Programs 2018 REU and Summer Program Acceptance Thread

[lessconfused]

It is that time of year again. Here's a space to check on acceptances for REU programs or other summer jobs. SULI and SURF come to mind. I imagine most of them will start coming by the end of the month. What are you waiting on? What are you excited for? What do you wish you had applied for? What will you do for the summer if you don't get an REU posting?

 

[lessconfused]

I'll start the conversation off. I got accepted into the SULI program at BNL. I have till next week to accept it and I haven't heard back anywhere else so I think I'm going to take it

 

[Dr. Courtney]

I'll start the conversation off. I got accepted into the SULI program at BNL. I have till next week to accept it and I haven't heard back anywhere else so I think I'm going to take it

Congrats. My wife and I met in an internship program at BNL. Her academic schedule resulted in her arriving a couple weeks late, so I made sure I stopped by the Curie House (female dorm) the night she arrived to welcome her ... :). The rest is history.

I think you'll have lots of fun at Brookhaven. Oh yeah, lots of good science too.

 

[nubeseeta]

Congrats on your acceptance!

I applied for Fermilab for SULI and I'm still waiting to hear from them, though from what I've seen in other threads they generally take a bit longer to accept. My second choice was BNL. It was really more of a proximity choice than anything, because I'm from Texas and being 650 miles away from my family for college is bad enough.

I think overall I'm excited because it would basically be a totally new experience for me. I really wasn't educated at all on internship programs and I thought SULI was the only one of it's kind when I applied last December, so I wish I had done more research and applied to more programs. And if I don't get it, I won't be too bummed. There's plenty of really fun things I can think of to do over the summer. I just wish I knew already!

 

[PMC]

Has anyone applied to/heard back from Cornell CLASSE, Maryland TREND, or Purdue's REU? I am a freshman so I'm not expecting to be accepted but I still would like to know if they have sent anything out (so that way I know whether or not I still have a chance!)

 

[byzantine04]

I have gotten rejections from Duke and SAO.

 

[Jason Bennett]

I received a first round waitlist from LSU at around 12 noon last Sunday. In reply to the above comment, I haven’t heard from Purdue yet either.

 

[john cruishack]

Has anybody heard back from LBNL yet?

 

[Jason Bennett]

Has anybody heard back from LBNL yet?

Didn’t apply to this one sorry.

 

[Ethan vW]

I applied to TREND, LIGO, Fermilab/SLAC SULI, Notre Dame, Nevis Labs, Rochester and University of Washington.

I hadn't heard anything back from until I got an offer from TREND on Monday! I am really glad and I will accept it. I am a student at a Scottish University in second year and have the equivalent of a 4.0 GPA. I was told 170 people applied for 11 places at TREND.

 

[kubaanglin]

I accepted an offer from SULI PPPL. However I also applied to MIT's MSRP, but they won't release decisions until next week. If I get into MIT, I would have to withdraw my acceptance to SULI.

 

[Jason Bennett]

I applied to TREND, LIGO, Fermilab/SLAC SULI, Notre Dame, Nevis Labs, Rochester and University of Washington.

I hadn't heard anything back from until I got an offer from TREND on Monday! I am really glad and I will accept it. I am a student at a Scottish University in second year and have the equivalent of a 4.0 GPA. I was told 170 people applied for 11 places at TREND.

I applied to TREND, LIGO, Fermilab/SLAC SULI, Notre Dame, Nevis Labs, Rochester and University of Washington.

I hadn't heard anything back from until I got an offer from TREND on Monday! I am really glad and I will accept it. I am a student at a Scottish University in second year and have the equivalent of a 4.0 GPA. I was told 170 people applied for 11 places at TREND.

Fantastic man congrats! I also applied to Notre Dame Rochester and Washington and haven’t hear yet either! Getting nervous!

 

[Jason Bennett]

I accepted an offer from SULI PPPL. However I also applied to MIT's MSRP, but they won't release decisions until next week. If I get into MIT, I would have to withdraw my acceptance to SULI.

Congrats!:):)

 

[Jason Bennett]

Just received word of acceptance into Indiana University Bloomington REU program! Stoked about this one, one of my top choices.

