Fall 2018 Sweat Thread

Singularity · Post by **Singularity** » Thu Jan 25, 2018 11:32 pm

Bayesian1701 wrote:
lambert wrote:Michigan (Ann Arbor) are also sending out their acceptances now.

Btw anyone else think that Harvard admit on gradcafe is a troll? Nobody else has posted and I doubt they would have gotten in if they "applied as a joke" and their professors thought they were not "strong candidates".
That sounds like it’s a troll. It could be real but it seems odd that it is the only one so far. I honestly wonder if some of them are made up if they are isolated and before the normal time frame.

The problem is what is the normal time frame? This week is indeed the normal time these top places send their first round (maybe only round).

ROCKLEO · Post by **ROCKLEO** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 12:50 am

I received an email 2 days ago from a Professor of UPenn. He told me that they liked my application profile very much, but the university has very strict language requirements. That they are making an effort, but it is not at all clear if they can convince the administration of the university to invite me.

Junaid456 · Post by **Junaid456** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 2:02 am

Has anyone, other than rfz, received a response from Rochester? I received the following response from the program coordinator on 1/25:

The committee should be finished today with their first round of possible admits. They will have a group of students on a wait list. The deadline for responses is April 15.

I haven't heard anything as of yet, though. Probably rejected I guess.

rfz · Post by **rfz** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 4:20 am

I have checked out thegradcade and found out that 4 guys were accepted to Harvard.

jxwatmg · Post by **jxwatmg** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 4:43 am

I have heard somebody in real life got Harvard couple of hours ago. So I guess that wasn’t troll.

lambert · Post by **lambert** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 5:53 am

Singularity wrote:
Bayesian1701 wrote:
lambert wrote:Michigan (Ann Arbor) are also sending out their acceptances now.

Btw anyone else think that Harvard admit on gradcafe is a troll? Nobody else has posted and I doubt they would have gotten in if they "applied as a joke" and their professors thought they were not "strong candidates".
That sounds like it’s a troll. It could be real but it seems odd that it is the only one so far. I honestly wonder if some of them are made up if they are isolated and before the normal time frame.
The problem is what is the normal time frame? This week is indeed the normal time these top places send their first round (maybe only round).

I don't think most top places do more than one round too. They know they'll fill up their spots with strong applicants anyway.

But I thought it could be a troll because they know this period is the one most people check furiously for results. If I also wanted to troll I would think "oh around this time Berkeley and Harvard must be sending out acceptances soon, so I'll just pretend I got one".

But it seems more people have gotten into Harvard so it probably wasn't a troll after all.

Junaid456 · Post by **Junaid456** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 10:36 am

Got the following response from Rochester:

No, you should not assume you were denied admission. All I can tell you is that you are still on a list of possibilities. I know this doesn’t mean much, but at least you haven’t been “denied” yet.

Good luck,
Joan

P.S. If you accept another university, please let me know.

Leaves me even more confused. Probably on the wait list, I guess.

andfight · Post by **andfight** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 12:22 pm

Could someone please confirm if Stanford and Michigan already sent their offers for pure math? If so, are the important rounds of acceptances over for those schools?

ximonk · Post by **ximonk** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 2:37 pm

To the people that got into UCLA, did your acceptance come in an email or did you have to check the website?

curvature-form · Post by **curvature-form** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 3:51 pm

ximonk wrote:To the people that got into UCLA, did your acceptance come in an email or did you have to check the website?

I got an email on January 19th saying that I was recommended for admission to the PhD program. On January 24th I got an email stating: "A faculty committee at UCLA has made a decision on your application for Mathematics for Fall 2018" and to go to a link to view the decision (which just contained a letter from the Dean of the Graduate Division extending an official offer of admission).

jxwatmg · Post by **jxwatmg** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:36 pm

Got waitlisted by Stanford, and that’s the first thing I know on my birthday

Jayden · Post by **Jayden** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:48 pm

jxwatmg wrote:Got waitlisted by Stanford, and that’s the first thing I know on my birthday

Happy Birthday! And good luck for your application!

jxwatmg · Post by **jxwatmg** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 12:21 am

Jayden wrote:
jxwatmg wrote:Got waitlisted by Stanford, and that’s the first thing I know on my birthday
Happy Birthday! And good luck for your application!

That's really sweet of you, thanks!

Although I am becoming more nervous right now...

mathematics · Post by **mathematics** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 1:15 am

Texas A&M

Junaid456 · Post by **Junaid456** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:02 am

mathematics wrote:Texas A&M

What about it? Have you heard back?

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:15 pm

Seems like someone heard back from both NC State and Texas A&M. Congrats on getting into both those schools!

Junaid456 · Post by **Junaid456** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 3:14 am

djysyed wrote:Seems like someone heard back from both NC State and Texas A&M. Congrats on getting into both those schools!

