thinktank1985

did any of you guys get into cornell..cornell had a few of the best professors in my area..its sad that they rejected me....they must really have a very good applicant pool to choose from...

nope...but I probably wont go there...i have better options now...i dont know why all the schools are sending out letter so late. Berkeley sent me an email saying that their results will be out on April 10. I assume I have already been rejected since I saw a couple of acceptances earlier.

I look at H-index and citations per journal article. I actually tried to find out whether there was any correlation between the type of research/ideas a professor has, how well he deals with students, funding etc with his h-index. While I dont have any quantitative results (), it seemed the correlation is good. However one of the problems with this approach is that this is good mainly for associate professors or above, because assistant professors really dont have the necessary time to get good quality journals published and referred. In that case, a good metric of future performance for assistant professors will probably be no of citations that their journal articles get per year per article, total funding, quality of journals.

Just came from a visitation to Maryland. I had a few intense conversations and great discussions with a few professors. I think I did make a few mistakes during my interviews: I sort of told a professor directly that I would join his lab if accepted (I really liked his research though). Now it seems to me, I sounded a bit too desperate, but his work is definitely much better than the professors at much higher ranked universities that I have offers from. So while he told me that he would be recommending me for a fellowship, I might have just ruined my chances by the last comments. But it was a good experience on how to deal with interviews with professors in future visitations

Did anyone get any admit for PhD from MIT?

Berkeley generally sends out admissions early to mid march. Taking into consideration the larger no of applicants..probably that will be pushed back to end of march this time.

nope...I tried emailing them two weeks back..but I didnt get any reply. I have almost given up hope...because most admits from MIT come in bunches and come before the beginning of March. Since there are already so many ME admits in the results section and very few people actually refuse an MIT admit...I doubt I have any chance.

I have a visitation to Umich, but they havent yet set up the schedule so I was wondering: do you schedule interviews with professors on your own, or does the department schedule specific time slots with professors?

Does anybody know approximately what percentage of people are actually admitted from these visitations?

Ok...just thought I would create a thread to know who all got admissions for Mechanical. I got a fellowship to Northwestern and a couple of visitations to UCLA, UMD and UMICH. However none of them say anything about admissions..

Which Department are you in? I am in mechanical. And when is your visitation Feb 18- 20 or March 11-13?

hey did anyone get an offer for visitation from University of Michigan?