Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

daruma · Post by **daruma** » Thu Mar 07, 2019 7:15 am

Likewise, I have had four rejections so far with no acceptances. At this late stage, realistically, I have to embrace when there are no offers.

seven · Post by **seven** » Thu Mar 07, 2019 9:56 am

Has anyone contacted schools for a status update? If so, how'd it go? Does it negatively affect your application status?

oniongood · Post by **oniongood** » Thu Mar 07, 2019 10:50 am

seven wrote:Has anyone contacted schools for a status update? If so, how'd it go? Does it negatively affect your application status?

I have contacted several schools to check my application status this week. Got two rejections, three waitlists, and one acceptance as a reply. Having paid those fairly high application fees, I think it is fine and legit to send one or two inquiry e-mails, especially as it is approaching mid March and most programs have released their first-round offers.

kanep96 · Post by **kanep96** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:12 pm

oniongood wrote:
seven wrote:Has anyone contacted schools for a status update? If so, how'd it go? Does it negatively affect your application status?
I have contacted several schools to check my application status this week. Got two rejections, three waitlists, and one acceptance as a reply. Having paid those fairly high application fees, I think it is fine and legit to send one or two inquiry e-mails, especially as it is approaching mid March and most programs have released their first-round offers.

Wait, you emailed *them* and they said you were accepted? That seems a bit... different lol. How did they word it? Something along the lines of "Whoops, actually, youre accepted. Sorry for not emailing you earlier."? Is that a relatively common occurrence?

oniongood · Post by **oniongood** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:27 pm

OK, my bad. Let me clarify on that *acceptance* one. I have to say it is the fact that my offer arrived one day after I got the reply made me exaggerate; sorry for any confusion. So I knew that some got rejections as a reply to their inquiry e-mails and were told that there may be second-round offers. The reply I got said that the department will give me "a more definite answer" this week and there will be second-round offers. Seems that I am obviously over interpreting.

Dopeboyz · Post by **Dopeboyz** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:51 pm

Anyone heard anything from UIC? I know they sent out a few acceptances, but that's about it.

kanep96 · Post by **kanep96** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:15 pm

oniongood wrote:OK, my bad. Let me clarify on that *acceptance* one. I have to say it is the fact that my offer arrived one day after I got the reply made me exaggerate; sorry for any confusion. So I knew that some got rejections as a reply to their inquiry e-mails and were told that there may be second-round offers. The reply I got said that the department will give me "a more definite answer" this week and there will be second-round offers. Seems that I am obviously over interpreting.

No worries pal! Was just curious. Thanks for the clarification!

bbqchips · Post by **bbqchips** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:24 pm

Dopeboyz wrote:Anyone heard anything from UIC? I know they sent out a few acceptances, but that's about it.

One of my friends was accepted there, but I haven't heard anything back from them.

MMDE · Post by **MMDE** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:50 pm

When inquiring about admissions status, who do you guys address your emails to? General graduate admissions or specifically to the math department? Most schools seem to have a separate email for both.

ramseytype · Post by **ramseytype** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:23 pm

MMDE wrote:When inquiring about admissions status, who do you guys address your emails to? General graduate admissions or specifically to the math department? Most schools seem to have a separate email for both.

If they provide an email on their admissions or applications pages, email that. Otherwise, see if they have a Grad Program Coordinator. If they do, email them. Finally, if the above options are not available, find the person with the title of "Graduate Chair" or "Director of Graduate Studies" and email them.

seven · Post by **seven** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:31 pm

Update: I emailed 7 schools yesterday. If the math grad webpage had a contact email, that is who I emailed. Most schools were quick to respond. 2 waitlists, 2 rejections, 1 will not give status updates, 2 no responses.

MMDE · Post by **MMDE** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:57 pm

Thank you both!

sacamano · Post by **sacamano** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 3:01 pm

seven wrote:Update: I emailed 7 schools yesterday. If the math grad webpage had a contact email, that is who I emailed. Most schools were quick to respond. 2 waitlists, 2 rejections, 1 will not give status updates, 2 no responses.

