<p>Caltech- Chemistry- PhD- Accepted
UC Berkeley- Chemistry- PhD- Accepted
Princeton- Chemistry- PhD- Waitlisted
U. of Chicago- Chemistry- PhD- Accepted
Penn State- Chemistry- PhD- Accepted
UC Riverside- Chemistry- PhD- Accepted
Harvard- Chemistry- PhD- No Response
MIT- Chemistry- PhD- No Response
Northwestern- Mat Sci/Engineering- PhD- No Response
U. Wisconsin Madison- Chemistry- PhD- No Response
Tufts- Chemistry- PhD- No Response (But they have made their decisions and will be mailing out soon)</p>
<p>So has anyone heard from any of the schools that I haven't heard from yet? I know someone earlier was waitlisted at Northwestern but I didn't see any others.</p>
<p>Is there something about CS or EE that lends people to getting 4.0's? Higher average grades? Higher standard deviation in grades? Smarter students?</p>
<p>I go to a diploma factory as an ME, and a prof told me they hadn't graduated a 4.0 since he came to the school (like 7 years ago). However, there are two 4.0s graduating this year.</p>
<p>well, my school only has 1-2 graduating 4.0 students each year, at most, and they are usually from the easy majors (business, flight, psych). however, a few CS students in past years have. i think CS is just one of the easiest engineering majors... so that's why. (i'm CS btw.) EE is hard... and i think ME and aerospace are the hardest... i've had ppl tell me they think EE is the hardest. i dont know, but CS classes usually have programming projects and tests. i have the impression that ME was stacked full of insanely hard tests and group projects... where everyone "fails" then grades are curved based on everyone else... if many of those classes are in a curriculum, then it should be pretty hard to consistently be better than all your other classmates. oh, and doesnt ME require u to actually use your past knowledge and math background to figure out solutions... seems to require more skill</p>
<p>Thanks! I plan on working in APD (American Political Development). I am very excited. UCLA was one of my top choices, along with Stanford and Berkeley, which I have yet to hear from. Now I just have to wait to see what other schools offer me (if anything!) because UCLA wants to compete for me, which is such an honor (and a relief that I'll probably receive some sort of fellowship package no matter what).</p>
<p>so, for those of you who went this weekend, how were all your interviews? i just came back and i'm exhausted. i never saw my eyes get so bloodshot red before. i actually had 6 interviews in one day, and by the last 2 i was starting to lose focus, but it didn't matter anyway because the professors were kind enough to talk about their own research the whole time. </p>
<p>nevertheless, i actually enjoyed it. i met so many interesting people, and they took real good care of us :) i can't wait for my next one</p>
<p>heh, speaking of being exhausted from interviews:
my girlfriend applied to many schools for professorship. she just finished her 6th school (each of which in a different state), most flights had 2 layovers each way, all within 2.5 weeks! imagine all those lectures and research talks to give... heh. that's rough! i can't imagine.</p>
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ccmad--- Baylor? Son said it was exhausting...LOL. Seems the one he was on this weekend has been much more relaxed....
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<p>yes it was baylor. i also thought the weekend was very relaxed, but for me i had to wake up at 4am PST a couple of times and so my circadian rhythm went ballistic. </p>
<p>if your son was in the MCB program interview, then he probably met me, but i'm guessing that he went to another program interview?</p>
<p>ccmad....he applied to MHG (Molecular and Human Genetics) @ Baylor. He was there the first weekend of this month. Said there was about 20 there. He's on his 3rd interview trip in two weeks as we speak, but thankfully will have a week between the next 2 trips. Good Luck with the rest of yours and travel safe!</p>
<p>I have heard nothing from Stanford or Cornell for EE. The only responses I have heard of have been a Stanford rejection by email on 1/31/07 and a Cornell rejection by email on 2/6/07. I think a few people got into Caltech, but I haven't been paying too much attention.</p>
<p>Indiana-Bloomington-Accepted....pushing for fellowship...hoping for the best</p>
<p>Penn-Accepted-funding not likely</p>
<p>Still waiting on Penn State, Columbia-TC, and UI@Chicago.</p>
<p>Right now, best offer is from Pitt, but even that is just a nomination....it looks like March or early April will be when I decide because by then, final funding decisions should be made and I can make an informed decision.</p>
<p>Son got an odd letter today from Harvard. It was from the Dept. of Life Sciences and they were rejecting him for Chemical Biology, but forwarding his application to the PhD program of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Would they have forwarded it right away when they made their decision? I hope they didn't wait until the date of the letter --probably too late by then. We are sure we applied to the right department, although I remember their website was a little confusing. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Interesting turn of events, njb.....if they forwarded it themselves to the other department I would think that the date probably wasn't that big of a deal. That is, since it's them doing the forwarding as opposed to you sending an app late to the department yourself, I don't think that time will be much of a factor. I coudl be wrong, but that's what I would assume.</p>