timeless90

hahahaha omg it definitely is a troll, no doubt!!

the thing is UCSD seems to have released rejections before acceptances...notification nonetheless tho!

I think this is an indication that there really isn't a safety school in the world of Phd admissions... Rate seems eerily similar across different groups of school that are presumed to be in different ranking bracket. Emphasizes the point that schools look for different qualities in its pool and hence 'fit' can really determine admissions outcome.

Troll maybe??? If they have not met...I guess it is not possible to admit someone...

Congrats everyone! To those admitted to Madison, were you guys notified through an official email, or an informal message from your POI?

Okay it was three years back. 2011

Stanford seems possible... A few years ago they notified people quite early. U never know..

wisconsin soon???

have to love insider info! Assuming it is true, do you think those will be sent through snail mail, or mass email over the weekend? How were you contacted last year?

I dont think Chicago interviews, but I also do think that decision from them should be coming soon!

oh, what do you say makes things different for MIT this year??

this early???

Congrats!! I'm sure your application package on the whole is great, but among others, I think the adcoms really loved your 4.0 GPA!

Hit the nail on the head! We do get different versions of 1. greatest number of applicants 2. most competitive year 3. strongest application pool 4. Xtremely competitive The point is. If you are good and they like you, you will get picked, regardless of whether there are 100, 500 or 1000 applicants (and vice versa) I wouldnt be too concerned about the nature of competition as phrased by the schools... After all, it is one of their marketing strategies.

what do you mean?? They are not sending out their decision via email?? BTW having gone through their application page, wholeheartedly agree with the irony.

their site says early Feb... so im guessing before feb 10th

haha yea, gave it a shot !

thanks for the info, and wow! it only takes 10 days to make the final decision??

An unsolicited opinion here, but my take is that if there is a group of 400 applicants, the truly competitive ones should not exceed 100. There will be people with GPAs and GREs distinctively low, so they will be eliminated. International applicants with poor English proficiency, they will be cut. And I suspect many if not most people aren't able to write quality SOP's, which is understandable because there isn't any official format/guideline for the document. But this doesn't mean that "no good" SOP's are not apparent to the readers. Undergrad schools wont make or break the deal from what I gather, but I assume the hyps applicants will receive a degree of "bonus points." So my point is, after eliminating people using the criteria you've pointed out in isolation or in combination, the ones the adcoms will truly pay attention to probably would not exceed 100.

Agree. Yale actually notes in its website that it offers admissions to double the number of the entering class. They also seem to follow the pick 40 enroll 20 trend. But Yale gets 600+ applicants. I wonder what attracts more applicants to Yale vis-a-vis HSP (for that matter Princeton gets around 500, and Harvard below 500). Per the yield game, I do not have access to any data, but it is my impression that Harvard leads the hyps pack. In one of the recent years they accepted 29 but their class size from what I know is 25 ish. Anyway, this is what i gathered from browsing the gradcafe but hope anyone with additional info can correct me if I am wrong.

Ok, things are really progressing quickly now ! At this rate, Stanford may be delivering the first batch of admissions in the first week of February. I doubt cutting down from 80 to 30-40 would take 2+ weeks

From what I know, princeton selects 40ish with a target class size of ~20. thats approximately 50% The only question is, if the preference among applicants (or the accepted people, for that matter) is roughly on par across stanford and princeton...haha

thanks for the info. When you say next week, are you referring to the final week of january???

Do you think stanford's yield will be that high??

definitely trolls out there. Is it really common to see them in the results page?