Fall 2019 Sweat Thread

ethanmhny · Post by **ethanmhny** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 9:53 am

Looks like Oklahoma has finally started sending out decisions

pitalla · Post by **pitalla** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:28 am

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.

For example a friend of mine was put on the Utah waitlist (no more info given) and he contacted them and they told him he we in the top of his area’s waitlist

tzwxy · Post by **tzwxy** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 12:36 pm

Got waitlisted by Michigan State University and Indiana University-Bloomington.

If you got offers from any of these two and if you are not planning on going there, please kindly decline it. I really like these two schools and I really hope I could get into one of them. Thank you!

Good luck to everyone!

lkguy · Post by **lkguy** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:44 pm

I got waitlisted by Vanderbilt. Anyone else?

eight887 · Post by **eight887** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 12:19 am

fmcgla wrote:
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."

Ah, I see. Thank you for the info.

young556646 · Post by **young556646** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:37 am

For those on Duke's waitlist, I got an email response that it is not likely that any decision will be made before early April, and they are even not sure at this point about the possibility of any additional offers.

ponchan · Post by **ponchan** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:10 am

young556646 wrote:For those on Duke's waitlist, I got an email response that it is not likely that any decision will be made before early April, and they are even not sure at this point about the possibility of any additional offers.

Did you email them?

young556646 · Post by **young556646** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:31 am

ponchan wrote:
young556646 wrote:For those on Duke's waitlist, I got an email response that it is not likely that any decision will be made before early April, and they are even not sure at this point about the possibility of any additional offers.
Did you email them?

Yes.

mgf · Post by **mgf** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:17 pm

eight887 wrote:Has anyone heard anything from BU recently?

got an there acceptance myself on 2/21

notthatmolly · Post by **notthatmolly** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:16 am

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

CU Boulder sent out first round decisions for both pure and applied. No financial offers yet for the applied side, but I'm pretty sure pure has gotten theirs. UC Davis likewise sent out acceptances for both a while ago.

optimisticnihilist · Post by **optimisticnihilist** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 2:02 pm

To those who were accepted by UCSD (second round), did you get the official email from the Dean? I'm yet to receive it, all I have is the offer letter that was sent by Scott Rollans.

sacamano · Post by **sacamano** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 3:49 pm

How and when will yall make your decision do you think?

blahquaker · Post by **blahquaker** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 8:14 pm

sacamano wrote:How and when will yall make your decision do you think?

narrow it down to your top offer (or two) now, decline the others, wait patiently for waitlist decisions, repeat if necessary

acrt19 · Post by **acrt19** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 8:21 pm

Has anyone else not heard back from Michigan yet?

riffraff11235 · Post by **riffraff11235** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:08 am

acrt19 wrote:Has anyone else not heard back from Michigan yet?

If you mean UM Ann Arbor, I just got rejected earlier today.

daruma · Post by **daruma** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:10 am

I also have not heard back despite being told in a previous enquiry that I will get a response by 20th.

Are you applying for the master's program by any chance?

acrt19 · Post by **acrt19** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:37 am

No. PhD in pure math.

daruma · Post by **daruma** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:12 am

Let us hope that it means something good.

I've literally checked my spam folder of my Gmail a dozen times but pretty sure I didn't receive anything

johanMo · Post by **johanMo** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:22 pm

mgf wrote:
eight887 wrote:Has anyone heard anything from BU recently?
got an there acceptance myself on 2/21

I heard some people contacted the department and got rejections or were told they might still accept others. I contacted them last week and haven't gotten a reply

djysyed · Post by **djysyed** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:53 pm

It seems like everyone's just waiting to hear back from waitlists...guess the wait till April 14th continues

yso6 · Post by **yso6** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:20 pm

Is Minnesota going to send out a second round of offers? I've emailed them almost two weeks ago, and I still haven't heard back from them.

lkguy · Post by **lkguy** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 7:35 am

This is a kind and humble request to everyone who got accepted by Vanderbilt and planning not to go there. If you have better options, please be kind enough to decline Vanderbilt as soon as possible. Thank you!!

blahquaker · Post by **blahquaker** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:20 am

This is a kind and humble request to everyone who got accepted by _______ . If you're not planning to go there, please be kind enough to decline as soon as possible. Thank you!!

