Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by is2718 » Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:48 am

Congratulations, CoxZucker_Machine! :D

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by Gasquet » Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:59 am

Manyfolds wrote:@Gasquet: How do you know that applied math means more waiting time? Are you looking at grad cafe results from previous years? I bet we also have tons of programs in common...
Yep. From what I saw, many schools start sending out results in pure math before applied math. Hopefully we should start hearing back this week.

Probably. You can look at the schools I have applied to in the profiles thread. Maybe you could post yours there too.

Regarding the 80th percentile in MGRE for Berkeley, I believe there was a thread about it.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by Eowyn » Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:47 am

@L3inad Could you please tell me what specific sub-field of mathematics have you written about as your prospective research interest in your statement to the University of Illinois Urbana? I mean, I'm somebody who's mostly interested in probability, and I don't know whether schools send out offers/rejections at different points of time depending on the subjects people are interested in. But your post kind of suggested that the second round is mostly the specialists in your chosen area looking through your application. So that's why I was just wondering...

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by math789 » Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:19 pm

Just got an acceptence from applied math at MIT

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by marco » Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:28 pm

I see Purdue University has sent some acceptances (according to grad cafe). Was that applied math acceptance official?

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by L3inad » Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:06 pm

Eowyn wrote:@L3inad Could you please tell me what specific sub-field of mathematics have you written about as your prospective research interest in your statement to the University of Illinois Urbana? I mean, I'm somebody who's mostly interested in probability, and I don't know whether schools send out offers/rejections at different points of time depending on the subjects people are interested in. But your post kind of suggested that the second round is mostly the specialists in your chosen area looking through your application. So that's why I was just wondering...
I am interested in combinatorics. More specifically, I am interested in probabilistic methods. So far I have only heard back from schools that have an emphasis on this field. I have not heard back from the schools that are good in algebra per say.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by Gasquet » Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:46 am

math789 wrote:Just got an acceptence from applied math at MIT
Applied math at MIT and pure at Princeton. That's quite a feat. Congratulations.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by rmg512 » Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:41 am

My Buckeye Link page on Ohio State University's website (so, go to MyOSU) has the following, though I never received any official notification and my application is still under review apparently:
3 Department Internal Procedure Completed Graduate Program Office

This item will be completed by the program if admission is offered to you - no action is required on your part. Having a status of "Incomplete" will not delay the processing of your application.
So... have I been admitted? Looks like it!

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by frgf » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:27 am

rmg512 wrote:My Buckeye Link page on Ohio State University's website (so, go to MyOSU) has the following, though I never received any official notification and my application is still under review apparently:
3 Department Internal Procedure Completed Graduate Program Office

This item will be completed by the program if admission is offered to you - no action is required on your part. Having a status of "Incomplete" will not delay the processing of your application.
So... have I been admitted? Looks like it!

Great, have to add "visit each online application" to my hourly rotation of email, mathematicsgre.com, and gradcafe results.

PS congrats :)

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by colldood » Wed Jan 30, 2013 7:53 am

frgf wrote:my hourly rotation of email, mathematicsgre.com, and gradcafe results
Hourly? You are truly a man of restraint.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by wolverine » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:06 am

Guys! Any thoughts on timelines for Master's admission results? [MIT, Stanford, Columbia, UChicago, Northwestern,Yale | Stats or Operations research programs]

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by math_applicant » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:26 am

This item is checked as completed on my application too and I didn't get any email notifications either. Do you think we should email them and ask ?
rmg512 wrote:My Buckeye Link page on Ohio State University's website (so, go to MyOSU) has the following, though I never received any official notification and my application is still under review apparently:
3 Department Internal Procedure Completed Graduate Program Office

This item will be completed by the program if admission is offered to you - no action is required on your part. Having a status of "Incomplete" will not delay the processing of your application.
So... have I been admitted? Looks like it!

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by marco » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:38 am

Has anybody heard from UT Austin? I see two acceptances on grad cafe and I'm starting to get nervous :oops: .

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by holomorphic » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:45 am

math_applicant wrote:This item is checked as completed on my application too and I didn't get any email notifications either. Do you think we should email them and ask ?
rmg512 wrote:My Buckeye Link page on Ohio State University's website (so, go to MyOSU) has the following, though I never received any official notification and my application is still under review apparently:
3 Department Internal Procedure Completed Graduate Program Office

This item will be completed by the program if admission is offered to you - no action is required on your part. Having a status of "Incomplete" will not delay the processing of your application.
So... have I been admitted? Looks like it!
I have got official acceptance from OSU via email a few days ago, but I'm going to decline it as I have got better offer. For my case, actually I've got 'completed' status on 'department internal procedure' since long time ago, once I completed all the admission requirements (i.e. send transcripts, test scores, etc.).
Once I got official acceptance, there are additional comments in myOSU status on 'department internal procedure' column saying 'dept will pay', and there will be additional rows on 'Graduate program funding', saying that 'you have been awarded financial support from your graduate program'. In my case, even after I got official acceptance, the status is still 'in review' though.

