Fall 2016 Application Sweat Thread

Ivanjam · Post by **Ivanjam** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 1:36 am

The 2016 admission season has started! Four new pure math admits to the University of Chicago on Grad Cafe.

shittyriemann · Post by **shittyriemann** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 5:34 am

Let the anxiety begin. Hopefully the other December 15 schools start letting us know soon. Fingers crossed.

Mezox · Post by **Mezox** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 7:51 am

Alright, now I can officially justify all the sweat! One admission from UCLA on gradcafe as well.

airy · Post by **airy** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:02 pm

I was scared for a second

: How could the results be out when the deadline was the 31st of December? But of course this post refers to the pure math department and not the statistics department.

felani · Post by **felani** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 12:28 am

Three more UCLA admits on gradcafe

ghjk · Post by **ghjk** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 1:12 am

There is a general patten of people's profile ADMITTED to UCLA this year:) All of them have top/near-top scores on the GRE Math Subject + a 3.9+ Undergrad GPA + verbal sections > 152 (not sure if this actually matters). Same case for a guy admitted to U.Chicago.

anwins · Post by **anwins** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 1:56 am

ghjk wrote:There is a general patten of people's profile ADMITTED to UCLA this year:) All of them have top/near-top scores on the GRE Math Subject + a 3.9+ Undergrad GPA + verbal sections > 152 (not sure if this actually matters). Same case for a guy admitted to U.Chicago.

Just out of my curiosity, how did you know this info?

Ivanjam · Post by **Ivanjam** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 5:39 am

anwins wrote:Just out of my curiosity, how did you know this info?

Hover the mouse over the red diamonds under the "Decision & Date" column on the GradCafe: http://thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php?q=math*
[Amended] Sorry, I did not exactly answer your question. There is a status column with the letters "A", "I", etc for "American" and "international".

Mezox · Post by **Mezox** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:26 am

All of the UCLA admissions seem to be Americans so I'm assuming I shouldn't be expecting anything yet as an International applicant either way. Still, isn't it pretty early compared to other years to send out admission results now?

Ivanjam · Post by **Ivanjam** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:24 am

A poster here on MathematicsGRE.com also reported an early offer from Ohio State: http://www.mathematicsgre.com/viewtopic ... 055#p14055

ghjk · Post by **ghjk** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:35 am

Ivanjam wrote:A poster here on MathematicsGRE.com also reported an early offer from Ohio State: http://www.mathematicsgre.com/viewtopic ... 055#p14055

Clearly, a lower bar for domestic applicants is set at OSU, especially in GRE Math:) OSU seems to care more about the regular GRE. The GRE Math score is too low for international, let alone other factors... Congrats to you, airrows!!

ghjk · Post by **ghjk** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:36 am

Mezox wrote:All of the UCLA admissions seem to be Americans so I'm assuming I shouldn't be expecting anything yet as an International applicant either way. Still, isn't it pretty early compared to other years to send out admission results now?

Some profiles didn't list whether they are American or not, but I remember one of them is International. U.Chicago's international admit this year has the same stats, and (I guess) some publications under their belts.

anwins · Post by **anwins** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:51 am

Ivanjam wrote:
anwins wrote:Just out of my curiosity, how did you know this info?
Hover the mouse over the red diamonds under the "Decision & Date" column on the GradCafe: http://thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php?q=math*

Thank you! I was new to grad cafe recently

I am afraid that U.Chicago has sent out its first-round offers, according to the amount of offers posted at the grad cafe and offers I heard from here and other countries.

Mezox · Post by **Mezox** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 1:03 pm

ghjk wrote: Some profiles didn't list whether they are American or not, but I remember one of them is International.

The UCLA-admits I find on thegradcafe all state that they are American. Maybe I'm using the wrong filter or maybe you have a different source?

felani · Post by **felani** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 1:10 pm

That seems surprising to me that Ohio State has already sent an offer. Congrats to that person though

leviethai · Post by **leviethai** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 9:28 pm

There is another admit from Ohio State on Grad Cafe, this one is different since it is today. Anybody knows what's going on?

Ivanjam · Post by **Ivanjam** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:09 pm

leviethai wrote:There is another admit from Ohio State on Grad Cafe, this one is different since it is today. Anybody knows what's going on?

