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Congratz! Davis is a very nice college town. I interned at CalTrans(California Department of Transportation) for awhile, they were hiring like mad 3 years ago, at one time, they hired 20 graduating seniors at once from my school, and they had to go out of state to recruit more. but that was a few years ago lol. Now they're on a hiring freeze, they fired all the students, I don't see things get any better til at least summer of 2011. you can try looking for a consulting job, but if you're a transpo guy, CalTran is the dream job, high pay, good benefits, little work, in fact, the senior engineers only work half day and get paid in 6 digits, lol!!

Fellow Stanford grad to be's, please send me a message with your Stanford email address, and email of those that you've met during visitation day. we'll talk about TA, RA, academics, housing, good food and how life is wonderful in the bay area. On a serious side, my professor said some of the grad classes are just straight up hard, and it takes group effort to struggle through it(well, at least for me, I expect to see tons of smart people at Stan).

Berkeley has an unsual amount of rejects this year, it's weird. It seems like everyone's heading to Stanford! we should organize a dinner a week before class to get acquainted with each other. Is April 15th the last day we can expect funding? Will they notify us if we don't get funded? anyone considering living in east palo alto? bad area, but alot alot cheaper... I don't want to hi jack this thread, maybe we'll start another Stanford civil thread.

If it's up to me, I would choose Purdue, for their overall prestige in civil engineering. then USC because of their location. Just forget about Michigan, weather sucks there.

no funding yet, I called a secretary she kinda blew me off. I'm going to visit this Friday again to see if I can get some $$$. at this point, you should make calls to the departments asking for your status.

money is a huge issue for me as well. if money is such a big issue for you, i suggest that you go to a public institution, it'll probably cut your cost by half. This is dream come true for me, so I'm gonna grab this opportunity by the balls, if it's something you really wanted to do, I suggest you do the same, 40k tuition can probably be paid off in 2 years after you land a job.

you deferred your admission from last year, to see if you can get funding this year? I will definitely ask them about when the $$$ decisions will be made. I was admitted in February but the letter was lost, so I didn't find out til 2 months later, if that's what you mean...

I did not get any $$$ the letter only mentioned that funding will be decided by march 31st, and they will let me know after they make a decision. I don't know about Stanford, but generally it's hard for any MS student to get any sort of RA/TA especially the first quarter. I'm going to visit the school next week, and hopefully I can get more information. MS degree is relatively short, you're probably looking at 40k tuition, I think it's well worth a Stanford education. did Stanford financial aid office contact you about how much loan you're eligible for?

I just got an acceptance letter from Stanford's structures group. It was mailed out on Feb 18th, it took 2 months to get to me and I live in California, what!? On the topic of UC Berkeley, I sent in my application in October, yet Berkeley still can't make up their mind, they've been ignoring all my emails, and phone calls, I can only imagine that they pay minimal attention to their students as well. I look forward to see you guys at Stanford, I know there's quite a few of you on this board.

what a luxury it is to be able to reject Berkeley admission, totally jealous.

you can consider living in the east bay, hayward area is pretty cheap. San Francisco's tranportation system is bomb, Berkeley campus is very close to a bart station, so you only need 1 car to go to Stanford really.

someone mentioned that UCB's visitation day is this Saturday, is it reasonable to believe that admission emails will be sent out this week? also, when is the last day to accept/decline a school's admission offer (without aid)? richinsane, I'm very happy that everything worked out for you!

I got 3 straight rejections from MIT Stanford(I think) and Cornell, a very bad week for me. I'm gonna head to UTaustin unless Berkeley responds. I'm just glad that this whole ordeal is about to end.

they're on spring break this week, we'll most likely hear from them next week (I hope)

I hope you're right! I keep telling myself next week is it, next week is it, and always end up disappointed. on the flip side, we only have 3 weeks of waiting left at most, this whole ordeal is pushing my patience to another level.

I got an rejection from MIT via email that ended my streak of good luck. come on Stanford!!!!

Prof. Law, he was very nice about it, and forwarded my email to the admin people. But still, the fact he hasn't read my application yet spells trouble lol, maybe my GRE score didn't make the cut, and my app got tossed into the reject pile automatically - -; tragedy!

Stanford Prof emailed me saying he doesn't remember seeing my application. Looks like they lost my app, lol?????

I took the leap of faith and emailed Prof Armero and a Stanford professor, and got no replies......

Which professor did you email? I'm going to try my luck if it's a rejection so be it

Just found out visitation day for Stanford is March 19th. http://cee.stanford.edu/events/visitation_day.html anyone has the guts to email the professor and ask for admission status? how bout we all do it next week if we don't hear anything? lol, I don't know if it's a good idea or not..

I'm about to have an anxiety explosion from playing UCB and Stanford's waiting game.

go to Cornell.

Hmmm...you can't go wrong with either. It seems that Cornell does more research with materials and modeling. I only applied to Michigan because concrete legend Antoine Naaman is a professor there(retired????) and they do a lot of research with concrete.

good luck to you sir