Decision Dates 2017

S___B___G · Post by **S___B___G** » Sun Feb 12, 2017 1:54 pm

Does anyone know anything about Yale physics yet? I'm hoping they'll come to the rescue for me, as I have only heard positive news from UW Physics so far!

Also, are Johns Hopkins, UPenn, Harvard, and Princeton all done with their admissions? I was somewhat surprised not to hear from either Hopkins or Penn...

This admissions season has certainly been a bit of a disappointment for me so far..

I'm happy for everyone who has heard lots of great news! Just hoping to get some of my own soon.

Tacosbeforevatos · Post by **Tacosbeforevatos** » Sun Feb 12, 2017 3:39 pm

bunnysid wrote:Stony Brook, Brown and Minnesota done. Anyone knows????

I am also waiting to hear from Stony Brook and Brown. I've seen people get accepted to Stony Brook as late as this Friday so I hope they're not done.

queenbee · Post by **queenbee** » Sun Feb 12, 2017 10:39 pm

HydrogenAndTime wrote:
HenryB wrote:It is weekend and Monday is Lincoln's birthday observed in US. So we shouldn't expect anything until Tuesday?
Wait, Monday is a holiday? Lincoln's birthday is a thing? I go to school in the states and did not know that that's a thing... Is it actually?

The holiday is President's Day, which is based off Washington's birthday (but not the exact day because it's always a Monday--his birthday is 22 Feb) but also commonly celebrates Lincoln and other Presidents as well. This year the holiday is 20 Feb, not this Monday but next.

bunnysid · Post by **bunnysid** » Sun Feb 12, 2017 11:18 pm

Tacosbeforevatos wrote:
bunnysid wrote:Stony Brook, Brown and Minnesota done. Anyone knows????
I am also waiting to hear from Stony Brook and Brown. I've seen people get accepted to Stony Brook as late as this Friday so I hope they're not done.

Same with Minnesota. They also sent offers till Thursday. Let's hope for the best.

HydrogenAndTime · Post by **HydrogenAndTime** » Sun Feb 12, 2017 11:45 pm

Has anyone heard back from Harvard Physics as an experiment applicant? I am seeing some acceptances and rejections from Harvard physics, but most of them seem to be theorists.

I applied for HEP-ex and observational cosmology and have not heard back yet. I am kind of assuming that I got rejected at this point, but wasn't so sure because I've seen mostly theory applicants only.

Zopy · Post by **Zopy** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 1:13 am

Tacosbeforevatos wrote:
bunnysid wrote:Stony Brook, Brown and Minnesota done. Anyone knows????
I am also waiting to hear from Stony Brook and Brown. I've seen people get accepted to Stony Brook as late as this Friday so I hope they're not done.

Still haven't heard anything from Brown myself. With only three acceptances on Grad Cafe, surely they aren't done yet?

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 11:16 am

Rejected from U of Rochester.

eddie.ss · Post by **eddie.ss** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 6:01 pm

When do you think would be reasonable to ask for admission status if I haven't received any email from UIUC or CU Boulder ... beginning of March?

Tacosbeforevatos · Post by **Tacosbeforevatos** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 6:06 pm

I spent all weekend worried that I hadn't gotten funding info... and today I checked my spam folder and there it was O.O

cosmosis · Post by **cosmosis** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 6:11 pm

eddie.ss wrote:When do you think would be reasonable to ask for admission status if I haven't received any email from UIUC or CU Boulder ... beginning of March?

I reached out to the schools I didn't hear back from last week. I think you can make a gentle query asking when applicants should be expecting to hear back.

blinkmiss · Post by **blinkmiss** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 9:14 pm

cosmosis wrote:
eddie.ss wrote:When do you think would be reasonable to ask for admission status if I haven't received any email from UIUC or CU Boulder ... beginning of March?
I reached out to the schools I didn't hear back from last week. I think you can make a gentle query asking when applicants should be expecting to hear back.

Did you call or email?

cosmosis · Post by **cosmosis** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 9:36 pm

blinkmiss wrote:
cosmosis wrote:
eddie.ss wrote:When do you think would be reasonable to ask for admission status if I haven't received any email from UIUC or CU Boulder ... beginning of March?
I reached out to the schools I didn't hear back from last week. I think you can make a gentle query asking when applicants should be expecting to hear back.
Did you call or email?

I emailed.

codidley · Post by **codidley** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 9:38 pm

cosmosis wrote:
eddie.ss wrote:When do you think would be reasonable to ask for admission status if I haven't received any email from UIUC or CU Boulder ... beginning of March?
I reached out to the schools I didn't hear back from last week. I think you can make a gentle query asking when applicants should be expecting to hear back.

