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I find it really annoying that certain schools that I applied to and was accepted into (UWisconsin, UWashington, UT Austin) sold my e-mail address and mailing address to housing companies because I now get tons of junk mail. Has anyone else had something like this happen?

From what I've heard, they have never gone to the waitlist before so it is unlikely that they will this year

The floor plans don't have dimensions (though it is possible to estimate based on bed size, etc). How does health insurance work at Stanford?

Georgia tech has an increasingly strong reputation in theory (maybe ranked #6 after MIT,Berkeley,CMU,Cornell and Princeton?) and UT Austin is also very good. I really don't think you would be in a bad position if you did a PhD at one of those schools. I think it would be difficult to find a funded masters for theory because there is usually little money in it. Also, schools often have lower acceptance rates for students with masters degrees than students with bachelor degrees.

I accepted Stanford's offer today. Questions about housing: - Is munger mostly law students or is it mixed (I'm CS)? How social is it? - Are 4 bedroom places significantly bigger than 2 bedroom per person? - I was told Lyman was good, are you sure that it is quiet there?

Is it to staff or a specfic professor? If it is to staff, you can probably just write a reasonably direct message notifying them of the change. If it is to a professor, you probably want to provide more explanation. A phone call might be better.

I'm not sure I would say that this is exactly ethically horrible. You aren't taking away a spot of another student. Many programs don't have waitlists and the ones that do often don't use them much. Plus, it is your spot. It is also relatively frequent for these situations to occur, at least in engineering fields. So just do what you need to do. Also, this will just increase the number of students next year. It isn't reallly possible to deny a student a spot since they will just let more in in the future.

What about this? http://www.notionink.in/adamfeature.php

Unless you are meeting very infrequently, it is usually better to wait IMO

Assuming 1 year program, isn't option 2 obviously the best choice?

Yeah, I had a similar experience undergrad where the desk + chair provided were backkillers. It would have been difficult to replace it since I would need to keep the old stuff somewhere (pay for public storage maybe?).

I think that in the past 25% of NDSEG went to NSF winners. So 150 fellowships for non-NSF winners.

U. Maryland, College Park is one of the best computer vision schools (its group is huge) Other schools that are good in general (I don't know about vision): - Waterloo - UBC - Toronto - EPFL

Not for percentages, though. I'd assume that they will post those soon

Did it not let him/her upload it, though? My recommender was able to upload (but it might not have notified him that it was too late)

I doubt that taking a few finance courses will greatly affect your ability to get a job in finance, as that industry hires just about anyone with good quantitative skills (be sure to take algorithms, etc if you are getting a CS degree).

This is kind of too big a decision for a quick poll (what factors are you considering?)

One of my recommendations was 5 hours late (I was begging the prof to get it in on time earlier that day), but the website didn't indicate it being late (though it also indicated that my application was complete when I only had two recs submitted). Do you think this will take me out of the running?

I know Northwestern graduate students seem to enjoy themselves. MIT is rumored to be very stressful. I don't have much experience with Stanford. But of course, I don't really know about any of these places. Maybe try to track down alumni at your school who can tell you about this?

Do you think GRE writing matters at all? I got a 3.5 the first time I took it and a 4.0 the second. I would assume that the quality of my essays wold trump the bad scores, but you never know.

Anyone know how comfortable the furniture is in graduate housing? Is Munger mostly composed of law school students, or are there just more than might be in another location?

E-mail probably

Both UCSD and Stanford have strong reputations. I would think about whether you want MS or PhD. If you want MS, go to Stanford. If you want PhD, go to UCSD. Don't think that UCSD is a bad school, because it is very highly regarded in a number of areas. Please realize that PhD programs are designed for people who want PhDs and it may take much longer to get a masters if that is all you care about. Also, only 1 or 2 MS students from Stanford get into the PhD program each year, out of ~250 so don't expect it to get you in.

I noticed that my stipend offer for stanford (~$22000) is less than the average cost of living (~$25000). Do people at Stanford tend to use their own funds? How do they get by?

Maybe ask the UCSD students if they find the libraries sufficient. If the faculty & students are able to produce good work given the resources there, then it may not be a big issue.