Columbia University Physics Graduate School Admission Results

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This page shows the recent graduate admission results for Columbia University. These results automatically update with new admission results submissions, so you can check back to see when others have been accepted, rejected, or waitlisted to specific schools and programs.

School Program Added On Decision
Columbia University
Physics PhD
March 18, 2025
Rejected on 18 Mar
Total comments
Rejected on 18 Mar
Fall 2025
International
GPA 3.50

Emailed to check portal.

Columbia University
Physics PhD
March 18, 2025
Rejected on 18 Mar
Total comments
Rejected on 18 Mar
Fall 2025
International
Columbia University
Physics PhD
March 18, 2025
Rejected on 18 Mar
Total comments
Rejected on 18 Mar
Fall 2025
International
GPA 3.85
Columbia University
Physics PhD
March 18, 2025
Rejected on 18 Mar
Total comments
Rejected on 18 Mar
Fall 2025
International
Columbia University
Physics PhD
March 18, 2025
Rejected on 18 Mar
Total comments
Rejected on 18 Mar
Fall 2025
International
Columbia University
Physics PhD
March 13, 2025
Rejected on 13 Mar
Total comments
Rejected on 13 Mar
Fall 2025
American
GPA 3.97

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.

Columbia University
Physics PhD
March 13, 2025
Rejected on 13 Mar
Total comments
Rejected on 13 Mar
Fall 2025
International
Columbia University
Physics PhD
March 13, 2025
Rejected on 13 Mar
Total comments
Rejected on 13 Mar
Fall 2025
American
GPA 3.40

experimental particle

Columbia University
Physics PhD
March 13, 2025
Rejected on 13 Mar
Total comments
Rejected on 13 Mar
Fall 2025
International
GPA 3.50

Generic Rejection, email to check portal. Cosmo-theory

Columbia University
Physics PhD
March 11, 2025
Wait listed on 11 Mar
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Wait listed on 11 Mar
Fall 2025
American

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

Columbia University
Physics PhD
March 04, 2025
Wait listed on 3 Mar
Total comments
Wait listed on 3 Mar
Fall 2025
International
GPA 3.90
Columbia University
Physics PhD
February 26, 2025
Accepted on 26 Feb
Total comments
Accepted on 26 Feb
Fall 2025
American

particle experiment

Columbia University
Physics PhD
February 26, 2025
Wait listed on 26 Feb
Total comments
Wait listed on 26 Feb
Fall 2025
American

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

Columbia University
Physics PhD
February 25, 2025
Rejected on 25 Feb
Total comments
Rejected on 25 Feb
Fall 2025
American
Columbia University
Physics PhD
February 25, 2025
Accepted on 25 Feb
Total comments
Accepted on 25 Feb
Fall 2025
International
Columbia University
Physics PhD
January 19, 2025
Wait listed on 19 Jan
Total comments
Wait listed on 19 Jan
Fall 2025
International
Columbia University
Physics PhD
April 15, 2024
Rejected on 15 Apr
Total comments
Rejected on 15 Apr
Fall 2024
American

Was waitlisted for a month prior to the update email

Columbia University
Physics PhD
April 15, 2024
Wait listed on 13 Mar
Total comments
Wait listed on 13 Mar
Fall 2024
International

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!

Columbia University
Physics PhD
March 19, 2024
Rejected on 18 Mar
Total comments
Rejected on 18 Mar
Fall 2024
American
GPA 3.80

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

Columbia University
Physics And Astronomy PhD
March 18, 2024
Rejected on 18 Mar
Total comments
Rejected on 18 Mar
Fall 2024
American

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