Decision Dates 2017

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » Tue Feb 21, 2017 7:31 pm

feliperosso wrote:Waitlisted in NYU.
If anybody has been accepted but intends to go to another university, please let NYU know, so that we have a chance. Thank you =)

And the same for any other university, though I don't think posters here need the reminder!

bstrekha · Post by **bstrekha** » Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:55 pm

Well Stanford's website says that they will make decisions by March 1, so that means there's about a week left for those of us that haven't heard back yet.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:41 pm

Admitted to Stony Brook's master's program, which is obviously a PhD rejection - I certainly can't afford this option. Also accepted into SUNY Buffalo's PhD program, will likely turn it down.

Tacosbeforevatos · Post by **Tacosbeforevatos** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 2:08 pm

Flagg wrote:Admitted to Stony Brook's master's program, which is obviously a PhD rejection - I certainly can't afford this option. Also accepted into SUNY Buffalo's PhD program, will likely turn it down.

Did Stony Brook email you or just website?

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 2:34 pm

Tacosbeforevatos wrote:
Flagg wrote:Admitted to Stony Brook's master's program, which is obviously a PhD rejection - I certainly can't afford this option. Also accepted into SUNY Buffalo's PhD program, will likely turn it down.
Did Stony Brook email you or just website?

They sent me an email.

ckitc · Post by **ckitc** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:01 pm

Has anyone who interviewed with U Washington astronomy heard back yet? They said they were hoping to announce acceptances by the beginning of this week but I haven't seen a peep.

stars_are_fun · Post by **stars_are_fun** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:54 pm

ckitc wrote:Has anyone who interviewed with U Washington astronomy heard back yet? They said they were hoping to announce acceptances by the beginning of this week but I haven't seen a peep.

Interviewed on Thursday, admitted via phone-call on Saturday. I do know that their department chair and graduate admission chair are both traveling all week so they may be slow on releasing the rest of the acceptances.

Tacosbeforevatos · Post by **Tacosbeforevatos** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 5:21 pm

Flagg wrote:
Tacosbeforevatos wrote:
Flagg wrote:Admitted to Stony Brook's master's program, which is obviously a PhD rejection - I certainly can't afford this option. Also accepted into SUNY Buffalo's PhD program, will likely turn it down.
Did Stony Brook email you or just website?
They sent me an email.

I also got that email. I'm already working on a master's degree for free so I have no interest in paying for one there.

Frod · Post by **Frod** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 6:10 pm

Flagg wrote:Admitted to Stony Brook's master's program, which is obviously a PhD rejection - I certainly can't afford this option. Also accepted into SUNY Buffalo's PhD program, will likely turn it down.

It happened to me too... Does anyone have an idea of the cost of this option for an international student?

Also, suppose I accept and I do great. Does this guarantees a PhD admission the next year or I'm supposed to compete with anyone else again?

TakeruK · Post by **TakeruK** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 7:24 pm

Frod wrote:
Flagg wrote:Admitted to Stony Brook's master's program, which is obviously a PhD rejection - I certainly can't afford this option. Also accepted into SUNY Buffalo's PhD program, will likely turn it down.
It happened to me too... Does anyone have an idea of the cost of this option for an international student?

Also, suppose I accept and I do great. Does this guarantees a PhD admission the next year or I'm supposed to compete with anyone else again?

Unless it is explicitly said, you do not any get guaranteed admission to PhD. You will have to compete again.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 7:46 pm

Frod wrote:
Flagg wrote:Admitted to Stony Brook's master's program, which is obviously a PhD rejection - I certainly can't afford this option. Also accepted into SUNY Buffalo's PhD program, will likely turn it down.
It happened to me too... Does anyone have an idea of the cost of this option for an international student?

Also, suppose I accept and I do great. Does this guarantees a PhD admission the next year or I'm supposed to compete with anyone else again?

Like TakeruK says, you will not be a shoo-in to their physics department unless they say so, and if you got the same email that I did, it did not say so.

Now, if you do great and get a Master's from SUNY Stony Brook, you may very well have a chance at better grad schools than the ones you were looking at this time around, or at least that would likely be the case for me. But I simply do not have the financial ability to go this route.

If you got the same email I did, look at the PDFs they attach. I believe it says how much you'd expect to pay as an international student. If not, I'm sure you could ask them and they'd answer happily.

physicist91 · Post by **physicist91** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:10 pm

Is there any information about the decisions from the university of texas austin dpt of astronomy???? There are only 2 of postings in the gradcafe in 2017. Getting much angry and nervous. No news would be the signal for rejection??

ckitc · Post by **ckitc** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:31 pm

physicist91 wrote:Is there any information about the decisions from the university of texas austin dpt of astronomy???? There are only 2 of postings in the gradcafe in 2017. Getting much angry and nervous. No news would be the signal for rejection??