Which Schools?

seven · Post by **seven** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:39 pm

UC Santa Cruz said they do not give status updates and said all applicants will know by mid to late April
UC Davis waitlisted
University of Southern California waitlisted
Rutgers rejected (but nice rejection)
NC State rejected
Penn State no response
UC Santa Barbara no response

I do have an offer I'm really happy about, but I do wish I knew more of my results by now.

My email to them looked like:

Hi xxxx,

I was wondering if there was an update on my Mathematics PhD graduate application status? I am still very excited about your graduate program.

Thank you for the consideration. Please let me know if I need to provide any additional information.

Best,

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 8:03 pm

Dopeboyz wrote:Anyone heard anything from UIC? I know they sent out a few acceptances, but that's about it.

Their admitted student visit day is next week.
Source: I go to UIC

Dopeboyz · Post by **Dopeboyz** » Sat Mar 09, 2019 9:52 am

djysyed wrote:
Dopeboyz wrote:Anyone heard anything from UIC? I know they sent out a few acceptances, but that's about it.
Their admitted student visit day is next week.
Source: I go to UIC

Does that mean you are donzo if you haven't got an acceptance yet?

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Sun Mar 10, 2019 11:20 am

Dopeboyz wrote: Does that mean you are donzo if you haven't got an acceptance yet?

Well you're certainly not Hiruzen.

Dopeboyz · Post by **Dopeboyz** » Sun Mar 10, 2019 11:29 am

djysyed wrote:
Dopeboyz wrote: Does that mean you are donzo if you haven't got an acceptance yet?
Well you're certainly not Hiruzen.

humor is a great way to make the pain go away.

ponchan · Post by **ponchan** » Sun Mar 10, 2019 11:54 am

Anyone hear anything from Maryland (pure) who hasn't been accepted yet?

kbm96 · Post by **kbm96** » Sun Mar 10, 2019 6:03 pm

seven wrote:UC Santa Cruz said they do not give status updates and said all applicants will know by mid to late April
UC Davis waitlisted
University of Southern California waitlisted
Rutgers rejected (but nice rejection)
NC State rejected
Penn State no response
UC Santa Barbara no response

I do have an offer I'm really happy about, but I do wish I knew more of my results by now.

My email to them looked like:

Hi xxxx,

I was wondering if there was an update on my Mathematics PhD graduate application status? I am still very excited about your graduate program.

Thank you for the consideration. Please let me know if I need to provide any additional information.

Best,

Hi, who specifically did you contact at Rutgers? Thank you!

optimisticnihilist · Post by **optimisticnihilist** » Mon Mar 11, 2019 4:27 am

Hopkins applied math sent out a bunch of rejections.

tzwxy · Post by **tzwxy** » Mon Mar 11, 2019 10:56 am

Has anyone heard back from Michigan State University?

seven · Post by **seven** » Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:52 am

kbm96 wrote:
seven wrote:UC Santa Cruz said they do not give status updates and said all applicants will know by mid to late April
UC Davis waitlisted
University of Southern California waitlisted
Rutgers rejected (but nice rejection)
NC State rejected
Penn State no response
UC Santa Barbara no response

I do have an offer I'm really happy about, but I do wish I knew more of my results by now.

My email to them looked like:

Hi xxxx,

I was wondering if there was an update on my Mathematics PhD graduate application status? I am still very excited about your graduate program.

Thank you for the consideration. Please let me know if I need to provide any additional information.

Best,
Hi, who specifically did you contact at Rutgers? Thank you!

I contacted Professor Borisov!

ribbit · Post by **ribbit** » Mon Mar 11, 2019 1:39 pm

tzwxy wrote:Has anyone heard back from Michigan State University?

They just waitlisted me.

jrayers97 · Post by **jrayers97** » Mon Mar 11, 2019 3:17 pm

Received an email from Oregon saying to send them my travel itinerary for their prospective grad students day even though I’ve been rejected?

