New: Fall 2008 Official Acceptances/rejections

<p>UC Davis- Spanish and Portuguese- Accepted </p>

<p>Yay!</p>

<p>Just started to hear:</p>

<p>accepted MA in Regional Studies - East Asia at Harvard but without any aid or funding. I'm sooooo bummed, because this is my first choice but I doubt I can afford to go.</p>

<p>Anyone else applying for MA in East Asian studies?
I'm still waiting to hear from Stanford,Yale,Columbia, NYU</p>

<p>Program: Ph.D in psychology</p>

<p>Accepted: none :(
Rejected: UCSB, UT Austin, Penn
Interviewed: Arizona (paid visit), Florida State
Waiting: Harvard, Brandeis, Missouri, Hawaii
Waitlist: Wayne State University</p>

<p>GPA: 3.2
GRE: 750Q 670V</p>

<p>This is definitely NOT going according to plan</p>

<p>Hi Ephraim,</p>

<p>Congrats on your acceptance! I'm gonna apply for MA in East Asian Studies this year too.</p>

<p>May I know your profile pls (Harvard is my first choice too, but I wonder whether I'm good enough...)? Also, are you an international student?</p>

<p>Program: MSW (Master of Social Work)</p>

<p>Accepted: UC Berkeley (via phone call 2/5)</p>

<p>Waiting to Hear: UCLA, USC, CSU Long Beach, CSU Sacramento, CSU San Bernardino</p>

<p>Stats: 3.3/500V/620Q/5.0A, Americorps Graduate, lots of relevant experience</p>

<p>Will update as I hear more :-)</p>

<p>All schools : environmental engineering, Master of science</p>

<p>Accepted: John Hopkins, Texas A&m
Rejected: Princeton, UT, Penn State
Waiting: Stanford, Northwestern, Duke</p>

<p>Major GPA: 3.2/4.0consu
GRE: 740Q/550V/5.0
Lots of Research exp/consulting work, no published papers, contributed to soon to be published major paper</p>

<p>I've been stalking the boards for nearly four months now so I suppose I should go ahead and post my information.</p>

<p>Applied to all programs for a Ph.D. in Computer Science</p>

<p>Waiting: Dartmouth, NYU, Northeastern, UC Santa Barbara</p>

<p>Stats: 700Q/480V(Whoops)/5.5AW
GPA: 3.6/4.0 (Major and overall)
Two years of industry experience with a strong rec from my employer. Advisor was a former professor at Dartmouth and also wrote a rec for that application.</p>

<p>Hi. I too am waiting to hear from MSW programs:</p>

<p>CSULB - wait list (2/19)
USC - waiting to hear
SFSU - received financial aid offer... no other news! (2/19) does this mean I'm probably accepted??
SDSU - waiting to hear</p>

<p>GPA: 3.4</p>

<p>Program: Ph.D in psychology</p>

<p>Accepted: none
Rejected: UCSB, UT Austin, Penn
Interviewed: Arizona (paid visit), Florida State
Waiting: Harvard, Brandeis, Missouri
Waitlist: Wayne State University, *Hawaii</p>

<p>GPA: 3.2
GRE: 750Q 670V</p>

<p>I just got waitlisted by Hawaii. The professor I was applying to work with is leaving the school, but another professor was nice enough to pick my application up from the trash can and put me on her waitlist.</p>

<p>"SFSU - received financial aid offer... no other news! (2/19) does this mean I'm probably accepted??"</p>

<p>I would think so - congratulations! SF State is awesome. I'd have applied there if I wasn't trying to keep my applications relatively near where my significant other applied to vet school.</p>

<p>Program: Security Studies</p>

<p>GU SSP: waiting
GWU ESIS: waiting</p>

<p>GPA: 3.6
GRE: 540V/490Q/5.5AW (Sat after Xmas and just moved to VA from HI - ouch!)
former military (8 yrs), strong recs, working for gov't - wish me luck!</p>

<p>Ah, I see, so we come back and edit when the results come in?</p>

<p>Program: Sec. Studies / IR</p>

<p>Georgetown SSP: Waiting
Columbia SIPA: Waiting
JHU SAIS: Waiting</p>

<p>GPA: 3.4 (undergrad); 3.0 (J.D.)
750/750/5.5</p>

<p>US State Internship (during JD), 1 work as a business litigator, letters from good sources (boss, prof. who oversaw my JD thesis, prof. of linguistics), some development-based volunteer work.</p>

<p>Good luck, Jata.</p>

<p>Small update...</p>

<p>Program: PhD in Bioengineering</p>

<p>Accepted: Boston Univ, UW-Madison
Interview: MIT, Princeton, UCSD, UWashington
Waiting: Caltech
Rejected: UCB/UCSF</p>

<p>Thanks FishOutofWater! Congrats on Cal! I'm still afraid to jump up and down. I guess I'll wait and see. :|</p>

<p>Thanks, GopherGrad - I think you stand a much better chance of getting into the SSP than I do (those darn GRE scores will be the end of me!!), but hopefully we'll be classmates one day.</p>

<p>Good luck to everyone else!</p>

<p>Looks like I applied to far more programs than others in my field...</p>

<p>Program: International Relations</p>

<p>London School of Economics: Accepted (Political Economy of Late Development)
Georgetown SFS: Waiting
Columbia SIPA: Waiting
JHU SAIS: Waiting
GW Elliott: Waiting
Yale Macmillan: Waiting
Tufts Fletcher: Waiting
University of Chicago CIR: Waiting</p>

<p>GPA: 3.5 Undergrad GPA, 3.9 Major GPA (Political Science)
GPA: 650/770/5.5</p>

<p>Spent one year abroad at Sciences Po in Paris, with all courses in French. Over a year experience in digital book publishing, small stints at New York-based magazine and online international affairs portal (doing editorial work for both). Various international affairs-related internships in college, all editorial/research based.</p>

<p>Best of luck to everyone! I'm very, very anxious to hear!</p>

<p>Ohio State - MS - Mechanical Engineering - accepted 1/15/08 via email
VT - MS - Mechanical Engineering - accepted 1/23/08 via website
CMU - MS - Mechanical Engineering - waiting
**CMU - MS - Robotics - accepted 2/21/08 via phone
JHU - MS - Mechanical Engineering - waiting
UPenn - MS - Robotics - accepted 2/7/08 via website
WPI - MS - Mechanical Engineering - waiting</p>

<p>BuffyAngel299 - For Robotics @ CMU, did you call them or did they call you? If they called you, was it a professor or the graduate office? If you called them, what was the number?</p>

<p>I've applied for the Ph.D program, and have not received any updates.</p>

<p>Undergrad: Bioengineering
PhD Field: Bioengineering (computational/systems biology)</p>

<p>800Q/560V/5.5W, 3.8 GPA (3.9 major), 1 year research experience</p>

<p>Harvard (Systems Biology): Waiting (rejected?)
UCSD: Interview (and accepted)
Washington: Rejected
Stanford: Rejected
Johns Hopkins: Interview (March 14th)</p>

<p>740Q, 650V, 5.5W, BSc 3.3 GPA, BSc (Honours) 4.0 GPA, BA 4.0 GPA
2 years of research experience</p>

<p>Applied: JHU, Albert Einstein, Mount Sinai
Phone Interview: Mount Sinai
Still Waiting: JHU, Albert Einstein</p>