They didn't give me any indication of how many people they admitted or the timeline, but the official visit is scheduled March 9-10. I would assume no news is bad news at this point. (No way to be sure unless you ask, though.)

ckitc · Post by **ckitc** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:36 pm

stars_are_fun wrote:
ckitc wrote:Has anyone who interviewed with U Washington astronomy heard back yet? They said they were hoping to announce acceptances by the beginning of this week but I haven't seen a peep.
Interviewed on Thursday, admitted via phone-call on Saturday. I do know that their department chair and graduate admission chair are both traveling all week so they may be slow on releasing the rest of the acceptances.

Thanks for this. I'm obviously in good shape either way, but they're pretty high up my list so here's hoping!

And of course, it figures you'd be first on their list, Ms. I'm-Making-A-Clean-Sweep.

(Here's hoping I run into you on a mutual visit, so I can figure out your secret in person.)

fundamentalconcepts · Post by **fundamentalconcepts** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 9:07 pm

Does anyone know if Rutgers has sent out all of its accepted e-mail to their applicants?
There are few postings in grad cafe in this year.

stars_are_fun · Post by **stars_are_fun** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 9:26 pm

ckitc wrote:
stars_are_fun wrote:
ckitc wrote:Has anyone who interviewed with U Washington astronomy heard back yet? They said they were hoping to announce acceptances by the beginning of this week but I haven't seen a peep.
Interviewed on Thursday, admitted via phone-call on Saturday. I do know that their department chair and graduate admission chair are both traveling all week so they may be slow on releasing the rest of the acceptances.
Thanks for this. I'm obviously in good shape either way, but they're pretty high up my list so here's hoping!

And of course, it figures you'd be first on their list, Ms. I'm-Making-A-Clean-Sweep. (Here's hoping I run into you on a mutual visit, so I can figure out your secret in person.)

ha, thanks. Caltech + the second Harvard visit??

muskratsam · Post by **muskratsam** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 11:45 pm

Same question about Rutgers here.

bunnysid · Post by **bunnysid** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 12:03 am

Unfunded offer for Masters program in Stony Brook which means a rejection.

bunnysid · Post by **bunnysid** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 12:13 am

Asked to apply to unfunded masters program at Brown. Another reject.

bunnysid · Post by **bunnysid** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:13 am

Did anyone hear from Brandeis or Northeastern? I saw some domestic students were invited to open house for Brandeis. Any information regarding international students?

physicist91 · Post by **physicist91** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:57 am

ckitc wrote:
physicist91 wrote:Is there any information about the decisions from the university of texas austin dpt of astronomy???? There are only 2 of postings in the gradcafe in 2017. Getting much angry and nervous. No news would be the signal for rejection??
They didn't give me any indication of how many people they admitted or the timeline, but the official visit is scheduled March 9-10. I would assume no news is bad news at this point. (No way to be sure unless you ask, though.)

Thanks for your respondent. I think that you right. This would be significantly negative sign for the admissions. I should prepare my application next time. Thanks and i hope that you can get admissions. Damn... studying aborad is much harder than i expected

ndrach · Post by **ndrach** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:48 pm

bunnysid wrote:Did anyone hear from Brandeis or Northeastern? I saw some domestic students were invited to open house for Brandeis. Any information regarding international students?

I am also waiting on Northeastern, doesnt seem like they've sent anything yet. In previous years they sent offers around late february

bstrekha · Post by **bstrekha** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 3:21 pm

I emailed UCSB and they said "You should find out by 2/24." So I guess many of us should hear today or tomorrow. Looks like all the acceptances went out, though, so I'm expecting a rejection.

corebake · Post by **corebake** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:07 pm

bstrekha wrote:I emailed UCSB and they said "You should find out by 2/24." So I guess many of us should hear today or tomorrow. Looks like all the acceptances went out, though, so I'm expecting a rejection.

They are pretty much done with acceptances (having accepted ~100 applicants). Unfortunately, if you haven't heard back from them, chances are you didn't make the cut.

bstrekha · Post by **bstrekha** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:12 pm

Yeah, I that's what I'm guessing. I mean, I'm happy about the UIUC acceptance and UIUC has research I really like. However, having more options would made this grad school process a bit more exciting. Can't be too picky, though.

ndrach · Post by **ndrach** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:38 pm

Just got rejected from Northeastern via website. A little surprised since that was one of my safeties, but I got into better programs anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TheTacoPrincess · Post by **TheTacoPrincess** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:05 pm

Has anyone else also not heard back from Brown yet? I applied for CMT and I'm starting to feel like they forgot about me :/

physnapk · Post by **physnapk** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:20 pm

I haven't heard back from Johns Hopkins... I mean, I'm almost certainly rejected, but I just want to know

metapuff · Post by **metapuff** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 7:04 pm

Has anyone heard from Yale yet?

hockeychamp19 · Post by **hockeychamp19** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 8:34 pm

metapuff wrote:Has anyone heard from Yale yet?

