2011 Rejections

et · Post by et » Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:48 pm

UCSB for me too. I'm going to go ahead and blame it on being international and UC budget issues.

matto07 · Post by **matto07** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:50 pm

I'm going to blame it on the liberal media

badphysicist · Post by **badphysicist** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:57 pm

UCSB - no surprise at all

CarlBrannen · Post by **CarlBrannen** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:58 pm

MIT. I think I'm down to UT Austin and UC Berkeley.

KBTPhys · Post by **KBTPhys** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:34 pm

Dear *****,

Thank you for applying to MIT. Unfortunately we are unable to offer you admission into the Graduate Program in Physics this year. We received approximately 700 applications for 30 openings which resulted in the refusal of many excellent applicants.

That's the last of them. Not totally unexpected.

liutian_min · Post by **liutian_min** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:57 pm

MIT.
I started the application on the day of deadline and submitted just before 12.
Turns out to be a waste of time.

Kaumz · Post by **Kaumz** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:03 pm

UCSB reject

CarlBrannen · Post by **CarlBrannen** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:12 pm

Sure enough, UCSB rejection.

et · Post by et » Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:34 pm

Harvard rejection in response to email inquiry.

bck2school · Post by **bck2school** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:40 pm

UCSC Astro rejection in reply to email.

badphysicist · Post by **badphysicist** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:43 pm

Anyone else receive an email from Davis saying a decision will be posted March 3rd?

We are in the process of making a decision on your application for admission. You may review the decision after 8:00 a.m. PST on March 3, 2011, by accessing your UC Davis application on the online admission web site.

Knowing a decision is coming in a couple days is almost worse than wondering when it's going to come.

HappyQuark · Post by **HappyQuark** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:01 pm

badphysicist wrote:Anyone else receive an email from Davis saying a decision will be posted March 3rd?
We are in the process of making a decision on your application for admission. You may review the decision after 8:00 a.m. PST on March 3, 2011, by accessing your UC Davis application on the online admission web site.
Knowing a decision is coming in a couple days is almost worse than wondering when it's going to come.

I disagree. If i had an exact timeline of when decisions would be done and available, I wouldn't be spending all day at work religiously poking at the refresh button on my phones email app at 5 minute intervals.

I'm a bit like Pavlov's dog, except that I tend to get a negative reaction when I succumb to my neuroses. Come on UC Irvine, this puppy needs some positive reinforcement!

bfollinprm · Post by **bfollinprm** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:03 pm

badphysicist wrote:Anyone else receive an email from Davis saying a decision will be posted March 3rd?
We are in the process of making a decision on your application for admission. You may review the decision after 8:00 a.m. PST on March 3, 2011, by accessing your UC Davis application on the online admission web site.
Knowing a decision is coming in a couple days is almost worse than wondering when it's going to come.

I got that email a few weeks ago. within an hour my acceptance was posted on the website (even though it said they would take a few days).

badphysicist · Post by **badphysicist** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:51 pm

bfollinprm wrote:
badphysicist wrote:Anyone else receive an email from Davis saying a decision will be posted March 3rd?
We are in the process of making a decision on your application for admission. You may review the decision after 8:00 a.m. PST on March 3, 2011, by accessing your UC Davis application on the online admission web site.
Knowing a decision is coming in a couple days is almost worse than wondering when it's going to come.

I got that email a few weeks ago. within an hour my acceptance was posted on the website (even though it said they would take a few days).

Checked mine and it is a rejection.
Disappointing but no surprise.

HappyQuark · Post by **HappyQuark** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 12:11 pm

UCLA rejection this morning.

Unless I get irvine, I won't be 'going going, back back to Cali Cali!'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_P-sP698sA#t=2m28s

sphy · Post by **sphy** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 12:33 pm

HappyQuark wrote:UCLA rejection this morning.

Unless I get irvine, I won't be 'going going, back back to Cali Cali!'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_P-sP698sA#t=2m28s

don't worry. You should justify your name, you know ---Happy==.
You'll get Irvine.
all the best.

matto07 · Post by **matto07** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:32 pm

Rejected by Harvard (finally...)

@HappyQuark: What about San Diego? Already giving up hope?

HappyQuark · Post by **HappyQuark** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:33 pm

matto07 wrote:Rejected by Harvard (finally...)

@HappyQuark: What about San Diego? Already giving up hope?