Just some information for those who are interested.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by winterman62 » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:52 am

For some reason, on the OSU application status website my general GRE scores are marked as recieved, but my subject scores haven't arrived. This is very strange, since I sent them together. Anyone else have this problem?

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by STP » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:27 am

winterman62 wrote:For some reason, on the OSU application status website my general GRE scores are marked as recieved, but my subject scores haven't arrived. This is very strange, since I sent them together. Anyone else have this problem?
I had that problem before. I sent an email to gradadmis@esue.ohio-state.edu and had them update my GRE Subject status.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by waiting512 » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:31 am

My OSU appstatus says that I am missing pretty much everything, although I know that that is not true. From what I can ascertain, it seems that there is a new admin asst who has not quite figured out the digital filing system.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by waiting512 » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:48 am

I emailed the OSU and got a quick response saying my application was complete.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by allin1 » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:49 am

waiting512 wrote:My OSU appstatus says that I am missing pretty much everything, although I know that that is not true. From what I can ascertain, it seems that there is a new admin asst who has not quite figured out the digital filing system.
I want to change my application for that job in the admission office instead of the PhD program!! :lol:

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by allin1 » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:53 am

waiting512 wrote:I emailed the OSU and got a quick response saying my application was complete.

My appstats says that the internal procedure was incomplete and I am thinking about calling the department graduate program coordinator to ask if there is any final decision on my application or should I just email them?

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by waiting512 » Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:22 pm

They won't have made a decision yet. The committee typically agrees on which international students to admit earlier because of the complications with visas that require more time. If you are international then you should call, if not they probably have not made a decision yet.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by Gasquet » Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:43 pm

It seems that UCLA just sent out a truck load of rejections today.

On another note, the applied math wait continues. :roll:

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by apollo » Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:23 pm

Looks like UT Austin will be sending out its first wave soon... Just got accepted.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by colldood » Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:56 pm

All the UT Austin acceptances are by domestic students on gradcafe. Perhaps that means some of us aren't totally screwed...

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by kunnysan » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:17 pm

waiting512 wrote:They won't have made a decision yet. The committee typically agrees on which international students to admit earlier because of the complications with visas that require more time. If you are international then you should call, if not they probably have not made a decision yet.
Will UCLA make decisions for international students this or coming week? I mean, till now all the acceptance and rejections from UCLA are of American applicants, according to gradcafe. :?

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by apollo » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:25 pm

colldood wrote:All the UT Austin acceptances are by domestic students on gradcafe. Perhaps that means some of us aren't totally screwed...
Oh yeah. Nobody's "screwed" yet. The email I got seemed official enough though, so I was expecting more to pop up on the gradcafe forum. Perhaps UT isn't admitting people in waves...

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by marco » Wed Jan 30, 2013 3:07 pm

apollo wrote:
colldood wrote:All the UT Austin acceptances are by domestic students on gradcafe. Perhaps that means some of us aren't totally screwed...
Oh yeah. Nobody's "screwed" yet. The email I got seemed official enough though, so I was expecting more to pop up on the gradcafe forum. Perhaps UT isn't admitting people in waves...
Hope they have not finished sending offers and hopefully they have not begun sending offers to international students like me.
I am international and have not received anything.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by L3inad » Wed Jan 30, 2013 3:44 pm

I just received an official admission from Yale!

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by apollo » Wed Jan 30, 2013 7:18 pm

Congrats L3inad! Official or unofficial?

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by marco » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:00 pm

I checked my UT Austin application status and it says:
"Your file has been forwarded to the Graduate Committee for review. As soon as a decision is made it will be posted on this page and you will be notified by email."

Do you guys think this is good or bad considering that I am international and have not received anything?
Does UT Austin send rejection emails?

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by apollo » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:29 pm

marco wrote:I checked my UT Austin application status and it says:
"Your file has been forwarded to the Graduate Committee for review. As soon as a decision is made it will be posted on this page and you will be notified by email."

Do you guys think this is good or bad considering that I am international and have not received anything?
Does UT Austin send rejection emails?
Mine still looks like that. They will most likely notify you of the decision before it changes online, I'd imagine. Just my guess though.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by L3inad » Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:17 am

apollo wrote:Congrats L3inad! Official or unofficial?
Official. I received an unofficial email two days ago and today they emailed me to log onto the application and saw the decision. The package info will be sent regular mail. They also sent me via email the info to go visit the campus.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by Gasquet » Thu Jan 31, 2013 6:20 am

frgf wrote:my hourly rotation of email, mathematicsgre.com, and gradcafe results.
The same hourly rotation is really futile in the daytime of the Indian time zone.

