To the overwhelmingly cocky person below: what subfield are you/ your very famous recommenders in

lol I love how anxious kids are fighting on gc

Since these posts are probably going to get deleted anyway there is really no harm in answering. Three of my LOR told me that they would "write me letters that would get me into any university in the world". Considering all three of them are famous (one of them in their respective field and reached out to a POI at Stanford to push my app, the others are like you would literally know their names offhand kind of famous). I figured that was good enough to bank on (along with all the work I did in research and good GPA). I didnt really want to waste a bunch of money on app fees, and I really really like how they run things and what they are doing at Stanford (the first year having research rotations is sick). So I just applied to one school and one school only.

Curious about why you only applied to Stanford. Was told by several senior people that applying to a wide range of schools was important since the admissions numbers are constantly in flux. E.g. my mentor's class as MIT theory was huge, meaning they took zero theory people the next year. But it might be that the type of research you want to do only exists at Stanford? Or that you already have a guaranteed in with an advisor there?

Considering Stanford is the only school I applied to, my life depends on it.

TTPB: hi, I was one of the Stanford CB acceptances -- DM me at @2021CBapplicant on here or post in the forum and I will message you!

Hi everyone, I get that there are a lot of feelings and stress about grad admissions, but lets's try to calm down a little bit. Our lives don't depend on getting into Stanford, and I'm sure we've all proven ourselves as solid researchers and prospective physicists at this point :-) So let's try to be friendly and just wait and see what happens :-)

Hi everyone, I get that there are a lot of feelings and stress about grad admissions, but lets's try to calm down a little bit. Our lives don't depend on getting into Stanford, and I'm sure we've all proven ourselves as solid researchers and prospective physicists at this point :-) So let's try to be friendly and just wait and see what happens :-)

TTPB: Lol, thanks for keeping the agonizing wait entertaining ;)

0a/1r/7p. A generic rejection letter. Disappointed, but well...it's Stanford. Just getting more and more nervous.

Last one! All rejections and one waitlist. Not that surprised.

The last Stanford comment is although valid that people are crowding here by asking too many questions. But one shouldn't start commenting on someone's research skills by their spiked anxiety.

Rejected after interviews with 4 faculty. It's a bummer, but they only let in 1 in 20 applicants.

4 years of research. 1 first-author journal pub + 5 others. 2-3 years of leadership in student orgs. Multiple national scholarship awards. Prestigious internships. Top ~40 undergrad school. Might try again next year.

rejected without interview