[Materials Science and Engineering Fall 2018 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

18 minutes ago, sp3514 said:

Do not put yourself down just yet, where else have you applied to? Have you heard back from any other institutes? 

Nope, not yet. I have applied to Austin, Michigan, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Yale (Safe school). 

I thought I had a pretty strong profile, as it turns out it might not be as strong! Will wait for the results or else I am ready to take up RAship.

[Materials Science and Engineering Fall 2018 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

8 minutes ago, sp3514 said:

That's too bad..... I was hoping they would give out more offers today and tomorrow. 

It feels so weird though given there are so few admission results posted on Gradcafe compared to last year. Guess it is not our time!

[Materials Science and Engineering Fall 2018 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

22 hours ago, sp3514 said:

I don't think so, I think they give out most of the offers today, we still got a chance, just not high 

Done and dusted!

I sent a mail to the admissions committee, I got this reply.

"Our admissions committee has made the majority of offers. If there are additional offers, they will be released in March."

 

[Materials Science and Engineering Fall 2018 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

Is the recent post in admission results hers?

[Materials Science and Engineering Fall 2018 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

On 1/12/2018 at 6:02 AM, sp3514 said:

Undergrad Institution: Imperial College London (UK), Master in University of Cambridge (UK)
Major: Materials Sci. and Eng.
Overall GPA: first-class, we do not do GPA in UK
Position in Class: top 5%, ranked no. 2 in my cohort of 44 people 
Type of Student: International, male

GRE Scores :
Q: 170
V: 160
W: 3.5 

Research Experience: 4 full-time research experiences, in total 18 month. In Imperial (Electrochemistry and nano, 3 months), Cambridge (Steel and Hydrogen 12 months) and two other institutes in China (relatively useless since too short, nano and opto, 3 months), 1 paper, 2nd author, just submitted  

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean's lists and 1 scholarship 

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: N/A

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: N/A

Special Bonus Points:  I am quite lucky that two of my recommenders are quite big in the UK, my Imperial adviser is the dean of Engineering faculty, FREng, and my Cambridge adviser is a Knight, FREng, FRS. Both are famous researcher with really high h-index. 

Applying to Where

MIT, Caltech, Harvard, Northwestern, Berkeley, Stanford.

(I only apply to the top ones not because I am cocky, I already got accepted to Imperial and Cambridge, so I am only apply for the better ones and the ones provide more funding)   

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Hi

Have you heard from Berkeley materials?