<p>What does everyone thing about the following:</p>
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<li> Taking a low stipend for a school located in a town with a very low cost of living...small supplemental loan or part-time work may be needed </li>
<li> Taking the higher stipend for the school located in a city with a higher cost of living</li>
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<p>Would you go for the first one if you liked the school better? Or would you go to the second one to save some money?</p>
<p>go where you like the most. dont worry about money. plus, im sure youll make plenty of money after school to pay off your loans quickly.</p>
<p>as for me, ive only got into ucla's masters program (rejected from 5 phd programs so far). yet, i'm still going there, despite not receiving any funding at all... i'll just pay as much up front as i can and take out the rest in loans. :-/</p>
<p>If you have the choice, then there's only very rare cases where a slight gain in prestige is worth the tradeoff for no funding. But don't just ignore the funding issue altogether. If all you need for the first school is a small loan and you like it much better than the other, then it may be worth it, but otherwise I think not.</p>
<p>hey guys, I was hoping to get some input on your views on UCLA vs. Columbia for an MS in EE. I headed over to LA a couple weeks ago for the grad weekend, will be heading to Columbia in a couple of weeks to check it out. What are your opinions on both schools?</p>
<p>Has anyone heard from Stanford about Master of Computer Science (MSCS), either acceptance or rejection? Thanks.</p>
<p>Anyone received Duke ECE PHD offer with fellowship awarded?</p>
<p>If you dont want to do to Duke, please decline it. I was told that i'm the first candidate on the Waiting list and I like Duke very much.</p>
<p>update my application status: EE PHD</p>
<p>Stanford: accepted (no funding)
Umich: accepted (no funding)
Duke:Wl
Upenn:waiting</p>
<p>Can Any one tell me the cost of living in Penn State compared to Duke?</p>
<p>I got offers from both but the Assistantship from Penn State is only a total of 13k for the Fall and Spring Semester.</p>
<p>For Duke I got a total of ~18k for Fall and Spring Semester.</p>
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<p>yeah I heard back from them last week (mid march)</p>
<p>Rold50, you may wan tto check out this cost of living comparison site. I don't know how accurate it is though: <a href="http://www.bestplaces.net/col/%5B/url%5D">http://www.bestplaces.net/col/</a> </p>
<p>hth</p>
<p>Hey Passionxj,</p>
<p>Do you have any ideas about what to do if you decide to go for a PhD w/no funding offered initially? I am in the same boat for biomed eng...
Also congrats, you got into some boss schools!</p>
<p>hi,Urrjun</p>
<p>Thanks!
I talked with one senior who is studying at Stanford EE. I was told that 1/3 PHD get fellowship awarded and 1/3 get TA and RA. The following 1/3 have to self-support their study. Some transfer to Msc because of no funding. Even those get fellowship awarded for the first year will have problem to get TA or RA from the second year, the competition is really tough. If there is no funding provided from Stanford, I have to give up and wait for Duke and Upenn's response. Actually I like Duke very much, if awarded fellowship from Duke, I will accept and go to Duke.</p>
<p>For those of you waiting for Stanford EE's funding decisions, I think they are in the process of notifying people. I received an email today and they have offered me fellowship support for the 2007-2008 year. I am not sure what happens in the second year as I have to complete the MS program first.</p>
<p>Gsme, can I ask when did u get ur Admission email? March 2nd???
I received the email on March 5th and another friend received on March 2nd got fellowship offered on March 10th...I have no email notifying me funding issues until now!</p>
<p>passionxj, yeah I received the admission email on March 2nd and did not hear about funding until today.
Good luck to you!</p>
<p>Here is my record so far</p>
<p>UT LBJ School - Accepted
Maryland Public Policy - Accepted
Texas A&M Bush School - Accepted plus $4,000/year scholarship
Georgetown MSFS - Rejected
Georgetown PPI - Rejected
SAIS - No answer (at this point probably rejected)</p>
<p>Stats - UG at UT-Austin, GPA 3.35, Double Major in Govt and Communication Studies (completed both degrees in 3.5 years), yearlong high school exchanges to two European countries, overseas semester parliamentary internship during college, GRE - 540 Q, 690 V, 5.0 writing, 2 years domestic non-profit work experience</p>
<p>have anyone here applied to UT-Austin and/or USC's comp sci programs and heard anything back from them? :/</p>
<p>update:
mit - cs - phd - rejected
berk - cs - masters/phd - rejected
uiuc - cs - phd - rejected
ucla - cs - masters - accepted (no funding)
columbia - cs - phd - rejected
duke - cs - phd - rejected
*brown - cs - phd - rejected
dartmouth - cs - phd - waiting
bu - cs - phd - waiting
nyu - cs - phd - waiting
northeastern - cs - masters - waiting</p>
<p>1/7. thank you dr. chan for the LOR.</p>
<p>Berkeley - Materials Sci. & Eng. - PhD - Accepted
Caltech - Materials Science - PhD - Accepted
Columbia - Applied Physics/Math - PhD - Accepted
Harvard - Applied Physics - PhD - Accepted
Michigan - Materials Sci. & Eng. - PhD - Accepted
**MIT - Materials Sci. & Eng. - PhD - Rejected
Northwestern - Materials Sci. & Eng. - PhD - Wait-listed
Princeton - Mech/Aero Eng. - PhD - Accepted
Stanford - Materials Sci. & Eng. - PhD - Accepted</p>
<p>Meh.</p>
<p>You're doomed to failure now.</p>
<p>UC San Diego - computer science - masters - accepted
Texas A&M - computer science -masters - invited for a campus visit
Brown - computer science - masters - accepted
NYU - computer science - waiting
UCI - computer science - Accepted
USC - computer science - waiting
** UT Austin - computer science - masters - rejected</p>
<p>got rejected by my top choice :(
Getting into my 2nd and 3rd choices are nice consolation prizes i guess :/</p>