18 Mar 2022

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Physics, PhD (F22)

Wait listed via Other on 18 Mar 2022

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Ignore waitlist. I just want to know what is going on actually. I have no clue. How universities are accepting students in hep and astrophysics? A person who has five published papers on JHEP got rejected from all universities he applied. Another one is working with a noble laureate and getting rejection after rejection. So, why this is happening? I am not insulting other people but I am seeing that some people with low GPAs and limited (actually in most cases no) research are getting accepted by several universities, especially in CMP or soft matter. So, why the University is depriving some extremely well profiles? I don't think most of the students have a clear idea about their subfield. But are they getting accepted only for the choice? A lot of people don't have PGRE scores but get accepted on a high-rank university on CMP but in the same university, 960 pgre score holders get the rejection letters only because they applied to astrophysics. I am not getting this clearly. I have researched at least the past three years' profiles and haven't found anything like this. At least, most of the students deserve to be on the interview part. HEP-th is not a joke and people are not wasting their time on anything. I am extremely disturbed about the admission process. If people who applied to HEP share their insight I would be grateful.

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