Right, going to do these all at once. No time to trawl through my emails to get notification dates but here they are in the order they arrived:
Institution: Columbia
Program: Economics, PhD
Decision: Accepted
Funding: Full + deans fellowship ($40k stipend + health, extremely generous)
Notification Date:
Notified Through: Email
Posted on GC: Yes
Comments:
Institution: Princeton
Program: Economics, PhD
Decision: Rejected
Funding:
Notification Date:
Notified Through: Email
Posted on GC: Yes
Comments:
Institution: MIT
Program: Economics, PhD
Decision: Waitlisted
Funding: Apparently unlikely if I get off waitlist
Notification Date:
Notified Through: Email
Posted on GC: Yes
Comments:
Institution: LSE
Program: Economics, PhD
Decision: Accepted
Funding: Full
Notification Date:
Notified Through: Email
Posted on GC: Yes
Comments: Institution: Harvard
Program: Economics, PhD
Decision: Rejected
Funding:
Notification Date:
Notified Through: Email
Posted on GC: Yes
Comments:
Institution: Stanford
Program: Economics, PhD
Decision: Waitlisted
Funding: Full ($37k, very generous) if I get in.
Notification Date:
Notified Through: Email
Posted on GC: Yes
Comments:
Institution: Berkeley
Program: Economics, PhD
Decision: Accepted
Funding: Partial for first year full thereafter
Notification Date:
Notified Through: Email
Posted on GC: Yes
Comments: Really annoyed about this. I can't go because as an international student
I have to pay 'nonresident supplemental tuition' for the first three years. This amounts
to like $15k a year which is near the size of the stipend and means I wouldn't be able
to eat or have shelter, both of which seem pretty important. Don't know why I bothered
Applying. Really liked Berkeley as well.
What I've learnt: Probably ought to have applied to more places (like Chicago, Yale, business schools etc.) Think the objectively best options are Columbia or, if I get in off the waiting list, Stanford. Berkeley thing is a shame, apparently they're having cash flow problems so can't really blame them but if it wasn't for the NRST thing I would likely have taken the offer.