Programs Good 2008 Physics Phd and M.S. Applicant Resource

[breakfree2002]

Hi everyone.

I discovered an excellent resource for graduate school applications.

* List of US Graduate School Physics Programs.

http://www.yuster.com/school/get_universities_for_major/6

* Admission Results & Decisions from many different Physics Programs

http://www.yuster.com/school/get_major_responses/6

* Subscribe for alerts on when your program has started to send out admission decisions.

http://www.yuster.com/school/rss

* General Graduate School Admission Resources.
http://www.yuster.com

Hope you find these useful!

 

[dpackard]

Mmm, I'm just an undergrad currently looking in general at grad school possibilities, but those acceptance rates (in the first link) seem pretty high to me... Harvard, Columbia, Caltech at around 70%, MIT at 100%... the only seemingly selective ones are Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Santa Barbara and Chicago. Is there more to this than meets the eye?

 

[JasonJo]

Mmm, I'm just an undergrad currently looking in general at grad school possibilities, but those acceptance rates (in the first link) seem pretty high to me... Harvard, Columbia, Caltech at around 70%, MIT at 100%... the only seemingly selective ones are Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Santa Barbara and Chicago. Is there more to this than meets the eye?

This site is obviously not tracking every applicant.

 

[tuna_wasabi]

Looked strange at first to me too. I think the deal with this site is that you sign up and record your progress in applying (I applied here, I got accepted there). These are the acceptance rates for members of the site.

I guess that means just registering boosts your chances of getting accepted.

 

[breakfree2002]

It's really user reported information. So the statistics are definitely skewed.

However, it is still interesting to view the profiles of those that do get admitted to get a rough sense of the type of profiles that the successful applicants have.

It is also useful after you have submitted your apps and are waiting for a response, because it tells you when other people hear back, so you can get a rough idea of when you will hear back.

Cheers,
Henry

 

[breakfree2002]

i wish i registering would boost my chance...but no alas...just got a ding!