Well, look at it this way! If you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away! If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, it would have nothing to cry about! That's like Stanford, who does not send us an email, and who keeps our hopes alive, just so that Stanford can tear it all away and make us cry. So Stanford can drink the sweet milk of our tears! You see, it's our tears, that give Stanford its great power.Ulquiorra wrote:Guys! I've just got a rejection from Stanford applied Physics yesterday.
It came in air mail.... dated on 02-24... I wonder why they didn't tell me by e-mail
instead of sending an oversea air mail which takes more than half a month.
Is there any good reasons?
HeHeHe! Sort of like it!babazula wrote:Well, look at it this way! If you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away! If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, it would have nothing to cry about! That's like Stanford, who does not send us an email, and who keeps our hopes alive, just so that Stanford can tear it all away and make us cry. So Stanford can drink the sweet milk of our tears! You see, it's our tears, that give Stanford its great power.Ulquiorra wrote:Guys! I've just got a rejection from Stanford applied Physics yesterday.
It came in air mail.... dated on 02-24... I wonder why they didn't tell me by e-mail
instead of sending an oversea air mail which takes more than half a month.
Is there any good reasons?
Oh sweet, sweet irony!babazula wrote: That's like Stanford, who does not send us an email, and who keeps our hopes alive, just so that Stanford can tear it all away and make us cry. So Stanford can drink the sweet milk of our tears! You see, it's our tears, that give Stanford its great power.
that actually sounds more like a bouncer not letting you inPhysicsPdx wrote:McGill, rejected! At least they say 'Refused' on the web portal. So polite.
UCSD Rejection 2Imperate wrote:Rejected to UCSD also....great
) Not yet. I e-mailed two weeks and was told that they already sent out the first wave (as we already knew) and that they don't know if there would be a second. As the open house was this past weekend (I think?) I'm not terribly optimistic.valloein wrote:UIUC said they would send >>something>> this week. Probably a rejection (do they even send accepts this late ?)...anyone heard yet ? (besides all ye arses who got accepted last month
I visited UIUC last weekend, and it seems this year has been really tough for them in terms of funding. While they usually have an incoming class of around 50 students, this year only 50 were given acceptances, and from what I heard the department is hoping for a class of around 20. At the same time there were many people with multiple offers at the open house, which probably means that much less than 50% will actually accept the offer of admission, which may force them to accept people from the waitlist, so there's still hope.pd wrote:Not yet. I e-mailed two weeks and was told that they already sent out the first wave (as we already knew) and that they don't know if there would be a second. As the open house was this past weekend (I think?) I'm not terribly optimistic.valloein wrote:UIUC said they would send >>something>> this week. Probably a rejection (do they even send accepts this late ?)...anyone heard yet ? (besides all ye arses who got accepted last month
Thanks for this information nonick, it's a big help.nonick wrote:
I visited UIUC last weekend, and it seems this year has been really tough for them in terms of funding. While they usually have an incoming class of around 50 students, this year only 50 were given acceptances, and from what I heard the department is hoping for a class of around 20. At the same time there were many people with multiple offers at the open house, which probably means that much less than 50% will actually accept the offer of admission, which may force them to accept people from the waitlist, so there's still hope.
Out of curiosity how many/which schools did you apply to?thefourth wrote:well, at least you got somewhere: I had Fulbright scholarship (science & technology award alternate, with possibility of being placed into 1 year program if they didn't find money to finance alternates as well) and got accepted NOWHERE. I don't think there was an obvious killer in my application (930 PGRE, 1 first author publication, top 5% in school, summer research internship in CERN, 1 year research in plasma physics, 6 months in biophysics...) but still was not good enough....
read other posts, seems the lattercato88 wrote:My money is on either not a real profile or only a few reaches applied too.
There are a ton of options for people who haven't gotten in anywhere yet. Look for a position at a research facility you're interested in and then apply again next year! If you're lucky you could land a position at CERN or Hawaii Astronomy group. You'll atleast have more money than the grad students.valloein wrote:Is this IT ?
Is this the end of the world ?
Maintaining what little sanity I have left needs tremendous willpower and leaves me exhausted enough to require up to 16 hours of sleep a day.
I didn't imagine this application business would leave me so scarred and bitter. This is probably why there are so many serial killers out there.
, best. Even if it isn't this year.alkemas wrote:i agree with happymonkey. we shouldnt be going to a school just because they were the only ones that accepted us. So far, I only got accepted to one school so far and I feel if i am not 100% excited with the physics there and the school it will be better for me to just wait and apply another year, improve my pgre score and so on. Its not fair to you to just go to a school youre not excited about and its not fair to them and to the other students that may have wanted to go there. Also, gradschool is already hard enough, you dont have to make it harder by being in a place you dont want to be at.
alkemas wrote:i agree with happymonkey. we shouldnt be going to a school just because they were the only ones that accepted us. So far, I only got accepted to one school so far and I feel if i am not 100% excited with the physics there and the school it will be better for me to just wait and apply another year, improve my pgre score and so on. Its not fair to you to just go to a school youre not excited about and its not fair to them and to the other students that may have wanted to go there. Also, gradschool is already hard enough, you dont have to make it harder by being in a place you dont want to be at.
Not sure your going consolidate the two since rank usually gives people some doubt that will make someone not 100% sure or kill some excitement.alkemas wrote:good point. however, my comment was nowhere near that naive. I am really looking to see what groups are available for me to work with and if they are studying subjects that interest me. We should all keep in mind that good physics is not measured by ranks. if you can find 2 or 3 groups that are really good and that you are interested in working with, then you shouldnt let a rank make you wait another year.
