Fall 07: Acceptances/Rejections

Graduate School
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<p>nighthawkrao77,</p>

<p>i posted my stats about 7 months ago and about 5 pages back in this thread! heres a repost of what happened to me... i am currently a 1st yr chemical engineering PhD student in the UC Berkeley program..... here is what I posted...</p>

<p>"Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 730Q-540V-5.5W (actually i took the GRE twice more and my score went down to a 660Q both times!), 3.77 GPA, 3 semesters of research (biomaterials, polymer, surface chemistry), 2 "papers", summer internship at 3M in research lab, moderate to strong LORs, Univ. of Texas, class of '07</p>

<p>Order of Acceptances/Rejections:</p>

<p>Princeton - Rejected
Georgia Tech - Accepted
UC Berkeley - Accepted
Carnegie Mellon - Accepted
Stanford - Rejected
UCSB - Rejected
U Minnesota - Rejected
Cornell - Rejected
U Wisconsin - Rejected
MIT (Ph.D. Practice) - Rejected
Rice - Rejected (lowest CHE strength of all the schools, this was my safety school...surprising...hmm...)
Caltech - Rejected
U Illinois - Rejected</p>

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<p>Hey!!! I am bewildered and confused. Is this an acceptance letter...????</p>

<p>"Congratulations! After a careful review of your application, the Admissios Committee of the Graduate Program in Communication has recommended to the graduate division that you be admitted to the program for fall 2008. We are forwarding this recommendation for admissiondation for admission to graduate admission, with whom the final decision rests. You will recieve e-mail confirmation of your admission from graduate admissions soon.""</p>

<p>Enlighten me!! Is t possible that Graduate admission will deny Department's recommendation?????</p>

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<p>LitGirl, </p>

<p>You cross-posted, so I will too....</p>

<p>Yes, this is an acceptance letter. The Graduate Admission folks simply rubber-stamp it. </p>

<p>It is NOT possible that Graduate Admission will deny, UNLESS...
- you lied on your application
- you omitted something crucial on your application
- you fail to finish your current program (if you are in one)
- the Dean of the Graduate School cuts all funding to the department for this upcoming academic year (practically impossible - j/k)</p>

<p>Congratulations.</p>

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<p>Professor X</p>

<p>Thank you so much! Love you for breaking out this to me.</p>

<p>LoL i need to check my posts!!!</p>

<p>Thanks once again.....Warm regards!</p>

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<p>UPenn MSE in Systems engineering- Accepted 02/08/08
Cornell M.Eng in Systems engineering- Accepted 03/11/08
Columbia MS in Computer Science - Pending
Columbia MS in Operation Research - Pending
CMU MS in Information Technology - Pending</p>

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<p>oops, just realized this is a Fall 07 thread... my apology</p>