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Guys, rejection here... Well I almost anticipated this so it didn't hurt that much. Hope you all have a good result!

It is. I'm gonna assume it's a rejection and prepare accordingly. Rely on their decision is just not doable.

Yeah that's a tough decision. I would say if it's a MS offer then you will probably be fine because the scholarship they provide is not significant most of the time, and many students are doing same things. If it's a PhD offer then I think you might want to be more careful. Try to find some connections with former students and see what they say. But congrats! You have PhD offer! Much better than me..

Another week! No updates here too!

Thank you for your kind words. It is a difficult time and I'm not a upbeating person. I really apologize for being a downer again. Let's hope together that we will have a good result!

I think all schools will sort the applicants and review them in a certain order. Basically, the better you are, the earlier you get the decision. I know some dude with straight 4.0 GPA and extremely powerful research experience (might even better than some faculties) got their offer in like the first week of January. The fact that I'm still waiting here is just a side proof that my profile is not impressive at all. It doesn't even worth that 30 seconds that might take them to write up that generic rejection.

Just received rejection from another school's PhD program. I suspect my chance here at Berkeley is also close to zero. Very likely I will end up accepting MS offer at UPenn.

Hi! Thank you for creating this thread. As I mentioned before, who said the end of March is defined as Mar. 31 ?? For administrators, it could be Mar 46th, Mar 61st or Mar random(). Similarly, "the end of this week" also doesn't necessarily mean Friday, it could be enum{Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday}. By the way, since it's Easter this weekend, I suspect they are just not working today. Sorry! Please wait another week!