Generic rejection email mentioning that they had a huge number of applicants this year. From one of the older IITs (India). Undergrad in aerospace. 2.5 years works experience at the time of application at a well known MNC as a software engineer.

will be rejecting offers from the following places, so good luck to waitlist people, wish everyone ends up in their dream schools xoxo: Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins, UNC, UIUC, UT Austin, UWash, Colorado Boulder will also opt out from waitlists from: UCLA, Duke, Maryland

Whatever

hep-th. "Over 700 applicantions for approxmately 20 slots".

Official rejection email upon nagging those inconsiderate assh0les about getting back to me cause I was putting my life on hold for them.

Personal email from DGS

Yeahhhh I figured this would be a long shot. I got other offers at least! Astro concentration, Ivy post-bac, Nature paper in review.

Neutrino Experiment/Nuclear Experiment/HEP Experiment. 3 years research, 1 SULI, 1 expected publication; no GRE. Email about waitlisted status a few days after interview.

Applied with interest in exoplanets. I have a 1st author paper in ApJ