Congrats!

Here's what the program coordinator at Texas A&M informed me:

Our Graduate Committee is still reviewing applications. We typically receive between 200-300 so it takes a while for the Graduate Committee to go through them all. As they make a decision on a file, that student will be notified by email.

Let's see when the rest of us are notified of our decisions.

Junaid456 · Post by **Junaid456** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 3:15 am

Also, the program coordinator at Dartmouth informed me the following on 1/24:

The committee has started to read the applications. Hopefully, the decisions will go out by the end of this week or at the beginning of next.

Dartmouth's decisions may be out soon, I guess. If anyone hears back, please let us know.

FreddieBiddleBooty · Post by **FreddieBiddleBooty** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 8:42 pm

Junaid456 wrote:Also, the program coordinator at Dartmouth informed me the following on 1/24:

The committee has started to read the applications. Hopefully, the decisions will go out by the end of this week or at the beginning of next.
Dartmouth's decisions may be out soon, I guess. If anyone hears back, please let us know.

Whoa! I thought it would take them longer, as the deadline wasn't too long ago. I'm hoping to get an acceptance from them! So... I guess we'll hopefully hear from them this week?!

Junaid456 · Post by **Junaid456** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 3:11 am

FreddieBiddleBooty wrote:
Junaid456 wrote:Also, the program coordinator at Dartmouth informed me the following on 1/24:

The committee has started to read the applications. Hopefully, the decisions will go out by the end of this week or at the beginning of next.
Dartmouth's decisions may be out soon, I guess. If anyone hears back, please let us know.
Whoa! I thought it would take them longer, as the deadline wasn't too long ago. I'm hoping to get an acceptance from them! So... I guess we'll hopefully hear from them this week?!

Perhaps. Fingers crossed.

Lipso · Post by **Lipso** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 8:36 am

I realized I forgot to add fall grades, did everyone else do this?

The thing is for most of my schools I don't really realize how to send the grades. Any insight?

p.s. Someone posted they got into Rutgers, what! I did not know they gave out acceptances yet.

kieroda · Post by **kieroda** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:46 am

Lipso wrote:I realized I forgot to add fall grades, did everyone else do this?

The thing is for most of my schools I don't really realize how to send the grades. Any insight?

p.s. Someone posted they got into Rutgers, what! I did not know they gave out acceptances yet.

Check the school, a good amount don't require fall grades. I added mine for every school that I could, but the only school I applied to that asked for fall grades was UIUC.

kayiilu · Post by **kayiilu** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 2:12 pm

Lipso wrote:I realized I forgot to add fall grades, did everyone else do this?

The thing is for most of my schools I don't really realize how to send the grades. Any insight?

p.s. Someone posted they got into Rutgers, what! I did not know they gave out acceptances yet.

When my fall grade came out, I emailed every university that I applied, and asked if I needed to update my fall grade.
For some uni you can just update that on the application website, some you will need to email the transcript to the office. So maybe you can ask them.

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 3:21 pm

kayiilu wrote: When my fall grade came out, I emailed every university that I applied, and asked if I needed to update my fall grade.
For some uni you can just update that on the application website, some you will need to email the transcript to the office. So maybe you can ask them.

I did the same thing especially since my fall grades were all A's and my spring grades were mostly Bs.

Bayesian1701 · Post by **Bayesian1701** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 8:11 pm

Lipso wrote:I realized I forgot to add fall grades, did everyone else do this?

The thing is for most of my schools I don't really realize how to send the grades. Any insight?

p.s. Someone posted they got into Rutgers, what! I did not know they gave out acceptances yet.

I am in stats so it might be different. I waited until I had fall grades to submit my applications with January deadlines. I didn't update my applications with December deadlines, although I thought some of them might ask me and they didn't. I got admitted to two of my December deadlines and got an interview at the third (they didn't ask for grades either). My transcript for my December programs showed what I was enrolled in (real analysis II, econometrics, honors seminar, and stats independent study). I made a 4.0 and I am kinda mad that no one asked since it did raise my math GPA a bit. I honestly wouldn't I have tried so hard to get an A (I didn't think there would be a curve but there was) in real analysis had I realized that it was unimportant to the programs I thought would care.

roboticbass · Post by **roboticbass** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:26 pm

I just got my first acceptance! Washington State, with $16K TA and waiver! I'm super excited, there's a professor there I've been communicating with who does great work in geometric analysis. Given my GRE subject score this will probably be one of my only acceptances, but I don't care since it's a good fit.

