2012 Acceptances

negru · Post by **negru** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:30 pm

kangaroo wrote:Acceptance email from Harvard. I would probably decide between MIT, Harvard, and Stanford when the rest of the acceptances come in. Going to decline UCSB and Cornell, so good luck to those waiting to get in.

So i guess the bad thing about going to pton undergrad is you have to settle for one of these subpar places for gradschool, amirite

King Vitamin · Post by **King Vitamin** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:09 pm

Accepted by MIT by email!

r2d2 · Post by **r2d2** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:25 pm

King Vitamin wrote:Accepted by MIT by email!

Congratulations!

vasilis · Post by **vasilis** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:31 pm

I dont get it... I take a regular-size multivitamin pill everyday and still no e-mail from MIT or Harvard... all these years I thought that "size doesnt matter" but I guess I should turn into the king size edition

kangaroo · Post by **kangaroo** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:39 pm

Nice, MIT today too. Best Valentine's Day ever? The only drawback was that I had to spend time with my girlfriend which prevented me from checking my email.

negru wrote:So i guess the bad thing about going to pton undergrad is you have to settle for one of these subpar places for gradschool, amirite

I gather Princeton was the only top-tier option you had? I understand.

wavicle · Post by **wavicle** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:24 pm

Purdue via email today!

hatake · Post by **hatake** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:47 pm

Hello All,

Those of you who are applying to graduate school for fall 2012. Did anyone hear back from Yale, Chicago, U Penn, Maryland, Princeton?

I am talking about the acceptances or rejection from the Physics department, not applied physics or astrophysics depts.

Time is running by and neither of these top tier schools have replied back to me yet. So I wanted to know if anyone received any correspondence from these schools?

Thank You

Hausdorff · Post by **Hausdorff** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:46 pm

If you search for "physics" at gradcafe.com, you can see the schools who started sending admissions.
However, I believe that there are some spammers around.

They say Chicago will try to inform everybody before March, I am not applying there but that is what I heard.

GeorgeThe4th · Post by **GeorgeThe4th** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 6:50 pm

Accepted to U Florida 2/15!

@hatake, one of my classmates was accepted to Maryland yesterday (he also received a fellowship offer I think).

ccj1 · Post by **ccj1** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:44 pm

Call from LSU, unofficial acceptance, details to come by friday, recommended for acceptance by head of physics dept, asked for official transcripts and said I was a top choice. Kind of happy!

@GeorgeThe4th

How did Florida notify you? just curious

GeorgeThe4th · Post by **GeorgeThe4th** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:34 pm

@ccj1

They notified me through email.

horace1300 · Post by **horace1300** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:07 pm

Accepted to Cal and Stanfurd today ..

what do?

jitit · Post by **jitit** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:14 pm

horace1300 wrote:Accepted to Cal and Stanfurd today ..

what do?

approx what time were you accepted to stanford?

negru · Post by **negru** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:16 pm

jitit wrote:
horace1300 wrote:Accepted to Cal and Stanfurd today ..

what do?
approx what time were you accepted to stanford?

it was probably around he got in you didn't time

horace1300 · Post by **horace1300** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:17 pm

5:29PM pacific

also applied physics not physics

Smidgens · Post by **Smidgens** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:51 pm

horace1300 wrote:5:29PM pacific

also applied physics not physics

Congratulations! That's my top choice, hopefully I'll hear from them this week. I'm optimistic: we have similar profiles, haha.

ccj1 · Post by **ccj1** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:28 am

Accepted to LSU 2/15!

Shadowknite25 · Post by **Shadowknite25** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:56 am

ccj1 wrote:Accepted to LSU 2/15!

Congrat! How did they notify you? I haven't heard anything from them, not that I care anymore though.

King Vitamin · Post by **King Vitamin** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:08 pm

Accepted to Berkeley by email!

asdfuogh · Post by **asdfuogh** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:20 pm

Do you know how many they have accepted so far?

transparent_silvery · Post by **transparent_silvery** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:29 pm

To those who got accepted by Berkeley, are you asked for official transcripts before or after this acceptance notification?

King Vitamin · Post by **King Vitamin** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:42 pm

I have not been asked for my official transcript.

They say they are still evaluating all the applicants, but the admissions committee decided to notify a pool of top applicants for "priority action" (they say they won't send financial info for another several days)

asdfuogh · Post by **asdfuogh** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 3:55 pm

Oh cool. I really... really... want berkeley. :/

King Vitamin · Post by **King Vitamin** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:52 pm

And U. Chicago by email. This has been a crazy week!