Definitely. UCSD was my reach school and I highly doubt that I'll get in. I think Irvine my is my last great hope.

badphysicist · Post by **badphysicist** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:32 pm

Email from UCLA to check webpage.

negru · Post by **negru** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:38 pm

lol im getting rejections/waitlists from all my matches and safeties

larry burns · Post by **larry burns** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:33 pm

admissionprof wrote:
Dream wrote:How to ask for feedbacks to rejected application? Is it appropriate to ask the professor mentioned in SoP for feedbacks?
It is appropriate to ask the graduate admissions person why you were rejected. I get roughly 3 emails every cycle asking. Sometimes it's an issue that the person can do something about, sometimes it isn't. The only time it's awkward is if there is something cautionary or negative in a letter, since those are confidential, so I have to be much more vague. A professor mentioned in the SoP may have no say with the committee, so that wouldn't be useful.

I've asked a few professors and graduate assistants so far as to why I've been rejected, and so far I've just gotten vague responses: 'we had a strong pool of candidates and can only admit a few of them etc etc'. But one did mention I was close to the cutting point.

WhoaNonstop · Post by **WhoaNonstop** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:51 pm

I'm still mad about the girl at gamestop.

Rejections hurt.

-Riley

Kaumz · Post by **Kaumz** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 1:12 pm

Univ. of Chicago...this makes it 3 rejects

bfollinprm · Post by **bfollinprm** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 1:20 pm

Kaumz wrote:Univ. of Chicago...this makes it 3 rejects

Same...not unexpected at this point.

bbsmitz · Post by **bbsmitz** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 1:28 pm

+1 UChicago

kacsa8 · Post by **kacsa8** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:41 pm

Rejection from Boulder through email today. I've heard back from all six schools now. Time for the hard part: deciding where to go! Anyone else going to Tucson this week?

HappyQuark · Post by **HappyQuark** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:46 pm

kacsa8 wrote:Rejection from Boulder through email today. I've heard back from all six schools now. Time for the hard part: deciding where to go! Anyone else going to Tucson this week?

Same here. Boo!

kapil_ds · Post by **kapil_ds** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:45 am

Rejected by Harvard Astronomy by snail mail postmarked 23rd Feb. This was very much expected. Hopefully, I will have better luck with planetary science dept

Kapil

YodaT · Post by **YodaT** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:14 am

WhoaNonstop wrote:I'm still mad about the girl at gamestop.

Rejections hurt.

-Riley

I don't know man... girls at gamestop are dime a dozen.

t2kburl · Post by **t2kburl** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:48 am

HappyQuark wrote:
kacsa8 wrote:Rejection from Boulder through email today. I've heard back from all six schools now. Time for the hard part: deciding where to go! Anyone else going to Tucson this week?
Same here. Boo!

Me too. No need to visit Boulder now. Ah well more time to play around in the mountains.

hamadahoda007 · Post by **hamadahoda007** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:35 pm

If anybody is waiting for UPenn, go check the application website and you will most probably find the decision made there, Good luck all

ramathorn · Post by **ramathorn** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:44 pm

Rejected by UPenn. I was considering this my safety so it would've been frightening if this had come in first instead of almost last. I already got into my 3rd/4th pick(UCSD) so it's not tragic, but this getting into school stuff is HARD! Would've liked to have some options for cities where people don't have sand for brains

WhoaNonstop · Post by **WhoaNonstop** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 3:17 am

YodaT wrote:
WhoaNonstop wrote:I'm still mad about the girl at gamestop.

Rejections hurt.

-Riley
I don't know man... girls at gamestop are dime a dozen.

Are you talking about all the girls who work at gamestop or the subset of girls who work at gamestop that I'd gladly play twister with?

-Riley

HappyQuark · Post by **HappyQuark** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 3:43 am

WhoaNonstop wrote:
YodaT wrote:
WhoaNonstop wrote:I'm still mad about the girl at gamestop.

Rejections hurt.

-Riley
I don't know man... girls at gamestop are dime a dozen.
Are you talking about all the girls who work at gamestop or the subset of girls who work at gamestop that I'd gladly play twister with?

-Riley

Strip twister or standard?

grae313 · Post by **grae313** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:36 pm

I was pretty drunk one night in college and ended up playing strip times-tables... the game ended when he was in his boxers and I had lost a sock

CarlBrannen · Post by **CarlBrannen** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 1:10 pm

Still no acceptances, of course I'm doomed. Now I'm looking at schools in places where I'd like to live as opposed to fancy big-name schools.

