<p>I’m glad this thread was posted. I’m very nervous about my future, prospectively attending a school whose reputation isn’t yet solidified, even if it’s a terrific school. It’s this weird sort of abstract compunction. I want to be a writer, but there haven’t really been any successful writers who have graduated from the school. So who’s to say I’ll be the first produced? Why would I defy the precedent? I’m not that intelligent. I just want to be able to do what I love at one point in my life, and I’m sort of clawing at it when it’s embedded so far in the distance.</p>