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At the risk of pointing out the obvious, you might wish to consider speaking with other students in your class.

You know, I really hope that everything works out for you, eponine997. In my humble opinion, admission committees have erred in not eagerly accepting you. I will continue to hold out hope that a particular school comes around in their thinking.

Thanks! And the same to you!

I have officially accepted my offer from Penn State. I very much look forward to starting my studies at State College.

I just turned down funded offers at FSU, Illinois, and Iowa. I do hope that this provides some opportunity to those waitlisted.

I just turned down a funded offer from MSU (CP). I hope that this helps someone.

If anyone still waits on news from Rutgers, I would suggest calling the department. While my application checker still says 'No Decision,' I have been denied. And this finally brings an end to my application season. For those of you still waiting to hear good new, keep the hope. Time still remains. I wish everyone the best of luck over these next 11 days. :-)

Well, that does complicate things a bit. Still, I would tend to follow the money in this case. After all, you might find that your interests shift a bit after matriculating somewhere. If this happens, I would think it better to go to the school where you will not have to compete for funding immediately. You really do not need the extra pressure. As for taking a while to think things over, I am sympathetic. I am doing just that myself.

Well, I will be darned. So far as I understood it, they had yet to announce all their acceptances. Perhaps they have a bunch of students on an informal waitlist and expect to notify those individuals shortly. They might have a pretty good idea of what their yield will be after the admitted students day . . .

I actually think that you have an easy choice. From what I have heard from faculty, I do not think that it will matter if you get all your degrees from the same place. (Though the faculty might treat you a bit differently - as they will have known you first as an undegrad.) In addition, so far as I understand, UCSB does not have that much of a better reputation than UCR. The latest US News World and Report rankings supports this. According to it, Santa Barbara is ranked 50th, while Riverside is ranked 54th. In general, I think that rankings after the first 30 or so get a little fuzzy. So there is no compelling reason to think that attending Santa Barbara might improve your job prospects. Given that, I would go with the better funding offer - assuming, of course, that each school is an equally good fit for your research interests.

For those of you still waiting on news from Rutgers, I have heard that everyone will be notified by the end of next week. From what I recall, some of you might be interested to know that.

I PMed you.

I am using Woolrdidge now. While the appendices can be intimidating, I think that the book treats the subject matter well. That said, I found that my understanding of the material increased dramatically when I began reading A Guide to Econometrics by Kennedy. But that might just be me.

The Wonnacott and Wonnacott text is pretty great, I think. I read it in conjunction with Statistics by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves. Taken together, I thought that they provided an excellent foundation of basic statistics and probability theory.

I will certainly take methods as a field - perhaps as my primary one. So, I need constant practice. It was very nice meeting you too, RR! Do you know what book they are sending you?

Math. Lots of math.

Best of luck to everyone in the week ahead! May all the breaks fall your way.

Yes, congratulations to the new admits!

Congrats to ASU, Penn, UBC, and UCSC. I am particularly jealous of the UBC admit - few places possess as much beauty as British Columbia. Also, I am in at MSU. Always suprised by the late-night emails . . .

I got the same email and responded with honesty. We'll see where it gets me. :-)

Ditto. Though one of my letter writers contacted people at most of my schools.

I can confirm that she did not answer. :-) Frankly, I could see the other scenario happening as well. I cannot help but feel great empathy for these secretaries. Who would want to deal with the likes of us every season? ;-)

I tried calling Cornell to see if those who have not hear should assume that they have been rejected. Their graduate secretary did not answer. Maybe they are busy preparing more acceptances? :-)

Congrats to all those who have received news recently - particularly to the Stanford and Cornell admits! A question to you all: If we have not heard from Cornell, we can assume that we have been rejected, right? It seems that, historically, they admit everyone on the same day . . .

May all those rejected by MIT shortly receive good news elsewhere.