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Hello Everybody I got admission from one of the USA universities for PhD (mechanical engineering) and I will start my studies in Summer term (May). However, I intend to transfer to another university for Fall 2009. How and when can I do it? It is necessary to indicate that I am full-funded at both of them. I will be grateful if you help me and give the information elaborately.

Hello Everybody I got admission from one of the USA universities for PhD (in mechanical engineering) and I will start my studies in Summer term (May). However, I intend to transfer to another university for Fall 2009. How and when can I do it? It is necessary to indicate that I am full-funded at both of them. I will be grateful if you help me and give the information elaborately.

Why do you intend to retake the bachelors?!!! You have not cleared your reasons and even your intents.

I did not recommend the forth option based on the limitations and the constraints exist in Iran. Undoubtfully, the situation in USA is quite different. Regarding your proiorities, I believe that the Job Security is more important. However, an american individual can better advice you. Good Luck, Mondo

In order to answer this question, we need to make many questions answered. Actally the degree of freedom is infinity!!! Where will you live in future? What is your ideals in life (money or science)? What are your constraints? and still goes on!!! In other words, the question you have posed is the equation which you yourself should solve it with respect to your boundary and initial conditions. But if I were you (I am now living in Iran), I would certanily would NOT choose the fourth option. If I get a PhD degree from any American, Canadian or British University, I will certainly become a faculty member in any university of Iran with a very high salary.

Please take the following matters into consideration: 1. The professors often allocate the funds to the PhD students (not MSc). 2. These days are actually high seasons for some professors with respect to recieving emails from professor!! Many students like you are emailing them. 3. Some of the professors are on their vacations and do not check their email. 4. Some professors collect the resumes of the applicants and after sometime, they select the best ones. It is probable that they email you in some later time if they find you eligible. 5. The policy of some departments is NOT to check the students' applications unless they formally apply. Therefore, the professors are not permitted to answer to your emails. 6. Some professors do not reply the students' emails which asks them for position. The best way to write the professors is NOT to write them templates. Write something specific to him (and not to you). Something that make the professor feel that you are really interested in his research area. Express explicitly your interests to them and also talk about your reserach background. If possible, check their articles and even take a glance over them and try to make them understand that you have seen and even read their articles. Besides, do NOT send email to ALL or even to more than 1 professor of one department. This is a bit "inprincipled". Good luck

If a universiy asks you to send a bank statement or any other financial document, you must submit it. However, this document normally does not have any impact on your admission chance. I suggest that you fill the form but indicate explicity that you have no money and you need finacial support to come to the university (Unless, you have money enough to pay the university).

I do NOT agree with oldprogrammer. Your GPA and TOEFL and also the quantitative scores are very good (I have no idea for you subject GRE score) This sounds enough for being admitted in many top universities. I am an Iranian student. Most of the iranian students' verbal score are below 400!!! But they get very good result for their application because of their high scores in GPA, TOEFL, Quatitative. Be relax and cool

Dear Ricardo As a graduate student, let me give you an advice: If you go through the list of the faculty memebers of "high rank" universities in US (like MIT, Stanford, Berkely, ...), you find some professors that have gotten their BS or even their PhD from the universities which are not that famous. But how do they become a successful professor? How are they employed in a top university although they have been graduated from a low rank university? The answer is just one thing: their attempt and their being hardworking. I mean that your success in your studies does mainly depend on your performance and as whole on you yourself and not the university reputation. Of course, I don't deny the influence of the university name on the quality. But this factor is really a minor factor. As a whole and undeniably, if you work well and study hard, you can certainly go to a "top" university for PhD.

The best policy is to speak with each individual professor and share the matter with them. Be frank! Tel them if they do not give you a normal financial aid, you can not come to the university. Sometime, negotiation is fruitful!

Yes. This is true. The majority of the graduate students are admitted at Fall semester. Therfore, TA, RA and fellowships are often allocated to the students who are admitted at Fall. Normally, Universities do not accept graduate student for the fall semesters unless in special cases.

University of Pittsburgh needs only two letters of Recommendation. If your problem is just with getting the third letter of recommendation, I also suggest Renssaellar Polytechnic Institute because it needs just two letters of Recomm. With the best wishes

Having said that your chance of admission (with respect to your resume and my gatherings from my friends' profiles) to the universities you have mentioned sounds fairly good.

