Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

iAmAbelian · Post by **iAmAbelian** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 1:06 pm

Has anyone heard anything out of Vanderbilt yet? Also, when might we expect second round offers out of Kentucky?

Awww this process sucks!!!

Eowyn · Post by **Eowyn** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:05 pm

I have been offered a TA-ship of $11,570 (along with something called the TA top-up of $1,000) for 8 months at UBC. They have also talked about an RA-ship of $10,000 for 12 months... but the problem is that this amount is subject to change depending on the availability of research grants of individual faculty members at UBC. Anybody else facing similar doubts in their offers? And should it happen that there is a dearth of around $1,000 - $2,000 in the RA-ship, does anyone have any idea whether I'll survive in Vancouver or not? (my tuition fees will be covered by the Faculty Graduate Fellowship ($4349.15) but the student levy fees won't be covered, and they also have not talked about the health insurance thing but apparently that is just a premium of about $13 per month). Any suggestions, ideas etc. will be welcome... as I'm completely naive about Canada.

waiting512 · Post by **waiting512** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:16 pm

I also applied to Vandy and have heard nothing. UK will admit a significant number of people in the next two weeks I imagine.

iAmAbelian · Post by **iAmAbelian** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:48 pm

waiting512 wrote:I also applied to Vandy and have heard nothing. UK will admit a significant number of people in the next two weeks I imagine.

Yeah I am pretty sure that Vandy has sent out preliminary offers (saw some of grad cafe) but I'm not sure. I already have a pretty decent offer from a third school, it is just the wait and not knowing is killing me! I hope that your right about UK though, as I need information!

Just as an aside, is there any particular reason you think that about UK?

kunnysan · Post by **kunnysan** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:56 pm

Eowyn wrote:I have been offered a TA-ship of $11,570 (along with something called the TA top-up of $1,000) for 8 months at UBC. They have also talked about an RA-ship of $10,000 for 12 months... but the problem is that this amount is subject to change depending on the availability of research grants of individual faculty members at UBC. Anybody else facing similar doubts in their offers? And should it happen that there is a dearth of around $1,000 - $2,000 in the RA-ship, does anyone have any idea whether I'll survive in Vancouver or not? (my tuition fees will be covered by the Faculty Graduate Fellowship ($4349.15) but the student levy fees won't be covered, and they also have not talked about the health insurance thing but apparently that is just a premium of about $13 per month). Any suggestions, ideas etc. will be welcome... as I'm completely naive about Canada.

I have got exactly same offer from UBC but this is for Master's, while I guess that you have a PhD offer. However I am also concerned about the same thing, whether I will be able to meet all the expenses there or not! Are you getting full tuition waiver or partial? You may like to look at this link, may be helpful. https://www.grad.ubc.ca/prospective-stu ... udent-fees

Eowyn · Post by **Eowyn** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 4:28 pm

They have told me that my tuition fees will be covered by the Faculty Graduate Fellowship of $4349.15 and I am hoping that this means it's a full tuition waiver. I am also a lot worried... just in case there is any dearth of funds, I shall be in no position to support myself through personal funds. But UBC is my dream school, and I'm trying to collect information about the cost of living there... so hopefully, everything will be fine

Eowyn · Post by **Eowyn** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 4:31 pm

Hey and thanks a lot for the link

This is really helpful... are you planning on joining? Are you an international student?

Eowyn · Post by **Eowyn** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 4:33 pm

Oh I just saw your profile... of course... you hail from the same country as me

And hence similar worries

kunnysan · Post by **kunnysan** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:32 pm

Eowyn wrote:Oh I just saw your profile... of course... you hail from the same country as me And hence similar worries

In fact same Institute (different center though)

. I am waiting for decisions from Caltech and UIUC. However, UBC is one of my top choices.

123456 · Post by **123456** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:55 pm

How did Cornell state their reject letters from this past week, for those who received one? Also, any news on Berkeley, Caltech, or Penn decisions (in general, not just that you know of one person who has heard back)?