Their admission deadline is December 15, so this is not strange. In fact, the Ohio State website says: "The graduate recruitment committee then reviews about 110 files in greater depth split over two rounds, one in mid January and another about a month later. This review typically leads to the admission of..." https://math.osu.edu/graduate/apply

felani · Post by **felani** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 1:26 am

I actually received an OSU offer today as well

leviethai · Post by **leviethai** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 1:50 am

Are you domestic? Can you tell me how does your status look like on the Application Status page?

ghjk · Post by **ghjk** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 2:31 am

felani wrote:I actually received an OSU offer today as well

Congrats to you!! Mind posting your stats and other credentials on the 2016 Application Thread, so that we can have some references for future applicants?

felani · Post by **felani** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 2:52 am

Congrats to you!! Mind posting your stats and other credentials on the 2016 Application Thread, so that we can have some references for future applicants?

Thanks! And sure thing, I'll add a post when I get a chance tomorrow

sartrism · Post by **sartrism** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 8:57 am

I posted the result of U Chicago as an international student. One of my friend who is studying in U.S., but not an American, was also admitted, so I guess that the first round is over. I also applied for UCLA, but no answer yet.

Mezox · Post by **Mezox** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 9:45 am

sartrism wrote:I posted the result of U Chicago as an international student. One of my friend who is studying in U.S., but not an American, was also admitted, so I guess that the first round is over. I also applied for UCLA, but no answer yet.

I think recalling that last year, UCLA sent out admissions for American and International students at seperate times so as an international student, that's what I'm hoping is happening here as well.

ghjk · Post by **ghjk** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 11:12 am

sartrism wrote:I posted the result of U Chicago as an international student. One of my friend who is studying in U.S., but not an American, was also admitted, so I guess that the first round is over. I also applied for UCLA, but no answer yet.

Mind posting your profile? Congrats man! Great school for pure math.

cohomology · Post by **cohomology** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 2:19 am

ghjk wrote:
Ivanjam wrote:A poster here on MathematicsGRE.com also reported an early offer from Ohio State: http://www.mathematicsgre.com/viewtopic ... 055#p14055
Clearly, a lower bar for domestic applicants is set at OSU, especially in GRE Math:) OSU seems to care more about the regular GRE. The GRE Math score is too low for international, let alone other factors... Congrats to you, airrows!!

I'm an international applicant to Ohio State University's pure math PhD programme. Do you think GRE Q: 170 V: 155 AWA: 3.5, MGRE: 880 is competitive enough for an international applicant to Ohio? I've always been worried that my verbal score is bit low for most colleges.

lobsterroll · Post by **lobsterroll** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 2:48 am

sartrism wrote:I posted the result of U Chicago as an international student. One of my friend who is studying in U.S., but not an American, was also admitted, so I guess that the first round is over. I also applied for UCLA, but no answer yet.

Congratulations!!

lobsterroll · Post by **lobsterroll** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 2:49 am

I have an offer from Yale math department, pending approval from the graduate school.

Fw1812 · Post by **Fw1812** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 3:15 am

lobsterroll wrote:I have an offer from Yale math department, pending approval from the graduate school.

Congrats lobsterroll!

If you wouldn't mind, can you let us know when you found out?

Ivanjam · Post by **Ivanjam** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 5:58 am

cohomology wrote:I'm an international applicant to Ohio State University's pure math PhD programme. Do you think GRE Q: 170 V: 155 AWA: 3.5, MGRE: 880 is competitive enough for an international applicant to Ohio? I've always been worried that my verbal score is bit low for most colleges.

Compare your stats to these: http://thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php ... ohio+state

lobsterroll · Post by **lobsterroll** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 10:05 am

Fw1812 wrote:
lobsterroll wrote:I have an offer from Yale math department, pending approval from the graduate school.
Congrats lobsterroll!
If you wouldn't mind, can you let us know when you found out?

Via email. They ask me if I am still interested in Yale. I guess they know other schools have released some admission results.

ghjk · Post by **ghjk** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 1:29 pm

lobsterroll wrote:I have an offer from Yale math department, pending approval from the graduate school.

Congrats man! Mind posting your profile to help everyone else see the hiring bar of Yale for this year?

mathmonkey · Post by **mathmonkey** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 3:07 pm

It seems like Stanford is starting to release admits. The admit on gradcafe has some interesting stats.

SoulOnIce · Post by **SoulOnIce** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 3:11 pm

mathmonkey wrote:It seems like Stanford is starting to release admits. The admit on gradcafe has some interesting stats.