I am a chemical engineer and I have no backgroung in Electrical engineering. However, many of my friends are studying Electrical and mechanical eng. One of them with following resme has gotten admission from Louisinia State University (full-fund) in Electrical egineering: GPA in BS: 16.8 (from 20), from Iran GPA in MS: 18.6 (from 20), from Iran GRE: V=300, Q=770, AW=3 TOEFL: 593 No Publication The other one has gotten admission from UIC with the following resume: GPA in BS: 14.9 (from 20), Iran GPA in MS: 17.5 (from 20), Iran TOEFL: 95 GRE: I have no information about his GRE No publication I hope these information give you a tool to meausre your chance to be admitted in your desired universities. Good Luck

For example, all the application process at the University of Illinois at Chicago are conducted by the Graduate Center and not by the individual department. So, your TOEFL and GRE scores are recieved by the Graduate Center. This is also true for some other universities where the applications are processed by both the department and the graduate center.

You have asked many questions and therefore your post has many answers. Keep in the mind that: 1. Many universities, due to high amount of applicants, do not send rejection email or mail. 2. A profeesor in canada and especially USA recieves roughly 20 emails per day. So, S/he tries to choose his candidate among the best. So, you are rejected simply because he might have found a more eligible student OR they may reject you because your application package does not sound impressive to them (although he encouraged you to apply). 3. My experience says that DO NOT TRUST ON THE PROFESSORS KIND AND ENCOURAGING EMAILS. 4. The processing errors may occur in dealing with the application. But this happens in very rare cases. 5. I hope that the problem has been over by now because I really touch your stress and passionate. Good Luck

I had not such a bad expreience BUT the best advice I can give you is that contact ETS and share the problem with them. They answer your question soon (typically after 2 to 3 working days). However, the TOEFL score are OFTEN recieved by the graduate center and not the departments (Electrical, mechanical, Chemical, ...). So, it is probable that you need not to report your score again.

Undoubtfully, your chance of admission in such a prestiguous university depends on you GRE performance and also the other applicants CV. Your research record seems to be impressive and your GPAs as well. So, by getting a good score in GRE, your chance sounds high.

If the rest of your application package sounds impressive enough to the admission committee, they certainly ignore your deficiets. I know sombody who has gotten 18 in the speaking section of IBT but she has been appointed as a teaching assistant at UIC!!!

Each university has its own policy and timetable. But Usually the students gets their application results in April.

I have gotten admission from University of South Carolina for PhD of Chemical Engineering (in its biomedical program) with full financial support with the below CV: BS GPA: 13.5 (on the scale of 20) from Iran MS GPA: 16.6 (on the scale of 20) from Iran IBT: 93 GRE: V=500, Q=740, AW=3 Three academic journal publications in ISI journals [clap] I have been also partially funded by Oklahoma state Univ. It is necessary to indicate that the admission in the spring semesters are highly and only dependent on the amount of positions available and NOT on the scientific ability of the students. In other words, the possibility of being admitted in the spring is much lower than that of Fall. For example, I have been rejected from Virgia Tech and University of Illinois (Chicago) because of the unavailability of the open poistions and not because of my scientific background (According to the universities grduate coordinator advisor statements)

If I were you, I would not apply for MIT, Stanford, Yale and Berkely. Be more reasonable, my dear. For example, what don't you try Washington State University? One of my friends with following CV has gotten admission from this university with full financial support: 1. BS GPA from Shiraz Univ. (Iran): 14.5 (on scale of 20) 2. MS GPA from Shiraz Univ. (Iran): 17.3(on scale of 20) 3. TOEFL: approximately 590 4. GRE: He did not take GRE!!! 5. One academic journal Publication

Yes, you can! Biomedical Engineering is an interdisciplinary field. In other words, anyone with the background in electrical Eng., chemical Eng., mechanical Eng., computer Eng., Medicine and nueroscience can apply for this field. My previous field of study was chemical engineering and it was related to air pollution and high pressure thermodynamics. However, I have been accepted in biomedical Eng. Phd program at the Univ. of south carolina.