University Of Chicago Graduate School Admission Results

No GRE, no publications, waitlisted on April 1st, international. I probably got in with my essay. Never give up.

Pending the grad admissions office. This was direct from the physics department.

No GRE.

No gre. Top choice

Did astrophysics for undergrad @ UC Berkeley, strong LORs (one from the Astronomy dept. chair), multicultural background, self supporting student, transfer student from a California community college. No publications, but did over a year of research in cosmology/data science through a postdoctoral fellow working for DESI at the LBNL, and have plenty of extracurriculars under my belt.

Did astrophysics for undergrad @ UC Berkeley (top 5 programs in the world for the major), strong LORs (one from the Astronomy dept. chair), multicultural background, self supporting student, transfer student from a California community college. No publications, but did over a year of research, and have plenty of extracurriculars under my belt. Got into Carnegie Mellon MS-DAS.

UChicago is my top choice. If you are thinking of declining your offer, could you do so asap? Thank you so much ????????????❤️

Emailed asking for a status update, and lo and behold

If anyone has dominant offers pls reject.. this is my only waitlist 0a/1w/11r/2p

Received an email that reads "I am writing you as the Chair of the UIC Physics Graduate Admissions Committee. I wanted to let you know that the committee has recommended you for admission, however, the process of your application fee waiver might take a while. In the meantime, I wanted to ask if you have already accepted any other offers and whether you are still interested in joining UIC. Looking forward to hearing back from you," I think this should count as "Acceptance". Having received multiple other offers, I immediately declined the offer so that the one who is eagerly waiting for his/her first offer could get the admission.

Has anyone heard anything or had movement from the waitlist for UIC’s program for writers? I got waitlisted a while ago and I am starting to lose hope :,)