Rejection 2009.... Share your pain!
- elzoido238
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Rejected by CU Boulder Physics yesterday by email:
"Thank you for your interest in the Physics Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. This year, we had over 540 applicants for a limited number of slots. Unfortunately, we will not be able to offer you admission to our program. I wish you the best in your pursuit of a physics career."
Not even "I wish you the best in your physics career." Instead he says "I wish you the best in you pursuit of a physics career." Why don't you just say "good luck getting in anywhere." Asshole.
"Thank you for your interest in the Physics Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. This year, we had over 540 applicants for a limited number of slots. Unfortunately, we will not be able to offer you admission to our program. I wish you the best in your pursuit of a physics career."
Not even "I wish you the best in your physics career." Instead he says "I wish you the best in you pursuit of a physics career." Why don't you just say "good luck getting in anywhere." Asshole.
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Dexter sent me my rejection e-mail to Berkeley today.
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Guys! I've just got a rejection from Stanford applied Physics yesterday.
It came in air mail.... dated on 02-24... I wonder why they didn't tell me by e-mail
instead of sending an oversea air mail which takes more than half a month.
Is there any good reasons?
It came in air mail.... dated on 02-24... I wonder why they didn't tell me by e-mail
instead of sending an oversea air mail which takes more than half a month.
Is there any good reasons?
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Well, look at it this way! If you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away! If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, it would have nothing to cry about! That's like Stanford, who does not send us an email, and who keeps our hopes alive, just so that Stanford can tear it all away and make us cry. So Stanford can drink the sweet milk of our tears! You see, it's our tears, that give Stanford its great power.Ulquiorra wrote:Guys! I've just got a rejection from Stanford applied Physics yesterday.
It came in air mail.... dated on 02-24... I wonder why they didn't tell me by e-mail
instead of sending an oversea air mail which takes more than half a month.
Is there any good reasons?
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HeHeHe! Sort of like it!babazula wrote:Well, look at it this way! If you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away! If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, it would have nothing to cry about! That's like Stanford, who does not send us an email, and who keeps our hopes alive, just so that Stanford can tear it all away and make us cry. So Stanford can drink the sweet milk of our tears! You see, it's our tears, that give Stanford its great power.Ulquiorra wrote:Guys! I've just got a rejection from Stanford applied Physics yesterday.
It came in air mail.... dated on 02-24... I wonder why they didn't tell me by e-mail
instead of sending an oversea air mail which takes more than half a month.
Is there any good reasons?
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Oh sweet, sweet irony!babazula wrote: That's like Stanford, who does not send us an email, and who keeps our hopes alive, just so that Stanford can tear it all away and make us cry. So Stanford can drink the sweet milk of our tears! You see, it's our tears, that give Stanford its great power.
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Got my UMASS rejection. Sort of surprised, figured I would get in there, but whatever, got other good options.
- Julius_Sumner_Miller
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I got my rejection from UMass as well, I'm surprised considering the fact that I got a promising email from somebody on the admissions board a week or two ago. I'm not too bummed though, since I received an acceptance to my current school's environmental sciences PhD program the same day. Studying the spectra of marsh gasses sounds fun...
"Physics is my business?"
"Physics is my business?"
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rej from UMN...damn!
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Well, it looks like I can completely cross the UC system off my list... UCSD said no today. =/
Still have four more schools, but at this point, I'm not very confident.
Till next year!
Still have four more schools, but at this point, I'm not very confident.
Till next year!
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Rejected by UCSD
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rejected to UCSD & Columbia's Applied Physics...
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Berkeley rejection by email this morning
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Rejected to UCSD by email
- PhysicsPdx
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McGill, rejected! At least they say 'Refused' on the web portal. So polite.
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Rejected to UCSD also....great
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that actually sounds more like a bouncer not letting you inPhysicsPdx wrote:McGill, rejected! At least they say 'Refused' on the web portal. So polite.
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Hawaii said to go away today. Oh well.
And today I got my rejection from JHU. I was really hoping for a better outcome.
And today I got my rejection from JHU. I was really hoping for a better outcome.
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UCSD Rejection 2Imperate wrote:Rejected to UCSD also....great
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UIUC said they would send >>something>> this week. Probably a rejection (do they even send accepts this late ?)...anyone heard yet ? (besides all ye arses who got accepted last month )
- PhysicsPdx
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Rejected from Michigan Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics. Poop.
