moneke
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I emailed USC and they wrote back with a really short email saying that I had been rejected. All of my interactions with that department give me the impression of a very bureaucratic and impersonal place, which is totally different from my experience with UCSB. I'm very happy with my choice to go UCSB!
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I heard from UCSD a couple of days ago with a rejection (I expect this). I still haven't heard from Brown University... isn't that ridiculous?
I applied to Brown's CS masters program in the beginning of March (as a backup since I hadn't heard from any PhD programs yet), and I've already heard back with an acceptance. Though I think they have a completely different process for the PhD program. I've since decided to go to UCSB's PhD program, but I was actually surprised at how fast Brown got back to me. Still no word from USC, however.
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Can anyone post the US News and World Report Rankings for 2008 in Computer Science (Systems)?
The 2006 rankings should still give you good information for the general ballpark that school is in. I can't imagine that they would have changed much in two years. Besides the categories are so broad and the methods used for ranking so questionable that you should also spend time reading up on what individual profs are doing at different schools and see if their research interests you. I decided to go to a school that's lower ranked than some that I got accepted to because the department is a really good fit for my particular interests.
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yeah, I'm really excited about going to UCSB. I'm sure we'll meet up there since I'm definitely going to try and take some MAT classes, too. And a couple of the professors in CS I'm interested in working with are also affiliated with the MAT dept.
My real name's Ben, btw. UCSB really seems like a great place for people like us who are interested in interdisciplinary stuff like this. I've always been interested in CS but I always find myself looking for ways to apply it to things that aren't in a standard CS curriculum. I think it's a good place for that kind of thing. (I guess there's the Media Lab at MIT, too, but I wasn't going to get in there!)
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I am still waiting on one school's response (according to the RESULTS page, no one has heard anything from UVic in Canada). The secretary said they expect decisions to be made in the next couple of days. I need to let my backup school know by the 15th. What are the ramifications if I accept my backup's offer for admission and renege on it if I get into my first choice?
If they get back to you in the next couple of days (like they said they would) then why not just wait until you hear from them? You don't need to give an answer to your back up school for another 9 days.
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Well, I hardly assumed anything.
This was what was written on the website on 6th march
"File currently at the foreign students office :
Congratulations, your file has received favorable review from the graduate department and is currently at the foreign students office for visa compliance. Check back within 7 days for the status to change to ADMITTED. "
and after a day
"Wait list :
The program to which you have applied has asked the Graduate Admissions Office to place your name on the program's waiting list. If admissions slots open up, one or more of the applicants on the wait list may be offered admission. Contact the graduate program for more information."
I just told you as it was in the website.
I'm not sure how the graduate program is structured at the school you applied, but I think you have a legitimate reason to file a complaint regarding this issue. Whoever made this mistake should bear some responsibility. I would contact the department and explain the situation (including the above quotes) and express your dissatisfaction.
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UC - Santa Barbara, Computer Science PhD 8)
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damnit. i was reading about the igert fellowship when i was applying, but i didn't figure out how to apply and it kind of slipped my mind i guess. that would have make my life so much easier now . . congratulations, though. i think it's too late since you had to indicate you were interested when you applied, right?
have you decided to go to ucsb? i'm still waiting on a couple EE programs (which will hopefully give me good funding). if those turn out well, i might have a tough time justifying the funding difference.
what are you interested in working on specifically?
I don't know how long they consider people for the IGERT but it is probably worth contacting them to see if they are still accepting applications. You can email them here: info-igert@media.igert.ucsb.edu . I visited UCSB earlier this week and after the visit I've decided to go there. The people I met were really nice and the campus is amazing.
Lately I've been more into multimodal interactive devices. So, for instance, at UCSB they're working on creating a 3-story spherical room that they're working on turning into an immersive environment that uses computer vision to allow a user to interact with images displayed all around them. It's pretty cool, but right now they're in the early stages so that's something I'd like to help out with.
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I'm still waiting on USC, UCI, and IU. I submitted all of them prior to their financial aid deadlines.
Well, it looks like UC -Irvine sent out a big batch of rejection emails (mine was one of them). Still no word from USC, but I don't really care at this point, b/c I've pretty much made up my mind that I'm going to UCSB.
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hey, all. i was just wondering if anyone was applying to (or attending) interdisciplinary programs that dealt with arts or media and science or technology. i applied to:
- UC Santa Barbara, Media Arts and Technology PhD program (Multimedia Engineering): accepted, but still waiting on funding, although i know it won't be much . . .
