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 ;)

I just got an e-mail from a professor at Columbia University Materials Science that I'm admitted to the "M.S. leading to Ph.D." program with full aid !!! :D I guess the official snail mail should follow in a few weeks.

Yeah, another month of restless waiting ! For whatever reason, CS and Biology guys are getting admission decisions much earlier than regular engineering people. Let's wait and see. BTW, to which universities did you apply to, koko? Any specialized research area ?

I applied to a total of 10 universities, but have not heard anything except acknowledgements regarding my packets sent via FedEx. I guess decisions should start rolling in at the beginning of March.

I am Turkish and from Istanbul. My girlfriend is also Turkish but she has graduated form the "Italian Hihschool Istanbul" (Liceo Italiano Scientifico Istanbul, or something like that), which has some sort of "special" status in Turkey. The school is basically the same as any science-oriented Italian high school (Italian teachers and lectures etc.), but there are of course some basic courses like Turkish history and literature which are a must for every Turkish student. There are several other "special" high schools like that in Istanbul, for example I'm from Duetsche Schule Istanbul, very much like the German version of Italian High School (parlo bene il tedesco e imparo italiano, was that correct??). I know it sounds strange to you, but these kind of foreign high schools are usually the best in Turkey. As to the other schools I've applied to: MIT Northwestern Princeton Yale Columbia U-Penn U-Michigan, Ann Arbor U-Virginia Johns Hopkins Cambridge, UK You see, all of these are bold shots but I have the best GPA in my department in the last ~15 years, so I hope that will do the trick for more than one school. Rome is also one of my favourite cities in Italy, I especially loved the Spanish Steps at night. We stayed at the hostel called Fawltry Towers there, very close to Termini. Maybe you know the place. Anyway, a good weekend to you, too. Send private messages if you feel that way.

BTW, Prometheys, what part of Italy are you from ? I was interrailing Europe in the Summer of 2003 and fell in love with your country, especially Florence and Siena. I'd really like to visit it again. As my girlfriend is also from Italian High School Istanbul, I think I have a supernatural connection with the country or something. ;) PS: Other Test Magic people: If you think this off-topic chat is filling unneccesary space in the forum, just let me know :D I can always send private messages.

Good luck with the Yale application, Prometheys . I also applied to the ME department, although my area of focus is materials science so I targeted professors Ramirez, Schwarz etc. I hope they admit both of us, you for combustion, me for materials science :D Please let me know if you get any new from the department. You can be sure I'll do the same for you.

I was just wondering if it's possible to get both Fullbright scholarship and support from the university you're gtoing to attend (TA/Ra or fellowship) at the same time ? I'm asking this because the Fulbright in my country (Turkey) pays only 20k per year, so I guess you can not really attend any school with that much money.

In my humble opinion, the idea that Yale is not a strong engineering school is not true anymore... It was true at the beinnning of the 90's as it was even suggested to close the engineering branch once and for all, but the program has improved a lot recently with the addition of young "all-star" faculty such as Ainnisa Ramirez, Mark Reed and so on... (especially in Applied Physics) There are some people there who are recognized as one of the most brilliant scholars in their fields having articles published as cover stories in famous journals. Besides, Yale ranked first in ISI citation index twice in the near past. They now have a new modern engineering building and so on... Sure, the program still has some disadvantages as it is very, very small (for example, ME admitting only 5 grad students each year and so on) and the admittance rate is dismal, but everybody knows that USNEWS rankings are most of the time biased towards much bigger engineering schools. Sure it's not MIT or Princeton, but I think Yale is worth a try for the serious Ph.D. wannabe. BTW: Everything written above consists of my own ideas that I collected mostly in the past year reading about Yale Engineering over the internet. I've never personally been to New Haven, neither the States so this is just my own "home-made" opininon. I welcome your comments :)

Thank you all for your useful comments :D I also hope that at least some of the schools won't place too much emphasis on GRE so that I can get an admit by more than one school. After all, IMHO a multiple-choice test is one of the worst -if not the worst- instruments to make admissions decisions for Ph.D. degrees.

To greaper: I'm not showing off or anything. I just honestly put up my profile there and asked if my list is too ambitious or not. There are many people out there who have similar profiles to mine, even with better GRE scores and etc. IMHO, any talk in the lines of "Go get a life" and so on does certainly not fit anybody who has the "intellectual" aim of pursuing graduate study, be it an MS degree or -worse still- a Ph.D. The bad thing about on-line forums is that people tend to say things that they probably can't really say face-to-face in real life. So, to sum up, if you don't have anything useful to say, please don't say it and waste your time.