Official Graduate School Acceptance/Denial/Waitlist thread

Graduate School
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<p>Hey everyone...</p>

<p>I just noticed the lack of an official acceptance/deinal/waitlist/etc. thread on our forum and decided to get one going so we know where our peers on CC stand!</p>

<p>Some other places you might want to post your results are...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.thegradcafe.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.thegradcafe.com&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.yuster.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.yuster.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>As for myself...</p>

<p>I've been accepted to Wisconsin - Madison (Geology PhD) as my #1 choice and am still waiting to hear from 4 schools... :D</p>

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<p>I have a long list. Cell biology PhD.</p>

<p>UC Berkeley -- Interview (currently in Berkeley interviewing; apparently ~90% of interviewees are accepted)
BU -- Offered interview but turned it down
Caltech -- Offered interview but turned it down
Harvard -- Accepted (yay!)
Michigan -- Offered interview but turned it down
MIT -- Accepted
Stanford -- Interview (interview starts Wednesday)
UCLA -- Accepted
UCSF -- Interview (interview was 2/3, haven't heard back, probably not a good sign)</p>

<p>I am super-sick of interviews, let me tell you what. Thank heavens the Berkeley hotel has high-speed internet.</p>

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<p>Mollie, congratulations! It seems that you were accepted to all of your destinations. Are you currently an undergraduate?</p>

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<p>mollie,</p>

<p>Are the interviews rigorous? I imagine they are not your typical "school x undergraduate admissions interview."</p>

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<p>Yup, I'm trying to juggle all these interviews and pass my second-semester classes at the same time. I really envy the people who took a year off and don't have a week of midterms to return to!</p>

<p>I'm not sure how rigorous the interviews are... certainly they're very tiring, and very different from undergrad interviews. It seems that a lot of the programs look at them as a recruitment weekend, rather than a mechanism to weed out large numbers of students, so each weekend has lots of free food and faculty research talks and student parties. I've interviewed with four or five professors at each school, and I've actually found it pretty enjoyable -- it's really just sitting around talking about our research, and not nerve-wracking at all.</p>

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<p>Whelps...I got my first rejection...University of Minnesota - Twin Cities</p>

<p>I'm not too surprised since my potential advisor there was only taking one student this year and she wrote a not so encouraging email to my current advisor about 4 months ago.</p>

<p>Well still got into my number 1 choice :D</p>

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<p>Applied for my master's in IR:</p>

<p>London School of Economics- accepted
UCSD IR/PS- accepted
Harvard Kennedy- waiting
Columbia SIPA- waiting
Johns Hopkins SAIS- waiting
NYU- waiting</p>

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<p>I'm an aspiring CS PhD applicant still awaiting responses from these schools:
UC-Davis
UC-Irvine
UC-San Diego</p>

<p>Rejects: Stanford
Admits: None</p>

<p>I'm starting to get a little anxious as I have no admits yet. I noticed that on yuster's notification timeline that UC-San Diego has already sent out notices
<a href="http://www.yuster.com/school/get_program_timeline/379%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yuster.com/school/get_program_timeline/379&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Have you guys heard back from these schools?</p>

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<p>I've heard from UCSD IR/PS.</p>

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<p>Bump:</p>

<p>Not accepted, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) - Communications (Media studies)</p>

<p>GRE V: 690
GRE Q: 730
Grad GPA 4.0</p>

<p>Don't ask, I have no idea.</p>

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<p>Update-</p>

<p>London School of Economics- accepted
UCSD IR/PS- accepted
Harvard Kennedy- waiting
Columbia SIPA- BALEETED! (denied)
Johns Hopkins SAIS- waiting
NYU- waiting</p>

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<p>UCLAri - what program did you apply to at NYU?</p>

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<p>Cornell - Accepted - Science and Technology Studies</p>

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<p>aca0260,</p>

<p>MA in poli sci.</p>

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<p>Accepted to Kansas Geology PhD...already decided on Wisconsin though</p>

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<p>Accepted to NYU Steinhardt's M.A. Music Business program.</p>

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<p>Biostatistics (Computational biology) - PhD</p>

<p>Stanford - denied (theoretical school, don't mind)
UCLA - accepted
UC Berkeley - accepted
Harvard - denied (bummer)
Iowa State University (stats) - accepted
University of Washington - accepted</p>

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<p>Mechanical Engineering Masters</p>

<p>University of Florida-Accepted to PH.D program
Columbia- Denied MS/PH.D, got accepted to masters
Virginia Tech- accepted to masters
U of Washington- Accepted to masters</p>

<p>Berkeley- Denied
Case Western-Denied</p>

<p>UVA-Waiting
UC Davis- Waiting</p>

<p>I plan on going to Columbia, and reapply to ph.d in a year</p>

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<p>Mollie,</p>

<p>Why did you apply to so many schools? It seems that one would just want to decide on 1 or 2 professors whose labs one would want to work in, and then go ahead and apply to those schools. After being accepted by over 5 grad schools, you still have to decide which one actually interests you, no?</p>

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<p>San Francisco State University, 3.8 GPA, 650 GMAT SCORE</p>

<p>Business Administration</p>

<p>4 years office job</p>

<p>3 years of entry-level finance-related job</p>

<p>WHAT ARE MY CHANCES FOR STERN(nyu), HAAS(berkeley), ANDERSON(ucla)?</p>