Fall 2016 Application Sweat Thread

dneidinger · Post by **dneidinger** » Sun Jan 31, 2016 12:28 pm

mathmonkey wrote:Has anyone else gotten a response from Michigan? I'm really worried now since I haven't heard anything from Columbia either and there seem to be admits being sent out these past few days.

I haven't heard anything from Michigan yet.

dneidinger · Post by **dneidinger** » Sun Jan 31, 2016 12:30 pm

ghjk wrote:
dneidinger wrote:
KatrinaElizabeth wrote:Accepted into Rutgers Math PhD program!
Came with 5-year $27,500 fellowship without TA duties (for two of those years).
Notified by phone; official letter to follow within about a week. Invited to open house on March 4th.
Exact same here! So good to be getting acceptances. I also got an acceptance from Illinois Urbana-Champaign, anyone else hear from them?
Congrats to you! Both are very good programs for pure/applied math. Mind posting your profile on the other thread? Would be a good reference.

I did post my profile on the other thread, it should be up there!

mathmonkey · Post by **mathmonkey** » Mon Feb 01, 2016 2:58 pm

Looks like Columbia is done with decisions. They're posting rejects now.

mathmonkey · Post by **mathmonkey** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 3:54 pm

Is Berkeley also sending out admits in batches or what. I saw that there has been a few Berkeley admits last week.

shittyriemann · Post by **shittyriemann** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 4:54 pm

mathmonkey wrote:Is Berkeley also sending out admits in batches or what. I saw that there has been a few Berkeley admits last week.

From my observations, if you see people getting waitlisted and you haven't heard back yet then expect a rejection letter

Fw1812 · Post by **Fw1812** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:38 pm

shittyriemann wrote:
mathmonkey wrote:Is Berkeley also sending out admits in batches or what. I saw that there has been a few Berkeley admits last week.
From my observations, if you see people getting waitlisted and you haven't heard back yet then expect a rejection letter

Well that's distressing...

mathmonkey · Post by **mathmonkey** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 7:45 pm

Does Berkeley even waitlist? I didn't see any waitlists on gradcafe, which is what's worrying me a little bit.

Ivanjam · Post by **Ivanjam** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 8:21 pm

mathmonkey wrote:Does Berkeley even waitlist? I didn't see any waitlists on gradcafe, which is what's worrying me a little bit.

Last time there was a Berkeley waitlist reported on GradCafe was in 2013.

KatrinaElizabeth · Post by **KatrinaElizabeth** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 11:59 pm

Just accepted to UC Santa Cruz! Fellowship, no TA duties for three years. Letters go out in a couple weeks! Yay!

leviethai · Post by **leviethai** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:12 am

KatrinaElizabeth wrote:Just accepted to UC Santa Cruz! Fellowship, no TA duties for three years. Letters go out in a couple weeks! Yay!

Looks like you did pretty well this season!

KatrinaElizabeth · Post by **KatrinaElizabeth** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:20 am

leviethai wrote:
KatrinaElizabeth wrote:Just accepted to UC Santa Cruz! Fellowship, no TA duties for three years. Letters go out in a couple weeks! Yay!
Looks like you did pretty well this season!

Thanks! 2 down, 13 to go. Good luck with yours as well!

rpought · Post by **rpought** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:47 am

KatrinaElizabeth wrote:Just accepted to UC Santa Cruz! Fellowship, no TA duties for three years. Letters go out in a couple weeks! Yay!

I just got accepted there but missed the phone call. How much is the fellowship?

KatrinaElizabeth · Post by **KatrinaElizabeth** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 4:30 am

rpought wrote:
KatrinaElizabeth wrote:Just accepted to UC Santa Cruz! Fellowship, no TA duties for three years. Letters go out in a couple weeks! Yay!
I just got accepted there but missed the phone call. How much is the fellowship?