Almost tempted to hit the "report spam" button

mathmonkey · Post by **mathmonkey** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 3:14 pm

Haha, I was thinking the same thing. But there are always some surprise admits. The person probably had some awesome recs or publications.

felani · Post by **felani** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 6:15 pm

Looks like the Stanford admit on gradcafe was taken down

Ivanjam · Post by **Ivanjam** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 8:59 pm

I don't understand why people post admits on GradCafe without posting their stats. The information is practically useless to anyone, without stats.

sartrism · Post by **sartrism** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 9:43 pm

Ivanjam wrote:I don't understand why people post admits on GradCafe without posting their stats. The information is practically useless to anyone, without stats.

I did so, just because it may be useful for others who applied for the same school to judge their status. I personally do not believe that numerical stats will be useful neither, especially for top schools whose applicants might be almost perfect in every aspect. The more important things, in my opinion, are recs and pubs but I cannot write details on gradcafe.

ghjk · Post by **ghjk** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 12:06 am

sartrism wrote:
Ivanjam wrote:I don't understand why people post admits on GradCafe without posting their stats. The information is practically useless to anyone, without stats.
I did so, just because it may be useful for others who applied for the same school to judge their status. I personally do not believe that numerical stats will be useful neither, especially for top schools whose applicants might be almost perfect in every aspect. The more important things, in my opinion, are recs and pubs but I cannot write details on gradcafe.

Can you post your profiles on another thread? Did you just get into Stanford? If that's the case, congrats!

shittyriemann · Post by **shittyriemann** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 5:59 pm

Looks like Stanford admitted somebody. Is anybody else checking their e-mail a bit too frequently?

Fw1812 · Post by **Fw1812** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:52 pm

shittyriemann wrote:Looks like Stanford admitted somebody. Is anybody else checking their e-mail a bit too frequently?

...and this site...and GradCafe...

shittyriemann · Post by **shittyriemann** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 3:09 pm

Looks like some Columbia admits went up today as well. Super anxious now haha

lz32017 · Post by **lz32017** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 3:26 pm

I haven't seen any rejections yet on gradcafe. Does that mean none of these schools have sent out rejections yet, or are people just not choosing to post their rejections on gradcafe?

mathmonkey · Post by **mathmonkey** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 4:54 pm

Rejections are probably coming out in early to mid February. Some of these acceptances will decline their position and people next in line will get their offers instead, so its going to still be a while before we hear anything.

Ivanjam · Post by **Ivanjam** » Wed Jan 20, 2016 5:40 am

Renamed thread. Post info on GradCafe and e-mail stalkings, raw admission data, rumors, opinions, comments, etc

shittyriemann · Post by **shittyriemann** » Wed Jan 20, 2016 5:15 pm

What time of the day do people usually get responses?

Ivanjam · Post by **Ivanjam** » Wed Jan 20, 2016 5:23 pm

Couple of MIT and Harvard admits posted on GradCafe.

Exactimum · Post by **Exactimum** » Wed Jan 20, 2016 11:36 pm

shittyriemann wrote:What time of the day do people usually get responses?

The two responses I have received so far have been late in the day ~8pm

Elle89 · Post by **Elle89** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 8:51 am

Ivanjam wrote:Couple of MIT and Harvard admits posted on GradCafe.

I've seen that some schools (Harvard, UCLA, Chicago) have given responses. Do they send decisions in a single batch? Should I be almost sure that I am not admitted if I receive nothing after this time?

sartrism · Post by **sartrism** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 4:57 pm

Elle89 wrote:
Ivanjam wrote:Couple of MIT and Harvard admits posted on GradCafe.
I've seen that some schools (Harvard, UCLA, Chicago) have given responses. Do they send decisions in a single batch? Should I be almost sure that I am not admitted if I receive nothing after this time?

MIT sent the full list for admitted students, delivering the details about the open house.

india_kid4 · Post by **india_kid4** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 4:59 pm

Elle89 wrote:
Ivanjam wrote:Couple of MIT and Harvard admits posted on GradCafe.
I've seen that some schools (Harvard, UCLA, Chicago) have given responses. Do they send decisions in a single batch? Should I be almost sure that I am not admitted if I receive nothing after this time?

I just received an offer from Yale, and GradCafe has been showing that people received offers at least as early as Jan 13. So it seems they do not send in batches.

Also I am told that as people decline their offers the schools send out more offers, so you shouldn't be sure that you are not admitted yet.