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Sorry to hear about that - I wish that you could have gotten in. :(

hmm... well they gave me my official offer via website today - $21,500 + $1,405 fellowship + $7,935 summer = $30,840/year for the first year.

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Sorry to hear about that - I wish that you could have gotten in. :(

hmm... well they gave me my official offer via website today - $21,500 + $1,405 fellowship + $7,935 summer = $30,840/year for the first year.

Its ok...it looks like non official MSc offer i got is with a person who was advised by my POI at brown... so the type of research hasn't been lost just the school

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Rejected from harvard eps today via post. Good luck to everyone else! I botched my application on this one but I expected to get rejected anyway even if I hadn't.

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Sorry to hear that.. All the best on your future decisions.. They should be out soon, no??

Thank you! :) I'm hoping within the next few weeks I will hear from the other 2 schools I applied to. Fingers Crossed!

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Thank you! :) I'm hoping within the next few weeks I will hear from the other 2 schools I applied to. Fingers Crossed!

Still waiting on 3... I'm pretty sure we have at least one application in common ( :ph34r:), and it would be absolutely awesome if we both got in, though I suspect that might require a miracle. Also crossing fingers.

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Still waiting on 3... I'm pretty sure we have at least one application in common ( :ph34r:), and it would be absolutely awesome if we both got in, though I suspect that might require a miracle. Also crossing fingers.

Goodluck to the both of us! You never know, miracles do happen.... :)

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You never know, miracles do happen.... :)

I keep going between telling myself that, and telling myself to focus on the other schools so I'm not totally destroyed if I get rejected.

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I keep going between telling myself that, and telling myself to focus on the other schools so I'm not totally destroyed if I get rejected.

Not that I won't be pretty destroyed anyway. <_<

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Just registered as I've been browsing for the last month or so and thought I ought to contribute something. Here's my status of now:

Applied: UMich SNRE, Columbia SIPA, Yale School of Forestry, Berkeley ERG

As of now I've heard from ERG (rejected) and SNRE (accepted). SNRE was definitely a top pick for me so I'm pretty excited! Hoping everyone has equally positive results.

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Just registered as I've been browsing for the last month or so and thought I ought to contribute something. Here's my status of now:

Applied: UMich SNRE, Columbia SIPA, Yale School of Forestry, Berkeley ERG

As of now I've heard from ERG (rejected) and SNRE (accepted). SNRE was definitely a top pick for me so I'm pretty excited! Hoping everyone has equally positive results.

welcome to gradcafe! And congrats on the acceptance!

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Hi guys I'm also just registered,

Undergrad school : Upper mid-ish private university ranked 30~40 on USNews

Cum GPA: 3.78

Major GPA: 3.98

Major: Earth Sciences

Minor: Double minor in Environmental Science and Math

GRE: Q 87% V98% W48%

Undergrad research experience: Worked on ICP-AES & MS as undergrad to analyze marine sediments, still working on a senior thesis also using the ICP MS to analyze the chemistry in salt marsh interstitial water and one field season in Dry Valleys, Antarctica.

Publications: Two presentations/posters at AGU'11 (none of them as main author and I personally didn't attend the conference because I was doing my fieldwork in Antarctica)

Accepted : UofRochester (Ph.D)

Rejected: MIT/WHOI

Waiting: MIT EAPS, Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia, UPenn (all Ph.D)

So I have a question, I already had an informal meeting with my POI over at MIT, and we had a nice chat. However he was hinting that he probably would need a more experienced/senior student than someone who is fresh from an undergrad. The story is although I was applying both to the Joint program and MIT EAPS I'm basically applying to the same person. Since I got rejected from the Joint program does that mean my application to MIT EAPS is also toast or there is still a chance for me to get in there. I want to send an email asking the POI to clarify this but I'm kinda afraid to bother him and don't know what to say

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@meki4life: No you're not toast. They are two separate programs, thus two different admission processes. I called them to clarify this back in November.

You still have a chance at MIT. I don't think sending the POI an email would hurt any, since you've already had some good contact with them.

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Met 2 prospectives at UChicago yesterday.

Prospective 1 (female, mineral physics): Accepted at UChicago and Michigan (and deciding between the two)

Prospective 2 (female, mantle dynamics): Accepted at UChicago and applied to a bunch of others (but somewhat hesitant to reveal the other schools)

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Met 2 prospectives at UChicago yesterday. Prospective 1 (female, mineral physics): Accepted at UChicago and Michigan (and deciding between the two) Prospective 2 (female, mantle dynamics): Accepted at UChicago and applied to a bunch of others (but somewhat hesitant to reveal the other schools)

mineral physics...you don't hear that very often.

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mineral physics...you don't hear that very often.

Mineral physics was a lot of fun... that's one of the angles from which I want to approach marine geophysics. You can learn a lot about mantle dynamics from combining seismology, lattice and crystal growth processes, and stress/strain relationships. Granted, it's a sea (ha!) of matrix algebra, but it's amazingly interesting, too.

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Mineral physics was a lot of fun... that's one of the angles from which I want to approach marine geophysics. You can learn a lot about mantle dynamics from combining seismology, lattice and crystal growth processes, and stress/strain relationships. Granted, it's a sea (ha!) of matrix algebra, but it's amazingly interesting, too.

It sounds really interesting, actually. Definitely right up my alley!

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