I'm going to grad school!

comeback · Post by **comeback** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:49 pm

UNC and CMU seems to have sent out offers? I'm not sure if this is true since I haven't heard anything and there is only one person each on gradcafe claiming that they have got offer from these two.

reiszszsz · Post by **reiszszsz** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:03 pm

UNC I think has only sent out offers to people they nominated for university graduate fellowships. They don't send most admits out until way later.

kayiilu · Post by **kayiilu** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:46 pm

roboticbass wrote:I just got my first acceptance! Washington State, with $16K TA and waiver! I'm super excited, there's a professor there I've been communicating with who does great work in geometric analysis. Given my GRE subject score this will probably be one of my only acceptances, but I don't care since it's a good fit.

I'm going to grad school!

Congratulations!!!

okmokm · Post by **okmokm** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:57 pm

comeback wrote:UNC and CMU seems to have sent out offers? I'm not sure if this is true since I haven't heard anything and there is only one person each on gradcafe claiming that they have got offer from these two.

I know that CMU has started sending them out, a friend of mine got one.

mishania1996 · Post by **mishania1996** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:40 am

I asked some question to grad admission of Bonn, and they told me:

I just received back the letters of admission - and yours is among them! I will process them as fast as I can and try to get them out today.

.

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:21 am

mishania1996 wrote:I asked some question to grad admission of Bonn, and they told me:

I just received back the letters of admission - and yours is among them! I will process them as fast as I can and try to get them out today.
.

That's wonderful news!

mishania1996 · Post by **mishania1996** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:25 am

No words about funding though

Junaid456 · Post by **Junaid456** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:13 am

mishania1996 wrote:No words about funding though

Congrats on the great admission.

Junaid456 · Post by **Junaid456** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:14 am

Did anyone over here get admitted to Arizona State without funding recently?

lambert · Post by **lambert** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:49 am

Has anyone responded to UPenn's invitation for a skype chat? Does anyone know if it's an interview or just informal get-to-know-you stuff?

ArtinWedderburn · Post by **ArtinWedderburn** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:01 am

I am admitted to Bonn too. I remember Bonn mentions in its websites that there is almost no funding possibility for master students (though it offers some funding called Scholarship plus, which is available to international applicants).

On the bright side, Bonn has free tuition...

mishania1996 wrote:No words about funding though

mishania1996 · Post by **mishania1996** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:10 am

ArtinWedderburn wrote:I am admitted to Bonn too. I remember Bonn mentions in its websites that there is almost no funding possibility for master students (though it offers some funding called Scholarship plus, which is available to international applicants).

On the bright side, Bonn has free tuition...

mishania1996 wrote:No words about funding though

Could you provide a link? I'm having troubles with finding it.

ArtinWedderburn · Post by **ArtinWedderburn** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:26 am

page 18 - funding possibility
https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/fil ... ematik.pdf

at the end there is a section talking about scholarships
https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/stu ... pplication

mishania1996 wrote:
ArtinWedderburn wrote:I am admitted to Bonn too. I remember Bonn mentions in its websites that there is almost no funding possibility for master students (though it offers some funding called Scholarship plus, which is available to international applicants).

On the bright side, Bonn has free tuition...

mishania1996 wrote:No words about funding though
Could you provide a link? I'm having troubles with finding it.

mishania1996 · Post by **mishania1996** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:32 am

Thank you!

texasmath · Post by **texasmath** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:16 pm

According to gradcafe someone has been accepted to both UIUC and Duke. Has anyone else heard back from either school?

rfz · Post by **rfz** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:26 pm

texasmath wrote:According to gradcafe someone has been accepted to both UIUC and Duke. Has anyone else heard back from either school?

I am still waiting news from UIUC

umichzzy · Post by **umichzzy** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:48 pm

texasmath wrote:According to gradcafe someone has been accepted to both UIUC and Duke. Has anyone else heard back from either school?

Professor from UIUC says result should be out by the mid of the Feb

lawliet1 · Post by **lawliet1** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 1:09 pm

Duke just sent out acceptance. I finally got my first offer

biomath18 · Post by **biomath18** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 2:18 pm

I was also accepted to Duke!

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:11 pm

Congrats!

I feel like we need a system where everyone doesn't bombard the DGS' of various programs about decisions.

lothiriell · Post by **lothiriell** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:49 pm

Alright boys and girls, I am officially UChicago bound! I just withdrew the rest of my applications so I don't waste everyone's time. Anyone who will be attending UChicago and share pains with me next fall, PM me!

yon3da · Post by **yon3da** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:51 pm

lothiriell wrote:Alright boys and girls, I am officially UChicago bound! I just withdrew the rest of my applications so I don't waste everyone's time. Anyone who will be attending UChicago and share pains with me next fall, PM me!

Congratulations!!!

pamkoo · Post by **pamkoo** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:56 pm

lawliet1 wrote:Duke just sent out acceptance. I finally got my first offer

Congrats! It's my first offer too!

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:18 pm

Just got the Princeton rejection along with many others on grad cafe.