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Does anyone have news on the MS in Applied Physics at Stanford? Thanks. (It seemed a bit silly to make a new topic.)

Stanford Applied Physics has admitted a bunch of applicants around February 15. I saw some rejections since then, all of them had to inquire first. From that day on, I held my breath. Now I couldn't handle the wait anymore. I've contacted them too, so I'm waiting for the reject. It'll still be nice to finally know.

Thanks for the replies! I feel a bit more confident now. Indeed, getting funding for a Master's degree may be more difficult. In fact, I have another question about that. In my home country, I recently (end of January) received a fellowship for study in the US. In my application, I mentioned this, but at the time I didn't know yet whether I was going to get it. This fellowship is quite selective, and covers nearly all my expenses for the master's degree I plan to take (but to which I have yet to be admitted). Now my question is: should I try to notify the admissions committee that I got this fellowship? Does it matter to them how I pay for my studies? I'm still reluctant to contact them in any way, but if it can help my chances of getting in... I feel stupid for not telling them right away, maybe they already made the decision, and the fellowship could have changed their minds. Thanks again!

I'm applying to a master's degree and already got a foreign scholarship to pay for it. If I'm not admitted, I will 1. Fool myself into believing I didn't want to go there anyway. 2. Start up a fake university. 3. Get the scholarship money meant for 'tuition' transferred over there. 4. Be drunk for a year.

Hi everyone, I'm an international student from Europe. New to this forum, I have been analyzing the results page over and over, trying to calculate my odds. (I know this is useless, but hey, what else should I do now? Work on my master's thesis?) I have already been rejected at MIT (applied for EECS PhD). At Stanford, I applied for a second master's degree. (I am currently finishing my first.) Generally speaking, the percentage of admits for master's degrees seems to be much higher than for PhD degrees, based on the results page. Probably I have discovered hot water again, and is this universally known? This also made me wonder, what reasons could they have for refusing someone access to a master's degree? (You are just making them money.) Apart from being obviously unfit, that is... Any ideas? Furthermore, does anyone know the specifics of Stanford's applied physics program? Are decisions for the master's applicants made later usually? On the results page, I saw someone making the comment "All decisions have been made, all acceptances emailed last week. No hope in waiting any longer." I refuse to believe this! But I am also too much of a coward to mail them. Everyone that asks for their application status seems to be rejected. Thanks for your ideas! P.S.: Waiting sucks.