He said there are various fellowships, so they may not all be the same, or each package may even be a mixture of different fellowships. Mine is for 21K for the academic year, not including summers. I forget how much he said for summers, maybe 3 - 4K? I couldn't tell, but I think they are still adding on and finalizing things in terms of distribution of funds. And he said that they will be meeting through Feb 10th to select/ accept other candidates, and that the official letters won't go out until a few days after that, maybe early the following week. Hope that helps!

rpought · Post by **rpought** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 4:33 am

KatrinaElizabeth wrote:
rpought wrote:
KatrinaElizabeth wrote:Just accepted to UC Santa Cruz! Fellowship, no TA duties for three years. Letters go out in a couple weeks! Yay!
I just got accepted there but missed the phone call. How much is the fellowship?
He said there are various fellowships, so they may not all be the same, or each package may even be a mixture of different fellowships. Mine is for 21K for the academic year, not including summers. I forget how much he said for summers, maybe 3 - 4K? I couldn't tell, but I think they are still adding on and finalizing things in terms of distribution of funds. And he said that they will be meeting through Feb 10th to select/ accept other candidates, and that the official letters won't go out until a few days after that, maybe early the following week. Hope that helps!

Thanks! I'm calling him tomorrow. I'm probably not going to UCSC but it's still cool to see all my options. I saw http://graddiv.ucsc.edu/financial-aid/ and you probably got Eugene Cota Robles fellowship.

KatrinaElizabeth · Post by **KatrinaElizabeth** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 4:41 am

rpought wrote:
KatrinaElizabeth wrote:
rpought wrote: I just got accepted there but missed the phone call. How much is the fellowship?
He said there are various fellowships, so they may not all be the same, or each package may even be a mixture of different fellowships. Mine is for 21K for the academic year, not including summers. I forget how much he said for summers, maybe 3 - 4K? I couldn't tell, but I think they are still adding on and finalizing things in terms of distribution of funds. And he said that they will be meeting through Feb 10th to select/ accept other candidates, and that the official letters won't go out until a few days after that, maybe early the following week. Hope that helps!
Thanks! I'm calling him tomorrow. I'm probably not going to UCSC but it's still cool to see all my options. I saw http://graddiv.ucsc.edu/financial-aid/ and you probably got Eugene Cota Robles fellowship.

Yes! That's the one I got! It comes with no TA duties for three years.

ibr · Post by **ibr** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 6:20 pm

Was anybody else here accepted in Cornell? Six people have confirmed till now.

Best of luck to you all!

Dinstruction · Post by **Dinstruction** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:42 pm

ibr wrote:Was anybody else here accepted in Cornell? Six people have confirmed till now.

Best of luck to you all!

I sent an email and found out I was waitlisted there. Do people ever get into Cornell via the waitlist?

MathCat · Post by **MathCat** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 2:17 am

I'm a current PhD student and I just talked about job searches with some 5th years in my program over the last week. Food for thought: a fellowship with no TA duties is not necessarily a great thing. It is nice to not *have* to TA every term, but it is good experience - you should ask if it is possible to TA (or even really teach!) if you get such a fellowship. One 5th year student who has several teaching-heavy job offers on the table (which he prefers to research-heavy jobs) noted that the hiring committees seemed impressed by how many different courses he had TA experience for. Also, I expected to hate teaching/TAing, but it is actually quite enjoyable if you have some engaged students, and it helps my productivity to have some structure to my week outside of just classes and studying.

KatrinaElizabeth · Post by **KatrinaElizabeth** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 2:46 am

MathCat wrote:I'm a current PhD student and I just talked about job searches with some 5th years in my program over the last week. Food for thought: a fellowship with no TA duties is not necessarily a great thing. It is nice to not *have* to TA every term, but it is good experience - you should ask if it is possible to TA (or even really teach!) if you get such a fellowship. One 5th year student who has several teaching-heavy job offers on the table (which he prefers to research-heavy jobs) noted that the hiring committees seemed impressed by how many different courses he had TA experience for. Also, I expected to hate teaching/TAing, but it is actually quite enjoyable if you have some engaged students, and it helps my productivity to have some structure to my week outside of just classes and studying.

Yes, I was just thinking about this throughout this past week as well! I've been a tutor, grader,TA, and Ross Mathematics Counselor, and actually really love teaching, so I was going to ask about potential opportunities to teach despite the fellowships I've been offered. Plus, I was hoping to apply to be a 'mentor' at USA/Canada Mathcamp next summer, and they really want to see teaching experience, as I'd be teaching my own class there.

mmo5130 · Post by **mmo5130** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 2:42 pm

Just admitted to NYU Courant for Atmosphere-Ocean Science + Math PhD program. Big decisions to make.

anwins · Post by **anwins** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 2:50 pm

mmo5130 wrote:Just admitted to NYU Courant for Atmosphere-Ocean Science + Math PhD program. Big decisions to make.