This is true for every school. If you're not going to attend a school, decline as soon as possible so schools can make more offers and we can all make our decisions. April 15 is fast approaching.

Yello · Post by **Yello** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:47 am

blahquaker wrote:
This is a kind and humble request to everyone who got accepted by _______ . If you're not planning to go there, please be kind enough to decline as soon as possible. Thank you!!
This is true for every school. If you're not going to attend a school, decline as soon as possible so schools can make more offers and we can all make our decisions. April 15 is fast approaching.

I’m having difficulty deciding. What are your criteria for deciding on schools? (asking everyone)

Dopeboyz · Post by **Dopeboyz** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:51 am

Has UIC rejected anyone yet?

scotter236 · Post by **scotter236** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 12:47 pm

Yello wrote:
blahquaker wrote:
This is a kind and humble request to everyone who got accepted by _______ . If you're not planning to go there, please be kind enough to decline as soon as possible. Thank you!!
This is true for every school. If you're not going to attend a school, decline as soon as possible so schools can make more offers and we can all make our decisions. April 15 is fast approaching.
I’m having difficulty deciding. What are your criteria for deciding on schools? (asking everyone)

It varies a lot. If your research interests are specified, pick the school based on their strength in that area. If you're more undecided, probably a school with a larger department. If you also want to continue into academia afterwards, look at how each school places their graduates into postdocs. And location, money are also not horrible things to take into account if you care about them since it IS your career for six years. You decision is gonna depend on how much you care about each of these categories. Maybe make a spreadsheet?

emerald123 · Post by **emerald123** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 3:05 pm

yso6 wrote:Is Minnesota going to send out a second round of offers? I've emailed them almost two weeks ago, and I still haven't heard back from them.

I heard from a grad student at minnesota that normally they make 50 funded offers (get around 450 applicants), but this year the grad school only allowed them to make 30 offers (for phd). Their visit weekend is next weekend so they make more offers then?

anonperson15 · Post by **anonperson15** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 4:18 pm

Anybody on the waitlist for UT Austin? Or has been accepted to Austin but on a waitlist for a more preferred school? It doesn't seem like they have sent out any rejections yet.

Based on the following phenomenon, it might be best for people to share as much information as possible. Say I have an offer from school A and I'm on the waitlist for school B, with a preference for school B. There's another applicant with exactly the opposite situation. Then it would be better for everyone for the two to trade places?

Of course this is more complicated if schools have a strong preference order on the waitlists. Someone should work on this to find an optimal solution

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Bottomology · Post by **Bottomology** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 6:30 pm

I’m on the Austin waitlist. Right now I’m deciding between Penn and Northwestern, and I’d also heavily consider Austin if accepted. Guess the waiting game continues...

daruma · Post by **daruma** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 7:18 pm

yso6 wrote:Is Minnesota going to send out a second round of offers? I've emailed them almost two weeks ago, and I still haven't heard back from them.

I have sent them emails but haven't had any response. ( One at beginning of March, one last week)

yso6 · Post by **yso6** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:26 pm

daruma wrote:
yso6 wrote:Is Minnesota going to send out a second round of offers? I've emailed them almost two weeks ago, and I still haven't heard back from them.
I have sent them emails but haven't had any response. ( One at beginning of March, one last week)

Guess we'll just have to wait.

anonperson15 · Post by **anonperson15** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:53 pm

Bottomology wrote:I’m on the Austin waitlist. Right now I’m deciding between Penn and Northwestern, and I’d also heavily consider Austin if accepted. Guess the waiting game continues...

