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Um ... mine was half a minute and I'm from India (not a "western country").

I don't know how the U.S. college system works, but can't you take both?

Sorry, but, TESOL, TEFOL, TOEFL, TOFEL - which one is it, dammit!

We sympathize, christina.

Aside: I think in the long term you will not be very happy if you keep not giving a sh!t about anyone else, especially people that're close to you and those who really wish you well.

Are you an international student? If not, I suggest you go with the program you like the most especially because the Brown waiver is not terribly high anyway. In any case, depends on what you want to do next (after the master's) and which place will let you get there in better shape academically and financially. Good luck.

BE research at MIT is boring anyway. :twisted:

Hmm, thanks. It doesn't look very good for me then - being an international student it's useful to have the guarantee of atleast minimum funding. :roll:

$24k with fellowship plus tution (plus associated fees, health insurance, etc.) waiver for the first year, Bioengineering PhD. What does it mean when they say that this is just for the first year, anyone?

Most probably Pitt ...

@ GopherGrad: After getting rejected from a top 5 program in my field (Brain/Cognitive Science), I wrote to a professor there asking for some guidelines that'd help me improve my application in the future, stressing that I was really interested in their program and wouldn't mind waiting a year to apply just there again. I got the following in response. It's pretty general (maybe except for the advisor part ), so I'm posting it here: Hope that helps.

So you wouldn't take advice from those whose first language you know might not be English? That's very open-minded of you. Judge the substance, not the packaging. And I don't completely agree with santana either.

It's more what I haven't heard, as I said, than what I have heard. :| I don't know about specific sub-fields, so it could well be great in nano/biomaterials as christina says; I'm more into neural engineering.

And why would you choose Columbia over JHU "any day", esp. in BME? :? iitian?

Thanks and thanks! So are you taking up the Pitt offer?

I wouldn't say they're amateur undergraduate thoughts. That's quite mature actually, wondering if you'll really like it and still want to do it as much as you do now, say a couple of years down the line. Lots of people sleepwalk through their PhDs without any real interest in what they're doing and with the sole intention of being better placed to get a job, any job. Now, that's immature. There's a >90% chance I'll land up there. Ah, okay. Quite possibly. What about the stipend, then? Once a month? I did think that fellowships basically freed you from having to work for the stipend, too.

I would say so. The Nobel Prize line gave it away.

I'm in BioE too and I haven't really heard great things about Cornell Bioengineering. Stanford on the other hand has a very good department. Stanford vs Cornell anything, go for Stanford. That's what my advisor tells me. I would say that holds especially in engineering.

That's true.

Do you know what it means when the deadline stipulated by the university for you to confirm acceptance of your admission is later than April 15 (say, May 5)? Does that mean you were picked off the waitlist (even if they didn't inform you about any waitlist at any time during the whole process)?

Umm, off-topic, but you from India by any chance?

I'll mostly be joining Pitt this fall for a PhD in Bioengineering. cheers!

That may have been his/her signature. What's so condescending about it anyway?

Aye, and that's as good for the students as it is for the universities.

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