I forgot that Brown required the GRE, so I was probably rejected by default lol.

Sent an email by a POI accepting me and requesting a Zoom meeting to get to know me better. Said that open house will be February and official offer letters come after that :)

Interview requested by email on 1/27. Applied for hep-ex. Interview in the next few days.

The email was sent to me close to midnight. Experimental condensed matter. My heart was beating out of my chest when I saw the notification, this is my top choice due to PI fit.

Yay

Informal email from the committee. CMT

AMO-ex; got an email from one of the PI I mentioned in the PS on Friday night for an interview and we arranged it for Saturday

Canadian applicant. HEP-Ex

hep-ex, unofficial offer

Carnegie-USC Graduate Fellowship

hep-theory

AMO-Ex. Contact with two professors who both seemed to like me.

PHEW!! My first acceptance. I got an email from a faculty member today saying I will get a more formal notice soon. No interview, no GRE. I'm focused on cosmology. I actually applied to PhD programs 2 years ago, got in nowhere, and ended up doing a masters' degree in astrophysics overseas. Got decent grades and did a cosmology-focused thesis. My first publication (first-author, but not cosmology) was also accepted by the Astronomical Journal yesterday and I immediately emailed all the programs to let them know. I got admitted to Wisconsin-Madison ~24 hours later and I'm not sure if that was a coincidence or not.