Did you hear back from Vandy on a time frame for results?
I kinda expected news today/tomorrow based on last year.

cosmosis · Post by **cosmosis** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 9:42 pm

codidley wrote:
cosmosis wrote:
eddie.ss wrote:When do you think would be reasonable to ask for admission status if I haven't received any email from UIUC or CU Boulder ... beginning of March?
I reached out to the schools I didn't hear back from last week. I think you can make a gentle query asking when applicants should be expecting to hear back.
Did you hear back from Vandy on a time frame for results?
I kinda expected news today/tomorrow based on last year.

I didn't contact them but a friend did. Apparently they started their review process a little later than usual this year. He said that it should be out in maybe two weeks or earlier.

space_tea · Post by **space_tea** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 12:16 am

Zopy wrote:
Tacosbeforevatos wrote:
bunnysid wrote:Stony Brook, Brown and Minnesota done. Anyone knows????
I am also waiting to hear from Stony Brook and Brown. I've seen people get accepted to Stony Brook as late as this Friday so I hope they're not done.
Still haven't heard anything from Brown myself. With only three acceptances on Grad Cafe, surely they aren't done yet?

I heard back from Stony Brook on Friday. Not sure if they contacted everyone, though.

bstrekha · Post by **bstrekha** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 2:36 am

Got an email from University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign at 12:52am saying I was accepted. They are offering a stipend of $22,264 for the 11 months.

minwoomega · Post by **minwoomega** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 3:59 am

HydrogenAndTime wrote:Has anyone heard back from Harvard Physics as an experiment applicant? I am seeing some acceptances and rejections from Harvard physics, but most of them seem to be theorists.

I applied for HEP-ex and observational cosmology and have not heard back yet. I am kind of assuming that I got rejected at this point, but wasn't so sure because I've seen mostly theory applicants only.

I don't think they are done with the admission offers. Given the fact that the gradcafe was full of 'accepted' notification from MIT and Stanford on the last Friday, I expect to see the same amount of postings regarding Harvard on gradcafe if they had really sent out all the decisions, which I don't think I am seeing now.

And I am also in the same situation like you

blinkmiss · Post by **blinkmiss** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 6:18 pm

Anyone here heard from Harvard Applied Physics? There is a waitlist up on gradcafe but nothing else.

badgalriri · Post by **badgalriri** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:08 pm

blinkmiss wrote:Anyone here heard from Harvard Applied Physics? There is a waitlist up on gradcafe but nothing else.

i got an acceptance

blinkmiss · Post by **blinkmiss** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:28 pm

badgalriri wrote:
blinkmiss wrote:Anyone here heard from Harvard Applied Physics? There is a waitlist up on gradcafe but nothing else.
i got an acceptance

Ooh, was that today?

badgalriri · Post by **badgalriri** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:46 pm

blinkmiss wrote:
badgalriri wrote:
blinkmiss wrote:Anyone here heard from Harvard Applied Physics? There is a waitlist up on gradcafe but nothing else.
i got an acceptance
Ooh, was that today?

just a few hours ago, yeah. it was just an email to check the website

blinkmiss · Post by **blinkmiss** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:49 pm

Congratulations, badgalriri! I guess not much hope for me, since they sent out waitlists too.

aewais13 · Post by **aewais13** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:57 pm

I haven't heard from Cornell yet. It appears from the gradcafe that they rejected a lot of people today. I am getting super nervous. Anyone has an explanation ?

stronglycoupled · Post by **stronglycoupled** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:04 pm

aewais13 wrote:I haven't heard from Cornell yet. It appears from the gradcafe that they rejected a lot of people today. I am getting super nervous. Anyone has an explanation ?

I noticed that most rejections today were CME. There were in addition a hep-th rejection and a CME acceptance. So, based on this, I would surmise their acceptances aren't yet over. I would guess they're more or less proceeding by subfield? Not sure really, I'm as nervous as you are.

badgalriri · Post by **badgalriri** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:32 pm

blinkmiss wrote:Congratulations, badgalriri! I guess not much hope for me, since they sent out waitlists too.

thanks! hope your other applications go/went well

queenbee · Post by **queenbee** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:44 pm

Rejection today from Caltech (Planetary Science). Standard email - limited space, small percentage admitted, etc.

bunnysid · Post by **bunnysid** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:40 am

Found one waitlist notification from Minnesota on gradcafe. My application status says "Awaiting Program Decision". Anyone got any changes to their status for Minnesota?

linh119 · Post by **linh119** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 1:51 pm

Have anyone heard from Upenn and Brown?

theladybug · Post by **theladybug** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 2:03 pm

Got my official offer from Princeton today and got accepted to MIT for nuclear engineering 15 minutes later. It's been a good morning.

electronrunaway · Post by **electronrunaway** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 2:45 pm

Heard from MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering (Plasma Physics). Nothing from Princeton though

. On Grad Cafe it looks like in the past years they have done two waves and rejections come out at the same time as acceptances so I still have hope.

galacticnate · Post by **galacticnate** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 3:04 pm

I just interviewed with UW Astronomy; they said acceptances would start going out next week (in a few waves) aiming for a class size of ~5.

