Clockward said:I think I was just rejected from Carnegie Mellon, although they worded the reply email in a way that could be construed as either "no offers have been made yet" or "you will not be offered a position." I will post the information I get from my clarification email.
Jacobpm64 said:I'm starting this up to find out who else is applying to math REUs for the summer of 2009. That way, we can talk about when we got acceptances/rejections and what not.
I've applied to:
Williams College
LSU
Indiana University
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
College of William & Mary
University of Minnesota-Duluth
Cornell
So far, I have been rejected to University of Minnesota-Duluth, and I haven't heard back from anyone else (but the deadlines are not up yet on most of these).
Anyone apply to any math REUs? How is it going? Hear anything back?
mathhhh said:You are right Owl, thanks. I assumed it had the same deadline as their REU. Do you know anything about how competitive admission into MASS isl Owl?
JCVD said:i think the main reason i got into the cornell reu was that my background was very well suited for the project i applied for, which was in logic. i had done the penn state reu/mass program the year before, and one of the courses i took in the mass program was in computability theory, which was taught by one of the more famous logicians; i did well in that class and had that professor write me a recommendation letter. otherwise my stats were good but not necessarily phenomenal: i come from a very good small liberal arts school, my math gpa at the time was probably about 3.8, and beyond the introductory math classes i had taken 2 terms of combinatorics, 2 terms of abstract algebra, and 1 term each of number theory, odes, complex analysis, computability theory, geometric topology, and analytic probability theory, in addition to 3 terms of cs. my only real research experience at the time was the penn state reu i had done the year before, and i did not have anything published. i think i wrote a pretty good personal statement more geared toward why i was qualified to participate in the reu rather than why i really wanted to participate in the reu, though i did at least mention the latter.
qedcutie said:Oh, wow, Cornell? That's fantastic. Congratulations, owlpride!
I applied there, but that was one of the programs I'm not sure wanted someone with my background. That's so amazing that you'll get to meet Robert Strichartz! And who knows? Allen Hatcher might be around for the summer... Do you know which project you're going to work on?
mathhhh said:Did anyone here apply for the Penn State MASS program for the fall, and if so have you heard back?
RCA_0 said:pipie my impression was that MASS is competitive and they don't accept whoever applies on a first come first serve basis (they actually reject a lot of people). When were you accepted pipie because I didn't know they made any official offers yet? I received an e-mail stating that they are planning to make me an offer. I wonder when they will make official offers and who else here was accepted?
winterwind said:I am a chemistry major, and applied for 18 (anyone here apply to more?)
Have you heard from LSU?Jacobpm64 said:I've been rejected to 7 out of 8 math REUs.
I'm going to be self-studying some math subjects over the summer instead.
Won't be a waste regardless :).
sciboinkhobbes said:Anyone know of any super-late-deadline summer internships?
owlpride said:For the sake of everyone who is applying to REUs next year, I thought I would share a conversation with our REU adviser at Cornell.
Over lunch someone asked him how competitive the REU at Cornell is, and he said that there were about 80 applicants for his group (there are 3 groups). Then he said that he chose the 5 of us because everyone of us stood out in some way. One student asked him if he remembered what stood out about his application because it might help his graduate school applications. The adviser's answer: "Oh, it's nothing you did. Your letters of recommendation stood out."
Now you know the secret :)