Columbia University Physics Graduate School Admission Results

Emailed to check portal.

Email to check portal. Year three. Three full cycles of rejections. Every single program, every single application—denied. Again. I graduated two years ago from a T10 university with a B.Sc. in physics and mathematics with a minor in physical chemistry. Eight years of research experience in high-energy theory and experiment—two at a university while still in high school, four during undergrad, and two more post-graduation. I took two semesters of graduate-level coursework as an undergrad. Spent summers in three NSF REU programs, attended a summer school in high-energy theory, and another in experimental particle physics. Completed a year-long senior thesis on top of my ongoing research at my home university. Published multiple papers, five first author. Presented at three undergraduate research symposia, two mixed symposia, and two major conferences. Three years as a teaching assistant in undergrad. The last year spent as a physics instructor at a community college. Like an 880 on the PGRE. This cycle, I changed everything. New essays, a reworked CV, three entirely different recommenders, a new fourth recommender. It didn’t matter. The outcome was the same. I have no idea what else I could have done. No idea what I’m missing. No idea if there was ever a path forward in the first place, or if I was just clinging to the illusion of one. Physics doesn’t want me. I get it now. Good luck to everyone else. If you aren't Vishnu himself you evidently aren't good enough for physics.

experimental particle

Generic Rejection, email to check portal. Cosmo-theory

Ignore status. Has anyone heard anything from Columbia? Should I assume rejection at this point?

particle experiment

If anyone in cosmology/hep-th is not interested in Columbia PLEASE DECLINE… I really want to go!!

Was waitlisted for a month prior to the update email

CMP. Columbia is My dream program that perfectly fist my research interest. please decline if you have better offers! Tons of thanks and wish you luck in your graduate study!

AMO ex. Interviewed about a month ago, thought it went really well…guess not lol