<p>Ah, thought so… congrats on your acceptances!</p>
<p>any chem e’s with ~3.5 gpa? how did it go?</p>
<p>Will anyone please help me in the selection?</p>
<p>University of Sydney (PhD-Physics) - with IPRS
UT Dallas (PhD-Electrical Engineering) - with RA
KTH + UT Delft (MS-Computing Science and Applied Math) - Erasmus Scholarships</p>
<p>I wanted to do MS this time and then PhD from a good university, however is it logical to decline above PhD offers? I am in 100% confusion! Please help me.</p>
<p>Someone please help me to decide here:</p>
<p>UC Merced (Mechanical Engineering) - PhD with full funding and stipend
UC Santa Barbara (Mechanical Engineering) - MS without funding
U Michigan Ann Arbor (Nuclear Engineering) - MS without funding</p>
<p>I cna support myself for a MS I suppose, but beyond that I will need to get scholarship. UCM funding is pretty secured so that wont be a probelm and the professor seem to be interested to get me in. For the other two, they are better schools with better program, but continual offer for PhD with funding is unsecured. Really at the end of the day I don’t mind which school my PhD is from as long as I can secure a good job in R&D or in academics. I need to tell all of them soon please help give some advice!! (or should I take all the offer for now??? seem like I could get into trouble if I take all the offer and have multiple I-20s…)</p>
<p>much thanks</p>
<p>Honestly the decision goes back to you and your finances. Were I in your shoes I would likely go to UCSB/UMich (whichever is cheaper) and try to apply to PhDs again. The only reason I would consider UC Merced is if there was a very specific professor there that I knew I wanted to work for. UC Merced is just honestly not in the same caliber as the other schools and it would definitely be much harder to get into academia from UC Merced (it’s really hard from anywhere).</p>
<p>Undergrad: Florida State University</p>
<p>Major: Mechanical Engineering</p>
<p>Minors: Mathematics and Physics</p>
<p>Cumulative GPA: 3.90, Major GPA: 3.95</p>
<p>GRE: 166/155/4.5</p>
<p>Class Rank : 1 or 2</p>
<p>Area of Interest: Intelligent/Mechatronic Systems, Automation, Machine Design</p>
<p>**Graduated in three years and finished with 26 straight As (and had an awesome senior design project)</p>
<p>Applied:</p>
<p>Stanford (M.S. - top choice) - Rejected, should have gotten in.
MIT (S.M.) - Rejected
Georgia Tech (M.S.) - Accepted (attending, and 2nd choice behind Stanford)
UC Berkeley (M.S.) - Rejected
UCLA (M.S.) - Accepted
Duke (M.Eng) - Accepted
Cornell (M.Eng) - Accepted
USC (M.S.) - Accepted
UCSD (M.S.) - Accepted
Cal Tech (M.S.) - Rejected
U Texas-Austin (M.S.) - Rejected (ridiculous)</p>
<p>**I think I might have made a mistake in regards to the selection of one of my referees</p>
<p>Please suggest list of graduate colleges I should apply to, for MS(electrical and computer engg.). My GRE score is as follows,</p>
<p>Quant: 158
Verbal: 152
AWA: 3.5</p>
<p>In which colleges I have realistic chance of getting admitted too and what are the top colleges in which I may be admitted to, with a decent/good resume.</p>
<p>Got my rejection from UT Austin today. Wakeup, UT!</p>
<p>That’s unfortunate. I personally didn’t want to go there, but yeah, I don’t know what’s causing their seemingly obvious err in judgment.</p>
<p>My only rejection was to UT-Austin as well.</p>