Kartof123 · Post by **Kartof123** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 4:45 pm

Got an offer from Rutgers

suinvato · Post by **suinvato** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:19 pm

galacticnate wrote:I just interviewed with UW Astronomy; they said acceptances would start going out next week (in a few waves) aiming for a class size of ~5.

Thanks for the information !!

Zopy · Post by **Zopy** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:23 pm

Just got some good news from Rutgers! Excited for this one!

bstrekha · Post by **bstrekha** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:32 pm

Got an email saying I was accepted to Penn State. They are offering $28,925 for the first year, plus $1000 for research scholarship if I submit an application for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in the fall.

grenupet · Post by **grenupet** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:36 pm

Has anyone here received a JQI fellowship from Maryland? There were lots of them last year, as seen from grad cafe, but I have not seen anyone this year.

Tacosbeforevatos · Post by **Tacosbeforevatos** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:55 pm

Any news from Umass Amherst astronomy? I've only seen one acceptance on gradcafe like a week after the deadline..

cosmosis · Post by **cosmosis** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 7:31 pm

Tacosbeforevatos wrote:Any news from Umass Amherst astronomy? I've only seen one acceptance on gradcafe like a week after the deadline..

A friend of mine is flying out tonight for their open house. It starts tomorrow.

Tacosbeforevatos · Post by **Tacosbeforevatos** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 7:42 pm

cosmosis wrote:
Tacosbeforevatos wrote:Any news from Umass Amherst astronomy? I've only seen one acceptance on gradcafe like a week after the deadline..
A friend of mine is flying out tonight for their open house. It starts tomorrow.

Well thats nice lol (not for me). Thanks for the info!

laserfloyd80 · Post by **laserfloyd80** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:27 am

Any word from MIT EAPS Planetary Science?

ndrach · Post by **ndrach** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:55 am

I just got an email from Brown inviting me to some minority admitted grad student visit day (I'm a domestic hispanic applicant), but I haven't yet received any official or unofficial email from the physics department or any professors. Here is the relevant part of the text of the email I received:

On Monday, March 20, Brown Graduate School will host newly accepted students who are members of historically underrepresented groups for a free daylong event. Won't you join us?

Did anyone else get this email?

Tacosbeforevatos · Post by **Tacosbeforevatos** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:28 pm

ndrach wrote:I just got an email from Brown inviting me to some minority admitted grad student visit day (I'm a domestic hispanic applicant), but I haven't yet received any official or unofficial email from the physics department or any professors. Here is the relevant part of the text of the email I received:

On Monday, March 20, Brown Graduate School will host newly accepted students who are members of historically underrepresented groups for a free daylong event. Won't you join us?
Did anyone else get this email?

I am also an URM student and did not get that email. So maybe you'll hear good news soon.

epluseminus · Post by **epluseminus** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:40 pm

Does anyone have any information on when Berkeley will start sending out it admissions offers?

stronglycoupled · Post by **stronglycoupled** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:03 pm

Princeton is sending out rejections. Ok I guess I'll have to hold my breath until April 15th/16th for Harvard. Still hoping for the best.

corebake · Post by **corebake** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:16 pm

Still waiting on Harvard and Berkeley...any day now

ivorchen · Post by **ivorchen** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:18 pm

corebake wrote:Still waiting on Harvard and Berkeley...any day now

Is there any hope in waiting for Harvard? I thought they are done with waitlists

stronglycoupled · Post by **stronglycoupled** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:24 pm

ivorchen wrote:
corebake wrote:Still waiting on Harvard and Berkeley...any day now
Is there any hope in waiting for Harvard? I thought they are done with waitlists

I'll be completely honest. They're very much done. They had 671 applicants, and accepted + waitlisted 67.

corebake · Post by **corebake** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:56 pm

corebake wrote:Still waiting on Berkeley...any day now

Fixed

HydrogenAndTime · Post by **HydrogenAndTime** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:58 pm

Still waiting on Harvard & Berkeley physics too lol

I am assuming I got rejected from Harvard at this point. With that said, it does seem to be the case that Harvard Physics sent out quite a bit of offers already, but most of the acceptances/rejections I have seen were theorists. Does anyone know of any experiment (especially HEP-ex) candidates who heard back from Harvard?

As far as I know, Berkeley physics has been utterly quiet.

corebake · Post by **corebake** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:30 pm

Berkeley had most of their acceptances in late Feb - early March last year, it seems like they're going down the same path this year.