Milamber

Well, I got admissions from Yale and Princeton in ME. However, I have a lot of friends who are waiting to hear from Berkeley, Harvard and so on. I still have not heard from Materials Science departments at U-Mich, JHU and UVA. I wonder what the admissions commitees have been doing all these months ! Anyway, I'll attend either Yale or Princeton, so the decisions from the rest do not matter that much now.

I say go for Princeton. Don't underestimate the prestige of Ivy League universities :)

>>>>>>@Milamber.... that was news to me.... how did you figure that out? :rolleyes::rolleyes: Well, it was written there on one of the frequently asked questions web-pages of the graduate admissions pages :) But it was practically buried somewhere, but I somehow realized it :) I'm glad it worked for you,too. Regarding Yale... Well, a professor at the ME department has e-mailed me like 3 weeks ago informing me that I'm on the list of people admitted to the PhD program and that the graduate school is going to send me a letter in a few weeks. As you might guess, I'm still awaiting the letter or any other kind of notification !!!!

Hi there. Here's my details: Interest: Mech Eng or Materials Science PhD GRE: Math-800 Verbal-600 Analytic-4.5 GPA: CUM = 3.96 (best gpa in the department in the last ~15 years) Applied to: Yale, Princeton --> (these are Mech) Columbia, U-Mich, JHU, UVA, Northwestern, MIT, U-Penn --> (these are Materials Science) Admitted to: * Yale (Full Fellowship, unofficial for now) * Princeron (Full Fellowship, 19.5k per year+ tuition waiver) * Columbia (Presidential Fellowship, 27k per year +tuition waiver) Rejected from: * Nowhere (as of yet :hmm: ) I hope this was helpful. BTW, the names of the schools are also given in my signature, as you might have noticed.

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Congratulations, prometheys !!! It looks like some very good schools want to see you in their PhD programs, as I have told you before :D Your top choice is still Duke, right ?

>>> By the way, is this the master program you guys are talking about? It's the Ph.D. program I'm talking about :)

I am also admitted to the MAE department at Princeton !!! Also in at Yale Mechanical Engineering ! That makes it three Ivy admits for me: Columbia + Yale + Princeton :D

Thank you cridamour. Unfortunately my girlfriend did not apply to Columbia, but there are many other common universities that we've applied to. Let's hope that we can get some good financial support from them too :)

nurulz: Thank you, man. All the best to you :)

nurulz: Is your friend in the USA right now ? If that's the case, there's a very slight chance that I have been accepted and the letter is on its way to me. Otherwise, I guess MIT has rejected me. What can I say ? Their loss ;)

>>> uabman: congrats...obviously Columbia really wants you.....I bet you'll be receiving good offers from MIT, etc. I really hope that I'll be receving admits from giants like MIT and Northwestern. However, my lack of international publications could be a problem with MIT.

I just wanted to let you know that: Columbia Materials Science (Ph.D) has just offered me a whooping Presidential Fellowship !!! (~2900$/per month) http://www.edulix.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif Too bad they are not as highly ranked as , for example, Northwestern in Materials Science. It would really be very hard for me to refuse this offer if I get an admit from NW or a similar university with a "better" department. However, the research at Columbia is also interesting. I really have to think about this. But first I should wait for -hopefully- other admits...

WOW Promethys !!! I knew you would be accepted at some very good places ! So Durham will be a good change after Rome I think :) Anyway, wait until you hear from Cornell or Yale ! That'll be the time for the real party :tup:

Well, I don't know how to change the subject line now, but : I HAVE JUST BEEN ADMITTED TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROGRAM IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING WITH FULL AID !!! :))) (M.S. leading to Ph.D, contacted via e-mail) Thank you all for your warm support. I hope you all make it to your dream schools in the States. BTW, I mentioned this yesterday in another thread but have opened this one for those who might have missed it ;)