Dreaded Anomaly · Post by **Dreaded Anomaly** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:40 pm

Rejected from Harvard, by snail mail.

vttd · Post by **vttd** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:45 pm

t2kburl wrote:
HappyQuark wrote:
kacsa8 wrote:Rejection from Boulder through email today. I've heard back from all six schools now. Time for the hard part: deciding where to go! Anyone else going to Tucson this week?
Same here. Boo!
Me too. No need to visit Boulder now. Ah well more time to play around in the mountains.

T2kburl, was it a generic email or in response to an inquiry. I only ask because I'm anxious to hear from them

t2kburl · Post by **t2kburl** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:24 pm

vttd wrote: T2kburl, was it a generic email or in response to an inquiry. I only ask because I'm anxious to hear from them

It was a response to an inquiry from the APS department, not Physics.

HappyQuark · Post by **HappyQuark** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:51 am

vttd wrote:
t2kburl wrote:
kacsa8 wrote:Rejection from Boulder through email today. I've heard back from all six schools now. Time for the hard part: deciding where to go! Anyone else going to Tucson this week?

Me too. No need to visit Boulder now. Ah well more time to play around in the mountains.
T2kburl, was it a generic email or in response to an inquiry. I only ask because I'm anxious to hear from them

Mine came as an email and I hadn't inquired about my application.

Kaumz · Post by **Kaumz** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:11 pm

UCLA

vesperlynd · Post by **vesperlynd** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:38 pm

Kaumz wrote:UCLA

I'm sorry to hear that. Apparently they only admitted 13 out of 157 international applicants.

CarlBrannen · Post by **CarlBrannen** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:47 pm

Harvard.

Still doomed.

satyad18 · Post by **satyad18** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:51 am

Rejected from Louisiana State.

tychobrahe_1 · Post by **tychobrahe_1** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:20 pm

If they haven't made a decision on an application, it's safe to say that they will probably reject. Am I right?

Kaumz · Post by **Kaumz** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:23 pm

vesperlynd wrote:
Kaumz wrote:UCLA
I'm sorry to hear that. Apparently they only admitted 13 out of 157 international applicants.

Oh, I see.

And hearty congratulations for all your admits.

bfollinprm · Post by **bfollinprm** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:33 pm

tychobrahe_1 wrote:If they haven't made a decision on an application, it's safe to say that they will probably reject. Am I right?

Most years that's true, so probably brace yourself. Though I've heard this year there's a higher chance of being pulled off of a wait-list at the last minute, because schools are being more conservative with their acceptance numbers. I might know more if you tell me the schools you're waiting on.

I think Berkeley and Austin still have some of their acceptances to hand out, and probably a few others (Santa Cruz?). They traditionally accept people late, so there's a greater chance at those places.

Also, Profile!

tychobrahe_1 · Post by **tychobrahe_1** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:46 pm

bfollinprm wrote:
Most years that's true, so probably brace yourself. Though I've heard this year there's a higher chance of being pulled off of a wait-list at the last minute, because schools are being more conservative with their acceptance numbers. I might know more if you tell me the schools you're waiting on.

Also, Profile!

It's looking like grad school will not be for me next year. Rejections so far and I am still waiting on: Rutgers,New Brunswick; UMD; UPitt; UMass-Amherst, Lehigh U, UDelaware, and Georgia State U.

My profile is not very impressive, which is why I keep it to myself.

bfollinprm · Post by **bfollinprm** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:49 pm

tychobrahe_1 wrote:
bfollinprm wrote:
Most years that's true, so probably brace yourself. Though I've heard this year there's a higher chance of being pulled off of a wait-list at the last minute, because schools are being more conservative with their acceptance numbers. I might know more if you tell me the schools you're waiting on.

Also, Profile!
It's looking like grad school will not be for me next year. Rejections so far and I am still waiting on: Rutgers,New Brunswick; UMD; UPitt; UMass-Amherst, Lehigh U, UDelaware, and Georgia State U.

My profile is not very impressive, which is why I keep it to myself.

None of us own a school and run its admissions, so there's no need to impress us. It's impressive in and of itself that you want to study physics; lesser persons would be frightened by challenge.

bfollinprm · Post by **bfollinprm** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:56 pm

UMD, I think. I emailed, and they responded with the following:

Dr [adcomm chair] does not want me to tell anyone until April 16 if they were admitted or not. You can contact him if you would like to check with him.

No reason to hide acceptances, so....

By the way, what a jerk the committee is for keeping rejections hidden. What for? I have most of a mind to withdraw all applications to places I haven't heard back from...At this point I'm not really interested in playing their stupid waiting games any longer.