- Mcgill, Music Technology PhD program: accepted, but no funding except possible ta-ships (~$2500 canadian per semester)
- Arizona State: Electrical Engineering PhD program with Arts, Media, and Engineering concentration: waiting
i would definitely appreciate if anyone had an opinion on any of these types of programs, or if any similar programs. i would be glad just to meet other people with the same sort of interdisciplinary interests, actually.
hey m15a
I'm interested in similar sorts of interdisciplinary work. I applied in CS programs, and I was accepted to UCSB's Computer Science PhD program and I just heard (unofficially) that I got accepted for the IGERT Fellowship in Interactive Digital Multimedia. Did you apply to that fellowship? If not, you should check it out. It sounds like it is right down your alley, too. You work on interdisciplinary projects with other people in the fellowship from lots of different departments (CS, ECE, Music, Psychology, Geography, Film, Media Arts Tech, Environmental Science Management) on multimedia projects, and the money's good, too. Check out this project that they did last year: http://media.igert.ucsb.edu/projects06/instrument.htm
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Can anyone tell me what the other towns around Santa Barbara are like? I might be going to UCSB but my partner got a job closer to the LA area and we were hoping to live somewhere in between. Is the Carpinteria nice? How about the Ventura/Oxnard area? Are these places any cheaper than Santa Barbara or is the whole area insanely high priced? thanks!
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Computer science - PhD program
UCLA - waiting (they said they are reviewing my application)
USC - waiting (reviewing)
UMD College Park - waiting (don't know what's going on)
UNC Chapel Hill - accepted
GaTech - accepted
UCSB - rejected
UC Riverside - rejected
UCSD - rejected
Washington Seattle - rejected
Columbia - rejected
USC says they will be mailing decisions, but the acceptance posted on the results page on 2/27 said it was via email -- I wonder if they only mail rejections? But looking through the results for USC, I'm wondering if the person who posted the acceptance around the end of Feb. thought that the email from financial aid was an indication of acceptance. I got that email around the same time, but I think everyone who filled out a FAFSA for USC got that email regardless of acceptance or not. Or maybe it was an informal email from a professor/contact? hmmm... all this waiting is starting to take a toll on my sanity! :shock:
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I applied for biomed engineering, but it has the same deadline as CS, and still under review...
There is a website where you can check, they send it after receiving your app payment.
The website still says "under review" for me. I wrote to ask for an update from UC-Irvine and in their response they said the following: "Acceptance decisions are ongoing from February until May." (my italics)
Are they kidding? Don't they know that April 15 is the deadline for accepting just about everywhere?
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I've got a simple solution to this problem. Just don't post the notes on the results page. Instead include a link or roll-over popup that can be selected to view the notes for a particular result if you are interested. People only want to look at the notes for programs they are interested in anyway. And this will get rid of the temptation to turn the page into a forum for public back and forth conversation -- take away their public soapbox and most of the people doing this will cease doing it.
btw, the notion that white males can be subject to racism/sexism is not a given... There are legitimate debates as to the definition of racism and some people view it as a social phenomenon that is not only about prejudice but also about power of one group over another. Therefore, with that view you might be prejudiced or discriminated against as a white male but you are not subject to racism per se because of the way group power dynamics exist in our society.
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I got accepted to UCSB last week, but still no word from USC or UC-Irvine... Is there anyone else out there still waiting on these?
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I still haven't heard from UCSB ... I think a lot of these schools are notifying as they make individual decisions, not all in one bunch. It probably has to do with funding sources, etc., too. How were you notified by UCSB?
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hey dorian:
Here's a listing of rankings from US News and World Report along with rankings for three specialties. These rankings should be taken with a grain of salt, of course. It's always a good idea to take a look at what research is being done at different universities, the size of the program, etc. The highest ranked is not always the best fit for everyone.
Computer Science (Ph.D.)
