Jesus people, take it easy. This isn't the end of anyone's life - worst case scenario, just apply to more places next year :-) The top schools are extremely competitive, and not getting into one does NOT mean that you aren't very capable of succeeding in physics.

Also no word from Stanford today for me. Perhaps our applications were just so bad and they didn't want to waste the effort on sending rejection emails? :(

Just want to kms. 5 years of CMX, HEP-th, and computational. 2 papers in high profile journals and a thesis. Plus great rec letters.

TTPB: I have not heard yet! I applied for hep-th/String theory.

TTPB: I have also not heard anything

hep-th

hep-th: received email from private @stanford.edu address stating rejection. Already accepted offer at top chocice (couldnt withdraw application)

HEP-ex; no interview.

Hep-th, was really hoping for this one :'(

Plenty of research, excellent rec letters and all that good stuff. Guess I'm not getting my phd in physics this year since it's 0/8. Oh well, I was already depressed, this is prolly the breaking point.

To the accepted people below: Congrats! Did you have interviews, and what are your subfields?

Astro - very surprised by this and likely to turn down the offer but :O

CMEx, no interview

That's it for this season. Congrats to all who were admitted!

Man, if you think it is hard in any American or European countries, you should try your luck in India, especially if you are from poorest states. No diversity points, in fact very high performances expected to get in US because of large number of applications from my country. I was literally in top 0.1 percentile in undergrad admissions, so that I can convince my family to take physics as a career, which was still met by only disapproval. No one to guide anything about foreign applications. We (people from villages/small towns) have to even cross linguistic barriers to start imagining about US universities. Guess what, I am still not getting any PhD, despite my publications, thesis and working with top people in Asia.