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There are quite a few Taiwanese students in EE at Columbia. I am actually a Chinese student in the US. To me it seems that Columbia likes to admit students from Taiwan. You probably have a good chance. Good luck!

I just had a first phone call with my POI. In the email, he said he would call me to answer my questions. I was like "sure." And I prepared quite a few questions. Then today, he called and bombed me with his questions immediately. It was really tough. There were some details about my research from two years ago that I really could not recall. He kept digging, and when he heard about the research I did this summer, he even asked why my adviser would start a project like that (He seemed to find this research pointless). I totally stuttered. How the hell should I know? My adviser said it was an interesting project and I found it interesting too, so I took it. How am I supposed to know why my adviser found this project interesting? In the end, he only gave me a few minutes to answer my question and he kind of lost patience when he found out I prepared more questions than he expected. @Radian, your comments about the professors are probably right.

Only applied for UMich, and nothing from them either.

Does that mean I am rejected already by Columbia and UIUC? I did one summer research at Columbia and have a recommendation letter from the professor I worked with. Sh*t, I was expecting so much from Columbia. Now I feel I will definitely get no acceptance.

Hey there, has anyone heard from any school? As an applicant from a small liberal arts college, right now I feel so terrible about my chances of being admitted to any large engineering school. So scared that I may end up getting rejected by all the schools I applied for.