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jall
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Post by jall » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:42 am

I was rejected in Chicago (Physics). I believe it was the TOEFL score!

astroste.. did they mention anything about that in the rejection letter?

So far, 1 rejection, 3 unknowns.

CPT
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Post by CPT » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:26 am

jall wrote:I was rejected in Chicago (Physics). I believe it was the TOEFL score!

astroste.. did they mention anything about that in the rejection letter?

So far, 1 rejection, 3 unknowns.
@jall, are you an international student? If so how were you informed of your rejection? Email? And have they sent out admission results to all the selected people? I got a reject from Indiana in the mail today, so now I'm worried ... 1 reject, 6 unknowns :( :?

jall
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Post by jall » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:59 am

@CPT: I'm an international student, and the rejection came by mail. My overall TOEFL score was above the minimum, but in one section, the score was below the respective minimum. I don't know if that was the reason of my rejection, since the letter looked like a standard one, with no reference to the TOEFL score.

To everyone who received MIT acceptance letter: Are you international?

Regards

astroste
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Post by astroste » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:34 pm

hi jall

I was applying to the astro dept of chicago. I emailed them to ask what is my current status since I did not receive acceptance or rejection. But the reply was funny. They said they told me in email (which I had never received) that my TOEFL is below minimum and my application would not be considered. They did not charge my application fee neither. So practically this was an unsuccessful application rather than rejection.

For your case, my friend got a similar "rejection" email about his sub-score on TOEFL. They said it is unlikely to admit blah blah blah.

Jaunty
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Post by Jaunty » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:21 pm

Just got a voicemail from UColorado physics saying I was accepted

Daharoni
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Post by Daharoni » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:25 pm

I was just rejected from Yale (physics). My first rejection but i guess it had to happen some time. So far...

UCSD accepted
UCSB accepted
USC accepted
Boston U accepted
Yale Rejected

Gti337
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Post by Gti337 » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:29 pm

I just got a rejection from Yale too. The fact that you got into UCSB though still gives me hope.

dan1234
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Post by dan1234 » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:36 pm

Ah! I hope to hear ANYTHING back from yale today. My chances seem to be decent at all of the places I've applied to, but they've been strangely (frighteningly??) silent.

-Dan

Daharoni
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Post by Daharoni » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:37 pm

Good luck for UCSB. Your application stats look better than mine so you should have a good chance. I didn't expect to be rejected from Yale so soon, I thought I would be wait listed first.

Daharoni
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Post by Daharoni » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:56 pm

Alright so I got rejected to Yale but got into NYU physics right now. I know NYU doesn't make up for Yale but it is nice hearing another acceptance.

soluyanov
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Post by soluyanov » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:15 pm

Got my first rejection. From Yale, which was among my first choice.... This is really hard to overcome. First rejection and from the first choice.

Already had acceptances from USC, UMass, U Florida, Indiana Bloomington, UW Madison and Rutgers.

I know it was stupid to hope having 730 for Physics test being an international, but still... That wasn't the glorious day, really.((((

JackSkellington
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Post by JackSkellington » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:30 pm

wow...yale is not looking good. Did you guys hear by mail or email?

Daharoni
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Post by Daharoni » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:37 pm

We heard from Yale through email which gave us the link to check the status online. I would much rather just had the email reject us. Gave me some hope for the minute while I was logging into their website.

The website to check your decisions is the same as the one you applied on and the same one you can check your status.

Good luck all

Ghagnastiac
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Post by Ghagnastiac » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:39 pm

Daharoni, I really really feel your pain. The parallel's are scary: Accepted by NYU, Rejected by Yale, and an 840 on the physics GRE.

CPT
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Post by CPT » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:40 pm

UIUC & Princeton had the earliest deadline amongst all the Physics programmes, then why the hell haven't they still sent even the first wave of acceptances?

