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  1. I heard they call the winners, and everybody else gets a rejection email. I also thought it was ~20 winners, based on winner rosters in past years. It doesn't seem to me like they call all the winners at once, though. I called Krell yesterday, and they implied they weren't sure they would finish contacting the winners this week. All seems strange to me. Is there so much deliberation from one winner to the next?
  2. intirb, What time did they call you? What is the first letter of your last name? How many people they are calling? They told me rejects would get an email but nothing yet! The suspense is killing me!
  3. Do you know the chances of winning after getting to that round?
  4. Anybody have news yet? I am interested in the Computational Science Fellowship (CSGF), not the Office of Science Fellowship (SCGF).
  5. Did any acceptances go out? The results list only has rejections and waitlisting.
  6. Sapling, did he email her only because of the alum-connection? Or did they email all acceptees?
  7. For PhD decisions in the natural sciences (math, phys, chem, etc.), is it ok to call the dept. secretary and ask about your status?
  8. Check with the potential schools when is the earliest they accept LoRs, and if they accept letters archived by your undergraduate school's dossier service. I'm not sure if the following applies to urban planning. For LoRs in the natural sciences, (no matter whether a professor submits a LoR online or in paper) the professor is asked to rank your abilities in a little table (e.g. you were in the best 25%, 10%, etc. of all his/her past students). If this is also the case for urban planning, it might be problematic to work out how your professors will accomplish this. (Because the LoR form for 2010 is not yet available.) However, they might be willing to rank you in free-form in the body of their letter. See what the urban planning application entails this year.
  9. I would get her a planted, non-bloomed red amaryllis bulb, goes well with the holidays. It is very dramatic and beautiful when it opens up. Just avoid cheesy holiday plants like poinsettias etc -)
  10. Thanks for your detailed ideas. I finally wrote it, I don't have a friend to write me a draft. I think, in basic coursework in mathematics, creativity would require a trace of genius. I am hard-working but hardly a genius -) so writing daring things in my letter will cause suspicion Basically, I summarized the advanced nature of the courses, stated the hard work, and explained that otherwise the advisor would not have wanted me to write a thesis with him. I guess it's not glowing, but I can't get myself to exaggerate. Another recommender of mine -- he is on the department adcom -- explained to me that he ignores LoRs. He explained that given two equally good sets of letters, when the candidates get interviewed, it's not surprising to find out that one is actually very bad while the other is good.
  11. PhD statistics. Deadline in 10 days and my main recommender (thesis advisor) just asked me to write my own LOR. I'm at a lost for ideas "this time". Already wrote my LOR for the 2 other recommenders. I did not see their final letter. My text had a neutral tone: described professor's class and my performance. The problem with my thesis advisor is we just started the thesis 2 months ago. I've not made progress. And the problem is not fully defined. I've been meeting with him every 2-3 weeks, each time he gives me small exercises within the topic to work out. In my SOP I write one paragraph about the thesis area/intention. How should my advisor discuss the thesis in his LOR? Do you have ideas for the letter? My difficulty is: not much to write beyond "good student, A's in my exams, does better than the PhD student".
  12. By asking him a LOR you effectively give him a year's notice. This is a luxurious amt of time for him to line up a follower. I would discuss your plans frankly and calmly with him. Offer to tender your resignation in April as soon as you've decided which school you'll attend. This leaves both of you still several months to work out the hand-over. If he is reasonable, he will fully support your move and write you a great letter.
  13. ana3a

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    Ok, thanks for your thoughts so far. I know I am required to send ALL transcripts. But if I don't send the messed up transcript, I thought ... how would they know?
  14. ana3a

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    I'm applying to a PhD program in stats. I have 2 transcripts, one from one semester of economics study a long time ago, one from 4 years of math/stats study (going on right now). There is a dumb blemish on the short, old transcript due to a finance class (portfolio theory). I forgot for months that I had registered for the exam, didn't show up. Now the exam shows up on my transcript as "NP" (not passed). The rest of the transcript looks like this: Macroecon 1: A Macroecon 2: A- Time series analysis: A Multivariate statistics: A- Should send the transcript, or forget it? Reason to send it: the two statistics courses were later credited to my current degree. However, after accreditation, they appear on my math/stats transcript under the lame title "Elective module: applied mathematics" (which is so misleading). So without the blemished transcript, there is no record that I really studied time series and multivariate statistics (which is a plus, I think, for my application). On the other hand, people might notice the "NP" (not passed), and wonder why I flunked this course? Thanks for your comments.
  15. Anti's question is important. I hate it how the important, but unattractive questions draw these unhelpful, self-defensive answers tinged with an awful cynicism. We all know that a PhD in math is not the shortest path to big bucks, if a path to bucks at all. The point is there is a mass of career statistics and salary info out there, and we need your simple confirmation or correction of the data that we receive. Field salaries are an absolute must-know for anyone considering to join that field. It's not always that people shop around for a lucrative field; they really need to know whether they will make enough money to buy a house, raise a family, and all the myriad other things in life other than the profession itself.
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