engimo
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Just accepted my offer at UT, I'm really excited to get started there.
Likewise. I've started looking for housing and thinking about moving down there.
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Hi everybody. I'll be joining PSU in Fall 09. I faxed my acceptance recently as well. My friend at PSU tells me grad housing is not an option apparently. I was really hoping to stay on campus and am quite disappointed about this scene. Does anyone have any info about on campus housing?
I have no idea why you would want to stay on campus. It's horrendously expensive and the conditions are not very good. If you're willing to walk a few blocks or take a bus, you can find a much better, cheaper place off-campus.
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If you're looking for culture, Stony Brook is not the place to be. It is very much a commuter school, so about half the students leave on the weekend, and there is no real "college town" around it. You can take the train into NYC, if you'd like, but that gets expensive and is a bit of a hassle.
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I've been accepted to UT Austin, but I don't know if I am going there yet. They're paying me to come visit, however, so I'll see how I like it when I visit.
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How were you notified by Penn State of your admission? Thanks.
I got an email and a subsequent phone call from the graduate admissions director.
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Yo. One of my friends was accepted first-round via e-mail by Berkeley, Stanford, Chicago, Princeton, and Harvard. Harvard's notice came around Feb. 6th to 9th, all of the other ones were between Jan. 28 and Feb. 2nd. I also heard through the grapevine that MIT and Columbia have sent out their first-round acceptances.
Finally, another friend of mine on the west coast got a paper rejection letter from Harvard on Thursday, Feb. 12.
I was accepted by Berkeley on Jan. 28th via e-mail. Stanford sent an e-mail to me on Feb. 12th saying that they would have all decisions finalized and all applicants notified of their status via e-mail by Feb. 28th. Other than that, I have heard absolutely nothing from any of the programs I applied to.
Hope this helps.
Well, I haven't heard anything from anywhere (except Penn. State), and I've applied to a couple of those schools mentioned (including Berkeley, you bastard
). I'm assuming this means that I'm not a 1st round pick for anywhere, which is a little depressing. At least I haven't got any outright rejections, though. -
I applied to a bunch of top schools, and I haven't heard anything from any of them. The only school I have heard from is Penn. State, which accepted me.
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Does it bother anyone to be in a school's 'second string'? I know I'd just be happy to get in, but I couldn't help being a little jealous or wondering what they had that I didn't
It's like being the backup girlfriend...Yeah, that's a sore spot, I guess. It's better than not getting in at all, though, isn't it?
Plus, considering where I applied, being a second-tier acceptance would still be pretty great.
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Not getting anything at this point doesn't necessarily mean you're out. I talked with the graduate chair at my school about this a few days ago. He said (at least here) the first round is obvious admits that are going to get in lots of places, and they only expect maybe one out of ten to actually enroll. I'd imagine responding earlier to these types of top applicants makes them more likely to enroll. Once they start to get idea of how many of those people are going to enroll, then they work their way down the list. He also mentioned that occasionally smaller private schools can be more sporadic in their acceptances, because instead of having a graduate chair/committee focusing on admissions, they'll just give your application to professors in your preferred research area. Chicago might be out of the picture (I think they generally get most of their admissions done in one wave), but I'd still hold out hope for Berkeley and Cornell.
Ahh. That makes me feel a little better, but it doesn't make waiting around suck any less.
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People have been accepted into UChicago, Berkeley, and Cornell, starting last Friday. Where's my letter?
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Yes, but I know that I will get into at least one school with funding. I'd rather go somewhere more prestigious, but it's definitely a good "safety school".
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Seriously. If someone isn't enthusiastic about writing a letter of recommendation then you probably don't want them writing it for you. I've talked to people who have agreed to write letters for people that they don't really want to write them for, and they've said that it is much more difficult to write a quality letter for that sort of person.
Plus, how exactly would you enforce that? A professor could just say that they didn't want to write you a letter, and then they would have no obligation to write it.
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I applied to 12 schools, but with the exception of the one I am guaranteed to get into, they are all top 20 (most top 10) schools.
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Jeez. This make me feel young, for sure. I'm the only one less than 21 that is applying so far.
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My friend is a grad student there and she lives in Turtle Creek: http://www.toftreesapartments.com/. They have pretty nice two bedroom places and they are on a bus line that runs right to campus (and to a grocery). Her roommate has a bike and she bikes to campus, even during the colder months, so it is definitely doable to live there and not have much use for a car. There are also no undergrads there, and it's in the middle of a resort, so it's a nice place to live.