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I'm emailing other places to see what the status of my application is, since I need to decide by Friday. I was waitlisted at Duke, number 2 on the wait list for HEP at CERN (SO CLOSE!) and LSU emailed me back to say that they've sent out first round offers and to not count on an offer from them.

Waitlisted for Duke TUNL 2/25, 350 applications for 12 spots (3.43%)

Accepted to Columbia Nevis REU working with ATLAS group on 2/24, and I had a friend accepted to work on RARAF 2/23

I thought there would already be a thread for this by now, but there isn't so here we go! Post REU offers/acceptances and such here to help each other out :) Here's my list: Texas A&M Cyclotron - Accepted 2/22 Duke TUNL (first round offers scheduled to be sent out 2/25) UChicago for Women &...

I think the best programming language depends on your specialty. In nuclear particle physics I’ve mostly seen C++, because CERN built their data analysis framework (ROOT) and their detector simulation framework (Geant) around C++. It’s also good to learn because it’s object oriented.

Waiting to here back from UChicago's REU for Minorities and Women. Anybody hear anything?