Listing Grad school responses (Admits & Rejects)...
I would just tell them the truth that you have already comitted to another open house during that time, but would really like to come out and visit. Since the point of paying to fly you out there is so that you will go to their school, I would think that it if anything they would be more likely to pay for your trip in this situation.
Asianbob - Duke was all. I was going to apply to the joint Harvard/MIT program, but I missed the deadline (I thought it was a week later than it was). I was also going to apply to some other places but I felt that I didn't want to do MP, I want to do biophysics. I was accepted to the 2 schools I wanted for biophysics, and if Duke accepts me I will mull over the situation...
More acceptances
I received email acceptances from:
University of North Carolina (physics) on January 31
University of Virginia (physics) on February 8
I'm a domestic student with the following stats:
Top 50 undergraduate institution
GPA: 3.86
GRE (Q/V/W): 800/530/4.5
Physics GRE: 710
Research: 1 REU, 2 years departmental research
Recommendations: 3 pretty good ones
University of North Carolina (physics) on January 31
University of Virginia (physics) on February 8
I'm a domestic student with the following stats:
Top 50 undergraduate institution
GPA: 3.86
GRE (Q/V/W): 800/530/4.5
Physics GRE: 710
Research: 1 REU, 2 years departmental research
Recommendations: 3 pretty good ones
Current List
Domestic
Ivy (the hardest in our opinion)
GPA: 3.2 (plus one grad class after graduation with 3.7 gpa)
GRE (Q/V/W): 800/620/5.5
Physics GRE: 640
Research:
2 REUs - both at very good programs. One was on the project that I want to work on in graduate school.
Working as a full time research assistant for a group working on a current NASA telescope mission (since June 06)
Teaching: 3 years of TA for computer science course
Other Skills: very good with computers and part of a CS major done before I decided to drop it.
Recommendations: All should've been excellent - one from a very well known person (in astronomy)
Applications (intended field is obs cosmology or exp relativity):
Penn State (astro) - Accepted (phone/email, 1/31/07)
UC Davis (phys) - Accepted (email, 2/9/07)
U Florida (phys) - Accepted (email, 1/24/07). Declined offer (2/26).
Columbia (phys) - Rejected (email, 2/23/07)
UWisc Milwaukee (phys)
Louisiana State (phys) - Accepted (phone, 2/16/07). Declined offer (2/26).
Princeton (astro) - Rejected (email, 2/12/07)
Caltech (phys) - Accepted (email, 2/21/07)
MIT (phys) - Rejected (postal, 3/3/07)
Michigan (phys) - Wait listed
Berkeley (astro) - Rejected (email, 2/16/07)
One thing I'll add about admissions. The professor I work with right now told me that the first thing he looks at is the numerical scores and who wrote the recommendations. Thus, if a well known person is writing you a recommendation, this is a big bonus to get noticed quickly.
Bonus points to anyone who can figure out what project I want to work on in grad school (8/11 of the schools have big groups for that project)
Ivy (the hardest in our opinion)
GPA: 3.2 (plus one grad class after graduation with 3.7 gpa)
GRE (Q/V/W): 800/620/5.5
Physics GRE: 640
Research:
2 REUs - both at very good programs. One was on the project that I want to work on in graduate school.
Working as a full time research assistant for a group working on a current NASA telescope mission (since June 06)
Teaching: 3 years of TA for computer science course
Other Skills: very good with computers and part of a CS major done before I decided to drop it.
Recommendations: All should've been excellent - one from a very well known person (in astronomy)
Applications (intended field is obs cosmology or exp relativity):
Penn State (astro) - Accepted (phone/email, 1/31/07)
UC Davis (phys) - Accepted (email, 2/9/07)
U Florida (phys) - Accepted (email, 1/24/07). Declined offer (2/26).
Columbia (phys) - Rejected (email, 2/23/07)
UWisc Milwaukee (phys)
Louisiana State (phys) - Accepted (phone, 2/16/07). Declined offer (2/26).
Princeton (astro) - Rejected (email, 2/12/07)
Caltech (phys) - Accepted (email, 2/21/07)
MIT (phys) - Rejected (postal, 3/3/07)
Michigan (phys) - Wait listed
Berkeley (astro) - Rejected (email, 2/16/07)
One thing I'll add about admissions. The professor I work with right now told me that the first thing he looks at is the numerical scores and who wrote the recommendations. Thus, if a well known person is writing you a recommendation, this is a big bonus to get noticed quickly.
Bonus points to anyone who can figure out what project I want to work on in grad school (8/11 of the schools have big groups for that project)
Last edited by dbl on Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:27 pm, edited 7 times in total.
Yeah I got my rejection e-mail from Princeton astro today too. Guess they must have filled their quota quickly.
quasar, where else did you apply that rejected you? It seems to me that if you got into Harvard astro (I'm still waiting to hear from them), you would be pretty competitive at almost any other school.
quasar, where else did you apply that rejected you? It seems to me that if you got into Harvard astro (I'm still waiting to hear from them), you would be pretty competitive at almost any other school.
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braindrain:
God only knows how. i really really really was not expecting to be in this position. my guess is i'll talk to faculty here. one of my astro profs who i'm kinda buddy buddy with said he might be able to talk about choices i might have since he had been at most of the places on my list or knew about them. we'll see. thanks for the congrats!
God only knows how. i really really really was not expecting to be in this position. my guess is i'll talk to faculty here. one of my astro profs who i'm kinda buddy buddy with said he might be able to talk about choices i might have since he had been at most of the places on my list or knew about them. we'll see. thanks for the congrats!
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hey devilzadvocate wouldn't it be funny if somebody from MIT grad committee randomly found their way to this site and saw you acting like a moron and decided to reject you when they saw your application package matched the profile of the dumbass from this message board? i personally think that would be awesome.
