Graduate School Admission Results

TPB: please use Urch in the future. blatant misinformation by previous poster. Of course it's not ideal but usually departments don't mind too much. They don't really care if you do your PhD at there institution or somewhere else. They know it's a much more important decision for you as an individual than for the department

it's pretty bad to renege after you've accepted, economics academia is a small circle, people will talk, so it will reflect poorly on you, also school B can find out that you've accepted an offer already, again small circle

TBP: You should ask this sort of question on Urch, not gradcafe. But to answer: you should accept your best offer before the deadline. If you subsequently receive a better offer, you can go to school A and ask to be released so you can accept the offer from school B. They will likely be understanding and grant it to you. I wouldn't ask for an extension or mention the possibility of a release until you actually receive an offer from school B.

I have a general query -- I am in a situation where I have an offer from Department A, and the deadline to accept that offer is 15th April. I am also on the waitlist of Department B (which is preferred), but they are saying they will only be able to inform me post April 15. I am sure I cannot be the only one in this position, so wanted to ask what you guys are doing in such situations? Should I write to Department A asking for an extension? What if they don't grant one and I do accept, and then I get an acceptance from Department B a couple days later...how bad is it to revoke your acceptance?

[not wl] To everyone who has received more than one offer: could you please kindly decline those you don't wish to attend - Much appreciated!

Really appreciating how transparent Stockholm University was about their admissions process now (even if it was a little weird). Giving us exact numbers for offers they sent out, how many accepted them etc. These US universities are killing me, I don't understand why they can't reveal where in the waitlist I am, not even an approximate. God bless the Swedes

Can you guys please stop trolling? The admin person at Duke said no one yet received any offer from the waitlist, and NYU said the second round of offers will go out on April 10th. What do you have to gain by being like this? We are all super anxious and this is the last thing we need.

I'm not entirely certain why we don't already do this, but it would be especially helpful for those on waitlists if the people who list the abundance of offers which they decline also listed which offer they accepted. I'm sure this is a little taboo, and people may not always know which offer they will accept upon declining others, but I'm also sure that is not always the case. Just a thought, not trying to be a jerk. :)

Declined fully funded offers from Syracuse, University of Oklahoma, University of Alabama, University of Hawai at Manoa, West Virginia University, Northern Illinois University, Wayne State University, Washington State University, Auburn University, Drexel University, Virginia-Tech University, Emory University, Northeastern University, University of Illinois at Chicago. Good luck to those on the waiting list!

To those admitted off the waitlists: Did you make a commitment to attend before receiving an offer? Thanks!

Got accepted off the waitlist at my top choice! Seems like the wl is now moving!

My god some of you seem like insufferable pieces of s***. This website and of course EJMR have confirmed my priors about economists, hope not too many of you end up at the school I'm attending

Personally, I think joining a top math program is definitely great. Most graduate candidates will look for a position in the industry 5 or 6 years later. Econ students have no advantages compared to math, Stats, and CS PhDs. Only a few academic stars will join LACs with a 70k salary per year, which is hard to take care of the family well. Ph.D. students in math have much more opportunities in industry and academia. Whatever your choice is, I wish you the best in the future.

Everyone, just lease stop. TBP: no one owes you anything in this world. I'm sorry you didn't get into a top school; I didn't either. Life goes on, please stop spamming this group, there are other places to have the conversation you want to have.

To Persons Below: perhaps your obnoxious, entitled personalities had shown thru in your SoP or was pointed out by your letter writers, and that is why you did not get in.

Yes, it is much more likels that all adcoms did not make an offer because he was too smart and they already knew he would reject or drop out of their program!

to the european PB: lol if you think that someone who got into columbia math is not "smart enough"

TPB: you only showed PhD econ >>>>>> PhD math. Sorry fo the rejections though.

Did committee members in this year got shot by a 9mm, or did they all catch COVID19? It is already April, and 8 applications are still pending. Really annoying year.

To the posts that are demeaning to others about what school they hopefully get acceptance too. You are the reason I am no longer considering a Ph.D. in Economics, through my experience I found that many committee members have a horrible mechanism on selecting candidates. They use this utterly meaningless measure (General GRE) to determine if you are fit. I got accepted into Columbia's Math program, yet I was denied from practically every Econ program because my letters were "...only good, not great" or my undergrad institution was not a top tier one lol what does that even mean. Is there a hidden version of Rudin that I do not know about at Princeton then at WashU? This is the issue with economics. The committee member who said this to me is from UChicago. It is disgusting and a shame that the process for deciding who is fit for a "top program" is so arbitrary and based on a meaningless measure. Anyone can get perfect on the quant section of GRE, it is a complete joke. They should decide mainly on student's research interests and whether they've taken some legitimate math courses like analysis or topology (differential, algebraic, point set) and have research interests similar to faculty members at that institution. However, that is probably asking to much of the committee members to actually read through applications because they just discovered R - squared and they cannot make reviewing applications a function of their time/pay. To me, it seems most of these committee members don't even know what a clopen is or let alone how to differentiate in R^n. It is sad to see the path economics takes, I wish I did not triple major in Math, Econ, and CS, rather I should've majored in Math, Physics, and CS. Good luck to all you on the waitlist. I hope when you decide who gets accepted into the Ph.D. program at your institution, you will read through the applications sent to you.