StochasticOLG
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It’s about teaching- those schools rely on grad TA’s to perform a lot of teaching duties and they’re cheaper to hire than adjuncts. At private schools, generally faculty are expected to teach even intro classes so with the hit to funding due to covid, there’s not as much budget or need for grad students.
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There were about 40
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I was accepted a couple weeks ago... not sure what it means if you haven’t heard yet
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I’m going to turn down WUSTL, Duke, UCSD, and UT-Austin this week. Good luck on waitlists all
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I got into Wisconsin and have been in contact with the program so I know the following is true- they have made round one offers to their most desirable candidates. For the next round they will be interviewing candidates and those haven’t gone out yet. So Wisconsin is not an IR yet
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Was on waitlist for both... I got accepted off the waitlist at Minnesota last week. So there seems to be some movement there.
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My advisor (not Harvard guy just knows people) talked to the DGS at Harvard and he made it seem like Harvard wanted to yield an incoming class of 12... now they started off super small on the number of acceptances but that makes me think they’re only shrinking their incoming class by 1/2.
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Strongly disagree in most cases... people with a 165-167 CAN get into Harvard/Stanford with other exceptional parts of their application such as publications/research experience/top masters degree. But if you look at programs ranked below the top 5 like Minnesota or Duke they state their avg. GRE scores are from 167-169. Unless you have some incredible part of your application that makes your GRE irrelevant getting into that range is the smart thing to do so I would retake. You don't want to be below the median/average score at schools that receive hundreds of nearly perfect applications.