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Some schools will make their decisions all at once, and everybody gets told accepted, rejected, or waitlisted. That's an official waitlist. Other schools do rolling admissions, so your application is "under consideration" until you get accepted or the class fills up. So it's like you're on a waitlist, except you don't formally get told you're on one, and statistically speaking your odds probably aren't as good as in the other situation (since there's not a pool of rejectees you know you're above). That's what I'd consider an "unofficial waitlist".

I believe the resolution only says they can't force you to make a decision before April 15th. There's nothing that says they can't give you more time, or that they can't accept people past April 15th.

You should've set the time back on your computer a few hours, and sent an e-mail accepting their offer. It might not work, but it would be amazing if it did.

Can we count waitlists as half an acceptance and round up if necessary? :mrgreen:

Hey now, it's not my fault MIT groups what I do with applied math.

You probably won't be able to increase the size of the named fellowship, but it would be possible to ask the department if they would be willing to put some money on top of that. Apparently that's what Rutgers does to try and attract PhD candidates (at least in a few fields).

Nope, they just don't wants schools to be able to factor the scholarship into their admissions process.

There's not much of a difference. -40 Fahrenheit is the same as -40 Celsius.

All I know for sure is that Stanford's open house weekend for math is March 6-7th (mentioned in the e-mail from Berkeley, since the schools go halfsies on travel costs if you get in to both). I think my friend said last year he got accepted to a program only a week before the visitation weekend, so it's at least possible you're on the edge of acceptance/waitlist, and they're still trying to decide. I wouldn't write them off completely, just keep in the mind the odds of something good happening at this point aren't that great.

Haha, great username. http://math.arizona.edu/~savitt/GTM.html See if you truly live up to it.

Michigan hasn't had classes canceled for weather in about 30 years, and I don't think they've ever canceled classes just because it was "too cold". At least for me, below 0 just means it's time to put on long underwear, and add a layer between t-shirt and winter jacket. You'd need to hit 30-40 below before the University would even think about shutting down for the day.

Even if you're not interested in attending the school anymore, use it as a networking opportunity.

I think every school I'm looking into has either mentioned summer funding in their acceptance e-mail or on their website. They can't guarantee anything this far ahead, but either they'll mention how likely it is that you'll be able to get it or you can ask a graduate student when you visit.

I'd just reply back with an e-mail mentioning the April 15th resolution (ie, they can't force you to decide before then). Except you'll want to phrase it in the context of "because of this resolution (and the associated timeline most schools take), I'm still waiting to receive information from other schools I am highly considering, and will need additional time before I can make a final decision". If you just mention the April 15th resolution by itself, it'll come off as you saying "what the hell are you trying to pull here?"

Correction: Eureka's Castle. I tried to make a list of all the cartoons I watched as a kid once. I came up with around 40, and have randomly been remembering ones I've forgotten about since then.

Yeah, it means nothing. I think this year moreso than most, schools want as many admits as possible to have outside funding to help cover their budget cutbacks.

My point was that it's not labeled on the map like most Universities are.

All I can tell you from google maps is that there's an airport and two golf courses, but apparently no University of Montana .

Informally accepted on January 28th, was told I should have already received the official letter on February 9th when I got financial info e-mail, generic e-mail from the graduate school on February 12th saying it would be mailed the next day, currently still waiting...

My only problem with them waiting so long is that getting an NSF fellowship can potentially change somebody's decision, and it really prevents those people from making a final decision and opening up a spot for somebody else until about 2 weeks before the April 15th deadline. If you're on the fence between a school with a generous financial offer and a better school where you'd just barely be scraping by as a TA, getting an NSF fellowship would really tip the scale.

Pssh, yeah, what holiday? I've got the longest day ever tomorrow.

igel - I'm guessing the Graduate School Fellowship? (http://www.grad.umn.edu/fellowships/inc ... index.html) I got nominated for that, too, but I don't know what kind of offer I'd get for after that yet.

Most schools are a lot faster to accept people than they are to reject them. Also, I'm not sure those schools really need to have second or third tiers. I know MIT pretty much accepts who they want in one go, and they keep a handful of people on the waitlist just in case.

It seems like everybody here is saying Uptown, but from what I can gather I don't think that would be the right area for me. I care a lot more about being close to campus than I do about being close to the city. I'd probably go to Mariucci for hockey games more often than I'd go downtown. Even though public transportation is good, I would have my own car, and it seems like parking would be kind of expensive in Uptown. Being near a bus line would be convenient, but I'd much rather be able to walk to campus instead of having to rely on the bus (born and raised in Michigan, don't give me crap about "but it's cold"). I know drunk undergrads are annoying, but in my experience it's only a problem on weekends and becomes less of a problem the further you get from campus (and I imagine said drunk undergrads have already signed leases for the places near campus for next year). Given all of that...what can people tell me about studios/efficiencies in the areas surrounding campus? I'm not visiting for another two weeks, but it'd be nice to know which areas to focus on ahead of time.

You can still get teaching experience with a fellowship, it's just not forced on you every semester. It's definitely a better situation.