Graduate School Admission Results

4.0 Grad GPA, IMF RA

TBP industry bro(ette): I feel you, similar boat rn and profile. I'd like to believe that in a normal year we'd have some better news by now, but everything seems to be a downward shift with higher variance. See you at a Big 4 consulting firm retreat when we're vacationing in Malibu! :)

Accepted w/funding

With funding. Received letter by email.

Only getting rejections so far 0a/8r/5p tough cycle

Top 10 undergrad econ+math, pre doc 2 yrs. Got 13 rejections, 2 pending. Bye Economics ( Will go to industry

Got an email saying my status would be updated on Tuesday, got the update to rejection today. I have a Master's, undergraduate publication, some analyst experience, and a paper under review with some professors from my alma mater, a pretty low-tier state school. Not surprising. But this is the first school I've heard from so we'll see how the rest go.

The Economics Admissions Committee has reviewed your application and in a typical year we would have been very excited to recommend to the School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Division of the University of Pennsylvania to admit you to our Ph.D. program and offer you funding. However, due to the financial impact of the Covid pandemic, we are not authorized by the School to admit anyone with funding from the School this year. We do, however, expect to assemble a very strong incoming class consisting of individuals who will have outside funding initially and the Department will use its internal funds to support most students starting in their second or third year in the program. To help us plan, could you please answer the following two questions: 1. Do you have or expect to receive any outside funding that can be used to fund one or more years in the Penn Ph.D. program (both tuition and living expenses)? Could you please provide any details about this funding, e.g., source, amount, duration, etc. 2. Given our inability to fund you early on in the program, are you still interested in potentially joining our program or have other alternatives that would dominate UPenn given the unfortunate circumstances?

[NOT waitlist] TPBB: UPenn is not accepting anyone without external funding this year. I guess every offer holder gets the same email.

TPB: that was known since september. That is why I did not apply for their program: h ttps:// www .thedp.com /article/2020/09/graduate-student-programs-canceled-upenn

TPB: that was known since september. That is why I did not apply for their program: https://www .thedp.com/article/2020/09/graduate-student-programs-canceled-upenn

TPB: that was known since september. That is why I did not apply for their program: https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/09/graduate-student-programs-canceled-upenn

Acceptance email w/ 20k funding! Woohoo!

TPB: Also haven't heard anything and no status update. Given the wave of accepts/rejects, think I'm taking it as a waitlist for now.

Got an email saying they are not going to accept me with funding. This is their policy for this year. Asking if I have any external funding. Not sure if this is an acceptance/email sent to all candidates.

I will decline soon. Best of luck to those on the waitlist!

[Not WL] Anyone else heard nothing from these guys? Is it an implicit waitlist?

It was my dream school, it is a difficult year.

well I think that's the end for me

Accepted with some funding (about 28k given in first year, no mention of years 2+)