Congrats on those two! It seems like Austin hasn't sent out any rejections yet, so it must be a long waitlist. I emailed the grad director who said there's a chance, but the chance seems to be slim.

I have 1 offer that I'm lukewarm about, and I'm waiting for an (unlikely) international program.

MMDE · Post by **MMDE** » Sat Mar 23, 2019 12:46 am

Cannot believe we're just over a week away from April and I have still yet to hear from 8 or 9 schools. I emailed all of them as well and only got 3 responses, 2 of which were clearly automated.

daruma · Post by **daruma** » Sat Mar 23, 2019 1:30 am

MMDE wrote:Cannot believe we're just over a week away from April and I have still yet to hear from 8 or 9 schools. I emailed all of them as well and only got 3 responses, 2 of which were clearly automated.

Which ones are you waiting on?
I still haven't had any decisions from
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin-Madison
Colorado Boulder

yoltin · Post by **yoltin** » Sun Mar 24, 2019 2:53 am

I'm still waiting for UMN and UT Austin. I have an offer that I want to decline, but I want to always have two options... I will probably wait until I hear back from these two schools, which unfortunately might be all the way until the deadline.

daruma · Post by **daruma** » Sun Mar 24, 2019 5:43 am

yoltin wrote:I'm still waiting for UMN and UT Austin. I have an offer that I want to decline, but I want to always have two options... I will probably wait until I hear back from these two schools, which unfortunately might be all the way until the deadline.

Are you on a waiting list for Minnesota and UT Austin or have you got no response whatsoever

yoltin · Post by **yoltin** » Mon Mar 25, 2019 12:02 am

daruma wrote:Are you on a waiting list for Minnesota and UT Austin or have you got no response whatsoever

I contacted UT Austin and they told me I could get an offer by the deadline. I didn't contact Minnesota.

FourierTransformer · Post by **FourierTransformer** » Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:26 pm

daruma wrote:
MMDE wrote:Cannot believe we're just over a week away from April and I have still yet to hear from 8 or 9 schools. I emailed all of them as well and only got 3 responses, 2 of which were clearly automated.
Which ones are you waiting on?
I still haven't had any decisions from
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin-Madison
Colorado Boulder

Madison's visit day is tomorrow (March 26th) and Minnesota's visiting day is March 30th. They are unlikely to send out additional acceptances until after their visiting days.

q8099086 · Post by **q8099086** » Tue Mar 26, 2019 11:10 pm

I just found that NEU has not sent any PhD offer in gradcafe..........Do they want to wait until 415?

johanMo · Post by **johanMo** » Tue Mar 26, 2019 11:37 pm

q8099086 wrote:I just found that NEU has not sent any PhD offer in gradcafe..........Do they want to wait until 415?

I believe I saw someone on here claim that they were admitted to northeastern sometime in February. I also highly doubt they would wait till the very last day to give out all the admission, that’s just unbeneficial to everyone.

q8099086 · Post by **q8099086** » Wed Mar 27, 2019 12:18 am

johanMo wrote:
q8099086 wrote:I just found that NEU has not sent any PhD offer in gradcafe..........Do they want to wait until 415?

I believe I saw someone on here claim that they were admitted to northeastern sometime in February. I also highly doubt they would wait till the very last day to give out all the admission, that’s just unbeneficial to everyone.

Thank you very much for the information! Actually UCR contacted me last week and due to the letter I believed that they had not made any offer before. (Also proved by a post in gradcafe) So I was guessing if NEU were in the same situation.

johanMo · Post by **johanMo** » Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:49 am

q8099086 wrote:
johanMo wrote:
q8099086 wrote:I just found that NEU has not sent any PhD offer in gradcafe..........Do they want to wait until 415?

