Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

+j · Post by +j » Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:43 am

rejected from yale

jrayers97 · Post by **jrayers97** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:09 am

UNC has started sending out acceptances.

Banach-Steinhaus · Post by **Banach-Steinhaus** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:16 pm

Looks like Princeton sent out acceptances today according to Grad Cafe. Good luck to everyone who applied there!

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:23 pm

That duke acceptance has me tripping balls. Congrats to that guy!

Bottomology · Post by **Bottomology** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:27 pm

Heard nothing yet, and applied to Harvard, Yale, and Duke, all of which released acceptances today (according to the above posts). UPenn emailed me a few days ago and invited me to their open house - is this something that all applicants to Penn get, or is it an "interview" of sorts, or are both statements true?

young556646 · Post by **young556646** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:10 pm

Bottomology wrote:Heard nothing yet, and applied to Harvard, Yale, and Duke, all of which released acceptances today (according to the above posts). UPenn emailed me a few days ago and invited me to their open house - is this something that all applicants to Penn get, or is it an "interview" of sorts, or are both statements true?

I got nothing from UPenn...

gedt11 · Post by **gedt11** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:10 am

young556646 wrote:
Bottomology wrote:Heard nothing yet, and applied to Harvard, Yale, and Duke, all of which released acceptances today (according to the above posts). UPenn emailed me a few days ago and invited me to their open house - is this something that all applicants to Penn get, or is it an "interview" of sorts, or are both statements true?
I got nothing from UPenn...

Same here...

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:14 am

I'm just waiting for Duke to send me my acceptance...

emerald123 · Post by **emerald123** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:27 pm

A friend of mine heard from Tufts has anyone else heard from them yet?

mgf · Post by **mgf** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 6:52 pm

emerald123 wrote:A friend of mine heard from Tufts has anyone else heard from them yet?

Got an invitation to their open house along with them saying that they "plan to recommend" that I am admitted to their program, whatever that means...

Banach-Steinhaus · Post by **Banach-Steinhaus** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:56 pm

Admitted to UCLA! Whew, so relieved to have been accepted to a great program this early into the cycle. Congratulations to everyone who got in!

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:19 pm

Is it better to be ambitious and apply to top 10 meme schools with the very high probability of being rejected or is better to not apply to any meme schools and actually have a decent chance at admission?

rlightec · Post by **rlightec** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:06 am

mgf wrote:
emerald123 wrote:A friend of mine heard from Tufts has anyone else heard from them yet?
Got an invitation to their open house along with them saying that they "plan to recommend" that I am admitted to their program, whatever that means...

Damn... I didn’t get any... how many do they accept? I am scared cause it was kinda my safety school lol

lambert · Post by **lambert** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:18 pm

djysyed wrote:Is it better to be ambitious and apply to top 10 meme schools with the very high probability of being rejected or is better to not apply to any meme schools and actually have a decent chance at admission?

Depends. If you can afford it and actually have a chance, apply to some meme schools. Don't apply *only* to meme schools unless you're very confident you're a top applicant or have a back-up plan (iirc you did something similar last year).

Also don't apply to schools where it's pretty obvious you're just giving them your money. Like I'm looking at the 2019 application thread and some people with a 40-something mgre are applying to Princeton and Stanford, like come on bruh you're not getting in.

MathCat · Post by **MathCat** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:48 pm

mgf wrote:
emerald123 wrote:A friend of mine heard from Tufts has anyone else heard from them yet?
Got an invitation to their open house along with them saying that they "plan to recommend" that I am admitted to their program, whatever that means...

Recommending you for admission basically means you'll get an offer - they have to get official approval from the dean of graduate studies usually, but that is mostly a formality. As long as you satisfy the basic requirements for admittance, you should be getting an offer. (E.g. most school require at least 3.0 GPA, or certain scores on TOEFL, etc.)

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Mon Jan 21, 2019 12:22 am

lambert wrote:Like I'm looking at the 2019 application thread and some people with a 40-something mgre are applying to Princeton and Stanford, like come on bruh you're not getting in.

