Penn State University Physics Graduate School Admission Results

Well over 500 applications. Actually, they also regret for that lol.

Ignore Waitlist-Did anyone hear back from Penn State hep-th program? I mailed them and recieved an auto mail saying in a couple of weeks, they will announce the results. However, this was a month ago. Also waiting for Rice hep-th program.

3 years worth of research experience which was based on a paper of Mirjam Cvetic. Strong Maple, Mathematica and qft knowledge. Strong LOR's. hep-th

CME, no interview, no contacts with any PI's. 1.5 years of strong research, 0 publications, but will have ~5 papers resulting from research once published. 2 very strong LoR's.

unofficial offer from PI. No contact before application.

hep-ex; astroparticle

CME

gravity/cosmo. Update on the portal followed by an email.

CMT. GPA ~9.4/10. One publication first author. At least 2 strong LoRs according to the recommenders.

CME

2 Year AMO experience

Penn State is my dream school! Will attend! Do we set a WA/Telegram group? BTW: Last year I received no offers from any of the 13 places that I had applied for (including PennState), this year, I already received two! If you are reading this and it has all been rejections so far, stay strong!

no interview, CME, no previous contact, 2yrs research at home institute, quite a surprise actually

Sent 990 pGRE; had a great informal talk with advisors, HEPex

TTPB: Current student at PSU. Please don't feel too bad if you didn't get in -- there was a really large yield this year (~35 incoming students), so that plus COVID meant they had to be really stingy on admissions this year.

Did any International student got accepted at Penn State this year?

Hep-th

We thank you for your interest in the Ph.D. program in Physics at Penn State. The admissions process was very competitive this year with over 500 applicants. As a result, many applicants who would do well in our program could not be admitted. We regret to inform you we are unable to offer you admission at this time.