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Hi All, Thanks for the wishes markiv81....I am presently undecided about UMD or UMN. I guess I have to make a decision soon. Congrats and best of luck for your graduate studies.....I might join you at UMD. To Brown.......what you have written is true regarding the admissions being withdrawn in case we dont show proof of financial support. Actually I had emailed UMD regarding the last date since nowhere on the webpages is it written clearly about the last date and they mailed me back saying that it is April 15. I had also mentioned in my mail that I havent received any financial aid. I guess you guys can independently verify about the last date by mailing them and please post here the last date as mentioned by them. Thanks Bye Dikpal

Hi All, Congrats to markiv81 and Brown...... I agree with Brown that the advisors mentioned arent just academic advisors....because my academic advisor is the same professor whom I mentioned in my SOP. Naturally my advisor is working in the field I am interested in and generally this is the case irrespective of we mentioning their name in the SOP. I initially received the decision by email and within few days I received the admission letter by snail mail.......no aid though:( Bye Dikpal

Hi, Thanks a lot bigred, gforce and eegradstudent1 for the suggestion. Since I dont have funding from either institute which place do you think is better at funding after one reaches there. UMN has not set any deadline for my acceptance of offer but UMD has set the April 15 deadline, which is tomorrow. Generally, isn't the April 15 deadline for only those applicants who have been given the financial aid? Thanks Dikpal

Hi All, Please help me in deciding the university My research interests are in Information Theory and its applications in Wireless Communications and Networks. Also interested in Coding Theory I applied to the following universities Admitted University of Maryland College Park University of Minnesota Twin Cities NO aid from both of these Reject University of Texas at Austin Rice Uinversity Purdue University Awaiting University of Southern California University of California Santa Barbara (Most probably a ding) Which among UMD and UMN is good, according to you, in my field of interest? Also, at which university is there a higher chance of obtaining financial aid? How would you rate both of them in terms of 1.Overall environment and work culture 2.Job opportunities/ Contacts with industry 3.Reputation in the industry 4.Reputation in academia Thanks Dikpal

Hi, Heard from RICE-ECE.......a reject. Applied for PhD program. Sent me a reject e-mail yesterday (April 1) saying that I have been rejected for Spring 2005 (I had applied for Fall 2005). How do I interpret this.........was this a typographical mistake and I have been really rejected or did they make someother mistake?? Bye