Fall 2012 Decisions
Fall 2012 Decisions
Hey all I thought I'd set up a quick and easy way for people to tell where they actually decide to go when they decide. Basically like GradCafe and the Admissions topic, but only for where people have officially chosen to go. Now I haven't yet chosen where to go but I'm sure there are people out there who have or are on the verge of deciding and I thought this would be a good thing to consolidate everyone's final choices.
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I think this thread's a great idea! 

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Yea, ill post here after I made my decision!
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This is still early for decisions I think but this thread is a good start!
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I have basically decided to go to UCLA at this point. I visited last Friday and had an awesome time and was amazed to not find a single unhappy grad student (though maybe only the happy ones come to the visiting day!). And the professors all seemed very enthusiastic. I'm too nervous to take the final plunge and sign the dotted line just yet, though. Maybe an Escape from LA scenario will play out next week and the entire city will be destroyed. Probably. Definitely.
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I've officially accepted Rice's offer. 

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I took a deep breath and went ahead and accepted the offer from UCLA. Now with spring break next week it is time for maximum relaxation! Good luck to everyone still figuring out where to go!
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I have also decided to accept UCLA's offer. I visited last friday also and that pretty much sealed the deal for me.
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+1 on UCLA. It's almost unfair, them flying us out to a sunny wonderland in the middle of winter.
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I've officially accepted Cornell offer.
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Accepted Vanderbilt offer.
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Accepted an offer at MIT. In the process of calling/emailing/writing all the other schools.
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Accepted Maryland AMSC offer.
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Accepted Univ of Washington offer (statistics).
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Just accepted Berkeley's offer 

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Accepted CMU's offer. Their fellowship is very good!
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dragoonlp just curious what program at CMU?
I am still waiting to hear from them.
I am still waiting to hear from them.
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I'll be at University of Colorado Boulder for their applied math PhD program.
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Accepted ICES @ UT Austin.
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Accepted offer from Stanford. (PhD in pure maths)
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Accepted Rice CAAM offer.
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Emory University, BioStats.
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Accepted Binghamton offer.
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accepted the offer from NYU-Courant
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Good choice!castlevania87 wrote:accepted the offer from NYU-Courant
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haha, I just turned down offers from uw and umich. How about you ?sywisy wrote:Good choice!castlevania87 wrote:accepted the offer from NYU-Courant
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What do you think?castlevania87 wrote:haha, I just turned down offers from uw and umich. How about you ?sywisy wrote:Good choice!castlevania87 wrote:accepted the offer from NYU-Courant
Hint: Look up

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Accepted offer from Iowa State University (Statistics PhD) 

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Anybody else going to UT Austin?
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Accepted offer from Princeton.
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USC pure math for me
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The short answer: UIC.
The long one: My decision came down to Purdue versus UGA by April, but then I received a last-minute offer from UIC. Spent some time evaluating and ultimately accepted the UIC offer on 4/11 and declined UGA and Purdue. Purdue responded by offering a one-year fellowship on 4/12 and then a two-year fellowship on 4/13; $20k/year each.
While attempting to process this on 4/13, the tornado sirens go off, the math building loses power, and we all walk down twelve flights of stairs to the basement in the dark. (Fortunately, our math building was built as a fallout shelter.) It ripped up Main Street pretty bad; we even made the Weather Channel!

At this point in the story, there are more tornadoes to come for the rest of the weekend, including those that would ultimately demolish Woodward, OK and Wichita, KS. Evacuate to Dallas; just end up telling Purdue to pass the fellowship on to someone else.
I'm still pretty happy about going to UIC -- their program is a bit closer to my research interests, which is why I picked it in the first place, and I've got a lot of friends in Chicago who I'd already told I was coming. But maybe I can serve as an instructive example to next year's crop that you should always free up the days around 4/15 in case something comes up.
The long one: My decision came down to Purdue versus UGA by April, but then I received a last-minute offer from UIC. Spent some time evaluating and ultimately accepted the UIC offer on 4/11 and declined UGA and Purdue. Purdue responded by offering a one-year fellowship on 4/12 and then a two-year fellowship on 4/13; $20k/year each.
While attempting to process this on 4/13, the tornado sirens go off, the math building loses power, and we all walk down twelve flights of stairs to the basement in the dark. (Fortunately, our math building was built as a fallout shelter.) It ripped up Main Street pretty bad; we even made the Weather Channel!

At this point in the story, there are more tornadoes to come for the rest of the weekend, including those that would ultimately demolish Woodward, OK and Wichita, KS. Evacuate to Dallas; just end up telling Purdue to pass the fellowship on to someone else.
I'm still pretty happy about going to UIC -- their program is a bit closer to my research interests, which is why I picked it in the first place, and I've got a lot of friends in Chicago who I'd already told I was coming. But maybe I can serve as an instructive example to next year's crop that you should always free up the days around 4/15 in case something comes up.
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I'm most likely going to GW...anyone else plan on going there?