<p>UIUC - Mech E. - MS - Accepted + paid visit</p>
<p>I'm loving all these paid visits. Thank god I'm only taking 2 classes.</p>
<p>Edit: Is everyone getting all their acceptances through e-mail or phone first? I'm getting a bit antsy that I haven't heard from some of my Ph.D. schools yet.</p>
<p>All through e-mail for me</p>
<p>Now that all you engineering guys got accepted (and according to addwit's theory), I have been rejected by UM :'(</p>
<p>Updated:</p>
<p>Stanford - EE - MS/PhD - waiting
Berkeley - EE - MS/PhD - waiting
MIT - EE - PhD - waiting
Cornell - EE - PhD - waiting
UCSD - EE - MS/PhD - waiting
*Michigan - EE - MS/PhD - accepted (masters.. but all PhDs enroll in masters first)
*UCSB - EE - MS/PhD - invite for grad weekend</p>
<p>Concentration: Devices / RFIC</p>
<p>Congrats, Dirt and Merper on your acceptances. Here's my son's updated list:</p>
<p>Yale:accepted (no interview) --At their weekend now
MIT: rejected
Pitt: accepted (no interview)
Vanderbilt: interview
Johns Hopkins: paid visit/interview
Harvard: Waiting
Stanford:Waiting</p>
<p>Hey phpguru for Umich did you get this?</p>
<p>It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Electrical
Engineering graduate program at The University of Michigan has now
approved your application for admission. Your application has been
forwarded with our recommendation to the Horace H. Rackham School of
Graduate Studies, which will advise you officially regarding your
admission............</p>
<p>Does this mean that you are admitted???</p>
<p>I received a similar email from UCSD for comp sci.
I contacted to them about what the email "really" means ... and here's my reply</p>
<p>
[quote]
OGS (Office of Graduate Studies) needs to look over your paperwork to make sure that all is in order. If so, then they will issue the official notice. We expect for everything to proceed smoothly. Congratulations!
[/quote]
</p>
<p>so i think that's a yes! :D</p>
<p>congrats dude!</p>
<p>My son got a similar thing from Yale. The Dean's approval was just a rubber stamp. The formal letter and offer came about 10 days later.</p>
<p>Congratulations. Feels good, doesn't it?</p>
<p>ninthwonder, yep I got the exact same message.</p>
<p>If that isn't a yes, I don't know what is. Congrats!</p>
<p>They also talk about financial aid later on in the letter which they only talk about with admitted applicants so its a yes!</p>
<p>-phpguru</p>
<p>hey ninthwonder, u remember the music you made w/ murs? heh. very good stuff man, especially the 3:16 album. you should have provided your schools w/ some samples of that... i'm sure they would have admitted you quickly ;-)</p>
<p>political science phd</p>
<p>ohio state - accepted, funded
ucsb - accepted, funding info later</p>
<p>waiting on:
ucla
ucsd
stanford
yale
michigan
rice
rochester</p>
<p>political science phd
My son was also accepted and funded by ohio state. These seem to be fairly early notifications, don't you think so, UCLAri? I guess that OSU was really interested in amalee and my S. ;) He is also waiting for:
Columbia
Harvard,
MIT
Princeton
Chicago
JHU
Cornell</p>
<p>The suspense is killing me! I should know something from a few schools within the next few weeks. I also want to see how my funding thing turns out...Pitt put me in the running for a fellowship but I have to wait to hear what actually happens with that. Otherwise I am waiting on Penn, TC, IU-Chicago (sometimes I wish I'd applied to IU-UC but I really think I would prefer living in Chicago), Indiana-Bloomington, and Penn State. I'm for Masters programs in TESOL and Applied Linguistics.</p>
<p>momof3sons,</p>
<p>Something tells me that OSU, being a top 15 (but not quite top 10) program, is trying to beat the top schools and get students interested in their program.</p>
<p>Either that, or they're more efficient. I got my acceptance to UCSD months before my last response came back.</p>
<p>BTW amalee...what are you looking to do work on?</p>
<p>UCLAri,
You characterized OSU as "being a top 15 (but not quite top 10) program." In the acceptance letter they mention that the London School of Economics and Political Science has recently ranked OSU as the 4th best program in the world according to their criteria. My S is thrilled with this acceptance and thinks that in IR they are really outstanding. Are there other organizations that have developed "rankings" for these type of programs or is this sort of word-of-mouth within the discipline?</p>
<p>UCLAri,
I am interested in studying ethnic politics and civil violence. The angle I take will depend heavily on where I end up attending graduate school. At OSU, I would take advantage of their Political Psych program, comparative people interested in race and identity, and IR faculty in the Mershon center. In contrast, at UCSD - my top choice - I would hope to work with Walter, Roeder, and Fowler, which would make a really different dissertation.
Insight?</p>
<p>momof3sons,</p>
<p>Top 15 but not quite top 10 isn't anything bad. Hell, plenty of top political scientist producing programs are in that range (Rochester, MIT, CalTech...)</p>
<p>OSU is most definitely excellent in IR, and I by no means meant to impugn upon his amazing accomplishment. </p>
<p>As for rankings, it's tough...for one, specialties within specialties occur, making it hard to develop good methodologies for rankings, but I tend to go with political scientists for these things, as they're usually the ones giving the PhDs and giving the jobs after they give the PhDs...</p>
<p>To that end, the NRC put out rankings some time ago that I don't think are half bad...</p>
<p>Harvard University (1)
University of California Berkeley (2)
Yale University (3.5)
University of Michigan (3.5)
Stanford University (5)
University of Chicago (6)
Princeton University (7)
University of California Los Angeles (8)
University of California San Diego (9)
University of Wisconsin Madison (10)
University of Rochester (11)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (12)
University of Minnesota (13)
Duke University (14)
Cornell University (15)
Columbia University (16)
Ohio State University (17)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (18)
University of Texas Austin (19)
Indiana University (20) </p>
<p>This, however, completely ignores sub-fields and goes for the holistic department approach. That can be incredibly bad for some people. After all, UCLA is good at American and comparative, but their IR sucks compared to UCSD and Columbia.</p>
<p>It really depends on what you're looking for. At any rate, your son is getting a great PhD from a great school. Don't let this cranky grad student make any of that less fun.</p>
<p>amalee,</p>
<p>That's way out of what I'm interested in (security and counter-terrorism), but it sounds to me like you've got a good plan.</p>
<p>I tend to find that the right adviser can make anything happen.</p>
<p>UCLAri,
I didn't take any offense whatsoever from your comment! :) It was just a question of curiosity as to where these evaluations of grad schools come from. OSU is just the first school he's heard from. He certainly had guidance from current professors as to where the strong IR programs were in the eastern half of the country. I'm sure it was nice for him to get this first one, knowing that it's one of his top 3 choices for IR.</p>