Unofficial acceptance by email with details and financial package to come!

Unofficial acceptance email with details to come. hep-th

funding + 2 fellowships ($3000 each)

Condensed matter experiment

CMT

CMT/Quantum Information

Wow my dream school. Did not expect to get in. 3rd author on one publication. Solid state. Email from PI

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Got a phone call saying I was off the waitlist!

email to ask my status, get the same response as the previous guy: Although not all final decisions have been made, we are unlikely to offer you admission this year

Emailed Angela Sharma to find out. She wrote back "Although not all final decisions have been made, we are unlikely to offer you admission this year."

I asked them to inform my admission status 10 days ago, and they replied me this morning "You are on a wait list". It does not matter because I am not going to Davis anyway. They also says, "I know that's frustrating, because you will accept somewhere else by April 15. Please keep in mind that accepting an offer by April 15 does not preclude you from changing your mind based on new data received after April 15. You simply have to request the other institution to release you, and they will, because no institution would stand in the way of students who would rather be somewhere else." Hope this helps.

Seems sun-bath is banned for international students in UCSB. :D Anyway, I have other offers.

My advice to future international applicants: Do so only if you have a strong reason to believe you'll get in. I haven't heard about any international (with undergrad outside US) who was accepted this time.