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Thanks. I believe that you are going to Gatech ISYE since no funding at UCB. Is it?

This very sad that we did not hear from the dept. Is it all over or is there any hope to get minimal support to be able to attend?

PhD decisions are yet to be announced. Atleast the email from Patrick suggested that PhD decisions would be out after Masters'.

Did any of the admitted students hear about funding from IEOR Berkeley?

MS CS in GT is not that selective a program. And until and unless you do pathbreaking research here, you will find it hard to get admitted to berkeley. Although If you choose to attend MIT, it should be a betetr decision in view of your goals because Media labs at MIT is definitely a leader in the area and at MIT you definitely will get a chance to work across departments as well. So you might as wll get a change to work in conventional CS rather than the applied research in Media labs. Once you are in MIT, you can always request a change of major to CS as well, because of a shift of interest. PS: thats just my point of view, I would like to hear from others.

Has anyone heard about funding from IEOR Berkeley? Did the funding decisions happen during/after the visit day interviews?

Good to know that you found UCB delightful Cements my decision to attend as well

Its very comforting to know that (I was already sure of accepting the offer) I just posed the ques to know probable grad-mates at UCB. From what I see here on GradCafe: only 5-6 people have been accepted in the program What is the usual intake ? I would guess 10-12( including all MS, MS/PhD, PhD)

I have heard this as well that incoming students at MS and MS/PhD level seldom are funded on RAs. And the lucky ones who get TAs have to cover the out-of state tuition out of pocket.(Surprisingly unlike most other schools TAs at UCB (GSI as they are known in UCB jargon) dont cover complete tuition and stipend. I hope some combination of fellowship and RA/TA is offered to us guys. BTW how many of you are still planning to attend UCB IEOR. I mean is this the top choice school for most or is it second fiddle to MIT ORC, GaTech ISYE, and Cornell/Columbia?

I am joining UC Berk for IEOR. I would like to know about some options on living in Berkeley.

Has anyone heard officially from Berkeley IEOR on funding. Received official admit letter form grad school last week, but no mention of funding either my department or by grad school. Should I be worried?

Did anyone hear from Berkeley IEOR dept? When are they supposed to inform us? Further I was just wondering, how many admits/waitlists are done every season? (since it is a very small dept at Berk.)

Try for the MSTP programs those give you a freedom to worj on collaborative research

Thanks a lot leigh. Thats what I have come to know of homepark from others as well. But wont all the good apartments be taken by the time I reach there(july end or aug 1st week) are other places better to live and book in advance. could u also elaborate on the leasing process. Being from a diff part of the world i am a bit confused over this. What all is needed to rent an apartment and how is payment made(monthly or tri-monthly or annually), how long is the leanse. when does it start (from the day of agreement or from start of month always?) thanks a lot for responding

Thanks a lot Yang. One more query..should I book an apartment in Homepark right away, or should I do it when I come there in August.(Although I seriously doubt that anything good would be left by that time.) Further what would be the procedure to do this.