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Just formally accepted MIT's offer and withdrew all outstanding apps. Hope others with dominant options will consider withdrawing some apps as well, esp. given this year's challenging admissions landscape — someone probably needs an offer more than we need a world tour 🙂

Let me add that in addition to this helping everyone here, the departments really appreciate this too as it helps them a lot.

embracing the delusion that no news is strictly better than bad news 🙂

Also got a call from Princeton 4 hours ago, dream place!!:)

Can confirm, it is econ. But I will decline as I have dominant offers

Tough week ended. I hope you guys and I have a good news in upcoming week.

Dying for some news bro

Not a super formal (technical) interview but basically tell me about your research interests, tell me about a project you've worked on and how it relates to your research interests, asked me some questions about my research ideas. It was a nice convo! I also explained why BU, why a PhD in this field. Imo it seemed like they might want more IO-type economists, which tracks with their growing IO branch...

Same here. I think programs are pretty worried about yield, so expressing concrete interest (and having good reasons to back it up) can be pretty helpful.

Can confirm Harvard has at least some acceptances out. Don't know about waitlist. Seems like it might be a rolling decision.

Thank you so much for your reply. It really helped reduce my anxiety a lot.... Hope we both end up at the universities we want!!

Regulars @kojeve, @Nspace, @hopefulphd28 all got calls. Congratulations to you 3! Condolences to the rest of us that applied.

I’m pretty sure they’re just troll posts. Not a single Yale applicant I know has heard anything, good or bad. I wouldn’t read much into this.

I received an interview email from Stern Econ. It was great news after a slew of rejections this week 🙂

I received a normal offer at 3:47pm EST.

am i the only person going mad? going mental.

well no news today…how is everyone feeling? i’m having a hard time staying sane and getting proper sleep because i’m so anxious. i’m sending good energy and stamina to everyone in this thread (also those who are just lurking).

can confirm, got the email as well (I'm not the person from the spreadsheet)

They have just sent a few informal offers. I know this because a friend of mine got one. Apparently they’re broken and are waiting a bit more until they know if they can offer some more spots and those who were offered a place take a decision

Anyone else applied to Warwick and hasn’t heard back yet?

This week they begin. But she said offers would continue to roll out until April 15th.

Ahahha, indeed yes and I will reject NWU, but just letting people know that NWU is continuously sending exploratory emails (not just Friday)

booth waitlist is out. told me they only have four slots, so a relatively small cohort and list

Yes

I was waitlisted as of a few minutes ago if that's helpful!

They typically do and reimburse you.

+1 to all that. Also, think about how that university ranks in your preferences (I was asked how much of a priority it was for me).

My understanding (based on my own experience and on some conversations with my letter writers) is that the interviews help distinguish between applicants who, on paper and via letters, are all great. Conversely, the interviews can benefit the marginal applicant, too. Anyways, I also don't think the lack of an interview necessarily implies you're out of the running for admission. Sometimes, either because they're amazing or because the adcom already knows them, an applicant can avoid an interview. That said, it's *prob* not a good sign... A final thought is that some departments like to send all offers/waitlists before rejections. This lets them avoid accidentally rejecting the wrong person.

Of course, I know at least two people who got admitted of the waitlist without NSF. Just go to the visit day and pitch yourself hard to the profs.

Friend two years ago admitted off of WL with NSF, friend last year also admitted off of WL (no NSF)

Harvard is out, Yale I’m not sure.

Congrats!

I am also on the waitlist and will attend the virtual campus visit. Someone I know is currently doing his phd there and he told me that most people in his cohort were initially on the waitlist, so I still have hope.

Hope your guess is correct. 🙂 No news for me yet.

I can confirm it too.

I'm almost going crazy

so true bro

So far of the ones I have heard back from that do invites all of them are in person.

I have seen in-person invites

Email starting with “Top Code”? If that’s the case I believe it’s over qualifying. congrats

Can confirm MIT Econ is out, with funding info email from dept and status update on portal

Yes, I did.

Any news about Umich Econ?

Same here, feeling extremely anxious. I hope you get good news soon! (and me too)

I got the interview email in the afternoon, whereas some other applicants received it in the morning (which made me frustrated at that time). So I believe it's not sent at once; you still have hope!

They always send rejections, probably this/next week (for unknown reasons)

There's a good chance MIT, Harvard, Yale and Stanford release results this week

didnt't expect there is mitski fans here

As a public service I decided to share with you my stress related data analysis. I scraped decision timing from GradCafe for 2006-2023. Then I categorized the top 20-25 institutions and defined the decision date as the Mode of the rejection/acceptance date in a given year. Here are the main results: 1. Which day should we expect decisions? unsurprisingly, not on weekends. somewhat surprisingly, mostly on fridays: 2. When should we expect decisions? Apparently most top institutions have gotten better over the years and expeditated the timing of decisions by a bit. most results arrive by early march. Results in January are a rare recent phenomena. (each dot represents an institution decision date, the boxes represents IQR and the line is from a LOWESS reg) 3. Decision timing by institution *All mistakes should be attributed to an unnamed RA.