 

[Jason Bennett]

Just received word of acceptance into Indiana University Bloomington REU program! Stoked about this one, one of my top choices.

Have a week to reply so I’ll wait until I hear about any others and make a decision!

 

[Jason Bennett]

Rejection from SUNY Geneseo:(

 

[Tm72]

Has anyone heard from Ligo yet?

 

[Jason Bennett]

Has anyone heard from Ligo yet?

Nope:(

 

[mjp_123]

Congrats to everyone who has been accepted to their desired internships! Has anyone heard back from Argonne or NREL for suli?

 

[Oods]

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

 

[AbeC]

Anyone heard back from UC Davis?

 

[Jason Bennett]

Anyone heard back from UC Davis?

I reached out after getting an acceptance elsewhere to inquire about the status of my app.
They “currently have offers out with a deadline of this upcoming Friday March 16th”

 

[Jason Bennett]

Congrats to everyone who has been accepted to their desired internships! Has anyone heard back from Argonne or NREL for suli?

Didn’t apply sorry!

 

[Jason Bennett]

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

Didn’t apply sorry!

 

[AbeC]

Also did anyone hear back from Notre Dame, UIUC, Purdue, or Minnesota?

 

[salemclay]

I applied to:

Duke TUNL - Rejected
Notre Dame
Kansas State
Coe College
Lehigh
Georgia Tech
University of Arkansas

I've only heard from Duke so far, so I hope I hear something soon.

 

[Jason Bennett]

Also did anyone hear back from Notre Dame, UIUC, Purdue, or Minnesota?

I reached out to ND Purdue and Minn for update on my status this afternoon. Received an offer to Indiana which I have to reply to within the week.
I’ll let you know if I hear back!

 

[Jason Bennett]

I applied to:

Duke TUNL - Rejected
Notre Dame
Kansas State
Coe College
Lehigh
Georgia Tech
University of Arkansas

I've only heard from Duke so far, so I hope I hear something soon.

Have not heard from ND or Lehigh either.
Just reached out this afternoon^^^ if I hear I’ll let you know!

 

[salemclay]

Have not heard from ND or Lehigh either.
Just reached out this afternoon^^^ if I hear I’ll let you know!

Thank you! I'd appreciate that

 

[holophrasm]

Has anyone heard from Ligo yet?

I emailed them and they said they aren't sending out responses until mid-March.

 

[holophrasm]

I was rejected from University of Wyoming, Northwestern CIERA, and LSU. Received acceptances from University of Oklahoma, NRAO, and Maria Mitchell on Nantucket (astronomy). I have to decide by the end of the day and I'm terribly conflicted. Haven't heard back from ~10 places.

 

[Jason Bennett]

Just received a rejection from LIGO Cal Tech.

 

[Jason Bennett]

Just received an aceeptabce from Lehigh! Paired with exactly the professor I was hoping for!
This is going to be a tough decision!

 

[AbeC]

Just received an aceeptabce from Lehigh! Paired with exactly the professor I was hoping for!
This is going to be a tough decision!

Congratulations!

 

[rcm]

Accepted to BU Photonics REU for Neurophotonics and Vanderbilt VINSE REU in Effects of radiation on Electronic Devices. Need help deciding! Does anyone know anything about these institutions or programs? Thanks!

 

[Jason Bennett]

Accepted to BU Photonics REU for Neurophotonics and Vanderbilt VINSE REU in Effects of radiation on Electronic Devices. Need help deciding! Does anyone know anything about these institutions or programs? Thanks!

Congrats! Now its time to decide! It’s almost as anxiety inducing as waiting for an offer!:/ :/ hahah:)

 

[Jason Bennett]

Congratulations!

Thanks so much!:):)

 

[Giraffey]

You all seem so nice! I am happy for all your offers! My daughter (who is a junior at a LA college) is nervous as she has not heard anything from anybody. Her GPA dropped to 3.37 due to having taken some tough classes that were not in her major and she was not able to give them the time they required. Also, she has not been able to fit a programming class into her schedule, yet. I think these 2 things are reducing her chances. My guess is that those of you that are being “snatched up” early have those 2 things well taken care of? I am curious about the rejections some of you have received. Since she has not received any of these, perhaps she is on some sort of waiting list? Also, if she does not get any REUs she is planning to try to take a programming class this summer. Not sure where. The options for these look sparse in the summer. Have any of you ever taken online courses, and if so, where? And which has more physics application, matlab, c++ or python? She has only worked in Perl so far. Any other sage advise? Thanks!