ParsleyX · Post by **ParsleyX** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:02 pm

ParsleyX wrote:
marco wrote:Wow I really thought UMD would deliver some news today...
I was told they would release their offers 'early next week'.

marco wrote:Hello ParsleyX: May I ask how do you know this?

Email exchange with the department yesterday.

m_s · Post by **m_s** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:18 pm

Eowyn wrote:They have told me that my tuition fees will be covered by the Faculty Graduate Fellowship of $4349.15 and I am hoping that this means it's a full tuition waiver. I am also a lot worried... just in case there is any dearth of funds, I shall be in no position to support myself through personal funds. But UBC is my dream school, and I'm trying to collect information about the cost of living there... so hopefully, everything will be fine

Judging from the "cost of living" portion of the UBC website I think that international students' tuition is about 7.000$ and that the fellowship mentioned covers the 4.000$ while an international tuition award covers the other 3.000$. Whether you will receive this award will be probably mentioned in your offer. I think that RAs depend on the professors that you are interested in working with, so if you have already contacted (or been contacted by) any of them, it would be a good idea to ask them about your concerns.. As for Vancouver, I think that you should apply for the UBC housing as soon as possible (even before deciding on whether you will accept the offer or not) in order to be high on the waitlist for on-campus housing..

atomspatz · Post by **atomspatz** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:23 pm

I got an email from Laugesen at UIUC this morning saying they intend to offer a TAship and tuition waiver, "with details coming next week." A friend of mine received a similar email around the same time. This appears to be the start of the first wave.

rmg512 · Post by **rmg512** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:46 pm

123456 wrote:How did Cornell state their reject letters from this past week, for those who received one? Also, any news on Berkeley, Caltech, or Penn decisions (in general, not just that you know of one person who has heard back)?

I'll quote the body of the email:

On behalf of the Graduate Faculty in Mathematics, I regret to inform you that your application for admission to the Ph.D. Program in Mathematics has not been approved.

Since the number of students who can be accepted is limited and the overall quality of applicants is very high, it is not possible to accept many excellent students who are interested in coming to Cornell.

We appreciate your interest in Cornell and wish you success in continuing your studies at another university.

Sincerely,
Melissa Totman

math_applicant · Post by **math_applicant** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:02 pm

atomspatz wrote:I got an email from Laugesen at UIUC this morning saying they intend to offer a TAship and tuition waiver, "with details coming next week." A friend of mine received a similar email around the same time. This appears to be the start of the first wave.

your profile on the applications thread says you already received an informal offer, do you mind sharing how this email was different ? congrats by the way!

Nr · Post by Nr » Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:41 pm

atomspatz wrote:I got an email from Laugesen at UIUC this morning saying they intend to offer a TAship and tuition waiver, "with details coming next week." A friend of mine received a similar email around the same time. This appears to be the start of the first wave.

So, basically this means that next week all UIUC accepted get official offers ???
Those with unofficial offers from before and those who haven't heard anything yet ???
That would be great ...

atomspatz · Post by **atomspatz** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:42 pm

math_applicant wrote:
atomspatz wrote:I got an email from Laugesen at UIUC this morning saying they intend to offer a TAship and tuition waiver, "with details coming next week." A friend of mine received a similar email around the same time. This appears to be the start of the first wave.
your profile on the applications thread says you already received an informal offer, do you mind sharing how this email was different ? congrats by the way!

Thanks! The previous email was from a professor who asked me to consider Illinois and expressed interest in working together. Laugesen mentioned that email in the one from today, but addressed admission and funding explicitly this time.