Edit: And Caltech 30 minutes later! (email)

Smidgens · Post by **Smidgens** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 6:08 pm

USC by e-mail!

lwk · Post by **lwk** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 6:37 pm

caltech here

hardenbr00k · Post by **hardenbr00k** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:46 pm

Caltech and Chicago

cuduhxu · Post by **cuduhxu** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:28 pm

Accepted to Michigan, Cornell, and Maryland, so far (All physics). 3 for 3. Im still waiting on the very top ones, it seems that people have been hearing from them for a little bit now...makes me a little nervous

ccj1 · Post by **ccj1** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:44 am

Shadowknite25 wrote:
ccj1 wrote:Accepted to LSU 2/15!
Congrat! How did they notify you? I haven't heard anything from them, not that I care anymore though.

2/13 they called and asked for official transcripts said they recommended me for admission, 2/15 got the email with tuition waver and 21,000/year + ~4000 for summer. Pretty nice package actually!

tpatt · Post by **tpatt** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:29 am

Conditionally accepted to U Canterbury (NZ); Feb. 17 website check. Snail mail with details to be posted.

kcmccorm · Post by **kcmccorm** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:14 pm

Accepted to Columbia this morning!

negru · Post by **negru** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:37 pm

So no one got into princeton yet? Man you guys suck

YoMama · Post by **YoMama** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:05 pm

King Vitamin · Post by **King Vitamin** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:10 pm

negru wrote:So no one got into princeton yet? Man you guys suck

Accepted to Princeton by email.

lwk · Post by **lwk** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:05 pm

princeton string theory here

giga17 · Post by **giga17** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:47 pm

King Vitamin is da bomb! I don't even know how you are going to start on deciding which school to go to!

asdfuogh · Post by **asdfuogh** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:26 pm

How many does Princeton usually accept? Looks like they have 10+ already all today.. :/ is that all they're going to accept? (Yes, I realize I have a slim, almost zero chance.. BUT ONE CAN HOPE!!)

vasilis · Post by **vasilis** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:39 pm

I guess now, may some of you appreciate my joke above...king vitamin rules!!! congratulations man

lsaldana · Post by **lsaldana** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:04 am

Rejected by Cornell...but accepted by Yale!

transparent_silvery · Post by **transparent_silvery** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:29 am

My dream school's Berkeley. Guys if you have an offer from Berkeley but you're thinking about Harvard Princeton etc, please turn down Berkeley asap. I'll give you a kiss in reward. I'm a hot oriental girl.

hatake · Post by **hatake** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:11 pm

I got a vague email from YALE, which directed me to their server, which had a message to sign up the upcoming physics open house. I don't know what that even means.

They didn't even send me a proper invitation email to the open house. Just a message which contains the sign up link. What do you guys think. Reading old messages from sticky: 2010, I found that Yale is known for doing that, for example:

Sticky 2010 posts.

Yale - Physics - HEP Experiment - Invited to open house. Called, apparently I'm in. 2/23. Got official decision 2/25

Yale -Accepted by email 3/1 by inquiry after I got invitation to their open house. Apparently I was already accepted but nobody bothered to inform me...

Yale - Invited to open house 2/23 via email. Officially accepted 2/25.

Did anyone receive something like this?

scintillahx · Post by **scintillahx** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:37 pm

hatake wrote:I got a vague email from YALE, which directed me to their server, which had a message to sign up the upcoming physics open house. I don't know what that even means.

They didn't even send me a proper invitation email to the open house. Just a message which contains the sign up link. What do you guys think. Reading old messages from sticky: 2010, I found that Yale is known for doing that, for example:

Sticky 2010 posts.

Yale - Physics - HEP Experiment - Invited to open house. Called, apparently I'm in. 2/23. Got official decision 2/25

Yale -Accepted by email 3/1 by inquiry after I got invitation to their open house. Apparently I was already accepted but nobody bothered to inform me...

Yale - Invited to open house 2/23 via email. Officially accepted 2/25.

Did anyone receive something like this?

I'm pretty sure you got in. If you log in the online application site, you can check your decision letter. In that letter it says the official offer will come in the mail in 5-7 business days.

