[Is breaking the silence worth it only for bad news]

Hello I'm sorry but I barely get notifications on here! 

 

I recently submitted for Biologically Oceanography but my application was very recent so I am being whimsical about getting in. 

I know my POI did not have funding as of last August to take on anyone new so I decided to apply anyway to see if anyone else in URI wanted me. 

 

What an emiterus professor told me last summer that URI is highly picky on great GPAs and high GREs. They love great academic scores in that department. I hope this helps in giving some insight. Have you heard of any one being denied admission yet? 

 

Best of lucK!

Yeah, the nodification doesn't work! Well, I thought their requirement for GPA is not critical cuz they don't set a limit...

Last winter a professor also told me it depended on funding and he wouldn't know that until probably early spring. I guess they haven't sent rejection letters. However, hope we can find out in a few weeks, not a few months. Good Luck!

[Is breaking the silence worth it only for bad news]

Also.. the hard sciences take longer to admit students. The official deadline of all grad application decisions is supposed to be early-mid April.

Hi, do you have news about U of Rhode Island? The admission advisor in Oceanography doesn't reply to emails. It has been four months since I submitted my application.

[Is breaking the silence worth it only for bad news]

Yeah I'm trying to stay on the optimistic side of silence - its not a no. But I can't help but feel if it were a yes I'd hear something by now. Maybe I'm a second pick and have to wait for first choices to accept or reject?

My POI didn't reply to me until I emailed him for the third time. And I learned that I was only his second choice...........

[Oceanography/Marine sciences]

I applied to Oceanography program, too. But I have received no information yet. It seems like some have made their initial offers.

[Regrets?]

I should have applied to two or three more PhD programs. Not only five!

[2013 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

Does anyone apply to oceanography program in U of Rohde Island or hear from them? They're too quiet!!

[does anyone feel like they are putting their lives on hold?]

Yes, I didn't want to write my graduation thesis which is due to be completed by Mar. 20. I'm getting crazy about the waiting game. There is still no news. I even hope that there is no weekends, so they can send their offers quickly!

[University said my acceptance letter was an error]

Just for this reason ($200), I didn't apply to university of south florida. It seems that only this university requires it.