<p>Would love to hear people’s experiences at low-residency programs such as Goddard, or Union Institute/University. </p>
<p>Goddard involves a week-long residency every semester, and Union Institute has choices of an 8 day residency twice/year, a weekend stay every month, or an entirely online program. </p>
<p>Both involve independent work while home, with a faculty mentor. The cost is a little over $5,000 per semester, and the academic choices are quite broad and deep.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>In creative writing, you’ll get feedback on your work. You could probably find ways to get feedback on your work without paying that much, but it would take more research, and time, and could involve stuff like community writing groups, sending materials out to magazines and other publication venues. In the lo-res MFA, you won’t get very much negative feedback on your writing, of course, because the paycheck of the teachers depends on students coming back to enroll in the courses in the next semester. There are good and bad teachers everywhere. Getting high quality in depth feedback on your work is hit or miss. Depends on the resources of the program.</p>