Graduate School Admission Results

1 first author peer-reviewed, 2 conference proceedings, 3 years of undergrad research, 4.0 GPA LOL

hep-th

Two first author publications, 3 total, 20+ citations, goldwater, REU + visiting scholar, multiple conferences, T100+ university w/ dual major, no GRE, had interview with caltech.

Kindly ignore status. Has anyone heard from this program? The deadline was the 5th of January.

HEP-Th/Cosmo-Th. Email to check portal. I am not satisfied with the decision and I don't think they have looked to my application carefully.

I received the same ambiguous email as everyone else here, saying that they "prefer not to send rejection letters until the very end of the process." I personally think this is not a nice practice for them to do. They are essentially waitlisting everyone and keeping themselves safe. They can always admit more students if whoever they have admitted decline their offer. However, this is not nice for the student and other graduate schools. For the students, I know that applying for grad school is a stressful thing, and if they just reject us early, we can still make other plans. For other graduate schools, they sent out offers and thought the students will come. However, because UMD is doing this, the students may receive UMD's admission at the very end, and decline other schools. Then, other schools will not have time to make more offers. I personally think their move is harmful for the whole environment of applying to grad school, which is already stressful. It is only good for themselves. However, if every school starts to do this, no one will be benefited. I have withdrew my application, because I have better offers anyway.

A humble request to people who have been accepted to UConn but have better offers to kindly decline their UConn offers soon. Will be a great help for people like me. Thank You!!

"Update UMD Physics Graduate Student Application Inbox Donna Hammer 12:18 PM (18 minutes ago) to Dear Prospective Graduate Students, You are receiving this message because you applied to Maryland's Ph.D. program. Our admissions process is ongoing but nearly complete. We may make a few more offers of admission. These offers would be due to unusual circumstances, which prevented us from making a timely decision. As a matter of practice we prefer not to send rejection letters until the very end of the process, since circumstances can change (such as additional funding sources identified), and we may be able to make a handful of last minute offers. However, if we have not contacted you making an offer, we are unlikely to make one. Sincerely, Tom Cohen Donna Hammer Director of Education Department of Physics University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742"

(Ignore waitlist) Has anyone got accepted/rejection by UCLA?

"Dear Prospective Graduate Students, You are receiving this message because you applied to Maryland's Ph.D. program. Our admissions process is ongoing but nearly complete. We may make a few more offers of admission. These offers would be due to unusual circumstances, which prevented us from making a timely decision. As a matter of practice we prefer not to send rejection letters until the very end of the process, since circumstances can change (such as additional funding sources identified), and we may be able to make a handful of last minute offers. However, if we have not contacted you making an offer, we are unlikely to make one. "

Ignore Waitlist. Did anyone hear back from Clemson after the interviews on 2/15-2/17?

Ignore waitlist. Does any international students applied to VT had heard back yet. I have applied to hep-th and no response yet.

Anyone else get an ambiguous email from UMD? Like, neither an acceptance nor a rejection, just out of the blue? Along the lines 'further acceptances only under exceptional circumstances' and 'if you haven't received an email already, then it's unlikely you'll get a positive response'? I applied to hep-th. What does this email mean?

HEP-Ph/HEP-Th. Called for two rounds of interviews over two days.

Ignore waitlist. Below guy. Which field did you apply and are you domestic student or international?