Received 40k$ scholarship.

Canadian domestic applicant Cgpa 2.9, final 2 year gpa 3.5. Internship experience +

Just heard back from the program coordinator about my application—looks like the first round of acceptances has gone out, and I’ve been placed on the waitlist. If any of you have an offer from Chapel Hill but don’t plan on attending, I’d really appreciate it if you could let them know sooner rather than later. Might help move things along for those of us waiting! Thanks, and hope everyone’s hanging in there!

They have sent me an email saying, "view your status on application portal this morning". I viewed the status visiting application portal saying, "Thank you for your interest in the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The admissions committee for the Ph.D. in Public Policy program carefully reviewed your Fall 2025 application and supporting documentation. The committee considered several factors in addition to your academic background, including but not limited to the competitiveness of the incoming class, having an adequate match between an applicant and the program faculty’s interest, or that an applicant is sufficiently prepared for Graduate School. Each term there are many highly qualified applicants for a limited number of openings in this program and, unfortunately, we are unable to offer you admission to the Graduate School at this time. Best wishes in your future endeavors and thank you again for your interest in graduate study at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.​" I was so hopeful about the acceptance. This is my 7th Public Policy school's PhD rejection even after I have a 4.00 Master's CGPA from US university.

Your application for Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy On behalf of the academic department, I am writing in connection with your application for admission to the Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy. The department has now carefully considered your application and supporting materials, but we are sorry to have to inform you that your application has not been successful. Application to the University of Oxford is extremely competitive, and we are not able to offer places to all the excellent candidates who apply. Due to the high volume of applications Oxford receives, in line with University policy, we are unable to provide feedback on our reasons for rejecting or selecting candidates. If you have also applied for scholarships as listed on the application form, those applications will not be considered any further. Thank you for having considered graduate study at Oxford. We wish you every success with your plans for future study. Yours sincerely Dr Nadia Pollini Director of Graduate Admissions & Recruitment University of Oxford

UC Berkeley. Notified a month ago by potential advisor that a candidate for his lab (ahead of me in department rankings) would get their first offer, and that I’m on the waitlist until they decide. Updated by PI that I’m still on waitlist as of March 1. If anyone with acceptances have other offers please consider making admission decisions! This is my dream program ;(

f*** them evil f***s

received email about the offer. Funding decision will be notified later on.