Congratulations! I got admitted to Courant's Math Ph.D. program yesterday. Hope to meet you on the Open House day!

ghjk · Post by **ghjk** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 3:38 pm

anwins wrote:
mmo5130 wrote:Just admitted to NYU Courant for Atmosphere-Ocean Science + Math PhD program. Big decisions to make.
Congratulations! I got admitted to Courant's Math Ph.D. program yesterday. Hope to meet you on the Open House day!

Big congrats guys!! One of the best programs in Applied Math:)

@anwins: Mind sharing your profile for a good reference to future applicants?

Ivanjam · Post by **Ivanjam** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:01 pm

mmo5130 wrote:Just admitted to NYU Courant for Atmosphere-Ocean Science + Math PhD program. Big decisions to make.

Congrats, mmo5130, on getting into your dream school!

KatrinaElizabeth · Post by **KatrinaElizabeth** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 5:44 pm

It looks like Davis and Rutgers are coming out with a lot more today.

mmo5130 · Post by **mmo5130** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 5:51 pm

Ivanjam wrote:
mmo5130 wrote:Just admitted to NYU Courant for Atmosphere-Ocean Science + Math PhD program. Big decisions to make.
Congrats, mmo5130, on getting into your dream school!

Thank you!

gradnt2015 · Post by **gradnt2015** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 6:53 pm

ghjk wrote:
anwins wrote:
mmo5130 wrote:Just admitted to NYU Courant for Atmosphere-Ocean Science + Math PhD program. Big decisions to make.
Congratulations! I got admitted to Courant's Math Ph.D. program yesterday. Hope to meet you on the Open House day!
Big congrats guys!! One of the best programs in Applied Math:)

@anwins: Mind sharing your profile for a good reference to future applicants?

What do you, guys, think on Stanford's ICME? I mean I know that Courant is the best, but what about Stanford besides its name and proximity to the Valley? Thanks

Edit1: Congrats!!!

ghjk · Post by **ghjk** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 7:03 pm

gradnt2015 wrote:

What do you, guys, think on Stanford's ICME? I mean I know that Courant is the best, but what about Stanford besides its name and proximity to the Valley? Thanks

Edit1: Congrats!!!

I assume your question is directed to me. Otherwise, ignore this answer.

I personally think the choice here all depends on your personal career goal. Do you really want to stick to the academia, or industry? If the former, NYU is an obvious choice (people like Peter Lax, Robert Kohn, Marco Avellaneda are household names....) But the latter, well, having Stanford on your resume guarantees a lucrative, easy path to the world of Tech + VC/PE industry. So I guess you have to ask yourself: do I want to have a chance at being a millionaire, or do I want to see my names printed in all classical textbooks after I die? If I were you, I would have to choose the former, because I'm not good enough to belong to the later case:) Good luck man!

gradnt2015 · Post by **gradnt2015** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 7:12 pm

ghjk wrote:
gradnt2015 wrote:

What do you, guys, think on Stanford's ICME? I mean I know that Courant is the best, but what about Stanford besides its name and proximity to the Valley? Thanks

Edit1: Congrats!!!
I assume your question is directed to me. Otherwise, ignore this answer.

I personally think the choice here all depends on your personal career goal. Do you really want to stick to the academia, or industry? If the former, NYU is an obvious choice (people like Peter Lax, Robert Kohn, Marco Avellaneda are household names....) But the latter, well, having Stanford on your resume guarantees a lucrative, easy path to the world of Tech + VC/PE industry. So I guess you have to ask yourself: do I want to have a chance at being a millionaire, or do I want to see my names printed in all classical textbooks after I die? If I were you, I would have to choose the former, because I'm not good enough to belong to the later case:) Good luck man!

Thanks! Haven't applied to NYU though. Comparing with other schools such as Cornell's CAM, MIT and Caltech's CMS. Also, I guess I would like to keep my options open, including academia and industry. Good luck you too! Thanks again.

Mezox · Post by **Mezox** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 9:32 pm

I got an admit for PhD from Stanford ICME a couple of days ago and I'm sooo hyped.

gradnt2015 · Post by **gradnt2015** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 9:39 pm

Mezox wrote:I got an admit for PhD from Stanford ICME a couple of days ago and I'm sooo hyped.

