Physics GRE Discussion Forums

Thanks for helping me out, please keep correcting me.

NOTE: different people may be contacted at different dates, these are just to give a rough idea of when decisions are being sent out

PHYSICS departments people have heard from so far:
Boston College: 02/10/09
Boston University: 02/10/09
Brandeis University: 02/07/09
Brown University: 02/18/09
California Institute of Technology: 02/13/09
Carnegie Mellon University: 02/20/09
College of William and Mary: 01/28/09
Columbia University: 02/17/09
Cornell University: 01/30/09
Drexel University: 02/13/09
Duke University: 01/27/09
Harvard University: 02/20/09
John Hopkins University: 02/02/09
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 02/05/09
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: 02/10/09
North Carolina State University:
Northern Illinois University: 02/03/09
Ohio State University: 01/30/09
Pennsylvania State University: 02/18/09
Princeton University: 02/25/09
Rice University: 02/17/09
Rutgers: 01/09/09
Stanford University: 02/27/09
Texas A&M University: 02/02/09
University of Alberta: 02/03/09
University of California-Berkeley: 02/03/09
University of California-Davis: 02/06/09
University of California-Irvine: 02/05/09
University of California-Los Angeles: 02/20/09
University of California-Riverside: 01/22/09
University of California-Santa Barbara: 02/06/09
University of California-Santa Cruz: 01/28/09
University of California-San Diego: 01/26/09
University of Chicago: 02/19/09
University of Colorado-Boulder: 02/20/09
University of Delaware: 01/09/09
University of Florida: 01/23/09
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign: 02/18/09
University of Maryland-College Park: 02/27/09
University of Minnesota: 02/13/09
University of Missouri: 01/30/09
University of New Hampshire: 01/28/09
University of Notre Dame: 02/05/09
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: 02/05/09
University of Oregon: 01/24/09
University of Pennsylvania: 01/29/09
University of Pittsburgh: 02/10/09
University of Rochester: 02/05/09
University of Texas-Austin: 02/02/09
University of Washington-Seattle: 01/17/09
University of Waterloo: 01/15/09
University of Wisconsin-Madison: 01/30/09
University of Vienna: 01/22/09
University of Virgina: 02/04/09
Yale University: 02/11/09

Theoretischer wrote:The profile thread is a bit overwhelming to scroll/read through and it include many non-physics departments making it confusing (for me at least, I still do not know if UCLA medical physics is the same as their physics).

PHYSICS departments people have heard from so far:
Cornell
UWashington
UWisconsin
Ohio State
Waterloo
USC
UCSD
UFlorida
UDelaware
Rutgers
North Carolina State
Berkeley
Columbia
U Southern California
UC Riverside
Duke University
U New Hampshire
UPenn
Mizzou
UVienna
W&M

USC and Soutern California are the same thing in this case, just avoid confusion

Columbia should be taken off that list... Chemical Physics is a different department than Physics.

EDIT: Also, the Berkeley decision was for the Biophysics program, not Physics.

I think UCLA Medical Physics is a separate program.

UCSC decisions are for astronomy only. I believe.

bosem wrote:UCSC decisions are for astronomy only. I believe.

And there haven't even been UCSC astronomy admissions yet.

Well I don't plan to be accepted to UCSC but I hope it is truly just for Astro. and not for Phys. - keep the hope alive for as long as possible .

If that "Princeton" is my interview on Friday, that was actually for the (separate) plasma physics program.

I also think Ohio State decisions have only been for Astro programs so far. Or so it seems.

coreycwgriffin wrote:I also think Ohio State decisions have only been for Astro programs so far. Or so it seems.

there is one physics afaik so it is okay... still waiting for mine

Helio wrote:

coreycwgriffin wrote:I also think Ohio State decisions have only been for Astro programs so far. Or so it seems.

there is one physics afaik so it is okay... still waiting for mine

Same in my case, then.

It is college of William and Mary.
heard that Virginia University is deciding soon. (like in 1 or 2 days) [2/3]

UT-Austin Physics started today as well

I checked my application status for Stony Brook (http://graduate.physics.sunysb.edu/cgi- ... tudent.cgi) and it has been changed from just saying 'complete' to the following:

"Your file has been reviewed. You will receive a notification about the decision in a few days.
Although a decision has been made, we need time to make a final check on the documents received with the application. Also, sending a notification to you directly (instead of posting the result here) protects your privacy. Please be patient."

Looks like decisions may go out soon!

WhatCanYouDoFermi? wrote:I checked my application status for Stony Brook (http://graduate.physics.sunysb.edu/cgi- ... tudent.cgi) and it has been changed from just saying 'complete' to the following:

"Your file has been reviewed. You will receive a notification about the decision in a few days.
Although a decision has been made, we need time to make a final check on the documents received with the application. Also, sending a notification to you directly (instead of posting the result here) protects your privacy. Please be patient."

