Physics?

[Guest Pabee]

Any physicist here? Have you heard anything yet?

[Guest just_me]

To question one yes.

To question two no.

And it's killing me.

[oceanelement]

applied to 8 schools for astrophysics, no word yet ...

[Guest]

Accepted to Washington University in St. Louis and UC Irvine, Rejected from Stanford.

[Guest Anon]

I've been accepted to Brown University and Washington University in St. Louis and rejected from Stanford. People on other on thegradcafe board have heard from Columbia and MIT already, so I'm not optimistic about those.

[Guest]

Someone heard from caltech? Is it from a professor or an admin, official or non?

[Guest]

I got an email from the Caltech physics graduate secretary and then from the dean. I didn't receive the official letter yet though.

[Guest]

thanks for your reply. when is the openhouse for caltech physics?

[Guest]

Someone heard from caltech? Is it from a professor or an admin, official or non?

Are you a theorist or an experimentalist?

[Guest]

Open house is on March 23rd if I remember correctly.

And I am a theorist.

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply! I got in today

[Guest]

Any string people [i.e. stressed so in SOP] in CalTech??

[Guest]

and for those of you who made it in there - are you Ameican??

[Guest Pabee]

American--> No. I'm an international student with US degree

String Theorist-->I'm not a string theorist. I'm a high energy particle theorist. I have taken String Theory during my undergrad year though I didn't stress it in my SOP.

[Guest]

5101

[Guest]

I expressed interest in string theory, and I'm into Caltech. However, I also expressed an interest in theory in general; they have offered me the Richard Feynman Fellowship, $30,000 per year with apparently no responsiblities beyond coursework.

[Guest]

Congratulations, thats rather impressive! what's your profile if I may ask?

[Guest]

Since you asked for stats, filching this off my profile post on physicsgre.com:

Location: Rochester, NY

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[Guest]

So does anyone know if places send out waves of acceptance offers? Or if you see that someone has got accepted somewhere and you haven't gotten your offer, then its a done deal and you should wait for the rejection letter in the mail?

[Guest]

Somebody heard from Harvard physics by email today? Is it official (from a grad coord) or unofficial (from a prof)? thanks!

[Guest]

It's an official email from the department chair, but the offer is being fedexed over.

Good luck...

[Guest]

Did they send the email in batch or individually? Thanks!

[Guest]

Individually...

[Guest]

I came across the following websites online, and it appears one of the previous people posting on here neglected to include some things on his profile. Here's the rest of the information, such as extracurricular involvement and family life:

(Removed by admin. Sorry, but I am letting you choose how much info you reveal about yourself, so give the other user the same luxury. I want to be fair.)

I've often wondered what people look like who get some sort of perverted satisfaction posting their flawless profiles on as many admissions boards as possible. I hope that, at Harvard, Princeton, Caltech, or whichever school this person decides to attend, he learns that a bit of modesty can go a long way, even in academia.

[Guest]

I wonder how different the profile would be if that person went to a tougher school