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Not yet. I e-mailed two weeks and was told that they already sent out the first wave (as we already knew) and that they don't know if there would be a second. As the open house was this past weekend (I think?) I'm not terribly optimistic.valloein wrote:UIUC said they would send >>something>> this week. Probably a rejection (do they even send accepts this late ?)...anyone heard yet ? (besides all ye arses who got accepted last month )
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I visited UIUC last weekend, and it seems this year has been really tough for them in terms of funding. While they usually have an incoming class of around 50 students, this year only 50 were given acceptances, and from what I heard the department is hoping for a class of around 20. At the same time there were many people with multiple offers at the open house, which probably means that much less than 50% will actually accept the offer of admission, which may force them to accept people from the waitlist, so there's still hope.pd wrote:Not yet. I e-mailed two weeks and was told that they already sent out the first wave (as we already knew) and that they don't know if there would be a second. As the open house was this past weekend (I think?) I'm not terribly optimistic.valloein wrote:UIUC said they would send >>something>> this week. Probably a rejection (do they even send accepts this late ?)...anyone heard yet ? (besides all ye arses who got accepted last month )
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Thanks for this information nonick, it's a big help.nonick wrote:
I visited UIUC last weekend, and it seems this year has been really tough for them in terms of funding. While they usually have an incoming class of around 50 students, this year only 50 were given acceptances, and from what I heard the department is hoping for a class of around 20. At the same time there were many people with multiple offers at the open house, which probably means that much less than 50% will actually accept the offer of admission, which may force them to accept people from the waitlist, so there's still hope.
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Rejected from Northwestern.
This years is absolutely horrible. I can't believe I've put so much effort into school for so long and have only gotten into one graduate program. A curse on whatever or whomever the reason is that caused the massive rise in applicants, and the conservative manner in which programs are accepting applicants.
This years is absolutely horrible. I can't believe I've put so much effort into school for so long and have only gotten into one graduate program. A curse on whatever or whomever the reason is that caused the massive rise in applicants, and the conservative manner in which programs are accepting applicants.
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well, at least you got somewhere: I had Fulbright scholarship (science & technology award alternate, with possibility of being placed into 1 year program if they didn't find money to finance alternates as well) and got accepted NOWHERE. I don't think there was an obvious killer in my application (930 PGRE, 1 first author publication, top 5% in school, summer research internship in CERN, 1 year research in plasma physics, 6 months in biophysics...) but still was not good enough....
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Out of curiosity how many/which schools did you apply to?thefourth wrote:well, at least you got somewhere: I had Fulbright scholarship (science & technology award alternate, with possibility of being placed into 1 year program if they didn't find money to finance alternates as well) and got accepted NOWHERE. I don't think there was an obvious killer in my application (930 PGRE, 1 first author publication, top 5% in school, summer research internship in CERN, 1 year research in plasma physics, 6 months in biophysics...) but still was not good enough....
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thefourth, how sure are you of your rec letter writers? From what I've heard even with an otherwise stellar credentials (like it looks like you have) one negative letter will completely torpedo your application.
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My money is on either not a real profile or only a few reaches applied too.
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read other posts, seems the lattercato88 wrote:My money is on either not a real profile or only a few reaches applied too.
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holy *** thats an extreme case- Princeton,Caltech, MIT- even with an apply only to reach schools strategy I would think you would go for 5 schools. Come on throw Stanford and Berkeley into the mix.
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Is this IT ?
Is this the end of the world ?
Maintaining what little sanity I have left needs tremendous willpower and leaves me exhausted enough to require up to 16 hours of sleep a day.
I didn't imagine this application business would leave me so scarred and bitter. This is probably why there are so many serial killers out there.
Is this the end of the world ?
Maintaining what little sanity I have left needs tremendous willpower and leaves me exhausted enough to require up to 16 hours of sleep a day.
I didn't imagine this application business would leave me so scarred and bitter. This is probably why there are so many serial killers out there.
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rejected from northwestern today via the website...dam
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Northwestern can suck a cock.
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There are a ton of options for people who haven't gotten in anywhere yet. Look for a position at a research facility you're interested in and then apply again next year! If you're lucky you could land a position at CERN or Hawaii Astronomy group. You'll atleast have more money than the grad students.valloein wrote:Is this IT ?
Is this the end of the world ?
Maintaining what little sanity I have left needs tremendous willpower and leaves me exhausted enough to require up to 16 hours of sleep a day.
I didn't imagine this application business would leave me so scarred and bitter. This is probably why there are so many serial killers out there.
