, come with an open mind about the classes you want to take.</p>
<p>I’ve heard about the selectivity of the courses, but I plan on using my freshman year to take a sampling of the different departments just so I get a good feel for all of them. Thanks for the heads up.</p>
<p>My older brother double majored in creative writing and biology. All I can say is wow! What a program. Very intense.</p>
<p>it’s not about “getting in” based on registration time: you have to apply and get in that way.</p>
<p>All of my friends did not get in their first semester, but managed in the spring. Basically if you stick with it long enough and did a good enough job at it, you’ll get it in time :)</p>
<p>My daughter absolutely loves the creative writing department at Oberlin and has been fortunate to get into every workshop she’s applied for. She’s had friends who haven’t gotten in but then got in the following semester.</p>
<p>bfw611,</p>
<p>When you say your daughter is a major who has gotten into her workshops but her friends haven’t, were those friends also majors?</p>
<p>I am trying to assess what it would be like if one attended Oberlin but was not accepted into the CW program and majored in English with Creative Writing Concentration.</p>
<p>Can anyone with experience comment on that route? Are the workshops basically restricted only to CW majors?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Hey, current CWR major here. </p>
<p>Basically it works like this. There is a very limited number of spots for majors mainly because you need to have an advisor in the department to be a major and each member of the department can only handle so many students as an advisor. For people taking a concentration while majoring in English, the requirements to complete the concentration are way more relaxed than the requirements to complete the actual major. A lot of people go this route because the Major is a bit of a political rat race. There’s a lot of competition among students in the department and you are required to apply for every single workshop above the 100 level courses. People with concentrations are not necessarily required to take as many workshops or capstones to qualify, so if you’re less interested in actually writing and more into reading and writing papers, it’s a solid option.</p>