Graduate School Admission Results

Email to check portal for decision; funding info may be in separate email

1 publication, 2.5 years research

Applied PhD program, accepted to MS

Solid state / quantum engineering. 2 years research in completely unrelated field of physics, 1 third-author pub, 1 poster/presentation. Interview with POI, forwarded to another interview with non-POI who is director of lab I'm extremely interested in. Interviews went really well and this isn't really surprising, but great to hear nonetheless!

GPA is for my M.Sc. (undergrad GPA: 3.83). Got an email from the directors of the graduate program confirming my acceptance. Decision letter was posted to the online portal without any notification from the Graduate Center.

Portal update through email. No interview. Field transnational.

No GRE. Master's degree.

0a/0w/1r/11p

Not surprised, they only had 8 spots. I got into my first choice anyways, so I'm okay with it. :)

No interview

2a / 0r / 3w

Email to check portal for admissions decision. Funding information will come from department later.

Each year the College of Liberal Arts at Penn State identifies the number of graduate students that our program can admit for the fall semester. Unfortunately, this number is always lower than the number of high-quality applications we receive, and that is especially true in our current environment of concern about budgets. This year, for example, our department's admission target is eight students across the areas of communication science and rhetorical studies, inclusive of both our MA and PhD applicants. With this number in mind, the department's Graduate Committee--composed of five faculty from across the department--examined each application, ranking them both individually and relative to the other applications in the pool. After receiving feedback from the department's graduate faculty on an initial list of potential admits, the Graduate Committee met further to deliberate and decide whom it should admit for the fall 2023 cohort.

Super excited - worked as an NIH postbac for 3 years and intend to work in the same lab for grad school