+5giga17 wrote:+4hamadahoda007 wrote:+3cryingsun wrote:+2

+5giga17 wrote:+4hamadahoda007 wrote:+3cryingsun wrote:+2
Pfft, I shall triumph and you can send me some monopoly money.axiomofchoice wrote:+6on Princeton. Not surprising at all, since the only professor there doing research close to the interest stated in my SOP is leaving this year for another place. I wish I know that earlier though, as the $90 application fee would be handy to pay for the parking ticket I got yesterday
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Riley: the chance of you winning the hypothetical bet between us is getting smaller...
How kind of you, but I'm far from perfect! ;DSSM wrote:Glad I didn't apply to Princeton, what the hell are they looking for in their applications? Apparently being perfect isn't enough.
.SSM wrote:Glad I didn't apply to Princeton, what the hell are they looking for in their applications? Apparently being perfect isn't enough.
Unlike Harvard, MIT or Caltech--some schools that applicants are getting into? I don't know how big their departments are actually, but I'm guessing they pick from a pool that's pretty close to uniformly perfect.grae313 wrote:It's a small department and there are a lot of "perfect" applicants.
You've heard back from them? They told me that hadn't finished looking at all the applications....hamadahoda007 wrote:It is hard to get two top 10 rejections in two hours..
Chicago Rejection...
For me, I specifically said in my P.S. that I wanted to work with Paul J. Steinhardt. Although I did say that I would be happy with other professors, maybe I shouldn't have been so specificSSM wrote:Unlike Harvard, MIT or Caltech--some schools that applicants are getting into? I don't know how big their departments are actually, but I'm guessing they pick from a pool that's pretty close to uniformly perfect.grae313 wrote:It's a small department and there are a lot of "perfect" applicants.
EDIT: Yeah I know not everyone on the forum got rejected from Princeton, I was originally trying to do some cheering up
Always dangerous if you don't talk to the prof ahead of time. Sorry man!cryingsun wrote:For me, I specifically said in my P.S. that I wanted to work with Paul J. Steinhardt. Although I did say that I would be happy with other professors, maybe I shouldn't have been so specificSSM wrote:Unlike Harvard, MIT or Caltech--some schools that applicants are getting into? I don't know how big their departments are actually, but I'm guessing they pick from a pool that's pretty close to uniformly perfect.grae313 wrote:It's a small department and there are a lot of "perfect" applicants.
EDIT: Yeah I know not everyone on the forum got rejected from Princeton, I was originally trying to do some cheering upI can't think of any other reason that my app got thrown into rejection pile.
SSM wrote:Glad I didn't apply to Princeton, what the hell are they looking for in their applications? Apparently being perfect isn't enough.
I know where I'm not applying too, lol.grae313 wrote:It's a small department and there are a lot of "perfect" applicants.
I too got a reject from PrincetonWhoaNonstop wrote:giga17 wrote:+5hamadahoda007 wrote:
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Me TOO! I've heard Palo Alto is smelly, and has cuties. I didn't really want her anyway.et wrote:Just got a Stanford rejection. Not surprising considering how many acceptances went out yesterday.
heh I believe you mean cootiesbfollinprm wrote:Me TOO! I've heard Palo Alto is smelly, and has cuties. I didn't really want her anyway.et wrote:Just got a Stanford rejection. Not surprising considering how many acceptances went out yesterday.
So i did. so i did....bck2school wrote:
heh I believe you mean cooties.
Probably, but worth trying anyway. Also, go ahead and email and ask why you didn't get accepted. It might take a while, but they'll respond. I'm actually pretty sure they have to tell you if you ask because of FERPA (as long as you weren't rejected because of a bad LoR (and you waived your right to view)).WhoaNonstop wrote:Wonderful..
Got my email from Applied Physics at Yale. Very surprised that I was rejected. Obviously my unknown undergraduate school completely screwed me over, considering my belief was that I had as strong or stronger an application than people who were accepted in the past. I'm actually kind of pissed about this, cause I was sure I'd get into this program. With Cornell and Princeton it was a reach, so it wasn't unexpected, but I'd sure like to know the underlying reason that I didn't get accepted here. Wish I could transfer my application to the regular physics program but I'm sure it is too late for that.
-Riley
Sometimes the selection is a bit irrational. I have friends who got into a better schools but rejected by weaker ones. Perhaps you should have applied to more schools at similar level to Yale applied physics.WhoaNonstop wrote:Wonderful..
Got my email from Applied Physics at Yale. Very surprised that I was rejected. Obviously my unknown undergraduate school completely screwed me over, considering my belief was that I had as strong or stronger an application than people who were accepted in the past. I'm actually kind of pissed about this, cause I was sure I'd get into this program. With Cornell and Princeton it was a reach, so it wasn't unexpected, but I'd sure like to know the underlying reason that I didn't get accepted here. Wish I could transfer my application to the regular physics program but I'm sure it is too late for that.
-Riley
Already received a response:bfollinprm wrote:Probably, but worth trying anyway.
Your description created a mental image in my head of you checking your application status for the millionth time with no updates and reacting in the following way.ramathorn wrote:graaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar.
This is not in response to anything from any school, but rather in response to the overwhelming, stultifying ennui arising from no words from any schools.
The only way to receive satisfaction will be to write a Kafkaesque novel about a starving young gentleman-scholar who applies to schools and sits awaiting a response for seventy-five years, until he is rejected on his deathbed. With the proceeds from said novel I'm going to start my own school which will flood the market with underqualified theorists like myself, which will basically shut down academic physics as we know it. At least it will mark an end to theory.
This will create a bilayer stratified system among physicists, the Eloi(experimentalists) who will receive all grant money and do all meaningful work, and the Morlocks(ramathorn-theorists) who will dwell underground at community colleges, occasionally rising up to feast on the ripe flesh of the effete, pampered experimentalists.
Just got this email too.et wrote:MIT rejection by email just now! Unsurprising after how many acceptances they already sent out.
So, it's certainly worth sending enquiry letters when you're rejected. It makes them look at your application one last time.!!! Received a rejection in the mail last week so I emailed to ask why I was rejected and they reconsidered! Seriously! Apparently my rejection was a mistake, so sweet!
Can I say I got rejected by MIT too so I can fit in?! =Oticklecricket wrote:MIT as well. I really thought I had a chance since I already work there. Oh well...
WhoaNonstop wrote: Can I say I got rejected by MIT too so I can fit in?! =O