SAL · Post by **SAL** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:13 pm

When do people usually officially accept offers? I got into my top school (the only school so far

), but I feel like I should wait until after their open house to accept. Probably doesn't matter either way.

hatake · Post by **hatake** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:33 pm

scintillahx wrote:
hatake wrote:I got a vague email from YALE, which directed me to their server, which had a message to sign up the upcoming physics open house. I don't know what that even means.

They didn't even send me a proper invitation email to the open house. Just a message which contains the sign up link. What do you guys think. Reading old messages from sticky: 2010, I found that Yale is known for doing that, for example:

Sticky 2010 posts.

Yale - Physics - HEP Experiment - Invited to open house. Called, apparently I'm in. 2/23. Got official decision 2/25

Yale -Accepted by email 3/1 by inquiry after I got invitation to their open house. Apparently I was already accepted but nobody bothered to inform me...

Yale - Invited to open house 2/23 via email. Officially accepted 2/25.

Did anyone receive something like this?
I'm pretty sure you got in. If you log in the online application site, you can check your decision letter. In that letter it says the official offer will come in the mail in 5-7 business days.

I dont know. I checked the online application site and so far there is no info about the decision
The Yale online application website is this:
https://app.applyyourself.com/?id=yale-grad

and I haven't received any info there. So to be honest, I don't know whats going on.

TakeruK · Post by **TakeruK** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:37 pm

For my MSc, I waited until I visited all the schools before making a decision. One of my schools gave a decision deadline of Feb 28 (Canadian schools don't have the April 15 agreement thing). They did agree to extend the deadline by 2 weeks to allow me to visit and/or skype with everyone though.

I'm planning to do the same this time around for PhD so I should be ready for a decision by mid-March! If I had to divide my schools (before visiting) into preference groups, then I only got into 1 out of 3 in the top tier. That school is probably going to be my choice -- but I still want to visit to make sure that everything is actually what I think it is. When visiting other schools, I will be directly comparing them to my top choice and seeing if I can get the other schools to agree to everything I like about my top school (particularly the ability to finish in 4 years, how early can I take quals, how early I can pick my supervisor and do research, what requirements will be waived in recognition of a Canadian MSc, and funding packages). Also, I might have some incorrect information/biases about what the culture and climate is like in certain cities, so I am excited to see what the reality is!

I think most people would also wait until they at least visited their top choice. I would also recommend waiting until the visit because some of the reasons you like that school may be based on misconceptions that would be cleared up with a visit. But if you got into many top choices, it would probably be safe to turn down safeties about now. The only Canadian school I applied to is a safety in case moving to the US turns out to be no longer practical so I will keep it around until I am sure I will be attending a US school.

lsaldana · Post by **lsaldana** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:04 am

hatake wrote:
scintillahx wrote:
hatake wrote:I got a vague email from YALE, which directed me to their server, which had a message to sign up the upcoming physics open house. I don't know what that even means.

They didn't even send me a proper invitation email to the open house. Just a message which contains the sign up link. What do you guys think. Reading old messages from sticky: 2010, I found that Yale is known for doing that, for example:

Sticky 2010 posts.

Yale - Physics - HEP Experiment - Invited to open house. Called, apparently I'm in. 2/23. Got official decision 2/25

Yale -Accepted by email 3/1 by inquiry after I got invitation to their open house. Apparently I was already accepted but nobody bothered to inform me...

Yale - Invited to open house 2/23 via email. Officially accepted 2/25.

Did anyone receive something like this?
I'm pretty sure you got in. If you log in the online application site, you can check your decision letter. In that letter it says the official offer will come in the mail in 5-7 business days.
I dont know. I checked the online application site and so far there is no info about the decision
The Yale online application website is this:
https://app.applyyourself.com/?id=yale-grad

and I haven't received any info there. So to be honest, I don't know whats going on.

The admissions decision can be found on the main page, it should be the last link on the bottom. Log into "apply yourself" and scroll down pass the "Application for Admission" section, there should be a section called "Decision Status: Available beginning x/xx/2012. Your application decision is now available online". At least that's where mine was although I got an e-mail from their website first saying to check apply yourself.

totyj5 · Post by **totyj5** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:14 pm

anyone knows if UWashington-Seattle has open house this year??

scintillahx · Post by **scintillahx** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:37 pm

just got an acceptance email from maryland physics with fellowship

I love their beam physics at the UMER electron ring group.

dfeld31 · Post by **dfeld31** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:56 am

Rutgers! 2/21 by email

symmetry_rules · Post by **symmetry_rules** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:26 pm

UIUC! 2/18 via email.