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Your friend received 10 offers ?! Can I ask from what schools ? Most of us are lucky to even get one funded offer let alone 10

So it's officially March which is the last month to receive offers from schools (although offers do appear in April but it's rarer). Has anyone who applied before got an offer in March, April or even May? I actually got one offer in March and one in May but they were both unfunded offers. This year I got one offer from Iowa State and haven't OFFICIALLY heard back from any other schools.

The next round of decisions usually go out in March and they are dependent on who accepts offers

Also yea most of the acceptances seem to be in late February and March. University of Houston doesn't send anything out until March and Texas Tech was supposed to get back to me in mid February and we're in late now. Anyone have anymore info on any of these schools ? I have one visit lined up already so I'd like to have a better picture on what schools I'm going to visit. Oklahoma is suppose to get back to me in the next couple of days also

For the people who got invited, who were your POIs and how were you notified? I'm guessing since I didn't get an invite I didn't make the first cut meanings spots will be available now based on who accepts or declines offers

SMU (masters), UT Austin (PhD), Rice (PhD), university of Houston (PhD), Iowa State (PhD) also got an interview and visit invite, Oklahoma state (masters) and Texas tech (Masters). All for geology

Have you heard anything from UT Austin?

Did anyone apply and hear back from SMU this cycle ? If you applied last year when did you hear back? My advisor contacted me in mid January saying it'll take a couple a weeks to get everything sorted out. I'm kinda nervous because it's been about a month now.

Yea I would I asked one of my advisors why he didn't choose me and he even said you can call me to discuss it.

I'm generally interested in earth history so I contacted 10 advisors in that field. Two of th m expressed interest in working with me so they are going to try to get me in with a TA position. Now last year I only applied with one person And hE did the same thing but I obviously didn't gain admissions. My understanding is that you can apply to work with as many people as you want

Question what if you've taken the GRE three times and had no improvement in your scores ? What would be the best way to get into a school like UT Austin ?

That was an acceptance ? My rejection last year came around late March

Do you know if anyone else heard anything from UT ? I know the ones that got admitted were fellowship winners

Preach

So my POI from Iowa state called me yesterday saying that they would like to invite me to an on campus interview where they'll pay my travel expenses. Is anyone familiar with the geology program at Iowa State ? I know from looking at past posts concerning campus interviews that if the school pays for them then most likely it's an acceptance unless you screw up the interview. I applied for my PhD which would be fully funded.

The only ones who have been admitted so far are fellowship winners. 10 out of 700 I think one of my pois stated. The rest are coming in February and rejections in late march.

Yea I mean it's right in the middle of Houston where all the oil companies are. They admit without funding right?

Very true good point

Wow even UH got a lot

My advisors told me

That's great ! Last year I only got into two schools but they were both unfunded so I couldn't take the offers. Hopefully it will be different this time around

Oh don't you just love that ?! I applied to UH this year as well. I'm just waiting for all these schools to get back to me saying, sorry we told you to apply but we got nothing for you. One of the professors from UT I applied to work with said that he can discuss why I didn't make his list over the phone today so this should be interesting

Who did you guys apply to work with and did they have funding ? I applied to work with about 11 professors and 5 already got back saying they can't take students because of funding or they just aren't looking for students at all.

Those are last years results. This year I applied to both MS and PhD programs. I reapplied to UT Austin and Rice as well as 5 other schools

That's easier if you're already a grad student isn't it ?