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

aufuk
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Post by aufuk » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:41 pm

Soluyanov,
Which UMass were you accepted to?Amherst?
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JackSkellington
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Post by JackSkellington » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:48 pm

Yep- I got rejected too. Im not surprised...jesus- did ne one get in??

soluyanov
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Post by soluyanov » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:01 pm

Aufuk, yes it was Amherst.

soluyanov
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Post by soluyanov » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:04 pm

Daharoni, I completely agree with you. This roulette is annoying. But, to be honest, the name of an email "decision available" sounded like 99% "f*ck you".

And good luck to all of you guys.
I really adore those who got great acceptances! Also I hope, that those rejected will make the schools be sorry about the decision.

somebody
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Post by somebody » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:52 pm

has anyone heard anything from UC Irvine or Maryland physics as yet?

Daharoni
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Post by Daharoni » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:57 pm

I don't think UCI has sent any decisions yet. Im also waiting for UCLA

braindrain
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Post by braindrain » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:25 pm

@soluyanov - there's only one way to make Yale sorry. :) (It's starts with
an H).

schmit.paul
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Post by schmit.paul » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:46 pm

just got an acceptance email from Caltech physics this morning, and my roommate told me there's a letter from columbia applied physics/applied mathematics in the mail for me (i'm gonna check out our department colloquium before i head home to check out the letter tho).

My good friend told me he got a call from a professor of astroparticle physics at Yale this afternoon saying he'd been accepted.

soluyanov
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Post by soluyanov » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:48 pm

Braidrain, I think there is no way to make Yale sorry now. No H... no M...T, no P....
I don't think that would impress them. The only way is to become good enough in the future. The best way is some kind of prise, ..let me remember... the N.. one, I guess... :D

mathlete
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Post by mathlete » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:32 pm

Is there anyone not going to MIT, Caltech, Harvard, Yale, or Princeton? Surely there has to be someone else on here who isn't a 990/4.0 applicant.

somebody
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Post by somebody » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:24 pm

well there's me, my crappy profile is around somewhere, so far i've been rejected from michigan state (prestigous institution of higher learning haha) and not heard from anywhere else. hopefully that makes you feel better

Ilikephysics
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Post by Ilikephysics » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:30 pm

@somebody

me too Physics-640. Domestic. Unknown Liberal arts school
Did u get a rejection letter or email from Michigan state. I also applied there. Did not hear anything from there yet.

Till now

Florida state- accepted
U Tennesse- accepted
Lehigh- Accepted

Rest 11 unkowns. Yeah I applied to 15 schools

somebody
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Post by somebody » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:49 pm

i got an e-mail this past tuesday

ZAMS
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Post by ZAMS » Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:10 am

I got an acceptance email from UVirginia astro today- I'm glad I found it cause it was in the Junk folder! Mac Mail thought it was spam... great.

tea
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Post by tea » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:18 am

I got an acceptance from Caltech today.

my information:
International
AMO experiment
Subject physics 97% mathematics 96%
GPA 3.6
No publication

Waiting: MIT Harvard Stanford Colorado

aquarius
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EECS

Post by aquarius » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:01 am

Got the admission to Berkeley EECS today

rjharris
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Post by rjharris » Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:57 am

got an e-mail from Cornell physics saying I was in this morning.

shirazu
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Post by shirazu » Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:21 pm

Got an e-mail from Penn State today, in, TA+4k fellowship. They said 500 apps for 20 spots, which seems like a lot.
Domestic, applied to condensed matter expt, gre 800q/690v/5.5w, phys gre 750, gpa 3.5, top 25-50 liberal arts school, no pubs, have done about 9mos. research in optics totally unrelated to what I applied to.
GL to all and congratulations especially to those who got into those sick schools that I knew were good for physics before I ever started in physics.

Quaoar
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Post by Quaoar » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:31 pm

Haven't heard from the following 2 schools yet:

UCSC (Astro)
Stanford (Physics)

From what I can tell, every other school I applied to has sent out acceptances already. If you have heard from the above two schools, please reply and let me know.
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kdub
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Post by kdub » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:44 pm

I got an e-mail from UCB astro last Friday saying I had been put on their wait list, so apparently they've sent out their first wave of admits already. Haven't heard from UCSC yet though.

