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Received rejection from U Washington Atmospheric Sci as well as post-interview acceptance to Stanford ESS this week. Also, informal rejection from Columbia EES/LDEO after reaching out to POI. He said he will not be taking new students this year because the department can only accept a limited total number of students each year and they decided to let younger faculty who are growing their labs have priority in recruiting students. 
I'm happy to have 5 programs to choose from!

He made it sound like on Friday. But he also said it could be earlier. Could be later. He said it depends on when they're notified or something. Given the previous post which said that all of the decisions were already made (which makes sense), it doesn't make sense to me why they don't know the exact date.
Btw, he mentioned that they have received several hundred calls over the past few days. I mentioned the application dates, but he didn't give me any info (also remember @Physicsisphysicsasked before and they said they were meaningless). 

Until the fellowships are actually announced, I can comfort myself with the knowledge that I'm the only one on this forum who applied under Geosciences or under the ERDC BAA, so maybe whoever is evaluating my application is just very late compared to the other subjects/BAAs. (almost certainly wishful thinking, but whatever...)

Secretly this is just some bored employee at Sysplus changing dates to watch us all freak out!

just made an accnt to add a data point. I applied under bioengineering to the ARO. Up until today my last application update was 02/28. However, I checked my account this morning and now it says the last update was on 04/03. Hopefully we find out soon.

I'm in Geosciences, applying under the Army Corps of Engineers BAA. My application last updated 12/06/20.

An alternative hypothesis would be that there is a Boolean value initially set to 1, meaning the applicant is "in the running," and it changes to 0 whenever the applicant is eliminated.
But I agree that trying to interpret the dates is not very productive, however tempting it is to grasp at the little information we have.

Oh yeah good luck to you all!! Hopefully everyone at minimum gets a fair evaluation and not like some of those shitshows I've read here or on reddit

I've been accepted to an MS at Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD at UCLA, both with a focus on water resources. No word on funding yet, but when I visited Wisconsin last week the professor said they would notify me about funding in a few weeks. My background is in Earth Sciences and I also applied to several grad programs in that field.

Hey alabama23, I don't know anything about waitlists but I do have a question for you. Do have any knowledge of when Columbia Earth and Environmental Sciences will start to release admissions decisions this year? From previous years on the results survey it has been throughout February, but I'm wondering if you have more specific info since you go there.

Hey alabama23, I don't know anything about waitlists but I do have a question for you. Do have any knowledge of when Columbia Earth and Environmental Sciences will start to release admissions decisions this year? From previous years on the results survey it has been throughout February, but I'm wondering if you have more specific info since you go there.