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Fulbright allows you to apply only to 5 schools. I was also rejected from Berkeley and San Diego. Letters must have been positive, they were from the people who know me really well and wrote me also the letters for the Fulbright scholarship...and I really doubt I would get it if one letter was negative.
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the4th: while I know you're going through a rough time, your story makes me feel at least a bit better about all of the rejections I've experienced this year. I don't know. If I get into somewhere this year I may decline. I feel as though I have a lot to offer. I may be happier going to the institutions that will completely get me motivated and as my story has a little bit to do with test anxiety I would like to score in the 9x0s as I believe I'm capable. What I'm saying is, thank you for being honest enough to tell us your story, and furthermore your story, instead of depressing the heck out of me, gets me motivated to do those things I know I can - strange although true.
We will do great things I can feel it, , best. Even if it isn't this year.
We will do great things I can feel it, , best. Even if it isn't this year.
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Rejected from UCLA.....finally put me out of my misery
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i agree with happymonkey. we shouldnt be going to a school just because they were the only ones that accepted us. So far, I only got accepted to one school so far and I feel if i am not 100% excited with the physics there and the school it will be better for me to just wait and apply another year, improve my pgre score and so on. Its not fair to you to just go to a school youre not excited about and its not fair to them and to the other students that may have wanted to go there. Also, gradschool is already hard enough, you dont have to make it harder by being in a place you dont want to be at.
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alkemas wrote:i agree with happymonkey. we shouldnt be going to a school just because they were the only ones that accepted us. So far, I only got accepted to one school so far and I feel if i am not 100% excited with the physics there and the school it will be better for me to just wait and apply another year, improve my pgre score and so on. Its not fair to you to just go to a school youre not excited about and its not fair to them and to the other students that may have wanted to go there. Also, gradschool is already hard enough, you dont have to make it harder by being in a place you dont want to be at.
What is funny though, is how peoples' "being excited with the physics" or "wanting to be" at a particular university has a an unusually strong correlation its rank/reputation. Go figure.
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good point. however, my comment was nowhere near that naive. I am really looking to see what groups are available for me to work with and if they are studying subjects that interest me. We should all keep in mind that good physics is not measured by ranks. if you can find 2 or 3 groups that are really good and that you are interested in working with, then you shouldnt let a rank make you wait another year.
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alkemas wrote:i agree with happymonkey. we shouldnt be going to a school just because they were the only ones that accepted us. So far, I only got accepted to one school so far and I feel if i am not 100% excited with the physics there and the school it will be better for me to just wait and apply another year, improve my pgre score and so on. Its not fair to you to just go to a school youre not excited about and its not fair to them and to the other students that may have wanted to go there. Also, gradschool is already hard enough, you dont have to make it harder by being in a place you dont want to be at.
Not sure your going consolidate the two since rank usually gives people some doubt that will make someone not 100% sure or kill some excitement.alkemas wrote:good point. however, my comment was nowhere near that naive. I am really looking to see what groups are available for me to work with and if they are studying subjects that interest me. We should all keep in mind that good physics is not measured by ranks. if you can find 2 or 3 groups that are really good and that you are interested in working with, then you shouldnt let a rank make you wait another year.
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i'm in high energy so really if i choose a school that works in a collaboration that i am interested in, the school itself doesnt really matter much, again as long as i can find an adviser and have options there. for some people rank is important, and thats fine. not too important to me.
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My PGREs are painfully low for someone interested in hep-th. This year I didn't apply to some places that I am incredibly interested in the research being conducted there because I made a practical decision that I had very little chance, < 5%, of being accepted to them. So my strategy was to apply only to schools I had, I thought, a reasonable chance of being admitted to - with 2 reaches. So no, I'm not talking about "rank". My long term goals, past PhD don't require I come from one of the most prestigious universities. I do want to have an intellectually stimulating, exciting time in graduate school. Thus rank is of some importance, for me, but only in terms my perceived chances of admittance to research programs I am most interested working in.
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While the rejection thread is continuously crowded,
the acceptence thread is left without new posts...
This tells me how dim the chance of getting accepted by Berkeley is...
Hate this situation...
the acceptence thread is left without new posts...
This tells me how dim the chance of getting accepted by Berkeley is...
Hate this situation...
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UCLA rejected.... lol what irony.. that is maybe the last thing i needed today.
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rejected to Harvard Applied Physics. rejection count: 10. i'm super screwed, after all that work....
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rejected from university of virginia astronomy today...kinda expected it but woulda been nice.
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Rejection from Berkeley ended my period of insanity!
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Rejection from Stony Brook.