No new emails(from schools), (practically) no new posts here, (practically) no new results GC.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by stfan104 » Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:59 am

Did anyone get official notification from Ohio State? I checked my app status and it said I was accepted, but aside from that nothing else.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by Manyfolds » Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:00 am

There's a Berkeley acceptance...

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by marco » Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:21 am

There are also some international acceptances by UT Austin. Not feeling so hot about my chances now...

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by marco » Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:28 pm

This thread has been unusually silent today...

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by longtm1989 » Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:37 pm

marco wrote:This thread has been unusually silent today...
I think I am getting more patient, and learning how to accept whatever results, despite how bad they are. I guess it's the same for others...

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by generic_username » Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:06 pm

marco wrote:This thread has been unusually silent today...
too busy checking gradcafe every 3 minutes to post here

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by Eowyn » Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:46 pm

Just a general question to everybody: Has any of the people who are interested primarily in probability and have applied in mathematics departments received acceptances from these maths departments? In my institute, there are loads of people getting accepted in top-shot statistics programmes, but as yet, there's hardly a word from any of the maths departments that some of us have ventured to apply in.

For example, there are a number of admits in the pure and applied maths sections of MIT. But there's also a third subdivision in the maths department of MIT: probability and statistics. So, please let me know if some of you have started receiving offers from maths schools where you are interested in pursuing probability, especially if you are an international student.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by frgf » Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:23 pm

Eowyn wrote:Just a general question to everybody: Has any of the people who are interested primarily in probability and have applied in mathematics departments received acceptances from these maths departments? In my institute, there are loads of people getting accepted in top-shot statistics programmes, but as yet, there's hardly a word from any of the maths departments that some of us have ventured to apply in.

For example, there are a number of admits in the pure and applied maths sections of MIT. But there's also a third subdivision in the maths department of MIT: probability and statistics. So, please let me know if some of you have started receiving offers from maths schools where you are interested in pursuing probability, especially if you are an international student.
I'm interested in probability and I sent my applications to maths departments (Also international). Haven't heard anything yet. I'm starting to think I should've applied to stats programs, they seem much easier to get into.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by Eowyn » Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:08 pm

That is what it seems now. And maths programmes apparently take a whole lot of time to declare results. Minnesota and Washington both will declare their decisions no sooner than March. Illinois Urbana will probably bring out the results by the end of February. That's about the earliest.

But you know what? Applying in maths departments has certain advantages too. If we wish to study mainstream probability (and not just applied stuff, but hard-core theoretical business) then I guess apart from Berkeley Stat, there's hardly any stat department which can give us that flavour. Let's wait and see...(as if we can do anything else) :?

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by Gasquet » Fri Feb 01, 2013 12:37 am

A request to everyone who posts admits/rejects here.

Please mention whether pure or applied. And please also mention whether or not you have posted the result on gradcafe.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by Gasquet » Fri Feb 01, 2013 2:33 am

arxndo wrote:Congrats to those who have received admits.

It seems like Applied Math PhD departments will be sending out decisions (much) later than Pure Math PhD departments. I've talked to a few professors in applied math and operations research programs, and they said they've only just barely begun to look at applications, and that decisions probably won't come out until mid-February, at the earliest. So for us Applied Math applicants, it looks like the wait will be a bit longer.
Could you mention which schools you are referring to?

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by marco » Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:26 am

generic_username wrote:
marco wrote:This thread has been unusually silent today...
too busy checking gradcafe every 3 minutes to post here
True that!

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by JonMLTR » Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:10 am

I am feeling disoriented for the last few weeks because of checking email, mgre forum and Grad cafe constantly.
The only time I'm not online is when I am sleeping and I didn't have a good nights sleep for weeks now.

The only reply I got in the mean time was that one of my recommenders didn't submit his recommendations to one of my top choices but then the POI I contacted in that university told me that even 2 was enough and I shouldn't worry. Maybe he was talking about 2 being enough for getting rejected...

I hate this...

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by colldood » Fri Feb 01, 2013 10:00 am

I feel your pain my friend.

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by generic_username » Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:32 am

maybe all of us should hold off on posting decisions to gradcafe until mid march. that way, maybe next years applicants will think decisions don't come out until march, thus giving them the ability to get through february without constantly checking mgre, gradcafe and email...they might even be able to get some sleep......

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Re: Fall 2013 Application Sweat Thread

Post by meredith » Fri Feb 01, 2013 2:56 pm

So, I know all of you guys have been putting up with this for a couple of weeks now, but it's just starting to get close to the time when people have heard replies from the schools I'm applying to (according to grad cafe from previous years). However, I've been obsessing about it for a couple of weeks already and I'm starting to go crazy. Seriously.



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