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Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:43 am
by +j
rejected from yale

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:09 am
by jrayers97
UNC has started sending out acceptances.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:16 pm
by Banach-Steinhaus
Looks like Princeton sent out acceptances today according to Grad Cafe. Good luck to everyone who applied there!

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:23 pm
by djysyed
That duke acceptance has me tripping balls. Congrats to that guy!

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:27 pm
by Bottomology
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?

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:10 pm
by young556646
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... :(

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:10 am
by gedt11
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...

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:14 am
by djysyed
I'm just waiting for Duke to send me my acceptance...

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:27 pm
by emerald123
A friend of mine heard from Tufts has anyone else heard from them yet?

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 6:52 pm
by mgf
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...

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:56 pm
by Banach-Steinhaus
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!

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:19 pm
by djysyed
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?

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:06 am
by rlightec
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

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:18 pm
by lambert
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.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:48 pm
by MathCat
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.)

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 12:22 am
by djysyed
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

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 1:48 am
by rickitackitavi12345
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%)

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 2:00 am
by djysyed
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

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 3:16 am
by hopeful
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.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 10:48 am
by superballzach
Rejected from Tufts. Blah.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 1:52 pm
by rlightec
superballzach wrote:Rejected from Tufts. Blah.
Same bro

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 8:39 pm
by djysyed
I see that Stanford acceptance ;)

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 10:33 pm
by lurenjia12138
Someone (not me) has got an offer from applied math PhD in University of Washington

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 3:51 am
by MMDE
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.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 6:34 am
by young556646
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.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:35 am
by YoungGunnaMath
I applied to 15 pretty good schools too, haven't heard anything

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:54 am
by DoNotMicrowave
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.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:28 pm
by djysyed
The weather forecast for Feb 1st-Feb 14 says its going to rain acceptances and rejections.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:52 pm
by Mr.Scholze
So anxious this afternoon :(

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:40 pm
by Mr.Scholze
I basically couldn’t do anything this week! I hate myself! :evil:

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:49 pm
by djysyed
Mr.Scholze wrote:I basically couldn’t do anything this week! I hate myself! :evil:
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 ;)

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 4:01 pm
by hopeful
djysyed wrote:
Mr.Scholze wrote:I basically couldn’t do anything this week! I hate myself! :evil:
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.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 4:52 pm
by YoungGunnaMath
Mr.Scholze wrote:I basically couldn’t do anything this week! I hate myself! :evil:
Right there with you man :( feels

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 5:06 pm
by djysyed
hopeful wrote:
djysyed wrote:
Mr.Scholze wrote:I basically couldn’t do anything this week! I hate myself! :evil:
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.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 5:08 pm
by Mr.Scholze
One of my friends just got the interview from Cornell. :shock:

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:46 pm
by lurenjia12138
Got rejection from UW and very anxious now, I can not do anything at this moment.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:19 pm
by DoNotMicrowave
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.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:52 pm
by Yello
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.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:57 pm
by djysyed
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

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:01 pm
by Mr.Scholze
Is the MIT one on GradCafe real???

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:25 pm
by LordWiki
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 ;-;

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:30 pm
by Mr.Scholze
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??? :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :( :( :( :( :( :evil: :evil: :evil: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:57 pm
by Mr.Scholze
Berkeley! :shock:

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:59 pm
by djysyed
Cheeky bastard got into Berkeley and says "It's better than nothing"...

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:27 pm
by Mr.Scholze
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:55 pm
by Mr.Scholze
Why are people keeping putting fake information on the grad cafe? :evil:

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:58 pm
by mimi1414
I'm so mad right now.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:59 pm
by hachiryu
The fake posts are by djysyed. Just stop it.

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:01 am
by djysyed
:)

Re: Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:10 am
by Mr.Scholze
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