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Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:48 pm
by et
UCSB for me too. I'm going to go ahead and blame it on being international and UC budget issues.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:50 pm
by matto07
I'm going to blame it on the liberal media

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:57 pm
by badphysicist
UCSB - no surprise at all

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:58 pm
by CarlBrannen
MIT. I think I'm down to UT Austin and UC Berkeley.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:34 pm
by KBTPhys
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.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:57 pm
by liutian_min
MIT.
I started the application on the day of deadline and submitted just before 12.
Turns out to be a waste of time.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:03 pm
by Kaumz
UCSB reject :(

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:12 pm
by CarlBrannen
Sure enough, UCSB rejection.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:34 pm
by et
Harvard rejection in response to email inquiry.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:40 pm
by bck2school
UCSC Astro rejection in reply to email.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:43 pm
by badphysicist
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.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:01 pm
by HappyQuark
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!

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:03 pm
by bfollinprm
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).

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:51 pm
by badphysicist
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.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 12:11 pm
by HappyQuark
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

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 12:33 pm
by sphy
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.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:32 pm
by matto07
Rejected by Harvard (finally...)

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

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:33 pm
by HappyQuark
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.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:32 pm
by badphysicist
Email from UCLA to check webpage.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:38 pm
by negru
lol im getting rejections/waitlists from all my matches and safeties

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:33 pm
by larry burns
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.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:51 pm
by WhoaNonstop
I'm still mad about the girl at gamestop.

Rejections hurt.

-Riley

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 1:12 pm
by Kaumz
Univ. of Chicago...this makes it 3 rejects :cry:

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 1:20 pm
by bfollinprm
Kaumz wrote:Univ. of Chicago...this makes it 3 rejects :cry:
Same...not unexpected at this point.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 1:28 pm
by bbsmitz
+1 UChicago

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:41 pm
by kacsa8
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?

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:46 pm
by HappyQuark
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!

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:45 am
by kapil_ds
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

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:14 am
by YodaT
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.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:48 am
by t2kburl
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.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:35 pm
by hamadahoda007
If anybody is waiting for UPenn, go check the application website and you will most probably find the decision made there, Good luck all 8)

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:44 pm
by ramathorn
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 :roll:

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 3:17 am
by WhoaNonstop
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

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 3:43 am
by HappyQuark
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?

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Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:36 pm
by grae313
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 8)

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 1:10 pm
by CarlBrannen
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.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:40 pm
by Dreaded Anomaly
Rejected from Harvard, by snail mail.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:45 pm
by vttd
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

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:24 pm
by t2kburl
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.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:51 am
by HappyQuark
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.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:11 pm
by Kaumz
UCLA :(

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:38 pm
by vesperlynd
Kaumz wrote:UCLA :(
I'm sorry to hear that. Apparently they only admitted 13 out of 157 international applicants.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:47 pm
by CarlBrannen
Harvard.

Still doomed.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:51 am
by satyad18
Rejected from Louisiana State. :(

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:20 pm
by tychobrahe_1
If they haven't made a decision on an application, it's safe to say that they will probably reject. Am I right?

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:23 pm
by Kaumz
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. :D

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:33 pm
by bfollinprm
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!

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:46 pm
by tychobrahe_1
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. :|

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:49 pm
by bfollinprm
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.

Re: 2011 Rejections

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:56 pm
by bfollinprm
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.