Victorious Secret
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If they drug tested grad students it would really reduce the workload for professors. There wouldn't be anymore pesky grad students to mentor. I have never heard of drug testing in grad school and would be stunned if it existed at any significant level, even outside the US.
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Master's programs are quite expensive, especially since you won't be receiving Pell grants, etc. You might want to go with a BS-level analyst position in consulting and then try to get one of them to finance the MS. But those positions are still challenging to find, especially for top firms. Keep in mind that technical consulting often looks for different credentials than management consulting (also, many MBA students from top-10 programs end up interning with, or working for McKinsey straight after graduation).
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I'm doing an internship at Genentech. I want to work for them after PhD so it is a good way to squirrel away some money, survey the lay of the land and network for the future. I think that academic research makes people well qualified for certain industry internships, especially in biotech. But feel yourself out now. If you are burned out already you may need a couple months to decompress before school. Also, be mindful of internship deadlines, many of them have passed (Novartis NIBR, Genentech, DOE SULI, and Illumina, for example). Good luck!
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Fall 2019 application cycle, Chemical Engineering
Victorious Secret replied to oppenheimer's topic in Engineering
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I have now heard from two professors at separate schools that budgets are tight now due to grants being held up with the government shutdown. I know of one UC chemE program that has slashed admissions by 50% this year because of funding issues (and the UC system has particular funding issues due to the budget impasse https://diverseeducation.com/article/135304/). Has anyone else heard words to the effect of graduate admissions being reduced due to funding?
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Hey! I went back and reread your profile. While you did apply to a lot of top schools, you have applied to three programs that I believe you should be very competitive for. Your submitted publication is a significant asset, provided that your PI discussed it in their LOR. But your best reason to relax is this: It is actually much earlier than it seems. I know that a lot of interviews have been sent out already, but Davis doesn't appear to have sent them at all yet, and Riverside trickles them out for months. Sitting and staring at a phone or inbox (like I have all winter break long) makes it seem like something is wrong because of the silence. In my experience, acceptances came when I was distracted and least expecting it. I wish you those kinds of surprises. ?
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MIT is not Stanford in that they do not typically send out all of their interview invites on the same day. They trickle in a little bit. In 2016 they invited over a span of 3 weeks. Also, when you search for MIT's bioE program, use "biological engineering" since that is the actual name of the program and will yield actual results. You also need to spell out MIT's name since "MIT" is too short.
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Fall 2019 application cycle, Chemical Engineering
Victorious Secret replied to oppenheimer's topic in Engineering
I'm an applicant now (for Fall 2019), so I will be making my enrollment decision later this year.- 11 replies
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