<p>My boyfriend and I are applying for a computer science master Stanford, CMU, UCLA and Hopkins University. Of course our goal is to both get accepted at the same university.
Our resumes look pretty similar, since we have worked together on the same research projects etc.
We're not sure if it is beneficial if a university knows we are a couple. We never state it explicitely, but if we both fill in the same living address, then it is quite obvious that we are a couple. An other option is to fill in the address of our parents home, so we have different addresses.
So what do you suggest?</p>
<p>I doubt that anyone would care and the admissions committee is probably not going to sort through your application to find parent's addresses or connect two candidates in this way.</p>
<p>I recommend these links because it discusses the "two-body problem" in grad school applications. You don't need to mention your personal life to adcoms. Good luck!</p>
<p>Astromiror:</a> Graduate School Guide</p>
<p>The</a> Two-Body Problem — PhDs.org: Science, Math, and Engineering Career Resources</p>
<p>The</a> Two-Body Problem</p>
<p>You could just be roommates? The adcoms won't care.</p>
<p>I had two friends in undergrad that had been a couple since high school. They were both in the same department and both were pretty good students (well, the girl was exceptional). Naturally they wanted to go to school together, so they applied to all of the same places. She wound up getting into a few schools he didn't, and one of those schools she was really excited about a professor there. She was talking with him, and the professor asked what was holding her back from accepting the position there. She told him that she wanted to stay with her boyfriend, but he didn't get it. About a week later he got an e-mail that started, "Upon further reconsideration of your application, you have been recommended for admission..."</p>
<p>So, there's always a chance it could help!</p>
<p>Yeah, in my experience, departments are extremely understanding of the two-body problem.</p>
<p>I don't think the programs will necessarily catch on if you fill in the same residential address, but if asked during recruitment or interviews, you should definitely mention that you're planning to pick a program together.</p>
<p>I realize this is ludacris but I have to ask- has anybody come across a package hire scenario in graduate school admissions? I know that this happens all the time in fellowships where a spouse of a highly sought after recruit is given a job in their respective department/position to entice the recruit. Has anyone ever heard of this happening in our situation?</p>
<p>Thanks for your replies. We're from the same country, same university, resumes very similar etc., so we think the chance to be compared to eachother is quite high. We'll just enter the same living address, and hope we both get admitted..</p>
<p>This happened at Stanford where both people were admitted but one without funding. The boyfriend was a superstar. The department was desperate to get this guy and was somehow able to convince the girlfriend's department to provide funding to her.</p>
<p>Ah, I feel your pain. My boyfriend and I are both applying to Ph.D. programs (he's in computer science, I'm in genetics). We're doing an application blitz and hoping we get in somewhere together.</p>
<p>Wow that is an amazing story about the admissions reconsideration.</p>
<p>I have a related problem. My boyfriend is a graduate student at my current university. The fact that all of my close family and friends are located in California played a big part in my choices also. I applied to graduate school here (but different program) as well as several other schools in the same state. However, in the ideal but unlikely situation where I get 100% acceptance, I could end up with offers that put up to 500 miles between us. I know it's probably best for me to not stay at the same university - but I will make that decision when I know my options.</p>
<p>Best of luck to all of you couples who are applying together.</p>
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<p>guess hip hop does kill brain cells, or in this case spelling skills</p>
<p>Boy don't I feel stupid. Do you feel nitpicky?</p>
<p>gimp, this is a message board. Everyone KNEW what the person meant. This isn't a final paper.</p>
<p>Still, I think in a graduate school forum people should spell words like "ludicrous" correctly, especially when the alternative is the name of a hip-hop star.</p>
<p>In any event, I was going to add that yes, I've heard of many a situation when one half of an academic team was offered a job because the department really wanted the other half to come. Sometimes departments work out what's called "time-sharing," where both are hired as one full-time appointment and they split class responsibilities and such. The more ideal situation, of course, is to hire both in a tenure-track position, but that's not often possible. Sometimes the spouse is offered an adjunct position but then when a tenure-track position does open, they are at the top of the list for consideration.</p>
<p>It's definitely possible, but it can be difficult! We have several married couples at my school, however, and most the ones I know are in the same department -- there's one in the department of sociomedical sciences, one that has the wife in the SMS department and the husband in Population and Family Health, and then there's a married couple in the psychology department as well. (And as a side note, none of them share a last name :D)</p>
<p>The funny thing is that we do have a couple at my school as well, although in two different, but related departments. They share a last name as well, which causes some confusion at first, but I don't know the exact story of how they got their positions.</p>
<p>Juillet, just to poke you in the ribs a little (sorry): you're missing a word in the first line of your third paragraph. I think you meant to type "most OF the ones I know." Errors are a fact of life. I'm for lowering standards around here! I spend enough time proofreading seminar papers as it is!</p>
<p>Look, I am sorry that I accidentally polluted the internet with a typo. Surely there must be at least a few other typos, spelling errors or grammatical mistakes somewhere on the internet. Why is this a big deal?</p>
<p>Sorry, belevitt. My post was to juillet. My point was that it <em>wasn't</em> a big deal, and that the earlier poster's spelling error wasn't a big deal, either...that, in fact, none of these mistakes are big deals. I was trying to strike a joking tone, but I guess I failed. :6</p>
<p>Yesterday we received the first decision, we're both admitted to CMU :)</p>