Eowyn · Post by **Eowyn** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 2:36 am

kunnysan wrote:
Eowyn wrote:I have been offered a TA-ship of $11,570 (along with something called the TA top-up of $1,000) for 8 months at UBC. They have also talked about an RA-ship of $10,000 for 12 months... but the problem is that this amount is subject to change depending on the availability of research grants of individual faculty members at UBC. Anybody else facing similar doubts in their offers? And should it happen that there is a dearth of around $1,000 - $2,000 in the RA-ship, does anyone have any idea whether I'll survive in Vancouver or not? (my tuition fees will be covered by the Faculty Graduate Fellowship ($4349.15) but the student levy fees won't be covered, and they also have not talked about the health insurance thing but apparently that is just a premium of about $13 per month). Any suggestions, ideas etc. will be welcome... as I'm completely naive about Canada.
I have got exactly same offer from UBC but this is for Master's, while I guess that you have a PhD offer. However I am also concerned about the same thing, whether I will be able to meet all the expenses there or not! Are you getting full tuition waiver or partial? You may like to look at this link, may be helpful. https://www.grad.ubc.ca/prospective-stu ... udent-fees

So, could you please tell me the exact wording used in your offer letter? Did they say "Your tuition fees will be covered by the Faculty Graduate Fellowship" or did they mention that it will be only partially covered? Mine is the former wording with the amount mentioned being $4349.15, and that is very odd, since most PhD students receive full tuition waiver and this seems barely more than half the amount.

Looking forward to your reply, as this is really worrying me. And also, I emailed the grad coordinator Lee Yupitun, and expect her email sometime late night tomorrow. Will let you know what she says.

kunnysan · Post by **kunnysan** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 4:25 am

Eowyn wrote:
kunnysan wrote:
Eowyn wrote:I have been offered a TA-ship of $11,570 (along with something called the TA top-up of $1,000) for 8 months at UBC. They have also talked about an RA-ship of $10,000 for 12 months... but the problem is that this amount is subject to change depending on the availability of research grants of individual faculty members at UBC. Anybody else facing similar doubts in their offers? And should it happen that there is a dearth of around $1,000 - $2,000 in the RA-ship, does anyone have any idea whether I'll survive in Vancouver or not? (my tuition fees will be covered by the Faculty Graduate Fellowship ($4349.15) but the student levy fees won't be covered, and they also have not talked about the health insurance thing but apparently that is just a premium of about $13 per month). Any suggestions, ideas etc. will be welcome... as I'm completely naive about Canada.
I have got exactly same offer from UBC but this is for Master's, while I guess that you have a PhD offer. However I am also concerned about the same thing, whether I will be able to meet all the expenses there or not! Are you getting full tuition waiver or partial? You may like to look at this link, may be helpful. https://www.grad.ubc.ca/prospective-stu ... udent-fees
So, could you please tell me the exact wording used in your offer letter? Did they say "Your tuition fees will be covered by the Faculty Graduate Fellowship" or did they mention that it will be only partially covered? Mine is the former wording with the amount mentioned being $4349.15, and that is very odd, since most PhD students receive full tuition waiver and this seems barely more than half the amount.

Looking forward to your reply, as this is really worrying me. And also, I emailed the grad coordinator Lee Yupitun, and expect her email sometime late night tomorrow. Will let you know what she says.

"A Full Teaching Assistantship. This pays $1 1,133 and a TA topup of $1,000 for the period from September 1,
2013 to April 30,20 14. Typical duties are 12 hours per week of tutoring and marking. For students who have
completed the course Math 599 and obtained departmental approval, the TA duties may be teaching a class.
This assignment brings a higher salary: $7,250 per academic term.
A Research Assistantship in the amount of $10,000 per year from September 1, 2013 - August 3 1, 2014,
provided you make satisfactory progress. All funds for the Research Assistantship will come from individual
faculty members' research grants and are therefore subject to the availability of funds.
A refund of your application fee in the amount of $153.
The total amount from UBC will be $22,286.
You will also receive an International Partial Tuition Scholarship of $3200 per year which reduces your tuition
fees to almost what a domestic student pays. The tuition fees are currently $7640 per year and subject to change.
This does not include student levy fees."
This is what I have got. I think that everything else except tuition fee is same for both of us!
BTW, Lee Yupitun is 'her'??? I was continuously addressing this person as 'sir' in all the e-mails!!!!!!!

Eowyn · Post by **Eowyn** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 4:52 am

Oh OK... so you are receiving that International Tuition Scholarship. Good. Nothing of this has been mentioned in my offer letter. I don't know what to think of this... because the way they have put it, "your tuition fees will be covered" makes me feel that they might have made a mistake and actually meant coverage of the full tuition fees.

