spamhaus Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Looks like UT Austin has started sending out acceptances... I haven't gotten one
india_phd_cse Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 Has anyone heard back from Berkeley? Their systems group has been awfully quiet this time. Haven't heard of a single person being interviewed!
spamhaus Posted January 25, 2018 Posted January 25, 2018 Heard back from a POI at UMass Amherst. I'm on cloud nine! deleteaccount, Bayesian1701 and there_is_a_so_long_wait 3
spamhaus Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 I'm starting to get nervous. If acceptances happen around the same time they did last year, that means next week is when most of the first round acceptances go out. Getting an interview has been great! Unfortunately it doesn't provide much in the way of assurances, especially since the POI I interviewed with mentioned how unconventional my application is. I already knew I didn't fit the norm, but it's entirely different to hear a POI say that in an interview... I just want an acceptance this week so I can finally calm down.
deleteaccount Posted January 28, 2018 Author Posted January 28, 2018 On 1/27/2018 at 11:20 PM, spamhaus said: I'm starting to get nervous. If acceptances happen around the same time they did last year, that means next week is when most of the first round acceptances go out. Getting an interview has been great! Unfortunately it doesn't provide much in the way of assurances, especially since the POI I interviewed with mentioned how unconventional my application is. I already knew I didn't fit the norm, but it's entirely different to hear a POI say that in an interview... I just want an acceptance this week so I can finally calm down. Expand Unconventional isn't bad though! Also, I highly doubt that the POI would bring it up if he thought it was a bad thing.
whmowen Posted January 28, 2018 Posted January 28, 2018 I received an acceptance email from OSU yesterday, but no information about the funding. Is this normal?
phdhopeful1995 Posted January 28, 2018 Posted January 28, 2018 (edited) anyone here applying to Cornell? Edited January 28, 2018 by phdhopeful1995
spamhaus Posted January 28, 2018 Posted January 28, 2018 On 1/28/2018 at 6:32 AM, phdhopeful1995 said: anyone here applying to Cornell? Expand Yes. All the schools I'm applying to are in my signature line. I take it you're applying there too?
phdhopeful1995 Posted January 28, 2018 Posted January 28, 2018 (edited) On 1/28/2018 at 7:59 AM, spamhaus said: Yes. All the schools I'm applying to are in my signature line. I take it you're applying there too? Expand Sorry man. I don't use the mobile app so I didn't see your signature. I just saw someone got admitted to Cornell CS PhD. But I am not sure whether the result is official or unofficial. So I am quite curious whether someone here already got admitted as well. Edited January 28, 2018 by phdhopeful1995
AngryLion Posted January 28, 2018 Posted January 28, 2018 Did anyone apply to Scott Aaronson's group at UT Austin and did anyone hear back from there?
spamhaus Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 Just got my official rejection from UT Austin. seems_fair 1
collegesista Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 accepted to Cornell this past Sunday. Letter will come in the mail next week! deleteaccount and José Neto 2
phdhopeful1995 Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 On 1/30/2018 at 10:58 PM, collegesista said: accepted to Cornell this past Sunday. Letter will come in the mail next week! Expand Did your POI tell you that you got accepted? Is is a tradition at Cornell for POI to contact prospective students before sending out formal letters? I am quite scared now because I have not heard any thing from my POI.
collegesista Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 On 1/30/2018 at 11:00 PM, phdhopeful1995 said: Did your POI tell you that you got accepted? Is is a tradition at Cornell for POI to contact prospective students before sending out formal letters? I am quite scared now because I have not heard any thing from my POI. Expand Director of Admissions Committee emailed me due to a personal connection and said he would reach out to my POIs and told me to forward him any more names of people I'm interested in. One POI emailed me today.
cabbysaurus Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 Congratulations, @collegesista ! Did you have an interview before the informal acceptance? I'm trying to determine whether not having an interview request by now equates to a rejection...
collegesista Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 On 1/30/2018 at 11:09 PM, cabbysaurus said: Congratulations, @collegesista ! Did you have an interview before the informal acceptance? I'm trying to determine whether not having an interview request by now equates to a rejection... Expand Thank you and no, I didn't. I've only received interview requests from Emory.
deleteaccount Posted January 31, 2018 Author Posted January 31, 2018 I'm feeling a bit antsy now. I was expecting to hear things this week, but I thought I'd hear something by today. Oh well. It's only Tuesday.
spamhaus Posted January 31, 2018 Posted January 31, 2018 On 1/30/2018 at 10:58 PM, collegesista said: accepted to Cornell this past Sunday. Letter will come in the mail next week! Expand Congrats! collegesista 1
spamhaus Posted January 31, 2018 Posted January 31, 2018 On 1/31/2018 at 12:42 AM, eighty8keys said: I'm feeling a bit antsy now. I was expecting to hear things this week, but I thought I'd hear something by today. Oh well. It's only Tuesday. Expand Careful what you wish for. I was expecting to hear back this week as well... and I did. It was a rejection :-(
seems_fair Posted January 31, 2018 Posted January 31, 2018 On 1/31/2018 at 12:55 AM, spamhaus said: Careful what you wish for. I was expecting to hear back this week as well... and I did. It was a rejection :-( Expand I got a rejection from UT Austin as well. Lot of good candidates ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
deleteaccount Posted January 31, 2018 Author Posted January 31, 2018 On 1/31/2018 at 12:55 AM, spamhaus said: Careful what you wish for. I was expecting to hear back this week as well... and I did. It was a rejection :-( Expand I mean, of course, if the choice is between finding out a rejection now or receiving an acceptance later, I'd choose the later. But if there's no change in my status, I'd rather just know earlier. Of course, emotionally, it'd suck, but at least I'd have more time to figure out what I'm gonna do over the next year. Sorry about the rejection though! However, you can be super strong and still get rejected from schools like UT, so don't let it get you down too much (I know my words probably mean like zilch to you right now though)! Arkhy 1
spamhaus Posted January 31, 2018 Posted January 31, 2018 On 1/31/2018 at 1:16 AM, there_is_a_wait_so_long said: I got a rejection from UT Austin as well. Lot of good candidates ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Expand Yeah, I wasn't a great fit for the professors there anyway, so I understand.
spamhaus Posted January 31, 2018 Posted January 31, 2018 On 1/31/2018 at 1:21 AM, eighty8keys said: I mean, of course, if the choice is between finding out a rejection now or receiving an acceptance later, I'd choose the later. But if there's no change in my status, I'd rather just know earlier. Of course, emotionally, it'd suck, but at least I'd have more time to figure out what I'm gonna do over the next year. Sorry about the rejection though! However, you can be super strong and still get rejected from schools like UT, so don't let it get you down too much (I know my words probably mean like zilch to you right now though)! Expand Sorry, I didn't mean to imply a false dichotomy. I agree it's probably better to hear back, especially since I was expecting the rejection considering I didn't get an acceptance last week. Thanks for the kind words.
spamhaus Posted January 31, 2018 Posted January 31, 2018 I'm really starting to freak out a bit. Acceptances are rolling in from GATech and CMU and I haven't heard anything. Anyone else feeling anxious and wanting to chat? I've started an irc channel on freenode.net named ##gradcafe. If you aren't an IRC person, you can even get on with a simple web client like Kiwi IRC. Hope some of you are up for chatting, I could use the support right now :-D.
<3neuroscience Posted January 31, 2018 Posted January 31, 2018 Has anyone heard from USC PhD program yet?
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