jacobwarsx
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I hope Professor Shewchuk do not reply to question about EE.
And please, Engineering people, you have your own forums, please refrain from posting non-CS-related content here.
Some of you have grown up, and I am sure many of us here are having difficult time waiting for results.
It's quite obnoxious going here bragging about your Engineering interviews, admits, or whatever you get.
Most of us are just too polite to say anything, so it doesn't mean we are not annoyed.. so please!!
Your posting will be much more appreciated in the Engineering forums.
I personally have no problem seeing people being so proud about their achievement in CS here, they have earned the right to do that.
But please, put it in the right place.
Thanks!
Chill out man. EE & CS are like brother and sister! Notice how these departments co-exist (happily I hope :-)) as EECS in many of the top schools (ie MIT, UC Berkeley, etc)? I would be mad too if it was a History major asking his question here, but its just EE.
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CMU Robotics Institute (RI) is March 26 - 28th.
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Brown - 18/19th March
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I was interviewed before the admission, but I think it's because while my research is related, it's not directly in line with theirs. I just feel this was the reason as I did not see too many people post about interviews from Cornell.
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First, thanks for all the feedback and the best wishes!
You should also consider that some top CS schools don't have waitlists. They send out the number of acceptances that would yield roughly the number of places they have. If a school of yours took this approach, you would be depriving someone of an admit, since they wouldn't be sending one to another applicant when you turned them down.@newms: I was wondering if you knew which schools followed the above procedure.
@bhikhaari: While I am sure of the program I want to attend, I only applied to programs that were strong in my particular area of interest (down to the sub-field of the sub-field) which is why I feel it would be extremely worthwhile to network with them even though I wouldn't be attending. However, the time and denying other people admission is definitely not a nice thing. Will have to figure this out esp if more admits show up :-)
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Just wanted to hear how much value you would associate with visiting schools that you don't plan to go to. At this point I have got into my top choice school (MIT), and there is no way I am going to another school (as my wife is there). I was talking to my friend and he said I should withdraw my applications from other schools as I have already made my decision. And there is no point in wasting time of Professors/their adcomm, and I can allow spots to go to people who need them.
On the other hand, I was thinking that it might be worthwhile to meet Professors working in a similar field/around the schools to get a better idea of overall research direction, and to build contacts. Further, I've already paid the application fee, why waste it?:-) And after I decline the offer, someone off the waitlist can get in anyway. The other places I currently have offers from are UT Austin, Cornell, UIUC, and waiting to hear from CMU RI, UCB, Caltech, and Harvard.
Any thoughts on this? Thanks in advance!
Gifts for your Recommenders?
in Letters of Recommendation
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I don't know if this is outside of the norm, but I gave my recommenders a few USB drives with their names inscribed on it. They seemed quite happy and I know they are using them; I am handed files in them sometimes :-) A cheap and techie gift for a techie group of people :-)