Fall 2008 Grad Applications

Mute

Have you looked into the details of the masters program? Perhaps you can transfer into the Ph.D. program before completing your masters if you meet various requirements, are doing well, etc. I'm not sure if it would be like that in the US since they do admit directly into the PhD program, but in Canada you can transfer into the Ph.D. program before completing your masters (but Canadian universities only admit directly for masters if you don't have a masters yet, so that might make things different).

leright

I will look into that.

BTW, I got another acceptance! Got into Penn State for EE (PhD). So far I have been admitted to Arizona State (PhD), Penn State (PhD), and Michigan (Master's). Still waiting on Cornell, MIT, and Texas.

Pyrrhus

Congrats Leright!!

leright

thanks man! still crossing my fingers about the funding situation though.

Oerg

bump! Would relaly like to know the outcome of your applications

leright

I got rejected from MIT. Other than that, I have no further news to provide.

kuahji

Reading all these threads makes me almost scared enough to change my major...

Mystic998

This thread is interesting. I remember my rejection letter from MIT. I should have framed it. Incidentally, for the people that applied to Texas' math program, don't worry too much. I got in, and compared to most of the people in the program I'm an idiot.

Ben Niehoff

I haven't yet received any official rejections, so I hope that means I'm on some internal waiting lists. Still, my only official acceptance so far is USC.

Oerg

what was your rejection letter about ?

JasonJo

I really hope I get into Austin. I am getting a bunch of rejection letters. Even more alarming is that I am hearing that a lot of the schools I'm still waiting for have already made a bunch of admissions decisions.

Rejections:
MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke

Waiting to hear from but have already started making admissions:
UCSD, Berkeley, Rutgers, NYU (off thegradcafe.com)

Waiting to hear from:
Yale, Stanford, Texas, UPENN

Mystic998

Oh, it wasn't anything special. Just "we don't think MIT would suit you" or something along those lines. I just love how the rejection letters are so patronizing. As though I pinned all my hopes as a rather unremarkable math student on getting into a university that probably wouldn't even accept the top 5 mathematicians at the school I went to.

eastside00_99

I haven't heard anything new since acceptance to UIUC, but to be fair about four of the schools I applied start the admission process a little latter, USC never got my transcript, and I am probably not going to get into Duke and Rice. So, I don't really think it means all that much. I really want to hear about support for UIUC though, and it is taking a long time for them to let me know whether or not they are giving it to me.

JasonJo

Is this for undergrad or grad?

wbclark

I know one of the professors at the Duke center for geometry and theoretical physics, Ronen Plesser, and he is a very intelligent man with a wonderful gift for explanation.

JasonJo

Too bad they rejected me.

JasonJo

It seems like every school is accepting a small class this year. I've heard it from Berkeley, UCSD, Penn, Cornell, etc.