Usually the grad coordinators are female, and yeah, you had best start addressing Lee as "Ma'am" and "her" if you wish to get quick and helpful responses to your queries

ParsleyX · Post by **ParsleyX** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:00 pm

Has anyone tried logging into their Maryland application? I don't know if it's site maintenance or an update coming, but I get this:

We're sorry, but your supplemental form is not ready to be processed at this time. Please complete your primary application and return to complete your supplemental form later.

Anyone else?

marco · Post by **marco** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:07 pm

ParsleyX wrote:Has anyone tried logging into their Maryland application? I don't know if it's site maintenance or an update coming, but I get this:

We're sorry, but your supplemental form is not ready to be processed at this time. Please complete your primary application and return to complete your supplemental form later.
Anyone else?

I'm getting that too. Did you receive the email for further information? You could pm me if you want.

ParsleyX · Post by **ParsleyX** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:09 pm

I was not contacted

marco · Post by **marco** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:11 pm

Not really sure what that means but Im getting it too and I did get the mail. Maybe decisions are soon to come.

wickerfurniture · Post by **wickerfurniture** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:13 pm

ditto

ParsleyX · Post by **ParsleyX** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:20 pm

F5 key at the ready...

marco · Post by **marco** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:21 pm

ParsleyX wrote:F5 key at the ready...

True that!

IIIII · Post by **IIIII** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:43 pm

I called UMD AMSC last week about graduate recruitment days. Then I asked about the expected date of admissions. They said if I didn't hear anything by Friday (March 1st), then I should give them a call.

allemanau · Post by **allemanau** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 6:39 pm

I suspect it's AMSC site maintenance, but I can't imagine there won't be some decisions sometime tomorrow...

marco · Post by **marco** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:04 pm

I'm getting so nervous! UMD is an incredible school

!

ParsleyX · Post by **ParsleyX** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:28 pm

It will be no less incredible tomorrow!

....or tuesday.

algebraicallyminded · Post by **algebraicallyminded** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:39 pm

I think realistically I only have chances for Brown, Washington, and Wisconsin.
I have a back-up plan, and I am a lot more relieved compared to before.
But it will be still sad if I don't get any ticket for higher education next week.
I guess I need to grow up more.

Nr · Post by Nr » Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:57 pm

Wow ...
The waiting is over
this week I will be freed
it's so great to get the results from UIUC
finally !!!

1lovingsister · Post by **1lovingsister** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:08 am

Nr wrote:Wow ...
The waiting is over
this week I will be freed
it's so great to get the results from UIUC
finally !!!

Yay! So you'll be at UIUC's math grad open house?

Gasquet · Post by **Gasquet** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:15 am

@ParsleyX: I am getting a similar message

We're sorry, but your supplemental form is not ready to be processed at this time. There was an issue retreiving your application, please try again later

With retrieving misspelled. I too didn't get the request for further information email. Don't think that leaves us with much of a chance to get in.

allemanau · Post by **allemanau** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:31 am

@Gasquet: I got the same message, though I got the email (as some others have too). Chin up! I think AMSC is posed to send off some decisions tomorrow, but I don't think this application message tells us anything one way or the other

Gasquet · Post by **Gasquet** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:13 am

I think this message is just telling us that the system is being updated. Once done, the supplemental form link will have the acceptance/rejection letter. If not, my guess would have been that they would already have rejected those who didn't get the now infamous request for further information.

Nr · Post by Nr » Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:19 am

1lovingsister wrote:
Nr wrote:Wow ...
The waiting is over
this week I will be freed
it's so great to get the results from UIUC
finally !!!
Yay! So you'll be at UIUC's math grad open house?

Oh ...
I wrote it really really bad
I meant something completely different.
I just meant this week I will GET my result and then I finally don't need to wait for it ...
I really hope I get in but even if not, just the fact that I know what's going on, is helpful right now (I think it sound a little bit weird, I don't know ...)

