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All the best for your research and study! :tup: [clap] :tup:

Any kind souls? Help me please!

Hi guys, Please give me comments on these schools and my chances of getting aid. Financial aid is extremely important for me: :hmm: -Looking for a Ph.D degree in Mech. Eng. in the field of Dynamics and Control -GRE: yet to take, should be something like: V400/Q780-800/AWA4.5-5 :crazy: -Undergraduate GPA: 7.23/10 (second class), Mech. Eng, Vietnam -MS GPA: 93% (graduate school topper), Mechatronics, Taiwan -2 years of work experience for a software company in the areas of Image Processing, Algorithms and Computational Methods. -1 year teaching experience in a college in Vietnam, faculty member. -2 years RA in Taiwan in the area of dynamics, control and robotics. -Publications: 1 SCI journal, 5 international conferences (including one for ASME), and other 4 journal papers under review (including one for IEEE trans.). First author in 1 of the submitted journal papers. School list: 1. MIT 2. UCB 3. UIUC 4. Gatech 5. USC 6. Purdue 7. Cornell 8. CMU 9. Princeton Univ 10. UMD 11. UCSB 12. UFL 13. Minnesota 14. Ohio State Univ. 15. Rice 16. Case Western 17. UCD 18. Notre Dame 19. SUNY Buffalo 20. UIC 21. SUNY-Stony 22. Auburn Uni 23. UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY,LEXINGTON Also, please help me pick around 10-15 schools to apply and rank them based on chances of getting admit + aid. Thanks a million!

@ jrcolmena: I have just read your post at http://www.www.urch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21794 and you mentioned that you got admit to SUNYSB whose research interests are in line with yours. I really want to know that, can you share it with me? Maybe that's an important factor giving you an aid. Did you do any research similar to that of SUNYSB? Many thanks!

Hi jrcolmena. Which degree (Ph.D of MS) did you aim at? My opinion is that your chance of getting aid is also dependent on other factors of your application like: publications, research experience, not the GRE-V alone. Also, I believe that if you apply for PhD, the chance of getting aid will be higher. Correct me if I am wrong!

Oh, thank you so much!

Can anybody please tell me what the waver of right of access form actually is? This form is required by all universities along with LoR's. Do I need to sign this form and does it harm me if I don't sign it? Many thanks

CONGRATULATIONS TANS! Btw, could you also specify which univs you received financial aid?

If I were you, I would apply to US univs and that company simultaneously. If you fail to US univs, you can work on that research project and try to have some pubs as well as working exprerience. I believe that the GRE score can only help if you already have good prior academic performance. Correct me if I am wrong!

Wowwwwww, can you post your profile? It must be like a professor's profile. :eek: Also, I am longing for seeing your applying experience. Btw, which department at UCB do you aim at? I hope that it is not the Department of Mechanical Engineering (so that I will have a little chance in Fall 2006 :) )

At last I found the one who shares the same research interests with me :) ! If I were you, I would choose Gatech, not because of the financial aid package but because I am extremely interested in the research activities in dynamics/control at Gatech, just have a look at this: http://www.me.gatech.edu/auto_mec/amr.html . It seems that professors at Stanford like to do research in Biorobotics and you will not have much chance to study dynamics there.

Here are some useful pieces of advice for Prospective Research Students: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/advice/prospective.html

Congratulations on your superb admits! Could you also post your desired area of study?

Thanks awhig, your wordlists are extremely useful, especially the synonym one!

I heard that this will help. But this does not always happen. A guy I know got admit from CMU with full funding even if he had indicated that he already had had another source of funding. So it seems that funding is not a problem at CMU and it was unlikely that he was accepted because he didnot need aid. Also, it was such a confidence to apply to such a handful of top schools like you. Good luck on your next try, I believe that you can make it to a good school with your profile! :grad: I really don't think that the low Undergraduate GPA would harm you when you aready have the good GPA for your MS level.

Keep growing! :whistle:

@Raven: I think the problem is that you are from Singapore, where English is the official language. International students from India, Singapore and Thailand are quite different. It is very much harder for a student from a non-English speaking country to master V than those from countries where English is the first language. Of course the admission decision must also base on other parts of your application such as pubs, GPA, ... I know many Vietnamese students who only got 400-450 V being able to get into top 5 schools with full aid.

Oop, you're right! I need to think about this more :blush: . It was a premature solution.

Hi Dingus, I guess that you took the CBT GRE test. So is there any one having experience on the PBT test? Two pencils seem not to be enough.

I took the TOEFL test more than 2 years ago and I am pretty sure that there's no significant difference between the quality of PP and the actual test, the speakers were even coughing while talking.

OK, Holden_caufield. I will have the hardest one done. 1. Divide the 12 coins into 4 parts of 3 coins each and name them A, B, C and D. 2. In the first weighting we compare A and B. 3. In the second weighting we compare B and C. The result can be one of the followings: If A=B and B > - We call the three coins in the C part M, N and P. Randomly pick 2 coins from C, for example M and N, and implement the third weighting between them. + If M=N then the fake one is P. + If M > N then the fake one is M, otherwise it is N. If A=B=C: then the fake coin is in the D part. In a similar fashion as with C part, we can determine the fake coin in D. ;)

Anyway, your solution is correct. However, you should not spend too much time on these kinds of problems but reserve your precious time for more difficult ones. I know that by one way or another, we can calculate exactly why y is greater than x, but it is not necessary. For many of GRE questions, we can find the correct answers just by our intuition, for example, 4^5 is greater than 5^4 without caculating.

Intuitively, anyone of us can know for sure that y > x. Technically, we can write tan(y) = BC/BD > tan(x) = BC/BA ==> y > x.

Hi ish, email me at r9201001@mail.dyu.edu.tw and I will send you the stuff I have. However, I am not so sure they are big book questions. I have one big book which is the 9th edition having 6 tests and another one having 27 tests. But I could not find any of those questions in these books.

Hi vikramkone, The keys are all wrong. All of the questions you posted and the correct keys are in this file. Check it out! SC-All books.pdf