To the poster asking about UCSB below: I had not heard anything and reached out — "While this is not set in stone, I think there wont be any more admits." I'm not sure whether to read this as "you're rejected and/or you're not on the waitlist and/or we have received enough confirmed offers that we are all set for this year." or to read it as "all acceptance offers have been made, the waitlist will be addressed at a later date if some of these offers are declined in the future." Thoughts??

Applied for HEP-th. One year research experience after master's, no publications.

Hep-th

Nuclear Physics Department.

fine

Strong LORs, 2+ years research in Cosmology, 2 first author papers. Got into Stanford so might no go here , Also the stipend is really low given that it is in California.

International student with 6 months of research experience.

Was unofficially accepted by Profs first, then got in for hep-th.

Accepted for HET a week ago

Told me that all offers are sent

Has any international applicant heard anything from UCLA so far (I was told from someone in the dept that they review first domestic and then international applicants)?

Re: my UCSC admit: I applied to HEP-ex.

What the poster said below is NOT true; UCLA has not sent out most acceptances, howecer, they have the decisions already.

Any acceptance so far??

Condensed Matter Experiment. 2 conference proceeding publications.