I believe I saw someone on here claim that they were admitted to northeastern sometime in February. I also highly doubt they would wait till the very last day to give out all the admission, that’s just unbeneficial to everyone.
Thank you very much for the information! Actually UCR contacted me last week and due to the letter I believed that they had not made any offer before. (Also proved by a post in gradcafe) So I was guessing if NEU were in the same situation.

Someone else here claims they got into UCR on 3/1 or so. Just because they are still looking at applications doesn't mean they haven't given acceptances yet. It's the same thing with IU Bloomington. They emailed me saying they're still looking at applications though some people already claimed they got in.

eight887 · Post by **eight887** » Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:50 am

Yo, if you got an offer from UC Davis and have better offers from elsewhere, please reject Davis so those on the waitlist can have a chance

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superballzach · Post by **superballzach** » Wed Mar 27, 2019 12:42 pm

Ditto for UNC-Chapel Hill and UVA.

oniongood · Post by **oniongood** » Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:38 pm

Has NYU sent out rejections for their pure Math Ph.D.? I still hear nothing......

skj · Post by **skj** » Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:40 pm

johanMo wrote:
q8099086 wrote:I just found that NEU has not sent any PhD offer in gradcafe..........Do they want to wait until 415?

I believe I saw someone on here claim that they were admitted to northeastern sometime in February. I also highly doubt they would wait till the very last day to give out all the admission, that’s just unbeneficial to everyone.

I got an offer around mid-to-late February, with an acceptance deadline of March 15. Turned it down a few weeks ago, but I don't think they make a ton of offers so it's possible no one who uses gradcafe got an offer.

oniongood · Post by **oniongood** » Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:42 pm

And to international students waiting to hear from UNC, I was told that they have selected a shortlist, but no offers have been made yet. They only plan to admit one international student.

Crosscap4 · Post by **Crosscap4** » Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:14 pm

daruma wrote:
MMDE wrote:Cannot believe we're just over a week away from April and I have still yet to hear from 8 or 9 schools. I emailed all of them as well and only got 3 responses, 2 of which were clearly automated.
Which ones are you waiting on?
I still haven't had any decisions from
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin-Madison
Colorado Boulder

My experience with Boulder (pure math):

3/17 - I e-mail CU-Boulder asking about status/letting them know I'm still interested
3/20 - I get a response saying they are just about to open the waitlist and I was high on it but no guarantees of an offer
3/21 - I get an offer

mathidiot · Post by **mathidiot** » Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:14 pm

Crosscap4 wrote:
daruma wrote:
MMDE wrote:Cannot believe we're just over a week away from April and I have still yet to hear from 8 or 9 schools. I emailed all of them as well and only got 3 responses, 2 of which were clearly automated.
Which ones are you waiting on?
I still haven't had any decisions from
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin-Madison
Colorado Boulder
My experience with Boulder (pure math):

3/17 - I e-mail CU-Boulder asking about status/letting them know I'm still interested
3/20 - I get a response saying they are just about to open the waitlist and I was high on it but no guarantees of an offer
3/21 - I get an offer

Who did you ask, their dgs or office staff?

daruma · Post by **daruma** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:35 am

Crosscap4 wrote:
daruma wrote:
MMDE wrote:Cannot believe we're just over a week away from April and I have still yet to hear from 8 or 9 schools. I emailed all of them as well and only got 3 responses, 2 of which were clearly automated.
Which ones are you waiting on?
I still haven't had any decisions from
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin-Madison
Colorado Boulder
My experience with Boulder (pure math):

3/17 - I e-mail CU-Boulder asking about status/letting them know I'm still interested
3/20 - I get a response saying they are just about to open the waitlist and I was high on it but no guarantees of an offer
3/21 - I get an offer

In my case I got this response when I emailed them back in mid-March.

I apologize for the delay in returning your email. We are currently in the process of making offers and unfortunately you application is on a waitlist. I assure you that you will be notified as soon as a decision is made and I thank you for your patience.

Btw, I contacted the Graduate Assistant for your reference