JavaGuy147
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Don't know what you program is but for the science phds I think it's around $2200 per month. I think you can find studios for 650 or so, and apparently it's a lot cheaper to do shared housing.
Are you coming to philly in August or June?
I have chosen Penn. I don't have to come until near Fall, obviously, but I have been told I can start projects whenever I get down there so I may try to go earlier and get settled in. For CS the stipend is the same, 29k or ~2200/month accounting for taxes. I wouldn't be getting that until the start of Fall obviously, but I may have enough savings to work it out going early. When are you moving in?
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Hi guys,
I've done some extensive apt/housing search and the price really varies. There are a bunch of posts on Craigslist from 540-1000+ for one bedroom apartments and some local agents offer better deals, like $800 for two people. Anyone thinking of sharing an apartment? Since I'm international I need to attend the ITA training starting on June 22nd. Anyone thinking of sharing an apartment? PM me please!
Still deciding (will soon obviously) but its looking like Penn for me as well. I was expecting to live by myself and have a hard time finding housing the first year, but then maybe house sharing after getting to know people. If I decide to go to Penn maybe we could work out a 2 or 3 bedroom deal for our first year and stretch all of our stipends that much further. I wonder when the first month of the stipend is, I'll have to check that out. I am a bit poor without it.
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Depends on what you do. If you become a data scientist then sure you can expect north of $130K. However, I don't believe that $130K is the average for all PhD graduate at a particular school. If you factor the people that go into academia, the average should be lower.
This is why I am skeptical, but the materials clearly stated that as the average starting salary for PhD graduates. I think most people from UIUC go to industry so academia shouldn't skew it too much.
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Hey, I was there! What did you think? The department feels like a great fit for me, but I'm visiting one other school before I make a decision.
Also, did you read the one pamphlet we recieved in our folders? It says the average starting salary for MS is like 102k-ish and that PhD was over 130k. Does that even sound reasonable? I almost look at it and don't believe it. I'm not sure if grads from the top 4 make that much so I'm a little skeptical. Then again, maybe they do, or maybe UIUCs industry relations does put them ahead pay-wise. Any insight? Of course I'm not in it for the money but if thats true then GOD DAMN.
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Hey, I was there! What did you think? The department feels like a great fit for me, but I'm visiting one other school before I make a decision.
It was very nice, and it looks like a good fit for me as well. Its looking like I'll be deciding between UIUC and Penn. Its going to be a hard decision because the ranking disparity is a bit large, but Penn is still top 20 and has lots of other perks (general name recongition, still great grad placement, alumni network, in Philly, smaller class, could get a MS in stats from Wharton on the way, etc).
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The thing I have going for me is probably my recommendations. Multiple faculty have mentioned that they knew my letter writers. To be honest, I would rank an okay LOR from someone famous over a great LOL from someone not so famous. Several of mine were "did well in class" but the professor was well known, so that may have worked in my favor.
That probably had a lot to do with it. I went to a smaller state school (but with well known CS program in the state system) and smaller/more specific, but still good, internships so its likely most committees didn't recognize any of my recommenders. I've always thought its stupid to believe someone more just because you know (of) them, but it seems to be a consensus that thats how recommendations work. Besides that... 4.0, top of my class, CS/Math double major+honors, 170/162 GRE, 3 diverse research projects, and lots of extra-curriculars and such. I'm guessing my LOR were good just not from well known people
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Welp, found out at the UIUC visit days. If anyone was wondering, they recieved around 800 applications, admitted about 100, and expect somewhere near 50 to enroll.
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So was anybody here at the UIUC visit 23rd-25th? I few people mentioned gradcafe and I was wondering if they might be in this thread
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Profile:
Blue means interview. I spent a good 10 minutes in the shower debating whether to put a legend in my signature or not, but I like the clean look so I left it as is. Even if it is unclear..
My profile isn't too far off from yours, not sure why I'm getting boned. Oh well, have you made a decision yet?
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I've been accepted into both masters program with graduate assistantship. I am trying to make a decision between the 2, but its tough. Thought I throw it out into the net to see if I can fetch some opinions about either school and their respective programs. Your opinions don't necessarily have to revolve around my specific program. Just seeing if one school had something special other than... e.g. UIUC library system or Penn States RNC ranking. Any general insight into the area, student pop., etc would be beneficial. Thanks in advance for any input.
To my knowledge, both are sort of party schools. So that wouldn't be much of a difference if you want to night life or social scene - although I believe State College is more eventful than Urbana-Champaign. They are both pretty far (at least 2 hours dirivng) from any large city, you can decide if thats good or not.
By the way, PA has weird liquor laws (can only get liquor at a state store and limited availablilty of beer and wine at some grocery stores) but nice gun laws. Illinois has horrendous gun laws, if that means anything to you (edit: Totally NOT profiling your location, I just noticed that now. I mentioned it because it may have at least some influence on my decision to go there).
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I have submitted my application before 11/18, but my status is still "submitted", but not "under review".
I am wondering what's the difference between these two states.
No idea, might be bad or it might not. IMO most app sites seem to be poorly constructed and hard to understand.
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Looks like both Berkeley and Princeton sent out a lot of notifications today.
Holy crap man, looks like you are landing them all... I hate you
Whats your profile? And what does the blue text mean, by the way?
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Just doing general research, I have found for just about all schools I'm applying to some sort of admissions metric, whether it be "x%" or "x applications admitted out of a pool of about y."
I can't seem to find anything about the selectivity of UIUC's CS program. I know its a top 5 graduate program, but its undergraduate admission rate is actually strikingly high (compared to peer top 4 CS programs), and I was wondering if the graduate program is similar. Any ideas about the acceptance rate or pool size? How many applicants are admitted each year? Anything?
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Only top 4 program I applied to who hasn't rejected me yet is MIT, but I'm not to hopeful with that. No contact yet. I am happy to have some decent acceptances and likely acceptances, though. At this point I think I may be deciding between UIUC and Penn (I know UIUC is top 5 and Penn is only like 17th but I think Penn has some non-ranking advantages, maybe I'll make a post asking for opinions on the matter).
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I was emailed by a professor and asked to visit, which I did on the 10th. Nothing since but no rejection. As of now site still says its under review. Interest in distributed systems, scheduling, and queuing. If I get accepted here it will probably be between Penn and UIUC. Opinions?
M.Arch I: UPenn, Cornell, Columbia.
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I think Conell offers the best happy medium here, if you don't mind living in Ithaca. It is also very well known and when it comes to the top programs you can't really nit-pick a few spots difference. I would say Cornell.
Note that this is with a little bit of bias although not much: I took architecture undergrad classes at Cornell during a summer when I was in high school.