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Congrats to the Berkeley and Cornell admitted! I see the results are slowly flowing in.

Congrats! Not bad, four acceptances!!

Please post something here if you do in fact hear back from UVA. I am with you on this one. Do you mind telling me what your sub-field is? I am guessing it could be different according to sub-field, but I could always be wrong.

oh my UCSD also started notifying as well. Congrats to the one who got admitted.

It seems like NYU results are out as well. Congrats to one who got accepted!

Congrats BruBru! I sure hope my safety schools contact me in the near future.

Someone got into SUNY Buffalo! Congrats and mind sharing some detail with the rest of us?

Thanks for the info. Come to think of it, it was around this time last year Duke sent out its decisions. Might I ask where you got this information?

Haha! nice one. I guess the P's will come pretty soon.

quiet...

Hey plisar, congrats!! Can I ask you a quick question: What is your sub-field? Please excuse me if you've already posted this earlier. I am just curious if certain fields are notifying unofficially at this stage. Thanks!

Hey adaptations, just a few questions about our University of Washington mail. Which sub-field are you in? Do they normally notify individually or did you have particular contact with this professor?

Goddamit!! Another day of no news, even from scools that everyone else seems to have heard from. Frustrating, frustrating, frustrating...

Ah! Another UVA foxhole buddy!

Well I do believe I have seen some rejections on this thread and also on the results page as well. My approach would be: be pessimistic but not give up hope.

I hear you buddy, mine still states "PENDING" as well. My assumption is that UVA has two rounds, but I could be wrong and they are just being lazy posting the results up on the board.

An awefully quiet Tuesday morning. Worrying...

All quiet on the Duke, UVA and Northwestern front for me. Not a good sign at all.

I don't know if this applies to all the admissions committees. But, my prof told me that scores were not generally considered important in making the key decisions. According to this prof, GRE, and to a certain extent, GPA scores were more utilized at the initial stages in drawing cut-off points. I am assuming that the higher ranked schools will have higher cut-off lines in comparison to some lower ranked schools. Furthermore, scores are viewed more in reflection to how one has does academically this far in his academic career. If your GRE scores are within a satisfactory range (650-750), then this shouldn't be a disadvantage however nothing of particular advantage either. In short, scores cannot be considered THE determining factor to ones admission. If the profs claim has validity, SOPs, LORs and writing samples are much more critical in assessing an applicant's potential for the PhD program. Thus, the important questions would be: What does this candidate want to study? Is there a good fit with the faculty? Can the proposed study topic be accomplised within the given amount of time? Then again, admissions into the PhD program is a crapshoot and a lot of factors need to be considered very randomly. Hope my point is of any help.

Oh dear! In fact, didn't Duke send out their notifications on the 12th, which happened to be a Tuesday as well? Now you've started my Tuesday full of worries, just like all the other days.

Brandeis admits roughly 5 students each year. I don't know if there is slight variation annually but that is what is stated on their website. I applied there myself this year as well. I e-mailed the DGS but have not heard back anything from him.

Thanks for the great info.

Congrats buddy!! I bet you'll be able to sleep a lot better now and enjoy the rest of February!

Didn't they notify sometime mid-Feb last year?

For me, no news from UVA, Duke and Northwestern. I'm curious as to what the admissions committee found so disturbing in my file as to not issue either an admittance or a rejection. Well from the results page it seems Penn State and Pittsburgh have started their notifications as well. Congrats to those who were admitted.