TTPB: Do you mind both sharing your sub-fields?

TTPB: The phone call was just to notify acceptance, I never interviewed.

TTPB: Congrats! Was it a phone interview, or did they just call to notify you of your acceptance?

Unofficial acceptance via phone call, said to expect official within next few weeks. Soft matter/biophysics theory.

Unofficial acceptance from the physics department.

Particle physics, experimental. Unofficial acceptance notification from the professor I wanted to work with!

Email from program director inviting me to virtual candidates day in February.

After being rejected from another 8 graduate programs in California, and after literally losing all hope, this acceptance letter came through today, roughly 3 weeks after the April 15th deadline! They took longer this year due to the COVID-19 situation.. I guess the moral of the story is to (sometimes!) not give up on your hopes and dreams, for they might come true after all (even if it takes a little longer)!

No any updates since application. Inquiry through email and was told there is still a possibility for sending more offers. Did not receive any news though. Does anyone get any updates?

What happened to the applications at UC Riverside? Did anyone get any updates?

I will decline the offer from USC. Finally, I obtained 2 acceptance letters from 11 applications. The outcome is pretty much that I expected before the process. I will attend to USCB for Fall 2020 to do research on Classical and Quantum black holes.

I managed to get in touch with the department chair. She informed me that they are still missing the responses from half of the admitted students. They won't be able to extend offers to wait-listed students until they receive responses from the admitted students. So please, if you have an offer from UC Davis and have a better offer, please reject your UC Davis offer as soon as possible. It is only three days now until the deadline. Please do it now.

TTPB: I had interview in Feb. got accepted a week later. 2 first author paper on PRB, 3 years research experience, PGRE 930.

TTPB: experimental condensed matter/soft matter. 2 first-author publications and a couple contributed talks/posters at national conferences. Average GPA and GRE scores. I didn't have an interview.