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Dwar

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  1. Express your continued interest in the program. If it is your first choice, like if you’d accept their offer of admissions should they make one, let them know. Schools would be more likely to accept you off the wait-list if they think you’re a sure thing.
  2. 100% agree. I'd also like to add that there is no such thing as a "sure thing" or "safety" in this field for PhD programs. All grad admissions is a massive cluster f*ck and makes absolutely no sense. Sure if someone has good scores then they are more likely to get in, but at the end of the day i'd say no one ever has more then a 50% chance to get in anywhere. So it does kinda make sense when people apply to a lot of programs in an attempt to game the odds.
  3. I think it's sort of the chicken or the egg. People apply to 20+ schools because they are afraid they wont get in anywhere, because of that schools decrease admissions rates thus prompting people to apply to 20+ schools to increase their odds and so on and so forth.
  4. I feel like admissions just gets harder and harder each year
  5. Just wanted to share this Northwestern Stats page with ya'll. It shows that in 2019 they received 318 applications and admitted 27 students for an acceptance rate of 10%. From that year they had a yield of 45% with 11 students accepting their offer. This isn't meant to discourage anyone, just provide more info into the northwestern application/admissions process.
  6. I wouldn't be too concerned. It seems that they are sending out personalized emails to students.
  7. Not me , but a close friend of mine was notified a few hours ago. It seems that POI are letting people know
  8. I think generally the C stands for Cal Berkeley
  9. Random question which has absolutely no bearing on myself: Is there an internal ranking to CHYMPS? Like are HYP better then the public's and Stanford? or at that point are they pretty much the same and its just personal preference/fit?
  10. thats wack. Glad to see that you have another funded offer though!
  11. I'm still waiting for them. I doubt there will be another round, unfortunately. It seems that in the past they've sent out their acceptances and wait-lists in the beginning of Feb, and then sent out rejections to everyone else toward the end of the month. I did email the grad assistant last Monday who said "The decisions are being made now so I think that you will hear in the near future". That leads me to believe that all decisions are made and they are simply waiting to send out rejections.
  12. Na, alot of schools won't actually reject most people until they have a committed class. They'll keep people on an "unoffical" wait list until they get enough commitments and then reject everyone who they haven't told. This happens pretty often with schools that fall into this weird sweet spot that Northwestern does. Its high enough where it has alot of applicants and can pick the cream of the crop, but at the same time it knows that it is often used as a "safety" or "backup" for CHYMPS applicants. So it'll try and protect its yield by not rejecting qualified applicants until they have a committed class. It makes sense if you think about it from the schools POV, but it sucks for applicants.
  13. Don't know about Michigan, but i know that UConn isn't really active on this forum, like in 2018 no one reported anything. So one acceptance/post isn't that rare or out of the ordinary.
  14. Is it common for schools to not offer funding info right away?
  15. It seems in the past they've sent out acceptances in early Feb, and sent out rejections following their March schedule.
  16. I don’t think anyone claimed it, so it’s probably spam.
  17. I like your post on the results page. I like to imagine that you're an old British lord screaming "good god" at their computer.
  18. sameeeeeeeeeee BUT, TBH i have always thought the late feb decision was a bit weird, so maybe they are finally getting with the times? Also, it looks like their website is the same setup as CU so i'm thinking if they did send initial ones out then they'd be out in all one wave, not individualized ones.
  19. Cooooooool. so then there is still hope for me! Thanks! and congrats!!
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