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Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 12:31 am
by whatever
Mezox wrote:So Berkeley is giving admits? :O

I didn't know decisions were given during the weekends. Is it advisable to email to ask for admission progress or does it reflect poorly on you?
It never reflects badly on you so long as you're respectful. Calling will get you results, though; people ignore emails.

If you're going off of gradcafe, all the admits listed there are for international students.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:27 am
by Ryker
whatever wrote:
Mezox wrote:So Berkeley is giving admits? :O

I didn't know decisions were given during the weekends. Is it advisable to email to ask for admission progress or does it reflect poorly on you?
It never reflects badly on you so long as you're respectful. Calling will get you results, though; people ignore emails.

If you're going off of gradcafe, all the admits listed there are for international students.
Yup, and some institutions do consider domestic and international applicants at different times due to various administrative and other requirements/constraints.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 2:04 am
by iGoofed
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Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 9:00 am
by Mezox
whatever wrote:
Mezox wrote:So Berkeley is giving admits? :O

I didn't know decisions were given during the weekends. Is it advisable to email to ask for admission progress or does it reflect poorly on you?
It never reflects badly on you so long as you're respectful. Calling will get you results, though; people ignore emails.

If you're going off of gradcafe, all the admits listed there are for international students.
I am an international student though. Hopefully they're not out of seats for international students.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 3:40 pm
by ihatepencils
Dang Cornell has admits on gradcafe...

why is this process so demoralizing?!

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 12:14 pm
by dasgut
Think it's going to be a slow day today?

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 12:59 pm
by ihatepencils
I hope not! Are mondays usually slower?

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:07 pm
by Gasquet
4 of the 10 places I applied to are expected to reply this week. 1 of the remaining 6 has already left me in the lurk.

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Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:17 pm
by ihatepencils
I definitely think its too early for me to email and ask about application statuses but if I do at sometime...what is a good way to phrase it? Any input?

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:23 pm
by dasgut
ihatepencils wrote:I definitely think its too early for me to email and ask about application statuses but if I do at sometime...what is a good way to phrase it? Any input?
Phrase it very carefully. Honestly, though I wouldn't email your schools until AT LEAST a few days after you see admits and waitlists on GC. At that point you're really just emailing to get quick closure and it doesn't matter if you annoy someone.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:59 pm
by dasgut
Anyone know if the Duke math admit is real????

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:28 pm
by veektorreeyah
dasgut wrote:Anyone know if the Duke math admit is real????
Also wondering that too...checked the website and nothing new has been added.

According to GradCafe, it seems like we should be hearing from Duke sometime in the next couple of weeks...

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:34 pm
by dasgut
veektorreeyah wrote:
dasgut wrote:Anyone know if the Duke math admit is real????
Also wondering that too...checked the website and nothing new has been added.

According to GradCafe, it seems like we should be hearing from Duke sometime in the next couple of weeks...
Yeah, my forecast is by the end of the week.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:04 pm
by dasgut
There's a second Duke admit. Less likely the first admit is a troll now.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:05 pm
by ihatepencils
dasgut wrote:Think it's going to be a slow day today?
Indeed it was/is so far...

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:17 pm
by goatman2743
Was expecting/hoping for much action as well. Also, some weird stuff posted: Rice waitlist and Illinois reject with no acceptances posted from either school?

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:55 pm
by bobn
goatman2743 wrote:Was expecting/hoping for much action as well. Also, some weird stuff posted: Rice waitlist and Illinois reject with no acceptances posted from either school?
Rice finalized admits couple of weeks back. They took 5, wait listed 5 more.
UIUC reject is due to low TOEFL score. UIUC needs all incoming international students to have TOEFL Speaking >= 22. If not auto reject.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:55 am
by dasgut
Anyone know if any domestics have gotten interview requests or acceptances to CMU?

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:44 pm
by ThisFoodIsEW
i see a good creative opportunity in translating grad cafe into something more visual. everybody wants to know the expected decision time for university of XYZ over the past 5 years and the demographics of their students...

anyone want to join me?

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:15 pm
by dasgut
ThisFoodIsEW wrote:i see a good creative opportunity in translating grad cafe into something more visual. everybody wants to know the expected decision time for university of XYZ over the past 5 years and the demographics of their students...

anyone want to join me?
Not sure I have the time to do it. However, you might want to contact the user "untitled" over at the TestMagic board for econ PhDs. I seem to remember him doing something very similar. You might be able to use his work as a template.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:35 pm
by ihatepencils
and yet another slow day...whats going on! haha

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:26 pm
by Mezox
The calm before the storm :o

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:42 pm
by ihatepencils
rejection storm?! :evil:

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:03 pm
by Mezox
I'd like to be more optimistic :D

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:20 pm
by ihatepencils
Ah excellent. I will follow your optimism then :D

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:39 pm
by semigroups
Has anyone applied to Stanford ICME?

I havent got an email from them but I have noticed that there is a recently added icon 'View Your Decision Letter" shown on my Activity Status webpage. Once I clicked on it it showed me a pdf with my name and the date 01-31-2014, and no other content was in.
Has anyone also got the same "void" online Decision Letter from this department?

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:04 pm
by Ryker
ihatepencils wrote:and yet another slow day...whats going on! haha
No way was it a slow day today. UC Boulder started sending out e-mails, and it seems so did UCSB and University of Washington, the latter for applied mathematics. Today things finally got moving :)

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:31 pm
by ihatepencils
haha I see that now! I guess it felt slow for me since none of schools I applied to seemed to have much/any action...