 

[salemclay]

You all seem so nice! I am happy for all your offers! My daughter (who is a junior at a LA college) is nervous as she has not heard anything from anybody. Her GPA dropped to 3.37 due to having taken some tough classes that were not in her major and she was not able to give them the time they required. Also, she has not been able to fit a programming class into her schedule, yet. I think these 2 things are reducing her chances. My guess is that those of you that are being “snatched up” early have those 2 things well taken care of? I am curious about the rejections some of you have received. Since she has not received any of these, perhaps she is on some sort of waiting list? Also, if she does not get any REUs she is planning to try to take a programming class this summer. Not sure where. The options for these look sparse in the summer. Have any of you ever taken online courses, and if so, where? And which has more physics application, matlab, c++ or python? She has only worked in Perl so far. Any other sage advise? Thanks!

I haven't heard from most of the places I applied, but I did contact them separately. I was told by most that I'd be alerted once the program had completely filled all of its spots. If she is unable to take a programming class, she could try learning programming by coming up with personal projects she'd like to complete. There are many online resources that can help with programming. All the languages you listed are certainly useful. Personally, I have used python the most. Python is also one of the easier languages to learn with many applications in the sciences, so I'd advise learning that first. My research mentor used Matlab for the entirety of his PhD, but switched to python after because it is free. He says that python does everything he needed Matlab for. Hopefully that helps! Good luck.

 

[Oods]

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.

 

[Giraffey]

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.

Thanks Oods and SalemClay. She is leaning toward electronics.

 

[Jason Bennett]

You all seem so nice! I am happy for all your offers! My daughter (who is a junior at a LA college) is nervous as she has not heard anything from anybody. Her GPA dropped to 3.37 due to having taken some tough classes that were not in her major and she was not able to give them the time they required. Also, she has not been able to fit a programming class into her schedule, yet. I think these 2 things are reducing her chances. My guess is that those of you that are being “snatched up” early have those 2 things well taken care of? I am curious about the rejections some of you have received. Since she has not received any of these, perhaps she is on some sort of waiting list? Also, if she does not get any REUs she is planning to try to take a programming class this summer. Not sure where. The options for these look sparse in the summer. Have any of you ever taken online courses, and if so, where? And which has more physics application, matlab, c++ or python? She has only worked in Perl so far. Any other sage advise? Thanks!

I would say that GPA is a factor but research experience is what I believe helped me the most! There’s is also nothing wrong with a polite inquiry regarding the status of her applications. A personal email to the director of each specific program would suffice, no mass emails.

 

[Jason Bennett]

After we have decided should we say all our info and everything we heard back for the REU applicatnts to see next year??

 

[AbeC]

After we have decided should we say all our info and everything we heard back for the REU applicatnts to see next year??

I think that would be helpful for next year's applicants

 

[Jason Bennett]

Anyone know how to upload files? Excel? Word?
Then I tried making a URL link from the 'Save as Webpage' option. The links were broke.
Then I tried exporting Excel sheet as Latex code. Works in Latex but not in this comment.

 

[AbeC]

Anyone know how to upload files? Excel? Word?
Then I tried making a URL link from the 'Save as Webpage' option. The links were broke.
Then I tried exporting Excel sheet as Latex code. Works in Latex but not in this comment.

I'm not sure. Maybe you can copy the information in the Excel file to a Google Sheet then share the link of that.

 

[Jason Bennett]

I'm not sure. Maybe you can copy the information in the Excel file to a Google Sheet then share the link of that.

How did I not think of this? Thanks mate.

 

[Jason Bennett]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19oX9EumiMiLVj-V89OYt-e6vNDwo60AUKZ4XFVHaCoo/edit?usp=sharing

 

[byzantine04]

Rejected from Notre Dame.

 

[AbeC]

Rejected from Notre Dame.

Same