Looks like decisions may go out soon!

Just checked mine...still "Your file is complete and it is under review by the Admissions Committee."

Hope that doesn't mean it's a rejection...

My status for Stony Brook still says its incomplete. They are missing one of my transcripts. WTF, considering I personally send them both in the same envelope

trani wrote:My status for Stony Brook still says its incomplete. They are missing one of my transcripts. WTF, considering I personally send them both in the same envelope

there is nothing better than a secretary with no clue in this world.

Helio wrote:

trani wrote:My status for Stony Brook still says its incomplete. They are missing one of my transcripts. WTF, considering I personally send them both in the same envelope

there is nothing better than a secretary with no clue in this world.

I'm sure they were biting their nails just as hard as us when they were waiting to hear if they got into their Interpretive Dance MA program that turned out oh-so well for them, haha.

coreycwgriffin wrote:

Helio wrote:

trani wrote:My status for Stony Brook still says its incomplete. They are missing one of my transcripts. WTF, considering I personally send them both in the same envelope

there is nothing better than a secretary with no clue in this world.

I'm sure they were biting their nails just as hard as us when they were waiting to hear if they got into their Interpretive Dance MA program that turned out oh-so well for them, haha.

ironically one of my favorite professors has an MFA in dance and a phd in geography

coreycwgriffin wrote:

Helio wrote:

trani wrote:My status for Stony Brook still says its incomplete. They are missing one of my transcripts. WTF, considering I personally send them both in the same envelope

there is nothing better than a secretary with no clue in this world.

I'm sure they were biting their nails just as hard as us when they were waiting to hear if they got into their Interpretive Dance MA program that turned out oh-so well for them, haha.

HAHA!!
(but maybe someday someone will be saying that about us and our physics degrees!)

coreycwgriffin wrote:

WhatCanYouDoFermi? wrote:I checked my application status for Stony Brook (http://graduate.physics.sunysb.edu/cgi- ... tudent.cgi) and it has been changed from just saying 'complete' to the following:

"Your file has been reviewed. You will receive a notification about the decision in a few days.
Although a decision has been made, we need time to make a final check on the documents received with the application. Also, sending a notification to you directly (instead of posting the result here) protects your privacy. Please be patient."

Looks like decisions may go out soon!

Just checked mine...still "Your file is complete and it is under review by the Admissions Committee."

Hope that doesn't mean it's a rejection...

Just checked today, and now my online status reads the same. I hope this is a good sign...

Just heard back From UC - Irvine.

UNC Chapel Hill accepted me today.

aristotle wrote:Just heard back From UC - Irvine.

tshafer wrote:UNC Chapel Hill accepted me today.

Congrats

MIT apparently has made some decisions; I got an informal e-mail about 1.5 hours ago from an admissions professor regarding my admission.

aristotle wrote:Just heard back From UC - Irvine.

Me too! Looks like we got a similar deal.

UCSB should be out. just got an email.

just got an informal call from a professor at UCSC, it seems they're pretty close to making decisions.

Someone on the gradcafe got accepted to Rutgers today via email. Anyone else hear from them?

PoincareSection wrote:Someone on the gradcafe got accepted to Rutgers today via email. Anyone else hear from them?

Note yet, just checked online and my status says "No decision."

Just got a phone call from UPenn prof from the group I applied too

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Congrats.

Hoping to hear some good news from Davis as well...

Anyone hear from the University of Virginia yet?

luckybohr wrote:UCSB should be out. just got an email.

Really? I haven't heard anything from anyone else...

vicente wrote:Anyone hear from the University of Virginia yet?

Yea, unfortunately. I was hoping to get in there, it appears this person got accepted last week -> http://www.physicsgre.com/viewtopic.php ... 778#p17778

On 2/10 I heard from:

University of Pittsburgh

Boston University

Boston College

Accepted to Brown Physics today.

Texas A&M physics Feb 13.

heard from cornell applied physics today, and from michigan-ann arbor physics on 2/10

just heard from Penn State

Yep, Penn's state first wave is out
500 applicants for 20 spots

tmc wrote:Yep, Penn's state first wave is out
500 applicants for 20 spots

that's what happens when you waive the application fee...

nonick wrote:

tmc wrote:Yep, Penn's state first wave is out
500 applicants for 20 spots

that's what happens when you waive the application fee...

yep~~Hopeless~

Harvard opens the floodgates

a13ean wrote:Harvard opens the floodgates

Congratulations!!!

trani wrote:

a13ean wrote:Harvard opens the floodgates

Congratulations!!!

Thanks, see you at the UW open house

d'you guys know if Harvard has released all admissions ( or if it was just the first wave )?

babazula wrote:d'you guys know if Harvard has released all admissions ( or if it was just the first wave )?

Here's hoping that they have another one coming for international students. So far it seems only Americans students have been admitted...

It's also open season at Boulder

UCLA physics also started notifying today.