<p>There's something about hearing Harvard and Yale tossed around here that makes me want to go there, even though I know they're absolute crud for engineering. Grats to all you (mostly) physical science majors who made it there and to all the other great schools on this thread.</p>
<p>My updated list for Mechanical engineering, so far is:</p>
<p>Cornell - PhD - Accepted
UIUC - MS - Accepted
GATech - MS - Accepted
UT Austin - MS - Accepted
MIT - MS - Unknown
Stanford - MS - Unknown, though I heard someone got in.
UCLA - PhD - Unknown, though dept said they'd respond this week
Berkeley - MS - Unknown, but also heard they started responding
UCSB - PhD - Unknown</p>
<p>The only other schools I'm really waiting for are MIT and UCLA. MIT made it pretty clear they don't respond till Mid-march though, so it'll be a long wait. As it is, my top choice is probably Cornell, though it somewhat concerns me that they only have 2-3 real nano-engineering professors, and I don't want to go there and find out I have to work on something I hate for 5 years. Still, they're often listed as one of the top 5 unis for nano-research, so there must be something going on there. I guess I'll just have to wait and see how my visit weekend and MIT admissions go.</p>
<p>Berkeley - Mat Sci - accepted
Caltech - Mech Eng - paid visit
Northwestern - Mat Sci - accepted
Brown - Mechanics of Solids - accepted
MIT - Mat Sci - n/a
*Stanford - Mat Sci - accepted
UCSB - Mat Sci - n/a</p>
<p>S only applied to 3 programs. Accepted in MSE at Cornell and Stanford. Waiting to hear on the third (interdisciplinary). (Aside to Merper: S really loves Cornell's nano program. It's going to be very hard for him to choose. :) )</p>
<p>what percentage of students invited for a visitation weekend are offered admission usually> i was invited for a paid trip to stanford. anyone know?</p>
<p>speaking of Caltech, i was talking to Rudolph Jaenisch and Jon King yesterday (those who are familiar with mit bio should know about them) about caltech because Jon got his PhD at caltech. Rudy had a joke. it goes like this: there is supposed to be a beautiful view (a moutain or something) outside one of the PI's office there, but because of the smog back then, he was never able to see it. so when he moved out of caltech, his old colleagues sent him a postcard with the exact view of that moutain and says in the back that "here is the view outside of your old office"....</p>
<p>and it was funny that Jon thought Caltech was a technical school of berkeley... well they didnt have a good communication as we do now, but it was pretty funny too. (no offense to any caltech people).</p>
<p>Hey merper68, has Cornell offered you any fellowship, RA or TA yet? I am still waiting to hear from them. I think I'll be offered admission but I am not so sure about money :-(
BTW, Cornell has one of the best nanofab facilities in the US. You are an ME, so I am not sure what an ME person does in nano, but for EEs it is a great place to be.</p>
<p>Cornell offered me fellowship for my first year and guaranteed GRA or GTA positions after that. I know that varies heavily between departments and between specializations though. Many of the grad students in my undergrad lab at Berkeley, applied to Cornell for biomechanics work and got rejected mainly for funding reasons(not academics as they got into stanford, caltech, berkeley etc). </p>
<p>MEs in nano do a lot of fluid and thermal work. They can also work on micro robots, nanomotors, sensors, nanophotonics - pretty much what any other major would do. I'm seeing very little distinction between nano-research projects from different majors.</p>
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<p>I have the week off for spring break, so I'm going to go out earlier in the week for Stanford. I figured I'd make it a little vacation and spend the week in california.</p>