Fall 2014 Application Sweat Thread

tsloth · Post by **tsloth** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 2:29 pm

Last year, it looks like MLK Jr. Day was pretty sleepy. I wonder if we'll get a big week starting tomorrow now that JMM is over...

goatman2743 · Post by **goatman2743** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:47 pm

To come up with a better time killer than refreshing gradcafe, does anyone know of programs which post placement information? It's sucks that this isn't more common for math programs, I know in econ at least basically everyone gives placements.

yl2868 · Post by **yl2868** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:11 pm

goatman2743 wrote:To come up with a better time killer than refreshing gradcafe, does anyone know of programs which post placement information? It's sucks that this isn't more common for math programs, I know in econ at least basically everyone gives placements.

I know Columbia, Virginia and WUSTL post their phd's placements.... well, the latter two's placements are simply not good.

EDIT: Washington University's placement turns out to be much better than I initially believe. As a tiny dept producing 5 PhDs per year, they have 6 graduates having tenure (all are full profs) at top 30 math since 1991. This is unusual for a tier-2 program.
Also TAMU, UNC Chapel Hill, Rice had their placements posted.

seanlikesmath · Post by **seanlikesmath** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:47 pm

Just got my first reply back; invited out for an interview to UC Irvine's MCSB program. Anyone else going?

goatman2743 · Post by **goatman2743** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 2:31 pm

yl2868 wrote:
goatman2743 wrote:To come up with a better time killer than refreshing gradcafe, does anyone know of programs which post placement information? It's sucks that this isn't more common for math programs, I know in econ at least basically everyone gives placements.
I know Columbia, Virginia and WUSTL post their phd's placements.... well, the latter two's placements are simply not good.

lol yeah, yikes at the uva and wustl placements. Makes me wonder what placements looks like at the bottom programs. I guess basically everyone goes into industry?

poorasian · Post by **poorasian** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:34 am

goatman2743 wrote:
yl2868 wrote:
goatman2743 wrote:To come up with a better time killer than refreshing gradcafe, does anyone know of programs which post placement information? It's sucks that this isn't more common for math programs, I know in econ at least basically everyone gives placements.
I know Columbia, Virginia and WUSTL post their phd's placements.... well, the latter two's placements are simply not good.
lol yeah, yikes at the uva and wustl placements. Makes me wonder what placements looks like at the bottom programs. I guess basically everyone goes into industry?

It doesn't seem that bad. http://www.ams.org/profession/data/annu ... y/docsgrtd

ThisFoodIsEW · Post by **ThisFoodIsEW** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:21 pm

I heard back from OSU (good news) for statistics which got me in a good mood, but now i'm going crazy waiting to hear from the others.

anyone out there applying to stats?

dasgut · Post by **dasgut** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:43 pm

ThisFoodIsEW wrote:I heard back from OSU (good news) for statistics which got me in a good mood, but now i'm going crazy waiting to hear from the others.

anyone out there applying to stats?

Indeed, I am. Congrats on the admit! The results anxiety is just hitting me today. You should startthe Fall 2014 Admissions and Rejections thread. Here's a link to the 2012 thread so you can see a template:

http://www.mathematicsgre.com/viewtopic ... it=results

What better way to start that thread than with an admit?

dasgut · Post by **dasgut** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:43 pm

Ladies and gentleman,

I believe I'll hear everything in the next 39 hours to 16 days, if I'm to received any acceptances. All I have to say is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5CSBZz3eOI

ihatepencils · Post by **ihatepencils** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:16 am

Looks like Chicago's first wave has been released...

rmhism · Post by **rmhism** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 2:40 pm

ihatepencils wrote:Looks like Chicago's first wave has been released...

What exactly does this mean? If everyone accepts their invitation, is everyone else who didn't get an email rejected?

ihatepencils · Post by **ihatepencils** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 2:47 pm

rmhism wrote:
ihatepencils wrote:Looks like Chicago's first wave has been released...
What exactly does this mean? If everyone accepts their invitation, is everyone else who didn't get an email rejected?

