goldsoundz

I am angry right now. If it is all about the freaking scores then they should just say you need to have 95th percentile and 5.5-6 AWA. What’s the point of making a student write those Statements? Just take the scare and decide a fit! I have a super strong profile but a weak GRE and that decides my fate for each of these ‘great’ schools. The system is a failure. And then they conveniently say ‘sorry’ that we didn’t recognise talent. In a recent interview Harvard apologised to Jack Ma for being rejected 13 times. Why? Low scores. Wow am not sad I got rejected. Am happy. The school that recognised the hard work and research would be the right fit. Not one that decides a students caliber based on freaking scores. Not everyone is great at tests but can be great at writing. I have 11 publications, USAID grants, conferences, editorial experience, research experience...all that was just rendered useless in front of the scores. Great!

@crushinator I too would like to hear more..I found it offputting that the graduate school sent this email out without even writing 'congratulations' anywhere in the email, and that the department still hasn't contacted people yet (or at least not systematically). This on top of the funding issue doesn't exactly inspire confidence about the program, in my opinion. 

I didn't post on the results board but I'm another Berkeley acceptance. I don't think folks should be worried just yet because I received a call at 430 PT on Fri from the chair of the admissions committee, so I imagine more will be rolling in over the next week...which will also hopefully be the case with Stanford...