I don't think so - I certainly haven't. Haven't seen anything on gradcafe either except for the applied physics acceptance. Though judging from your applicant profile, you both needn't worry and needn't care

bunnysid · Post by **bunnysid** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 9:21 pm

Got rejected from Northeastern. A bit surprised here.

Tacosbeforevatos · Post by **Tacosbeforevatos** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:22 pm

TheTacoPrincess wrote:Has anyone else also not heard back from Brown yet? I applied for CMT and I'm starting to feel like they forgot about me :/

Same. Did not get a rejection today.. don't know what to make of it.

tooterfish · Post by **tooterfish** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 2:07 am

ndrach wrote:Just got rejected from Northeastern via website. A little surprised since that was one of my safeties, but I got into better programs anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why would they admit someone who may outclass and therefore reject them?

I was talking about this with a friend. High performance is not a good indicator of acceptance. What matters is matching your performance to a particular school.

entanglemententropy · Post by **entanglemententropy** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:17 pm

Does anybody know what's going on with Columbia? Haven't heard from them yet.

ndrach · Post by **ndrach** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 4:05 pm

CalTech just sent out a bunch of rejections

maxwellsdemon · Post by **maxwellsdemon** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 4:34 pm

entanglemententropy wrote:Does anybody know what's going on with Columbia? Haven't heard from them yet.

in one or two weeks as of Tuesday. heard from POI.

anirekj · Post by **anirekj** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 4:41 pm

Yale just invited me to the open house, but no offer yet

metapuff · Post by **metapuff** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 4:59 pm

anirekj wrote:Yale just invited me to the open house, but no offer yet

Yeah, same. Kinda weird.

anirekj · Post by **anirekj** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 5:13 pm

metapuff wrote:
anirekj wrote:Yale just invited me to the open house, but no offer yet
Yeah, same. Kinda weird.

I'm also amused by the fact that the first thing they plan to do is taking students to a BAR. Are we supposed to get really drunk and do some crazy interviews the next day? lol

aewais13 · Post by **aewais13** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 5:58 pm

Does anyone know if UIUC is done with all offers ?

bstrekha · Post by **bstrekha** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 6:18 pm

I got an offer from UIUC on Feb. 14 and a classmate at my university heard from them even earlier (although I was CMT and he was CME.) So I would think all of their first round offers are probably out. Maybe they will have more offers to make, but the chance of being accepted at this point is probably slim. But you never know until you officially hear back from them!

Ancus4physics · Post by **Ancus4physics** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 7:28 pm

anirekj wrote:
metapuff wrote:
anirekj wrote:Yale just invited me to the open house, but no offer yet
Yeah, same. Kinda weird.
I'm also amused by the fact that the first thing they plan to do is taking students to a BAR. Are we supposed to get really drunk and do some crazy interviews the next day? lol

Did invites go to applied physics applicants as well?

STEVENSTEVE · Post by **STEVENSTEVE** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:50 pm

I got into Berkeley!
Also, I was rejected from Cornell and Santa Barbara.

HydrogenAndTime · Post by **HydrogenAndTime** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 11:10 pm

Just heard back from UC Berkeley. (8:06 PM EST)

That ends my grad school admissions! It's been quite a ride, and I'm glad that it's over.

Good luck & best of wishes to everyone else who's not done yet.

linh119 · Post by **linh119** » Sat Feb 25, 2017 6:25 am

Hey guys, does anyone know if Penn State and OSU have finished sending out their offers? My applications status are still pending for such a long time.

bstrekha · Post by **bstrekha** » Sat Feb 25, 2017 1:39 pm

linh119 wrote:Hey guys, does anyone know if Penn State and OSU have finished sending out their offers? My applications status are still pending for such a long time.

I got an offer from them Feb 15. and saw some other acceptances a few days later. So it appears that the first-round offers went out. I declined their offer, though. Hopefully someone that really wants to go to PennState gets that spot instead. Maybe they are waiting to see how their first round offers go before deciding whether to send out more offers.

laserfloyd80 · Post by **laserfloyd80** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:07 pm

Rejection from MIT Planetary Science

cosmosis · Post by **cosmosis** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:30 pm

People who accepted into the UCSC astronomy program - did you get your financial package info yet?

Yiiiiii · Post by **Yiiiiii** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:36 pm

cosmosis wrote:People who accepted into the UCSC astronomy program - did you get your financial package info yet?

No.

cosmosis · Post by **cosmosis** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:41 pm

Yiiiiii wrote:
cosmosis wrote:People who accepted into the UCSC astronomy program - did you get your financial package info yet?
No.

I hope they let us know soon...