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:55 pm

jrayers97 wrote:Received an email from Oregon saying to send them my travel itinerary for their prospective grad students day even though I’ve been rejected?

The automated message was accidentally sent out to all applicants.

tzwxy · Post by **tzwxy** » Tue Mar 12, 2019 5:13 am

ribbit wrote:
tzwxy wrote:Has anyone heard back from Michigan State University?
They just waitlisted me.

Did you reach out or they sent you the email?

mgf · Post by **mgf** » Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:56 pm

Has anyone heard about acceptances from applied PhD's at Johns Hopkins? Some rejections seem to have come out on March 10. I haven't heard anything at all. I'm sweating but also kind of excited that good news could potentially be around the corner.

lkguy · Post by **lkguy** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 9:03 am

Hello everyone,

This is a humble and respectful request to anyone who’s been admitted to Vanderbilt and has better offers. Please do decline your offer if you’re planning on not going there. Thank you!

LawrenceB · Post by **LawrenceB** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 9:27 am

What difference does it make if you decline or not?

ethanmhny · Post by **ethanmhny** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 9:31 am

LawrenceB wrote:What difference does it make if you decline or not?

once the program knows you're not going to attend, they can make an offer to another applicant further down the waitlist

ramseytype · Post by **ramseytype** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 1:07 pm

For those who applied to UCLA, if you go to appstatus.grad.ucla.edu, you may or may not see a rejection. For me and several others I know, it says "No decision has been made to this date."

If you cannot log into AppStatus to check your status, then you need to request a password via AppStatus. It doesn't seem to share passwords with the grad app. I couldn't log in, requested a password, then was able to see the notification.

jrayers97 · Post by **jrayers97** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:58 pm

I contacted Purdue and they said that the first round of offers went out but there might possibly be a few more, however they don’t know if or when it would be.

wannabealgebraist · Post by **wannabealgebraist** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 5:19 pm

ramseytype wrote:For those who applied to UCLA, if you go to appstatus.grad.ucla.edu, you may or may not see a rejection. For me and several others I know, it says "No decision has been made to this date."

If you cannot log into AppStatus to check your status, then you need to request a password via AppStatus. It doesn't seem to share passwords with the grad app. I couldn't log in, requested a password, then was able to see the notification.

So does this mean applicants who don't see a rejection are on a waitlist of sorts?

ramseytype · Post by **ramseytype** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 5:53 pm

wannabealgebraist wrote:
ramseytype wrote:For those who applied to UCLA, if you go to appstatus.grad.ucla.edu, you may or may not see a rejection. For me and several others I know, it says "No decision has been made to this date."

If you cannot log into AppStatus to check your status, then you need to request a password via AppStatus. It doesn't seem to share passwords with the grad app. I couldn't log in, requested a password, then was able to see the notification.
So does this mean applicants who don't see a rejection are on a waitlist of sorts?

I honestly have no clue, but I think that that is unlikely. I think UCLA is done with their admissions.

young556646 · Post by **young556646** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 7:40 pm

wannabealgebraist wrote:
ramseytype wrote:For those who applied to UCLA, if you go to appstatus.grad.ucla.edu, you may or may not see a rejection. For me and several others I know, it says "No decision has been made to this date."

If you cannot log into AppStatus to check your status, then you need to request a password via AppStatus. It doesn't seem to share passwords with the grad app. I couldn't log in, requested a password, then was able to see the notification.
So does this mean applicants who don't see a rejection are on a waitlist of sorts?

You know, some other schools took several days to send out their rejections. UCLA apparently started to send out their rejections yesterday or today, so I believe it is just a matter of time for us to be rejected.

oopsie · Post by **oopsie** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 9:18 pm

Any news regarding CU Boulder or UC Davis? Been completely radio silent since I submitted my applications...

