<p>If GradCafe's archives are any indication, Princeton sends out decisions very close to 15 February every year.</p>
<p>Other schools seem to be sending theirs out earlier than normal, but I don't know if Princeton will be an exception. (I hope not, 'cause the waiting game is killing me...)</p>
<p>Hmm Jd124 I just meant that the proportions are different, we've heard from 5 of the top 10 and at most 8 of the next 40.</p>
<p>I finally heard from some schools today. Accepted to Berkeley and Nebraska-Lincoln via email, and accepted to UCSB via thier website.</p>
<p>Wow you know, I keep hearing about schools I applied to giving out admissions letters. It's a little disheartening to hear. I saw Duke and Northwestern gave out some admissions decisions and the above poster said they heard from Santa Barbara.</p>
<p>I haven't actually "heard" anything from UCSB yet. I just decided to check my "application status" and there it was.</p>
<p>Hm, so at least for top schools, what does it mean if someone doesn't get an acceptance letter while a bunch have received 'em? </p>
<p>I am far from even applying to programs, but am just wondering! Does that usually mean rejection, or is it just the school testing the waters and checking for reaction?</p>
<p>Has anyone got decisions yet from mid and low rank schools like Ohio state, purdue, maryland-college park, maryland-baltimore, colorado state, washington-seattle, missouri, carnegie-mellon, university of miami, university of florida, louisiana state, etc.?</p>
<p>Anyone here anything from UPenn?</p>
<p>mathboy98 - Depends on the school. Lots of the top private schools can get things done with one early wave. Based on what I've seen on thegradcafe/heard from people in past years, they send out a wave of acceptances in early-mid February, waitlists same day or within in a week, and rejections sometime from a week to a month later. That would be schools like Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford. Some schools like Michigan have rolling admissions, so they initially accept the high-quality but low-yield applicants, and kind of wait to see how that shuffles out before they start to move down the list. I think the lower schools tend to wait a bit longer before they start in hopes that people using them as safeties will rescind their application after they get in at better places. Lots of schools tend to hold off on rejecting people until they're sure they have a full class. Unless they explicitly have a waitlist, you really have no idea where you stand if you haven't heard back yet.</p>
<p>Very interesting, I see. So they really are in a sense testing the waters. And I guess for schools like Princeton, quite a few people will just plainly go if accepted, and so there's not much else to do. Of course, I imagine there is some good overlap among the acceptances to the top schools, so depending on if applicants favor a certain school or not, those at other schools may get lucky or not. Anyway, I have a friend [essentially a transfer student undergrad at Berkeley, who had a late start on math] accepted to the Berkeley Ph.d. program, who pretty much applied only to utmost top schools [UCSD being a safety], and hasn't heard back from any other school. I was asking mainly for that sake, though of course I'll go through all this 2 years from now.</p>
<p>Yeah... Crispyk and I would both like any info available on UPenn, I'm not expecting to get in, just that someone posted on gradcafe and there ought to be some more info available,</p>
<p>I applied to UPenn and haven't heard anything yet either. I thought it was well within my reach but perhaps I miscalculated. However, it is curious that no one else has reported being accepted to UPenn. Has anyone talked to their grad chair?</p>
<p>Someone from the gradcafe reported hearing from UPenn. That doesn't mean that all of their acceptances are out though, good luck!</p>
<p>I think I'm going to take a break from all this constant checking, going on thegradcafe, etc. I'll get notified when I get notified. I get emails to my phone, there is no reason for me to be constantly checking, it is extremely counterproductive.</p>
<p>Good luck to eveveryone.</p>
<p>Got an unofficial "yes" email from Ohio State this morning.</p>
<p>Nice! I applied there as well... haven't heard anything. :(</p>
<p>aww nothing from OSU to me either...</p>
<p>I've heard second-hand that my friend got into Columbia today.</p>
<p>Got an offer from UIUC today. Though it's not one of my top choices I'm pretty excited!</p>
<p>Got rejected from Cornell today, they said they will send out official letters of rejection in the next week or two.</p>