That's what I figured...though I'm not positive!

rmhism · Post by **rmhism** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:11 pm

MIT's first wave has also just come.

dasgut · Post by **dasgut** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:15 pm

No one here is posting admits to UChicago or MIT. Did none of our people get in?

ihatepencils · Post by **ihatepencils** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:19 pm

dasgut wrote:No one here is posting admits to UChicago or MIT. Did none of our people get in?

yl2868 · Post by **yl2868** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:22 pm

the first page of math phds reports on gradcafe still has offers from last year...
I guess math is just slower in reviewing applications than other majors

Kriig · Post by **Kriig** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:30 pm

I'm guessing there are maybe about a hundred or so absolutely outstanding candidates who get offers from everywhere they apply.
As is then commonly known most universities overoffer to offset the overlap e.g UPenn (although not a top school) is very candid about this and say they admit about 35 people with the view to enroll maybe 14 (https://www.math.upenn.edu/grad/graddata.html).
This also means that some spots (though likely very few) will open up once the amazing people have decided.

ppham27 · Post by **ppham27** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:48 pm

Cornell CAM just sent a save the date notification for admitted students weekend. It seems weird to be told to save the date when I'm not sure if I'll even be admitted...

dasgut · Post by **dasgut** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:02 pm

Has anyone else heard rumblings from a certain school in Pittsburgh?

Gasquet · Post by **Gasquet** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:35 pm

So much green on gradcafe. You just know that there is a bloodbath right around the corner. Brace yourselves.

dasgut · Post by **dasgut** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:38 pm

Gasquet wrote:So much green on gradcafe. You just know that there is a bloodbath right around the corner. Brace yourselves.

I had to do it...

http://memegenerator.net/instance/45161429

yl2868 · Post by **yl2868** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:54 pm

Gasquet wrote:So much green on gradcafe. You just know that there is a bloodbath right around the corner. Brace yourselves.

The top tier institutions are giving offers now, which has nothing to do with me

ThisFoodIsEW · Post by **ThisFoodIsEW** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:57 pm

I don't think it's only top tier. OSU, Chicago, U Wash, Princeton have. Lot of others like Penn, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley have not.

yl2868 · Post by **yl2868** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:03 pm

ThisFoodIsEW wrote:I don't think it's only top tier. OSU, Chicago, U Wash, Princeton have. Lot of others like Penn, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley have not.

The recent greens on gradcafe are mostly offers from MIT and Chicago, and some from Princeton and Yale. UW's Math Dept is still silent, the Applied Math has given one (suspicious) offer, though.

goatman2743 · Post by **goatman2743** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:39 pm

OSU math has given offers? Or just Statistics?

ThisFoodIsEW · Post by **ThisFoodIsEW** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 7:09 pm

I got stat

avemarya · Post by **avemarya** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:27 pm

goatman2743 wrote:OSU math has given offers? Or just Statistics?

Mine still says "pending"... Is it supposed to say that if you have turned everything in? I hope that doesn't mean that they haven't even received all my materials yet.

My thought is we shouldn't be so worried if we hear nothing this month at least.

yl2868 · Post by **yl2868** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:33 pm

In theory u should just be patient. Yes they r still reviewing. In practice, anyone without an offer is more or less anxious

Ryker · Post by **Ryker** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:06 pm

yl2868 wrote:the first page of math phds reports on gradcafe still has offers from last year...
I guess math is just slower in reviewing applications than other majors

It could also be that there's just much less candidates being accepted in mathematics departments.

boo78 · Post by **boo78** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:07 pm

ppham27 wrote:Cornell CAM just sent a save the date notification for admitted students weekend. It seems weird to be told to save the date when I'm not sure if I'll even be admitted...

Yeah, I thought the wording of that subject line was just cruel. "CAM Admitted Student Visit Days" . . . my heart jumped. I can see that they are trying to be considerate, giving people time to clear their calendar just in case, but the subject line could have been something more like "CAM Application Reviews in Progress, Important Upcoming Dates". You know, something that made it more obvious it had nothing to do with admissions decisions

poorasian · Post by **poorasian** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:33 pm

Today Oregon State's math graduate committee chair e-mailed me. Apparently one of my recommenders forgot to submit for Oregon State. At least they cared?

troopiedoop · Post by **troopiedoop** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 4:02 pm

yl2868 wrote:
ThisFoodIsEW wrote:I don't think it's only top tier. OSU, Chicago, U Wash, Princeton have. Lot of others like Penn, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley have not.
The recent greens on gradcafe are mostly offers from MIT and Chicago, and some from Princeton and Yale. UW's Math Dept is still silent, the Applied Math has given one (suspicious) offer, though.

The Applied Math offer is pretty likely to be correct. I recently got an offer for even more than that one from UW Applied. I prefer to keep my info off of GC though since at least for now I don't want to be identified by anybody at the institutions I'm accepted at. Others may be in a similar situation, preferring to submit their results only when they see others doing so.

goatman2743 · Post by **goatman2743** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:17 pm

troopiedoop wrote:
yl2868 wrote:
ThisFoodIsEW wrote:I don't think it's only top tier. OSU, Chicago, U Wash, Princeton have. Lot of others like Penn, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley have not.
The recent greens on gradcafe are mostly offers from MIT and Chicago, and some from Princeton and Yale. UW's Math Dept is still silent, the Applied Math has given one (suspicious) offer, though.
The Applied Math offer is pretty likely to be correct. I recently got an offer for even more than that one from UW Applied. I prefer to keep my info off of GC though since at least for now I don't want to be identified by anybody at the institutions I'm accepted at. Others may be in a similar situation, preferring to submit their results only when they see others doing so.