1lovingsister · Post by **1lovingsister** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 2:56 am

Nr wrote:
1lovingsister wrote:
Nr wrote:Wow ...
The waiting is over
this week I will be freed
it's so great to get the results from UIUC
finally !!!
Yay! So you'll be at UIUC's math grad open house?

Oh ...
I wrote it really really bad
I meant something completely different.
I just meant this week I will GET my result and then I finally don't need to wait for it ...
I really hope I get in but even if not, just the fact that I know what's going on, is helpful right now (I think it sound a little bit weird, I don't know ...)

Oh okay. I got you. I thought maybe you had heard from Dr. Laugesen over the weekend. I'm rooting for you to get an acceptance this coming week!!!

ParsleyX · Post by **ParsleyX** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:55 am

Gasquet wrote:I think this message is just telling us that the system is being updated. Once done, the supplemental form link will have the acceptance/rejection letter. If not, my guess would have been that they would already have rejected those who didn't get the now infamous request for further information.

I can't speak for anyone else, but UMD's site is back on-line and I have no admission decision update ( or at the very least, no rejection).

The optimist in me assumes that no rejection + no request for additional information means they didn't even need to vet me and I'm safely accepted.

It's a new week - good luck to all of us!

Nr · Post by Nr » Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:39 am

Yay! So you'll be at UIUC's math grad open house?[/quote]

Oh ...
I wrote it really really bad
I meant something completely different.
I just meant this week I will GET my result and then I finally don't need to wait for it ...
I really hope I get in but even if not, just the fact that I know what's going on, is helpful right now (I think it sound a little bit weird, I don't know ...)[/quote]

Oh okay. I got you. I thought maybe you had heard from Dr. Laugesen over the weekend. I'm rooting for you to get an acceptance this coming week!!![/quote]

Wow, that's so nice of you.
Thanks

koloki · Post by **koloki** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:14 am

I applied to UCSD and haven't heard back from them yet. Does it mean that I will be rejected??

my dream school

Manyfolds · Post by **Manyfolds** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:47 am

Lol did someone from this website find out my name and friend me on Facebook?

Nr · Post by Nr » Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:54 am

Manyfolds wrote:Lol did someone from this website find out my name and friend me on Facebook?

hahaha
this really happened to you ?
that's funny

Gasquet · Post by **Gasquet** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:47 am

Manyfolds wrote:Lol did someone from this website find out my name and friend me on Facebook?

Haha.
I'm a bit surprised though. While there definitely are quite a few posters on this site who have very high Googleability(myself included), you don't seem to fit into that category.

virgo · Post by **virgo** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:53 am

Manyfolds wrote:Lol did someone from this website find out my name and friend me on Facebook?

Lol, how would they find out your name? Btw, if any of the regular posters wanna friend me so we can chat on fb feel free to. Just pm me first. I need more people to talk to about this stuff!!!

Nr · Post by Nr » Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:57 am

virgo wrote:
Manyfolds wrote:Lol did someone from this website find out my name and friend me on Facebook?
Lol, how would they find out your name? Btw, if any of the regular posters wanna friend me so we can chat on fb feel free to. Just pm me first. I need more people to talk to about this stuff!!!

aha,
and how are people supposed to find your name ?
I highly doubt it's Virgo

Sounds more like astrology ...

maffling · Post by **maffling** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:00 pm

This thread is a friendly sauna. Having others to sweat with helps to pass the silence. Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts!

marco · Post by **marco** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:02 pm

Ohhh the silence! Ohh the horror!

virgo · Post by **virgo** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:16 pm

Nr wrote:
virgo wrote:
Manyfolds wrote:Lol did someone from this website find out my name and friend me on Facebook?
Lol, how would they find out your name? Btw, if any of the regular posters wanna friend me so we can chat on fb feel free to. Just pm me first. I need more people to talk to about this stuff!!!
aha,
and how are people supposed to find your name ?
I highly doubt it's Virgo
Sounds more like astrology ...

If you'd really like, you can pm me

. Yeah it is astrology. I don't believe in it but I know I am a virgo and I couldn't think of any other username at the time lol.