I'm sure they have other strong aspects of their application but I know those schools expect 80% at least. That's the impression I got when I called Vakil

rickitackitavi12345 · Post by **rickitackitavi12345** » Mon Jan 21, 2019 1:48 am

djysyed wrote:
lambert wrote:Like I'm looking at the 2019 application thread and some people with a 40-something mgre are applying to Princeton and Stanford, like come on bruh you're not getting in.
I'm sure they have other strong aspects of their application but I know those schools expect 80% at least. That's the impression I got when I called Vakil

It depends heavily on other aspects of your application. sub-80% doesn’t bar you from top places if you have other components that are absolutely stellar. (source: I got into two top schools so far with a ~ 70%)

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Mon Jan 21, 2019 2:00 am

rickitackitavi12345 wrote: It depends heavily on other aspects of your application. sub-80% doesn’t bar you from top places if you have other components that are absolutely stellar. (source: I got into two top schools so far with a ~ 70%)

Okay Chad we get it, you have an absolutely stellar app

hopeful · Post by **hopeful** » Mon Jan 21, 2019 3:16 am

djysyed wrote:
rickitackitavi12345 wrote: It depends heavily on other aspects of your application. sub-80% doesn’t bar you from top places if you have other components that are absolutely stellar. (source: I got into two top schools so far with a ~ 70%)
Okay Chad we get it, you have an absolutely stellar app

Maybe if you didn't talk about how "graduate admission heads" told you that you shouldn't bother applying with a sub 80% he wouldn't have to.

superballzach · Post by **superballzach** » Tue Jan 22, 2019 10:48 am

Rejected from Tufts. Blah.

rlightec · Post by **rlightec** » Tue Jan 22, 2019 1:52 pm

superballzach wrote:Rejected from Tufts. Blah.

Same bro

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Tue Jan 22, 2019 8:39 pm

I see that Stanford acceptance

lurenjia12138 · Post by **lurenjia12138** » Tue Jan 22, 2019 10:33 pm

Someone (not me) has got an offer from applied math PhD in University of Washington

MMDE · Post by **MMDE** » Wed Jan 23, 2019 3:51 am

I know it's still a little early, but anyone else yet to hear from any schools? I applied to 15 schools and have heard nothing yet, hoping for something this week.

young556646 · Post by **young556646** » Wed Jan 23, 2019 6:34 am

MMDE wrote:I know it's still a little early, but anyone else yet to hear from any schools? I applied to 15 schools and have heard nothing yet, hoping for something this week.

I applied to more than 15 schools, all in pure math. Heard nothing yet.

YoungGunnaMath · Post by **YoungGunnaMath** » Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:35 am

I applied to 15 pretty good schools too, haven't heard anything

DoNotMicrowave · Post by **DoNotMicrowave** » Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:54 am

MMDE wrote:I know it's still a little early, but anyone else yet to hear from any schools? I applied to 15 schools and have heard nothing yet, hoping for something this week.

Same here. I would give it three or four more weeks.

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:28 pm

The weather forecast for Feb 1st-Feb 14 says its going to rain acceptances and rejections.

Mr.Scholze · Post by **Mr.Scholze** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:52 pm

So anxious this afternoon

Mr.Scholze · Post by **Mr.Scholze** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:40 pm

I basically couldn’t do anything this week! I hate myself!

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:49 pm

Mr.Scholze wrote:I basically couldn’t do anything this week! I hate myself!

Here's a fun problem my advisor gave me: Prove that $$\mathbb{C}^2 \setminus \{(0,0)\}$$ is not an affine algebraic variety.

Edit: To applicant group on discord, I deleted discord

hopeful · Post by **hopeful** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 4:01 pm

djysyed wrote:
Mr.Scholze wrote:I basically couldn’t do anything this week! I hate myself!
Here's a fun problem my advisor gave me: Prove that $$\mathbb{C}^2 \setminus \{(0,0)\}$$ is not an affine algebraic variety.