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:54 pm
by caxton
semigroups wrote:Has anyone applied to Stanford ICME?

I havent got an email from them but I have noticed that there is a recently added icon 'View Your Decision Letter" shown on my Activity Status webpage. Once I clicked on it it showed me a pdf with my name and the date 01-31-2014, and no other content was in.
Has anyone also got the same "void" online Decision Letter from this department?
I did. My own PDF has been updated with a rejection :cry:

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 2:17 pm
by Gasquet
I'm the ASU admit on GC.
Both email and official letter(on MyASU) mention nothing of funding. ASU(and U of A) apparently do this every year. Hopefully, funding details will follow soon.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 2:19 pm
by l0019
Gasquet wrote:I'm the ASU admit on GC.
Both email and official letter(on MyASU) mention nothing of funding. ASU(and U of A) apparently do this every year. Hopefully, funding details will follow soon.
I just got one as well. Do they fund every PhD they admit?

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 2:28 pm
by Gasquet
l0019 wrote:
Gasquet wrote:I'm the ASU admit on GC.
Both email and official letter(on MyASU) mention nothing of funding. ASU(and U of A) apparently do this every year. Hopefully, funding details will follow soon.
I just got one as well. Do they fund every PhD they admit?
I am yet to come across an unfunded admit from them. But, from what I've seen, some people have had to wait over a month to hear about funding.

Let me know if you hear anything. I'll do the same.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 2:36 pm
by redcar777
Gasquet wrote:I'm the ASU admit on GC.
Both email and official letter(on MyASU) mention nothing of funding. ASU(and U of A) apparently do this every year. Hopefully, funding details will follow soon.
I'm so happy for your Gasquet! :)

The road is long, with many winding turns

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:04 pm
by dasgut
I just got rejected for the stat MA at Harvard. I couldn't even get an admit to the FUCKING MASTER'S.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:15 pm
by redcar777
dasgut wrote:I just got rejected for the stat MA at Harvard. I couldn't even get an admit to the FUCKING MASTER'S.
Eh, don't take it so hard. At a super-elite school, there's just no percentage in admitting masters. They need warm bodies for TA's and research assistants, so they admit Ph.D.'s. And its not like a giant state school where the tuition from MA candidates counts for something. Therefore, the only people you see with a masters from one of those schools are Ph.D. drop outs.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:21 pm
by poorasian
Invited to UofA to visit the workshop, with travel reimbursement. Good sign?

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:41 pm
by ihatepencils
university of chicago rejection. :roll:
time to wait for the next notification...

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:43 pm
by seven
Has anyone heard back from University of Georgia?

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 4:20 pm
by rmhism
Has anyone heard back from Wisconsin-Madison or Stony Brook? Wisconsin's application deadline was December 15.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 4:37 pm
by l0019
Gasquet wrote: I am yet to come across an unfunded admit from them. But, from what I've seen, some people have had to wait over a month to hear about funding.

Let me know if you hear anything. I'll do the same.
I'll let you know. I assume we will get it, why would they admit people without funding???

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 6:06 pm
by Gasquet
redcar777 wrote:I'm so happy for your Gasquet! :)

The road is long, with many winding turns
Thanks.
l0019 wrote:I'll let you know. I assume we will get it, why would they admit people without funding???
Some schools do give admits without funding. Some people manage to get external funding, so they probably wouldn't mind.
http://www.mathematicsgre.com/viewtopic ... 338&p=8883

I'm just trying my best not to get too excited about it until I hear about funding.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 7:17 pm
by Ryker
rmhism wrote:Has anyone heard back from Wisconsin-Madison or Stony Brook? Wisconsin's application deadline was December 15.
I was told they haven't finalized their decisions yet.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:27 am
by yl2868
Got my first rej, from Maryland

Have no idea why they made it so early, they haven't sent one admission yet.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 1:18 pm
by greenblob
I took the GRE two years ago when I was a senior (graduated 2012) and I just applied for a few fall 2014 master's programs. Some of them required the math GRE, so I submitted my score, but I thought it was too low (670, didn't know anything about it going in) and I didn't submit it to schools that didn't require it because I thought it might hurt my chances. Most of the deadlines still haven't passed and the ones that did just recently passed, so I'm wondering if I should submit it ...

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 1:33 pm
by Ryker
yl2868 wrote:Got my first rej, from Maryland

Have no idea why they made it so early, they haven't sent one admission yet.
Sorry to hear that, but did you get an e-mail to check the website? Judging from The Grad Cafe, it also seems you're not the only one that has been rejected already, but I agree it seems a bit early, given that there are no admissions yet. Still, better to find out now than wait for April.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 5:42 pm
by Mezox
Berkeley on gradcafe :O

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:56 pm
by acs25
I see some admits for Cornell up on gradcafe as well, but I haven't heard anything yet...Hoping this doesn't mean I was rejected.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:08 pm
by seven
Absolutely none of the schools I've applied to have sent me anything yet. Due to my anxiety and constant checking of my email, I decided to cut the crap and find out right away my results. So, I asked my magic 8 ball if I was going to get into any funded PhD program. Its answer was no. I asked if I was going to get into any funded masters program. Its answer was no. I asked if I was going to any acceptance letter at all. It's answer was try again later.

I hate this wait.

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:43 pm
by ihatepencils
acs25 wrote:I see some admits for Cornell up on gradcafe as well, but I haven't heard anything yet...Hoping this doesn't mean I was rejected.
Same position here...

Re: Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:10 am
by Gasquet
Anybody heard from UT Austin CSEM?
GC has an interview posted.