3 years in HEP-ex and astro. Strong LORs and a few poster and presentation at conference. Marks the end of Application season. Rejected by ambitious schools (MIT, UCB) and safe(r) ones (BU, UCLA) but accepted by medium ones (UMich, UChicago). Moral of the story- no matter how good your contacts and communication with a prospective advisor, it will be irrelevant to the Admission committee.

To the poster below: San Diego itself is a top 20 school. So, you will do well if you give the best shot. Hope to see you there.

hep-th. dream school. really bummed. haven't gotten into any top ten so far.. competition this year was brutal. they said they had 45 spots and 970 applicants so i'm not surprised... only hopes left for a school better than san diego are caltech or princeton :\

To poster below: thanks for the response. I am waiting for CME. Yeah, expecting rejection

To the poster below : still waiting for Berkeley here (hep-ex).... waiting for the rejection email though at this point.

Has anyone not heard back from Berkeley at this point?

hep-th, looks like there are very few spots everywhere this year

Application season ended. Hep-th, second year application, from Asia, currently doing Part III in Cambridge. 3.95/4 undergrad major GPA, with Straight A's for QFT, gauge theories, GR, differential geometry, group theory, statistical field theory and so on. 8 papers (2 published, 4 submitted to journal and arXiv, 2 unfinished in note form about 20 pages), with half of them not in Hep-th. No connections from US at all, got an offer from Cornell among top10 schools, will treasure this so hard-earned offer.

Rejected to most schools I applied to, so expected. Thought I stood a chance considering my 3 and a half years of research in both experimental and theoretical projects, 2 papers. I guess it just means I have to work harder!

I guess the same email everyone else got. :(

All my decisions have been received, finally. Feels good man.

High GPA, High GRE, excellent research in both theory and experiment, at least 3 papers, 生不逢时

Expected

graduate schools certainly care about more than your grades and scores

Rejected by email. Email says they had 970 applications for 45 positions. And I thought I stood a chance. Was my dream school.