Dopeboyz · Post by **Dopeboyz** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 11:43 pm

gdgdg

riffraff11235 · Post by **riffraff11235** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 10:30 am

I've seen some posters here and on Gradcafe who seem to know how far up they are on certain waitlists. For instance, I saw two people say they were high up on Dartmouth's waitlist, but my waitlist letter didn't mention anything about my position relative to other applicants. Do they only mention it if you're near the top or something?

young556646 · Post by **young556646** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 10:39 am

riffraff11235 wrote:I've seen some posters here and on Gradcafe who seem to know how far up they are on certain waitlists. For instance, I saw two people say they were high up on Dartmouth's waitlist, but my waitlist letter didn't mention anything about my position relative to other applicants. Do they only mention this if you're near the top or something?

For example, OSU sent out the complete waitlist (of course names replaced by some sort of codes) for each applicant on the list, and it contained the ranking for upper half of the waitlist and the list of lower half applicants without detailed ranking. On the other hand, Duke did not sent any information about the ranking. Maybe some of the schools which do not provide the rankings in initial notification will tell you about your ranking if you ask them.

eight887 · Post by **eight887** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 1:54 pm

Has anyone heard anything from BU recently?

riffraff11235 · Post by **riffraff11235** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:25 pm

eight887 wrote:Has anyone heard anything from BU recently?

I've seen some responses trickling in during the past two weeks. Haven't gotten anything myself.

MathCat · Post by **MathCat** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:38 pm

young556646 wrote:
riffraff11235 wrote:I've seen some posters here and on Gradcafe who seem to know how far up they are on certain waitlists. For instance, I saw two people say they were high up on Dartmouth's waitlist, but my waitlist letter didn't mention anything about my position relative to other applicants. Do they only mention this if you're near the top or something?
For example, OSU sent out the complete waitlist (of course names replaced by some sort of codes) for each applicant on the list, and it contained the ranking for upper half of the waitlist and the list of lower half applicants without detailed ranking. On the other hand, Duke did not sent any information about the ranking. Maybe some of the schools which do not provide the rankings in initial notification will tell you about your ranking if you ask them.

At some schools it is not necessarily ranked in an absolute manner. Sometimes it might depend on *who* turns down an offer, because they're specifically looking for somebody to work in a certain group or with a certain professor.

ethanmhny · Post by **ethanmhny** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 5:27 pm

pleasantly surprised that washington even bothered sending me a rejection email

wannabealgebraist · Post by **wannabealgebraist** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 5:29 pm

oopsie wrote:Any news regarding CU Boulder or UC Davis? Been completely radio silent since I submitted my applications...

CU Boulder's nonapplied math dept has sent out acceptances. I wanna say I've heard some people got waitlisted. Their visiting weekend was last week I believe.

hachiryu · Post by **hachiryu** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 6:45 pm

Log into U Chicago application website, you should have a decision document saying "lmao rejected".

ponchan · Post by **ponchan** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 7:05 pm

riffraff11235 wrote:I've seen some posters here and on Gradcafe who seem to know how far up they are on certain waitlists. For instance, I saw two people say they were high up on Dartmouth's waitlist, but my waitlist letter didn't mention anything about my position relative to other applicants. Do they only mention it if you're near the top or something?

Depends on the program. Duke just said the list was "small" but that applicants weren't yet ranked. Another program specifically told me I was in the top of the list.

FourierTransformer · Post by **FourierTransformer** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 9:39 pm

Dopeboyz wrote:I just got into a top 25 program with a 25% on the MGRE. Suck it ETS!

Congrats. Which school?

yoltin · Post by **yoltin** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 1:24 am

oopsie wrote:Any news regarding CU Boulder or UC Davis? Been completely radio silent since I submitted my applications...

Davis already had their first round. They will send more offers if enough people decline.

fmcgla · Post by **fmcgla** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 2:16 am

eight887 wrote:Has anyone heard anything from BU recently?

I reached out the them about a week ago. This was their response.

"We have not yet sent out all PhD admission decisions at this time, but we’re hoping to have the remaining final decisions sent out very soon. If you don’t hear from us by the end of this month, please feel free to get in touch again to confirm the status of your application."