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Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:21 pm
by YNWA2406
Hey all I thought I'd set up a quick and easy way for people to tell where they actually decide to go when they decide. Basically like GradCafe and the Admissions topic, but only for where people have officially chosen to go. Now I haven't yet chosen where to go but I'm sure there are people out there who have or are on the verge of deciding and I thought this would be a good thing to consolidate everyone's final choices.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:50 pm
by dasgut
I think this thread's a great idea! :)

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:08 am
by dragoonlp
Yea, ill post here after I made my decision!

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:47 am
by mrcrzister
This is still early for decisions I think but this thread is a good start!

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:54 am
by bemonocled
I have basically decided to go to UCLA at this point. I visited last Friday and had an awesome time and was amazed to not find a single unhappy grad student (though maybe only the happy ones come to the visiting day!). And the professors all seemed very enthusiastic. I'm too nervous to take the final plunge and sign the dotted line just yet, though. Maybe an Escape from LA scenario will play out next week and the entire city will be destroyed. Probably. Definitely.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:03 pm
by mreek
I've officially accepted Rice's offer. :)

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:15 pm
by bemonocled
I took a deep breath and went ahead and accepted the offer from UCLA. Now with spring break next week it is time for maximum relaxation! Good luck to everyone still figuring out where to go!

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:22 pm
by Txe
I have also decided to accept UCLA's offer. I visited last friday also and that pretty much sealed the deal for me.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 10:55 pm
by sywisy
+1 on UCLA. It's almost unfair, them flying us out to a sunny wonderland in the middle of winter.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:17 am
by mrcrzister
I've officially accepted Cornell offer.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:52 am
by Muzikus
Accepted Vanderbilt offer.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:30 pm
by quinquenion
Accepted an offer at MIT. In the process of calling/emailing/writing all the other schools.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:35 pm
by YNWA2406
Accepted Maryland AMSC offer.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:42 pm
by wine in coffee cups
Accepted Univ of Washington offer (statistics).

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:25 am
by mathgirl28
Just accepted Berkeley's offer :-)

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:59 am
by dragoonlp
Accepted CMU's offer. Their fellowship is very good!

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:08 am
by macha052
dragoonlp just curious what program at CMU?

I am still waiting to hear from them.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:18 pm
by metalshredder
I'll be at University of Colorado Boulder for their applied math PhD program.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:50 am
by goombayao
Accepted ICES @ UT Austin.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:04 am
by vonLipwig
Accepted offer from Stanford. (PhD in pure maths)

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:49 pm
by arsenalmath
Accepted Rice CAAM offer.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:17 pm
by ANDS
Emory University, BioStats.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 11:35 am
by kingcrimson
Accepted Binghamton offer.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 5:41 pm
by castlevania87
accepted the offer from NYU-Courant

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:20 pm
by sywisy
castlevania87 wrote:accepted the offer from NYU-Courant
Good choice!

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:21 am
by castlevania87
sywisy wrote:
castlevania87 wrote:accepted the offer from NYU-Courant
Good choice!
haha, I just turned down offers from uw and umich. How about you ?

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:17 am
by sywisy
castlevania87 wrote:
sywisy wrote:
castlevania87 wrote:accepted the offer from NYU-Courant
Good choice!
haha, I just turned down offers from uw and umich. How about you ?
What do you think?

Hint: Look up :roll:

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:44 am
by betafj
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Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:46 pm
by andeek
Accepted offer from Iowa State University (Statistics PhD) :D

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 7:00 pm
by bawaji
Anybody else going to UT Austin?

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:09 pm
by kuz
Accepted offer from Princeton.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:36 pm
by deckoff8
USC pure math for me

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:01 am
by DanielMcLaury
The short answer: UIC.

The long one: My decision came down to Purdue versus UGA by April, but then I received a last-minute offer from UIC. Spent some time evaluating and ultimately accepted the UIC offer on 4/11 and declined UGA and Purdue. Purdue responded by offering a one-year fellowship on 4/12 and then a two-year fellowship on 4/13; $20k/year each.

While attempting to process this on 4/13, the tornado sirens go off, the math building loses power, and we all walk down twelve flights of stairs to the basement in the dark. (Fortunately, our math building was built as a fallout shelter.) It ripped up Main Street pretty bad; we even made the Weather Channel!

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At this point in the story, there are more tornadoes to come for the rest of the weekend, including those that would ultimately demolish Woodward, OK and Wichita, KS. Evacuate to Dallas; just end up telling Purdue to pass the fellowship on to someone else.

I'm still pretty happy about going to UIC -- their program is a bit closer to my research interests, which is why I picked it in the first place, and I've got a lot of friends in Chicago who I'd already told I was coming. But maybe I can serve as an instructive example to next year's crop that you should always free up the days around 4/15 in case something comes up.

Re: Fall 2012 Decisions

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:46 am
by jaywalker
I'm most likely going to GW...anyone else plan on going there?