Edit: To applicant group on discord, I deleted discord

Polynomials are continuous functions so affine varieties since they are intersections of preimages of a closed subset must be closed. That is not closed, so it can't be an affine variety.

YoungGunnaMath · Post by **YoungGunnaMath** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 4:52 pm

Mr.Scholze wrote:I basically couldn’t do anything this week! I hate myself!

Right there with you man

feels

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 5:06 pm

hopeful wrote:
djysyed wrote:
Mr.Scholze wrote:I basically couldn’t do anything this week! I hate myself!
Here's a fun problem my advisor gave me: Prove that $$\mathbb{C}^2 \setminus \{(0,0)\}$$ is not an affine algebraic variety.

Edit: To applicant group on discord, I deleted discord
Polynomials are continuous functions so affine varieties since they are intersections of preimages of a closed subset must be closed. That is not closed, so it can't be an affine variety.

This works for showing that it's not an affine variety in affine 2-space but how about for your affine n-space? I should've clarified that i'm thinking about affine n-space. There's a more general solution that's pretty gnarly.

If you think about $$\mathbb{C} \setminus \{0\}$$ in affine 1-space, then you don't get a variety. However, in affine 2-space, its a projection of $$1-xy$$ onto it's $$x$$ coordinate.

I'm just tryna help Mr. Scholze calm down. I'm under the impression that a bunch of people are going to start showing off how much math they know.

Mr.Scholze · Post by **Mr.Scholze** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 5:08 pm

One of my friends just got the interview from Cornell.

lurenjia12138 · Post by **lurenjia12138** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:46 pm

Got rejection from UW and very anxious now, I can not do anything at this moment.

DoNotMicrowave · Post by **DoNotMicrowave** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:19 pm

Let's not despair, people. True beauty lies in mathematical revelation. Therein, we shall find ways to fill the void in our souls -- a void left by our perpetual insecurities about our own intelligence. That is something no admissions offer can do.

Yello · Post by **Yello** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:52 pm

DoNotMicrowave wrote: Let's not despair, people. True beauty lies in mathematical revelation. Therein, we shall find ways to fill the void in our souls -- a void left by our perpetual insecurities about our own intelligence. That is something no admissions offer can do.

Lol. Honestly, getting accepted to MIT now would make me feel pretty good about my intelligence.

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:57 pm

Yello wrote:
DoNotMicrowave wrote: Let's not despair, people. True beauty lies in mathematical revelation. Therein, we shall find ways to fill the void in our souls -- a void left by our perpetual insecurities about our own intelligence. That is something no admissions offer can do.
Lol. Honestly, getting accepted to MIT now would make me feel pretty good about my intelligence.

Getting into anywhere would make me feel pretty good about my intelligence honestly

Mr.Scholze · Post by **Mr.Scholze** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:01 pm

Is the MIT one on GradCafe real???

LordWiki · Post by **LordWiki** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:25 pm

Mr.Scholze wrote:Is the MIT one on GradCafe real???

As much as I hope it isn't, it probably is since this time of the month is when MIT typically sends out decisions ;-;

Mr.Scholze · Post by **Mr.Scholze** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:30 pm

LordWiki wrote:
Mr.Scholze wrote:Is the MIT one on GradCafe real???
As much as I hope it isn't, it probably is since this time of the month is when MIT typically sends out decisions ;-;

I feel so terrible. Also, why there was only one who got in to Stanford???

Mr.Scholze · Post by **Mr.Scholze** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:57 pm

Berkeley!

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:59 pm

Cheeky bastard got into Berkeley and says "It's better than nothing"...

Mr.Scholze · Post by **Mr.Scholze** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:27 pm

Mr.Scholze · Post by **Mr.Scholze** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:55 pm

Why are people keeping putting fake information on the grad cafe?

mimi1414 · Post by **mimi1414** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:58 pm

I'm so mad right now.

hachiryu · Post by **hachiryu** » Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:59 pm

The fake posts are by djysyed. Just stop it.

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:01 am

Mr.Scholze · Post by **Mr.Scholze** » Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:10 am

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