petitebiscuit Posted March 5, 2019 Posted March 5, 2019 4 minutes ago, Joegeo said: Hi was it a mass rejection email or did you check the portal thing? And congrats on your acceptance! It was a mass rejection email. If you didn't receive it, you may be still in the running! And thank you!!!!!!!
Joegeo Posted March 5, 2019 Posted March 5, 2019 4 minutes ago, petitebiscuit said: It was a mass rejection email. If you didn't receive it, you may be still in the running! And thank you!!!!!!! I am not sure if I will go to Penn State even if offered but it can't hurt the self esteem to get another acceptance
laura_0h Posted March 5, 2019 Posted March 5, 2019 Anybody have any updates from either UMN, Clemson, or Omaha?
SCIOPsych Posted March 5, 2019 Posted March 5, 2019 7 minutes ago, laura_0h said: Anybody have any updates from either UMN, Clemson, or Omaha? Nothing on my end from Clemson. Didn't apply to the other two.
Joegeo Posted March 5, 2019 Posted March 5, 2019 My Penn State application portal just says a decision has been made and I will get word shortly. So either my email got lost somewhere or they are taking their sweet time to wait list me.
psychnerd92 Posted March 5, 2019 Posted March 5, 2019 My Penn State portal says my application is still pending review and I didn't get an email from them yet. This whole process is so interesting lol
Joegeo Posted March 5, 2019 Posted March 5, 2019 Well finally got my rejection letter from Penn State lol. Oh well I was told the POI I wanted to work with was not taking students this cycle after I paid the application fee ?
FingersCrossed101 Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 Got rejections from both PSU and CSU today. Yeesh. Congrats to everyone who has gotten accepted somewhere!
crovanika Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 I got rejections form PSU, CSU, and Houston, in the past few days. My Penn State portal says and application has been reached, but no specifics. I contacted Clemson and they said I am on the waitlist. If anyone who has been accepted to Clemson is reading this, it would be amazing to know whether you are going to accept or not. Clemson is my first choice and has the person/people I am dying to work with!!
crovanika Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 I also sent requests for information from USF, and BGSU - I'll update if I hear anything
tryingtostayafloat Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 38 minutes ago, IOpener said: Houston will not be accepting students this year. Sorry - Do you mean that literally? We deserve refunds on our application fees if that's true lol.
crovanika Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 1 hour ago, IOpener said: Houston will not be accepting students this year. I was in touch with my POI a a few weeks ago, and she said 'we may not be able to accept students this year'. But I thought she meant that only her lab might not be able to accept students ? I agree with @tryingtostayafloat in that case lol. tryingtostayafloat 1
petitebiscuit Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 11 minutes ago, crovanika said: I was in touch with my POI a a few weeks ago, and she said 'we may not be able to accept students this year'. But I thought she meant that only her lab might not be able to accept students ? I agree with @tryingtostayafloat in that case lol. Man, I didn't even apply to Houston and I am on #teamrefund with y'all. How can you even open your application portal without assurance of at least accepting a singular student. tryingtostayafloat and crovanika 2
OddIsEven Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 3 hours ago, IOpener said: Houston will not be accepting students this year. WHAT LOL
Joegeo Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 I get angry when I apply to a program to work with a specific PI and after I paid for the application the POI emails me to say they won't be taking students so I can't imagine how you guys/gals feel about a whole program not taking anybody. There should be refund unless Houston can somehow prove that there was nobody who applied who meets their standards of an applicant (Which can't be true since I am sure some person who get in Michigan State tier program applied to Houston as a backup) crovanika and OddIsEven 2
IOpener Posted March 7, 2019 Posted March 7, 2019 (edited) On 3/6/2019 at 2:45 PM, OddIsEven said: Can anyone verify the Houston issue? The current graduate students have been told that the program won't take new students. The Houston program has two new faculty members and the remaining professors took two students last year. New professors don't take students their first year. Houston's situation wasn't clear until this month. When I applied to graduate school, I didn't get replies from several schools and late rejections. The academic market for hiring professors is late Fall/early Spring, which affects incoming graduate students after they've already applied. Faculty and program situations change quite often and usually occur after graduate school applications. These situations are outside of a program or POI's control. In the Fall, programs and POIs may have fully expected to take students, but situations change. Edited March 7, 2019 by IOpener crovanika 1
pmancare Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 On 3/5/2019 at 1:13 AM, dohee said: Has anyone heard from Georgia Tech, Penn State and Columbia University? I just got my rejection letter from Columbia today
Sherifoz Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 On 3/5/2019 at 10:48 AM, laura_0h said: Anybody have any updates from either UMN, Clemson, or Omaha? UMN replied back to my email mentioning that top selected candidates were contacted already.
OddIsEven Posted March 11, 2019 Posted March 11, 2019 (edited) So I've received contact from all of the graduate programs I applied to. I'm at the weird point where now I have to wait for everyone else to make their decisions before anything changes on my end. If any of y'all have offers from any of the programs I'm waitlisted at (found below), and you genuinely don't want to attend, I beg you to drop them! Applied: Bowling Green CSU LSU Clemson UCF Houston UGA Auburn Florida Tech Accepted Waitlisted Rejected Edited March 11, 2019 by OddIsEven Joegeo and Sherifoz 2
Waiting2See Posted March 13, 2019 Posted March 13, 2019 I wanted to know if you all had any advice...do you all think it's better to make an offer to a decent/good PhD program or to go to a top/great master's program (and then reapply to a PhD at some point after)? I've only received one acceptance to a PhD program and my first choice offered me a master's instead of a PhD and I'm a little bit torn on what to do
Joegeo Posted March 13, 2019 Posted March 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Waiting2See said: I wanted to know if you all had any advice...do you all think it's better to make an offer to a decent/good PhD program or to go to a top/great master's program (and then reapply to a PhD at some point after)? I've only received one acceptance to a PhD program and my first choice offered me a master's instead of a PhD and I'm a little bit torn on what to do If your end goal is a PHD then I will take the offer now if you think it's a good program for you in terms of prestige/funding/research interest. Waiting2See 1
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