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Yes UBC would easily be an R1 if it were in the USA. It does over $500million in research annually. I was just making clear that there is specifically a list of R1s, and having a med school does not make a school an R1. The low end of R1 universities is around $150,000,000 USD worth of research annually, SFU might actually make the cut to be one of the lower R1s (if it were an American university).

I'm going to be living in Morse College for 6 weeks this summer, any things I "MUST" do while I'm at Yale? I will have limited free time, probably 1 weekend day a week and a couple hours each day.

R1 means Very High Research Activity on the Carnegie Classification Scale. Lots of schools have a Med School or offer Doctorates and are not R1. There are 108 universities that are R1/VH. http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup_listings/srp.php?clq={%22ipug2005_ids%22%3A%22%22%2C%22ipgrad2005_ids%22%3A%22%22%2C%22enrprofile2005_ids%22%3A%22%22%2C%22ugprfile2005_ids%22%3A%22%22%2C%22sizeset2005_ids%22%3A%22%22%2C%22basic2005_ids%22%3A%2215%22%2C%22eng2005_ids%22%3A%22%22%2C%22search_string%22%3A%22%22%2C%22level%22%3A%22%22%2C%22control%22%3A%22%22%2C%22accred%22%3A%22%22%2C%22state%22%3A%22%22%2C%22region%22%3A%22%22%2C%22urbanicity%22%3A%22%22%2C%22womens%22%3A%22%22%2C%22hbcu%22%3A%22%22%2C%22hsi%22%3A%22%22%2C%22tribal%22%3A%22%22%2C%22msi%22%3A%22%22%2C%22landgrant%22%3A%22%22%2C%22coplac%22%3A%22%22%2C%22urban%22%3A%22%22}&start_page=institution.php Is the list of all R1s, which are actually classified as VH [very high] or H [high] research activity. VH = R1 H = lower tier/not R1. As an example, within North Dakota, North Dakota State University is an R1/VH and does not have a med school. The University of North Dakota on the other hand does have a med school, offers JDs, PhDs etc, and is not an R1.

How functional is San Diego's metro, specifically the train? Is it realistic to use said train with a starting point around UCSD?

The beauty of so few universities. They are all good at something. This is completely untrue of the 4,500 universities and colleges in the United States.

Top tier is usually top 10. It could also be construed as top 15 or top 20. If you want to call it top tier, go for it.

Couldn't disagree more. You are demonstrating what my university would call a "gate-keeper" mentality. When you are in freshman courses, you should not already know everything there is to know about being a successful college student. If you can already write on a highly functional level the BA is kind of a waste of time. If that were the case, the student might as well have applied to PhD's out of high school. Humanities degrees are more or less all about learning how to develop highly functional critical thinking skills and developing the ability to write in a clear academic manner. State Universities often take in students who did not receive a world class high school education. Some of those students will eventually attain PhDs if they aren't given restrictive defeatist instructors as freshman. My university had no such "admissions essay or statement of purpose," this is not something that all universities have. If the student has the initiative to seek out the instructor and ask for feedback, try to help them. They might not have asked for the feedback in the best way, but they are little kids who don't understand that they are going about it in the wrong way, or that there is even another way to seek feedback. If you can't help the student send them to a writing resource on campus.

Hiring committees probably care, especially the members of those committees that are outside of your sub-field.

Everything you have said that is bolded could have been said about Ohio State. I used it as an example because McGill and Ohio State are ranked very close to each other, with Ohio State as the slightly better school. #64 tOSU: http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/The-Ohio-State-University---Columbus.html Ohio State's research budget was $815 million last year. #67 McGill: http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/McGill-University.html I don't know McGill's university wide research budget, that could be an area where they kill Ohio State as a university. Personally, I like ARWU's methodology http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU-Methodology-2014.html but it isn't functional on a department by department level, only when comparing whole universities. Also, congrats on Harvard!

Call ARCH, they are really helpful. I've called them 5 times already, lol.

UToronto is listed at #24 in the world #1 in Canada. UBC is listed at #37 in the world #2 in Canada. McGill is listed at #67 in the world #3 in Canada. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/McGill-University.html Another resource gives the universities slightly different world positions, but keeps the 1, 2, 3 order the same. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2014-15/world-ranking What resources are you using to show McGill as the stronger university?

Funded MAs exist. I was offered the opportunity for a few. If you don't feel you can afford the MA/don't want to risk the money, do better research on finding programs that fund for the next cycle. Some people are all for MAs improving your PhD app, others say they are worthless, just depends which route they took personally .

No. McGill is more like the Ohio State of Canada. It isn't even the best school in Canada, UBC and UToronto are both better... McGill might have a program or two that is really great, but the university as a whole isn't even a top 30 school.

The April 15th thing is a Council of Graduate Schools date that was agreed upon by most of the universities in the US. I don't think the date applies outside the US.

How do you access UCSD email/know what your account/pw is?

fify with pertinent information.

UCSD has a lot of TA opportunities once you accept, you apply for them like a job. They do not however cover out of state/out of country tuition. So they would pay the California resident portion of your tuition, then you would have to pay the remainder (about 15,000 USD). Since I accepted UCSD about ten days ago (in a different department) I have received two separate call for TA emails. Also, campus graduate housing is about 1/2 to 1/3 of the price of housing in La Jolla.

While I cannot say whether or not what you are experiencing is a rejection, some of the schools I applied to have a different acceptance deadline if you are offered admission after April 1. I think it is possible you could still be granted admission. You should probably call the program coordinator/secretary/whoever handles administrative crap and will actually pick up the phone and inquire. Clearly your emails aren't getting it done. I think if you were to receive hypothetical admission tomorrow you would have/might have until May 7 to accept.

Didn't you have to make your decision by today? Also, I am not familiar with either program so I can't help there.

You may be over estimating that a bit . We had a 3/4 ton that got something like 8mpg.

No, because that isn't how an aquifer works. Aquifers are not giant hollow spaces (caves) filled with water. They are water in a cavity that is entirely filled with sediment and tiny rocks in addition to water.This was a huge misconception that had to be battled in one of my GE science courses. One of my science profs attributed it to 1980s Hollywood which misrepresented what an aquifer was and some how the public latched onto it. I too thought what you thought prior to this course.

Just as an exercise of hilarity, I unscientifically used my computers calculator function to see how long it would take for UC tuition to be $1,000,000+ a year at a 25% increase per year. It's not even 2 decades. I think you maybe meant 5%.

Pipeline? Desalination is probably more likely and more sustainable. I'm sorry to hear that you didn't get funding at the UC school you were considering. 25% per year for 5 years?? That has got to be wrong. Tuition would increase by a completely obscene amount. It's currently about 15k, it would be like 45k in 2020. I think tuition increases have a legal cap in my current state at like 4%. 25% would be completely absurd.

Nope. Not a bit. Nada. Nein. Niet. No. If I were going into graduate school as a turnip farmer maybe I would have cared.

No 11:59 pm in American Samoa. (that's about 7am in NYC on the 16th)