<p>Anyone heard back from anywhere yet? I applied to mat sci Ph.D. and have heard back from Urbana and from Michigan. Anyone out there heard from Northwestern yet?</p>
<p>For those of you interested in checking up-to-date info on acceptances/interviews/etc. check out [GradCafe</a> admissions results](<a href=“http://thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php]GradCafe”>Grad School Admissions Results for 2006–2024 • thegradcafe.com). I personally haven’t heard back from anywhere and it doesn’t look any EEs on gradcafe have either.</p>
<p>School: Penn State
GPA: 3.36
Major: Computer Science
GRE: 560, 720, 3.5</p>
<p>Recs:
Dean, Professor, Manager in Government (PhD)</p>
<p>Research:
Work freshman year and within schools Vision and Graphics lab (Nothing serious though)</p>
<p>Also a good amount of leadership and internships</p>
<p>Applying MS in CS:
RIT (HCI Program), Syracuse, UPenn, Penn State, SUNY-Buffalo, Stanford</p>
<p>Admitted to UPenn thus far (havent heard back from anywhere else)</p>
<p>BTW Everyone here has great stats…</p>
<p>Loyola Univeristy New Orleans Senior</p>
<p>Cumulative: 3.3
Major: Chemistry - Honors 3.37
Minor1) Math 3.4 , (2) Computational Science 3.75</p>
<p>GRE: 760 Q, 410V</p>
<p>Research: 1 Year Organic Chemistry, 1.5 Years and Summer Physical/Analytical Chemistry
2008 ACS Regional Poster Session, 2009 Regional Poster Session, (in progress) 2010 National Hazards Conference Poster Presentation, Writing departmental honors thesis on summer research, and also good chance of being published by next spring/summer.</p>
<p>Recommendations: 2 very very good recommendations from p.chem research adviser and head of chemistry department. 1 very good recommendation from professor of mathematics.</p>
<p>Internship: 2010 summer internship at Shell Oil - New Orleans</p>
<p>SOP: Strong and unique, hurricane Katrina caused much hardship resulting in 3 f’s (0.0 all in non major classes) yet Ive maintained all A’s and 1 B in last 3 upper level semesters. Avergaed 3.8 GPA in past last years.</p>
<p>Applied: Cornell, UCSB, UT, Rice, Purdue, Tulane</p>
<p>@CH121S</p>
<p>is upenn pretty good about the 4-6 week decision timeline? i’m just wondering how you heard back so quickly…</p>
<p>Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan
Cum GPA 3.8
Major GPA 3.9</p>
<p>GRE: Q-800
V-540
AW-5</p>
<p>Completed research at NASA for 1 semester, worked in a biofuels lab, and photocatalyst lab.
1 paper as 2nd author
1 paper presented at a national conference (4th author); nominated for best paper</p>
<p>Accepted to UVA 12/24, Delaware 1/8
Also applied to Berkeley, Stanford, UCSB, GA Tech, MIT</p>
<p>To tell the truth I was completely surprised myself of how fast it was.
Yes, I think it actually took less than 4 weeks, so Im assuming they generally stick to the timeline</p>
<p>I am a mechanical engineering and I have already been accepted to Georgia Tech’s Mechanical Engineering PhD program. (My stats are on the first page of this thread)</p>
<p>I plan on visiting GT in February. </p>
<p>I have yet to hear from any other school though.</p>
<p>Yea GT decisions are out. Kinda weird cuz their app deadline is not until Feb 15</p>
<p>I got accepted to Materials Science & Engineering Ph.D. already at UIUC and Michigan. I got a Hamer fellowship from UIUC, too. I heard back from Michigan on Dec 23, UIUC on Jan 5.</p>
<p>UT Austin
Petroleum Engineering May 09
GPA: 3.45 (I didn’t enjoy my major as much as I planned to)
GRE1: 610V 800Q 4.0AW
GRE2: 590V 800Q … XD </p>
<p>Accepted Spring 2010 M.S. Petroleum Engineering UT Austin</p>
<p>Applied to:
MS&E Stanfrod
EER UT Austin </p>
<p>One internship with Chevron
1 year research on secondary recovery</p>
<p>Good Luck Guys! Whoever’s applying to MS&E… sharing the stats sounds nice. I am very anxious since my GPA is kinda low, and I didn’t really know how to explain it in the application, cus I didn’t like engineering that much… which makes it harder to explain why I am still in Engineering school doing Masters…</p>
<p>Believe it or not a 3.45 is still not a bad GPA lol…the stats are a bit skewed on this forum ;)</p>
<p>That sounds like music to me… but I hope my GPA is at least “competitive”, which is hard to say in this forum.</p>
<p>Well, I had a 3.38 overall GPA, and I just got into the #2 ranked mat sci Ph.D. program. So really, they don’t care so much about it. My other stats include</p>
<p>-graduated from Harvard, BA in a physical science
-much higher concentration GPA, and even higher GPA in junior/senior year
-few pubs and awards</p>
<p>Just got unofficial acceptance letter from Stanford’s MS&E PhD Program! Sounds like they’re coming in.</p>
<p>Undergrad: MIT
Major: Mat Sci & Eng
GPA: 3.88
GRE’s: Math: 750, Verbal: 800 (no, that’s not backwards. I know it’s weird.) AW: 5</p>
<p>Research:
-in MIT labs: worked in 5 different labs for a total of 6 semesters (two of them simultaneously last semester because i liked them both a lot and also wanted recs)</p>
<ul>
<li>internships: last summer at a small company in MD, the summer before at Corning</li>
</ul>
<p>Honors: Tau Beta Pi and NSCS</p>
<p>No publications or anything. :/</p>
<p>Also applied to: MIT, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, UCSB</p>
<p>Ket–you heard over the weekend? On Sunday? Nice…have you heard from anywhere else yet?</p>
<p>I was actually emailing back and forth with one of the professors there about his research (he’s really cool) and he told me. I’m not getting the official letter for a couple of weeks. I haven’t heard from anywhere else yet.</p>
<p>According to the Berkeley admissions person, the admissions committee meets once a week and announces new decisions once a week. I have a feeling this day is Tuesday based on people I know who have heard…</p>
<p>Just got into Berkeley! Man, it feels good</p>
<p>Confused519:</p>
<p>Congrats! what major did you apply as and how did they inform you of the decision?</p>