gilboy Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 My TAMU application decision was changed today to: "Congratulations! You have been admitted to Texas A&M University. We will send your acceptance letter via postal mail." There is no more information regarding funding. Does it mean that I have not been awarded any funds? AIS does not ask me if I accept or not their offer!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaileshdc Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Hi guys, All the decisions are out for me. Admits: UCLA, UCSD, UMich Rejects: Stanford, UT Austin, Gatech, Purdue, UMCP. Need your suggestion in choosing the best destination for EE (communications and networking) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sizan Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 I have been offered admission to the Stanford EE PhD program for Fall 2011. They are supposed to let me know about funding situation very soon. I am just having my fingers crossed...Does anyone know whether all of the stanford PhD students are funded or not?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherflunky Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 I have been offered admission to the Stanford EE PhD program for Fall 2011. They are supposed to let me know about funding situation very soon. I am just having my fingers crossed...Does anyone know whether all of the stanford PhD students are funded or not?? Majority are not funded for the first-year. The top students get fellowships with their admission, the rest find RA/TA during their second year onwards (if they pass the qualifying exam). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sizan Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Majority are not funded for the first-year. The top students get fellowships with their admission, the rest find RA/TA during their second year onwards (if they pass the qualifying exam). Do you know that whether the possibility of having fellowships has gone or not? Because, in the admission it looked like very promising that they will offer me departmental fellowship. Also, will you please let me know your profile and your stanford fellowship details? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibangz Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Majority are not funded for the first-year. The top students get fellowships with their admission, the rest find RA/TA during their second year onwards (if they pass the qualifying exam). What you're saying is rather insane. Especially for a school like Stanford. How on earth grad students especially foreign nationals with no access to domestic applicant loans/non-university-fellowships should be able to pay for something like $60K? Treating PhD students as cash cow (like terminal MS students) is quite a new trend. Don't admit them or give them RA/TAships from the start. ibangz, stefano and anotherflunky 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherflunky Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 What you're saying is rather insane. Especially for a school like Stanford. How on earth grad students especially foreign nationals with no access to domestic applicant loans/non-university-fellowships should be able to pay for something like $60K? Treating PhD students as cash cow (like terminal MS students) is quite a new trend. Don't admit them or give them RA/TAships from the start. All parts of this process are voluntary, so what's the issue? If one doesn't want to go to Stanford unfunded, then he can choose not to. He can even choose not to apply. Some people are willing to pay for Stanford -- why not let them? Stanford has more citations/paper than even MIT and Berkeley. And in industry impact, I don't even need to spell it out. Sounds like they know what they're doing. zarp, anotherflunky and ibangz 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherflunky Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 (edited) Do you know that whether the possibility of having fellowships has gone or not? Because, in the admission it looked like very promising that they will offer me departmental fellowship. Also, will you please let me know your profile and your stanford fellowship details? My three-quarter fellowship was going to pay tuition and a stipend of $8100 per quarter. But I recently won the 3-year NSF fellowship, so instead the departmental fellowship will go towards supplementing that for all three years with some minor benefits like a health insurance subsidy. It's not useful for you to know my profile as I'm a domestic student so it's not directly comparable. They give that hopeful admission letter to everyone, but only a fraction get funded. I personally don't recommend taking an unfunded offer, even for U.S. students. Edited April 12, 2011 by gtmshine zarp and ibangz 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhargavraj Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 I have got an admit from University of Rochester MS EE.. I am interested in VLSI Comp. Archi... Can anyone please suggest how the university is ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sizan Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 My three-quarter fellowship was going to pay tuition and a stipend of $8100 per quarter. But I recently won the 3-year NSF fellowship, so instead the departmental fellowship will go towards supplementing that for all three years with some minor benefits like a health insurance subsidy. It's not useful for you to know my profile as I'm a domestic student so it's not directly comparable. They give that hopeful admission letter to everyone, but only a fraction get funded. I personally don't recommend taking an unfunded offer, even for U.S. students. I have been offered a departmental 3-quarter fellowship for pursuing PhD in EE. I have already accepted the offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b2b Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Hi Friends, I got my EE PhD admit from TAMU during last week of march ... but as of now no info on funding/aid ... My Area of Interest is Telecommunication & Signal Processing (specifically Information theory) infact EE department claims that there is no funding ... Has anybody who got accepted to EE PhD at TAMU, received any sort of financial aid ? Besides, friends I need an advice ... should i go ahead with my admit by financially supporting myself or shud let go of this offer ? I mean how good is TAMU for my area of interest ? Regards, b2b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eesj Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Hello, Did anyone apply to Stanford EE for Winter 2011-12 quarter? Do you know the typical wait time for a decision? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EgyFalc Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Does anybody know when UIUC ECE final decisions would be made? I called them , they told me that I will get the decision on or before 15 March , it is today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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