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oh geez, let's not get another one of these exchanges started on this thread...if you must, start a new one (devilzadvocate can even make her name the subject of the thread).
And I must say, there's nothing like the feeling of opening up a mailbox and seeing nothing but bills and advertisements, or even worse, nothing at all ("did the mailman come already...i know it's 6pm, but maybe he got in a wreck, had to get a new mail truck, and then came back to drop off my admissions letters late instead of going home to his family....it could happen")
And I must say, there's nothing like the feeling of opening up a mailbox and seeing nothing but bills and advertisements, or even worse, nothing at all ("did the mailman come already...i know it's 6pm, but maybe he got in a wreck, had to get a new mail truck, and then came back to drop off my admissions letters late instead of going home to his family....it could happen")
- * rjharris, congratulations on Harvard, you're on a roll here!
* Congrats to everyone into MIT !
* Good luck to the rest of y'all!
The guy collecting the list of acceptances wrote:
01. Yale Biophysics
02. Ohio State Biophysics , Astronomy
03. Stanford Biophysics
04. UCSF Biophysics
05. UC Berkeley Biophysics
06. Harvard Biophysics (22nd Jan)
07. College of William & Mary
08. UC Santa Barbara Materials department
09. Caltech Materials department
10. MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering
11. Johns Hopkins Physics 26th January
12. U. of Washington Physics
13. USC Physics
14. Ohio State Physics - 01/27
15. UCSB Physics - 01/29
16. Caltech Astronomy/Astrophysics 01/27
17. Princeton Astronomy - Feb 1
18. U Chicago Astronomy - Feb 3
19. Penn State, Astronomy - Feb 5
20. UIUC, Astronomy - Feb 5
21. Cornell, Physics - Feb 6
22. Texas A & M
23. Lehigh University - Feb 7
24. Rochester, Optics - Feb 7
25. UC Davis, Applied Sciences
26. University of Michigan - Feb 8
27. Florida State University- Feb 8
28. Washington University - Feb 8
29. Columbia University - Feb 8
30. Carnegie Mellon - Feb 8
31. Indiana University Astronomy 2/8
32. Dartmouth Physics
33. Boston U Physics
34. Harvard Astronomy
35. MIT Physics 12/2
strange results
My results so far:
CERN (theory) - accepted
Max Planck Institute for Astrophyiscs - accepted
Harvard - accepted
Hawaii astro - rejected
Texas A&M - rejected
USC - rejected
Waiting for a reply from Caltech astro. Slee, would you share with us when the list of prospective astro grads at Caltech seems complete?
This pattern looks strange to me, I would have expected the opposite. Does anyone understand that?
European applicant (with MS in physics)
GRE 790/640/4.5 680 (Q/V/W Physics)
really a lot of different research/teaching experiences, but not very focussed (some of the extremes are string theory and an experiment in a parabolic flight)
national fellowship as undergrad, international competitions in highschool
CERN (theory) - accepted
Max Planck Institute for Astrophyiscs - accepted
Harvard - accepted
Hawaii astro - rejected
Texas A&M - rejected
USC - rejected
Waiting for a reply from Caltech astro. Slee, would you share with us when the list of prospective astro grads at Caltech seems complete?
This pattern looks strange to me, I would have expected the opposite. Does anyone understand that?
European applicant (with MS in physics)
GRE 790/640/4.5 680 (Q/V/W Physics)
really a lot of different research/teaching experiences, but not very focussed (some of the extremes are string theory and an experiment in a parabolic flight)
national fellowship as undergrad, international competitions in highschool
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I'm an astronomy applicant- never posted before but I was hoping to compare information. I was also accepted to Princeton astrophysics last Friday. Has anyone else accepted there heard anything about visiting? My acceptance to Princeton, unlike a few other people on this forum, was via email, and I can't find anything about a visit in the admissions packet.
Other results so far: University of Chicago (accepted), University of Arizona (accepted), University of Hawaii (accepted), Harvard (waitlisted). All for astro.
Also, has anyone in astro heard from U of Washington?
Other results so far: University of Chicago (accepted), University of Arizona (accepted), University of Hawaii (accepted), Harvard (waitlisted). All for astro.
Also, has anyone in astro heard from U of Washington?
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Washington Texas New Mexico State
My descendant was rejected from UWashington Astro (Feb6), accepted at UT Austin Astro (Feb7) and NMSU Astro (Feb7). UT is holding 2 recruiting weekends (1st &3rd) in March.
Got an email from UFlorida astro (Feb11) saying to hold on due to traveling committee members first round won't go out for ~10 days.
Got an email from UFlorida astro (Feb11) saying to hold on due to traveling committee members first round won't go out for ~10 days.
hi inflaton, congrats on your acceptances! as for caltech, their list was at 3 for a week, then 6 for a bit, and i think they just added another quite recently to make it 7. however, i received another e-mail from the chair yesterday that looks like it might have gotten sent out to everyone, so they might be done.
newscience, congrats on princeton. i was contacted by phone (with some difficulties), e-mailed a few days later, and received my package yesterday - but i also haven't seen/heard anything about a visiting weekend. the stuff in the package was all from the graduate school, not the astro department. the prof on the phone encouraged me to visit, but he didn't make it sound like there was a particular weekend.
newscience, congrats on princeton. i was contacted by phone (with some difficulties), e-mailed a few days later, and received my package yesterday - but i also haven't seen/heard anything about a visiting weekend. the stuff in the package was all from the graduate school, not the astro department. the prof on the phone encouraged me to visit, but he didn't make it sound like there was a particular weekend.
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UVA
descendant got acceptance letter in mail from UVirginia astro with fellowship Feb 13
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