Cool, same here. Will you visit next week?

Mezox · Post by **Mezox** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 11:05 pm

gradnt2015 wrote:
Cool, same here. Will you visit next week?

Yeah, I will. And you?

anwins · Post by **anwins** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 11:30 pm

One more here, will arrive at Stanford on Thursday midnight.

gradnt2015 · Post by **gradnt2015** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 5:56 am

Mezox wrote:
gradnt2015 wrote:
Cool, same here. Will you visit next week?
Yeah, I will. And you?

No, I'm a foreigner. Quite expensive to get there.

anwins wrote:One more here, will arrive at Stanford on Thursday midnight.

btw, anything on funding?

Congrats, anyway!

lz32017 · Post by **lz32017** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 10:51 pm

I just noticed that 2 people posted on gradcafe that they were rejected from UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago) and they indicated that the rejection came via the website. I just checked my online application, and it does not indicate any admissions decision. Anybody else heard from UIC?

SoulOnIce · Post by **SoulOnIce** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 1:16 am

I just checked the UIC website and I got rejected as well. Perhaps you are still in the running...!

mathTaughtMeHumility · Post by **mathTaughtMeHumility** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 2:28 am

I got rejected as well.

BreakingBad · Post by **BreakingBad** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 2:39 pm

Anyone receive admission to Indiana, Bloomington?

jsmith · Post by **jsmith** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:23 pm

There are some rejections from Cornell on GradCafe. Are there more people here that did not receive a rejection nor acceptance from Cornell yet?

KatrinaElizabeth · Post by **KatrinaElizabeth** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:26 pm

jsmith wrote:There are some rejections from Cornell on GradCafe. Are there more people here that did not receive a rejection nor acceptance from Cornell yet?

Me! I saw the 5-6 rejections on Gradcafe, and then checked my email (and spam folder). Nothing. I still haven't heard from them. Maybe we are wait listed?

jsmith · Post by **jsmith** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:27 pm

I hope so

I sent them an e-mail to ask whether I was waitlisted as I saw someone who did that on GradCafe and got a reply. I never got a reply though.

foedan · Post by **foedan** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:28 pm

jsmith wrote:There are some rejections from Cornell on GradCafe. Are there more people here that did not receive a rejection nor acceptance from Cornell yet?

I have yet to receive any correspondence from Cornell. I am hoping that this means I survived through their first round of rejections.

Fw1812 · Post by **Fw1812** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 5:01 pm

Same here

latsyrc1123 · Post by **latsyrc1123** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:38 am

Am I the only one who never heard back from UCLA?

BreakingBad · Post by **BreakingBad** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:55 am

Sorry to ask again, but has anyone here heard from Indiana?

beethoven · Post by **beethoven** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:16 pm

latsyrc1123 wrote:Am I the only one who never heard back from UCLA?

Haven't heard back from UCLA either

mathberk · Post by **mathberk** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:42 pm

I'm going insane...

KatrinaElizabeth · Post by **KatrinaElizabeth** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 2:42 pm

foedan wrote:
jsmith wrote:There are some rejections from Cornell on GradCafe. Are there more people here that did not receive a rejection nor acceptance from Cornell yet?
I have yet to receive any correspondence from Cornell. I am hoping that this means I survived through their first round of rejections.

I guess Cornell is continuing with more rejections today. I saw Fw's profile updated to reflect one of them and there are 6-7 new ones on Gradcafe. Have either of you heard back yet? Still waiting here.

airrows · Post by **airrows** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 7:29 pm

Ahhh I am dying to hear back from NYU, UCSD, and UCSB.

Dinstruction · Post by **Dinstruction** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:08 pm

I got into Cornell.

FYI, there's a visiting day in Mid-March, but the deadline to tell the university that you'll attend is February 17. Perhaps if you haven't heard back from them by this point, you might not get in.

india_kid4 · Post by **india_kid4** » Fri Feb 12, 2016 9:58 am

beethoven wrote:
latsyrc1123 wrote:Am I the only one who never heard back from UCLA?
Haven't heard back from UCLA either

I haven't heard anything from UCLA either, and they also didn't respond to my email asking for an update which I sent almost two weeks ago.