Quaoar
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Post by Quaoar » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:51 pm

Thanks kdub, that's disappointing, I didn't even get a wait-list notification. Oh well.

Quaoar
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Post by Quaoar » Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:03 pm

Haha, apparently just thinking about a school will make them send me a rejection letter. Got a rejection from UCB astronomy, the e-mail says that there were 6 slots and 140 applicants.

somebody
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Post by somebody » Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:05 pm

sweet odds

CPT
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Post by CPT » Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:41 pm

Sheez ... 6 in 140?? Is that domestic or int'l? Tough break either way ...
Good luck with your other places ...
Am I the only one on this board with not a single acceptance yet? Haven't even heard from most of my places ... just hopin' that whatever's left is good news ..
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Quaoar
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Post by Quaoar » Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:45 pm

I'm domestic, I think that's the overall numbers. University of Arizona (astronomy) had about 140 overall as well, and 10 slots.

dan1234
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Post by dan1234 » Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:54 pm

@CPT...

I've only heard from a couple of back-ups myself. I wouldn't worry too much...at least until the end of next week ;).

Quaoar
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Post by Quaoar » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:01 pm

@CPT: I've heard from one school, but save the two schools I applied to that no one has heard from, I think the rest of my applications are toast. I wouldn't take it personally; the acceptance rate is VERY low, even for the backups. If you assume a 10% chance you'll get into any particular school and you apply to 10 schools, your chances of not getting in anywhere are still about 35%.

CPT
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Post by CPT » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:11 pm

yeah, I guess so, it still is pretty damn frustrating waiting for them to announce on a sporadic basis. With all this anxiety I can't get any work done nowadays ... is it just me, or are the rest of you also near nervous wrecks right now (except the ones with two publications, 990s and 4.0s of course, but they've already gotten into MIT and whatnot )?

mathlete
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Post by mathlete » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:18 pm

@ Quaoar

A 10% chance you get in somewhere = 90% chance you don't get in. .9^10 = chance of getting in NOWHERE when applying to 10 schools (assuming each is an independent event of course, which isn't really the case) = 35%

Therefore, the chance of getting into at least ONE school of the 10 is 1 - .35 = 65%

somebody
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Post by somebody » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:22 pm

he said the chance of not getting in anywhere is 35%, but thanks for the probability refresher

Quaoar
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Post by Quaoar » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:23 pm

@mathlete: Yes, exactly. Of course, that's just a guesstimate of your chances. For Arizona and Berkeley, the chances are 4% (ignoring qualifications), and for other schools the chances might be as high as 30%. The point is, there's still a 1 in 3 chance you won't get in anywhere when applying to 10 schools under this naive assumption. Sucks, but like I said, people shouldn't take it personally.

jiffyclub
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Post by jiffyclub » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:50 pm

Results so far:

U of Wyoming (astro) - accepted by phone
UMass (astro) - accepted by email

Arizona (astro) - rejected
UC Berkeley (astro) - rejected

Still out:

Johns Hopkins (physics/astronomy)
Harvard (astronomy)
UCSC (astronomy)
UCI (physics/astronomy)
Cal Tech (astro)
Cornell (astro)
UMD (astro) - waitlisted
Hawaii (astro)
Washington (astro)

I know some people have heard up/down on places I still haven't heard anything from, kind of stressful.

schmit.paul
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Post by schmit.paul » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:50 pm

just got an email to go visit princeton (for the plasma physics program), so I assume that means I've been admitted.

@CPT: I agree with the others, don't worry just yet. I was getting very paranoid from not having heard from any of my physics programs while everyone else on the board was announcing acceptances from a bunch of schools, and I got 3 notifications in the last 2 days...if you're international, it may take a little bit longer for the news to reach you, as it seems like there are still a number of schools out there that *insist* on sending mail rather than using electronic communication. good luck

JackSkellington
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Post by JackSkellington » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:50 pm

Add UCLA physics to the list, please.

Daharoni
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Post by Daharoni » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:35 pm

Did you just hear from UCLA physics. They told me yesterday that decisions for domestic applicants will be made next week.



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