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.

No funding, as expected.

TTPB: What's funny? I think that student's got an important point. How many Latin-American students (for example) do you see in the Department of Physics? Do you think that anybody can go to Harvard just by being smart? Just google average salary in Mexico, and they are one of the highest in Latin-America.

Atmosphere/Energy track

Got into the joint 2-year POLS/MPP program. Pretty shocked! Didn't submit a GRE score.

From a top 30 university. Low GPA, no research experience.

I was the previous Stanford GSE poster. Sorry, not sure why degree title is coming up as Machine Learning. But it is LEARNING DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

Email notice to check the portal. 2nd admissions notice for myself overall. Got into 1 school so far, not so lucky this time with Stanford. Had a former prof from UG/current Stanford prof write a LOR. I guess I should've taken my undergrad rejection from years ago as a sign to not apply here again... lol jk 1/2 congrats to everyone who got in!