Ranked in 2006*
1. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 5.0
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5.0
Stanford University (CA) 5.0
University of California Berkeley 5.0
5. Cornell University (NY) 4.6
University of Illinoi Urbana-Champaign 4.6
7. University of Washington 4.5
8. Princeton University (NJ) 4.4
9. University of Texas Austin 4.3
University of Wisconsin Madison 4.3
11. California Institute of Technology 4.2
Georgia Institute of Technology 4.2
13. University of California San Diego 4.0
University of Maryland College Park 4.0
15. Harvard University (MA) 3.9
University of California Los Angeles 3.9
University of Michigan Ann Arbor 3.9
18. Columbia University (NY) 3.8
Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) 3.8
University of Pennsylvania 3.8
Yale University (CT) 3.8
22. Brown University (RI) 3.7
Rice University (TX) 3.7
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 3.7
25. Duke University (NC) 3.6
University of Massachusetts Amherst 3.6
University of Southern California 3.6
28. Johns Hopkins University (MD) 3.5
29. New York University 3.4
Rutgers State University New Brunswick (NJ) 3.4
University of California Irvine 3.4
University of Virginia 3.4
33. Pennsylvania State University University Park 3.3
34. Ohio State University 3.2
SUNY Stony Brook 3.2
University of California Santa Barbara 3.2
University of Chicago 3.2
University of Colorado Boulder 3.2
University of Minnesota Twin Cities 3.2
40. Dartmouth College (NH) 3.1
Northwestern University (IL) 3.1
University of Arizona 3.1
University of California Davis 3.1
University of Rochester (NY) 3.1
University of Utah 3.1
Washington University in St. Louis 3.1
47. Indiana University Bloomington 3.0
North Carolina State University 3.0
University of Florida 3.0
Virginia Tech 3.0
51. Arizona State University 2.9
Michigan State University 2.9
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) 2.9
Texas A&M University College Station 2.9
University of Pittsburgh 2.9
56. Boston University 2.8
University of California Santa Cruz 2.8
58. University at Buffalo SUNY 2.7
University of Illinois Chicago 2.7
60. Colorado State University 2.6
George Mason University (VA) 2.6
Iowa State University 2.6
Oregon State University 2.6
University of California Riverside 2.6
University of Notre Dame (IN) 2.6
University of Oregon 2.6
67. Case Western Reserve University (OH) 2.5
Syracuse University (NY) 2.5
University of Iowa 2.5
University of New Mexico 2.5
Vanderbilt University (TN) 2.5
BY SPECIALTIES
Computer Science Specialties: Programming Language
1. Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
2. Stanford University (CA)
3. University of California–Berkeley
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. Cornell University (NY)
6. University of Washington
7. Princeton University (NJ)
8. Rice University (TX)
9. University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
10. University of Wisconsin–Madison
11. University of Pennsylvania
12. Harvard University (MA)
13.Yale University (CT)
14. University of Texas–Austin
15. University of Maryland–College Park
16. Indiana University–Bloomington
17. University of California–Los Angeles
18. University of California–San Diego
19. Columbia University (NY)
Computer Science Specialties: Systems
1. University of California–Berkeley
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
4. Stanford University (CA)
5. University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
6. University of Washington
7. University of Wisconsin–Madison
8. University of Texas–Austin
9. University of California–San Diego
10. Princeton University (NJ)
11. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
12. Cornell University (NY)
13. Georgia Institute of Technology
14.University of California–Los Angeles
15. Rice University (TX)
16. Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN)
17.University of Maryland–College Park
18. University of Massachusetts–Amherst
19. California Institute of Technology
20. Columbia University (NY)
21.University of Southern California
22. University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
23. Harvard University (MA)
24. University of Pennsylvania
Computer Science Specialties: Theory
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Stanford University (CA)
3. University of California–Berkeley
4. Cornell University (NY)
5. Princeton University (NJ)
6. Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
7. Harvard University (MA)
8. Columbia University (NY)
9. Georgia Institute of Technology
10. University of Washington
11. University of Texas–Austin
12. University of Chicago
13. University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
14. University of California–San Diego
15. Yale University (CT)
16. Brown University (RI)
17. University of Wisconsin–Madison
18. California Institute of Technology
19. Duke University (NC) University of Pennsylvania
21. Rutgers State University–New Brunswick (NJ)
22. University of Maryland–College Park
23. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
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those stats were for berkeley not ucsb...
I thought that sounded like an awful lot of applications for UCSB!
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Sorry to hear about you guys not getting in, and those stats don't look encouraging (thats 4% acceptance -- I didn't expect it to be that competitive).
When I log on to the website, the Decision line is still greyed out, which I guess means they haven't made a decision about me yet. I dunno... it's kind of weird. Still crossing my fingers, though...
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Has anyone heard back from UC Santa Barbara? I saw a posting on yuster a week ago from someone saying they got into their computer science program. When I log in to the admission site it still says there's no decision.
What if you say YES and then wanna say NO?
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Here's the deal: we're all going to graduate school, not the army. People leave graduate schools just like they leave jobs, and there's nothing to prevent you from doing that. Of course, schools are going to discourage you from changing your mind, but ultimately the choice is yours. There are no repercussions above and beyond maybe burning your bridges. Depending on how large or small your field of study is that will mean next to nothing or a great deal when it comes to looking for jobs later on. That being said... being tactful about it will likely go a long way towards smoothing the process. If the school you are leaving and the school you want to join have some sort of agreement regarding this then you will need to get a release letter before the new school will let you in. But in the end no school wants to force a student to go there if they don't really want to be there, so if it is handled well I can't imagine any school denying you a release letter.