Blah, sucks to hear that uw has sent out offers (but congrats!). Re GC: I also would be hesitant to be the first to post an admit to GC (if, hypothetically, I were accepted somewhere). Thinking about it though, this is probably extreme paranoia and I can't imagine that posting on gc would reflect negatively on you whatsoever, even if someone the school was able to identify you from the post.

Also, looks like some Ohio State admits are up.

troopiedoop · Post by **troopiedoop** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:31 pm

goatman2743 wrote:
Blah, sucks to hear that uw has sent out offers (but congrats!). Re GC: I also would be hesitant to be the first to post an admit to GC (if, hypothetically, I were accepted somewhere). Thinking about it though, this is probably extreme paranoia and I can't imagine that posting on gc would reflect negatively on you whatsoever, even if someone the school was able to identify you from the post.

Also, looks like some Ohio State admits are up.

It's definitely paranoia, but all the same I'd rather not do it. I still don't think the majority of UW applied math offers have gone out though, I think this is just their fellowships right now.

Ryker · Post by **Ryker** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:36 pm

What's UW here? University of Wisconsin or University of Washington?

asdfqw · Post by **asdfqw** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:59 pm

Waitlisted by Princeton....

Heard before that it's extraordinarily unlikely to get off from Princeton's waiting list. Is that true?

Ryker · Post by **Ryker** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:23 pm

asdfqw wrote:Waitlisted by Princeton.... Heard before that it's extraordinarily unlikely to get off from Princeton's waiting list. Is that true?

Think about it. How many people are going to reject the offer? So I'd assume it's less likely than for some other schools, but still possible. Nothing you can do about it now, just hope for the best.

goatman2743 · Post by **goatman2743** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:09 pm

Ryker wrote:What's UW here? University of Wisconsin or University of Washington?

Washington

l0019 · Post by **l0019** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:19 pm

Just curious, anyone else waiting to hear from ASU?

ihatepencils · Post by **ihatepencils** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 3:48 pm

Weekends are the worst...two days where I know I won't hear anything!

kuz · Post by **kuz** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 5:27 pm

asdfqw wrote:Waitlisted by Princeton.... Heard before that it's extraordinarily unlikely to get off from Princeton's waiting list. Is that true?

A guy in my year got in off the waiting list. I don't think anyone did last year though.

Gasquet · Post by **Gasquet** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 8:07 pm

l0019 wrote:Just curious, anyone else waiting to hear from ASU?

Me. Applied Math

lowdt · Post by **lowdt** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 12:59 am

Looks like Vanderbilt sent out emails for interviews

.

yl2868 · Post by **yl2868** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 1:26 am

lowdt wrote:Looks like Vanderbilt sent out emails for interviews .

This is a short list for probably top domestic applicants. So nothing to worry too much

EDIT: One of the applicants' detailed background is available on this website. Apparently Vandy is just his safety institution.

dasgut · Post by **dasgut** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 12:10 pm

Who's likely to announce on Monday?

l0019 · Post by **l0019** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 2:16 pm

dasgut wrote:Who's likely to announce on Monday?

maybe northwestern ESAM?

Gasquet · Post by **Gasquet** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:32 pm

l0019 wrote:maybe northwestern ESAM?

You're waiting on ESAM too? Looks like we have quite a few programs in common.

rmg123 · Post by **rmg123** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:45 pm

I am not sure if ESAM has extended all offers, but I was called by the director yesterday about being admitted. Have another friend who got the same call. I think they will be making official offers this week, so best of luck!

l0019 · Post by **l0019** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:48 pm

Gasquet wrote: You're waiting on ESAM too? Looks like we have quite a few programs in common.

only ESAM and ASU it looks like. Are you from the US?

rmg123 wrote:I am not sure if ESAM has extended all offers, but I was called by the director yesterday about being admitted. Have another friend who got the same call. I think they will be making official offers this week, so best of luck!

congrats! they only have about 10-15 people to call though, right? seems like they would just do it all in one day. very jealous of you right now!!

Gasquet · Post by **Gasquet** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 7:24 am

l0019 wrote:only ESAM and ASU it looks like. Are you from the US?

they only have about 10-15 people to call though, right? seems like they would just do it all in one day.

Nope, International. You?
Hopefully they have only contacted the domestic acceptances and they don't make international calls due to the time differences? We can always hope.