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  1. I was in the same boat! I shortlisted my top two choices but both options are very good so it was a really tough decision. Two days before the deadline, I listened to my heart and gave my choice. I hope you can also eventually choose the best option for you but I am pretty sure that you will happy in either case and you should be!
  2. Hi everyone,I shortlisted the schools down to UIUC and CMU but can't decide on which to attend. My future plans is to stay in academia with postdocs at top schools (perhaps at MIT or Stanford) but I don't want closed doors to the industry. Here are the good vs bad things about both of these schoolsUIUCGood: The PI is highly reputed very famous in contro&gamel theory. The school is also ranked higher in ECE (US News). Very strong faculty members. In addition, I will be working on multi-agent reinforcement learning which I am quite interested in.Bad: I am not quite sure if this would be a criterion when choosing grad schools but Urbana-Champaign is in the middle of nowhere, isolated by cornfields in every direction. I am coming from a big city so I am not sure if I can get used to such a small and isolated place. Another drawback is that the PI's research is very theoretical which I am fine with but students in the lab told me that I will be closing my chances of working in the industry. Finally, PI is very senior so that means I will be doing most of the work.CMUGood: Compared to UC, Pittsburgh is a more vivid and bigger city. CMU is also very great for its school of CS and PI(s) there are also affiliated to the ML department. Being private school can also be regarded as something positive. The stipend is also much better. I will be doing machine learning, optimization, and signal processing if I attend CMU.Bad: PI(s) are assist/assoc professors and they are way less reputed compared to the PI in UIUC. Rankings CMU ECE is lower compared to UIUC. Final remarks: I like the research and the academic environment in UIUC but I have concerns about living in Urbana-Champaign. CMU is very good at CS but I am tempted to work with a famous yet senior professor. I am open to any comments/views/ideas about these schools.Thanks and good luck to everyone!
  3. Hi everyone, I shortlisted the schools down to UIUC and CMU but can't decide on which to attend. My future plans is to stay in academia with postdocs at top schools (perhaps at MIT or Stanford) but I don't want closed doors to the industry. Here are the good vs bad things about both of these schools UIUC Good: The PI is highly reputed very famous in contro&gamel theory. The school is also ranked higher in ECE (US News). Very strong faculty members. In addition, I will be working on multi-agent reinforcement learning which I am quite interested in. Bad: I am not quite sure if this would be a criterion when choosing grad schools but Urbana-Champaign is in the middle of nowhere, isolated by cornfields in every direction. I am coming from a big city so I am not sure if I can get used to such a small and isolated place. Another drawback is that the PI's research is very theoretical which I am fine with but students in the lab told me that I will be closing my chances of working in the industry. Finally, PI is very senior so that means I will be doing most of the work. CMU Good: Compared to UC, Pittsburgh is a more vivid and bigger city. CMU is also very great for its school of CS and PI(s) there are also affiliated to the ML department. Being private school can also be regarded as something positive. The stipend is also much better. I will be doing machine learning, optimization, and signal processing if I attend CMU. Bad: PI(s) are assist/assoc professors and they are way less reputed compared to the PI in UIUC. Rankings CMU ECE is lower compared to UIUC. Final remarks: I like the research and the academic environment in UIUC but I have concerns about living in Urbana-Champaign. CMU is also very good at CS but I am tempted to work with a famous yet senior professor. I am open to any comments/views/ideas about these schools. Thanks and good luck to everyone!
  4. Thank you very much for the comments! Same here indeed. Many of my professors told me Aero phd could really my future career. Some said it is really up to me and how well I perform during Phd. But it is still a risky decision. The name "MIT" is charming and LIDS is also an incredible lab with infamous faculty members. I would also definitely accept MIT it was EECS. In your case, Stanford is at the same level as MIT EECS and it is a good chance to have an offer from such a great school. I don't have any chance to attend open houses or visit schools because I am not in the states. Everyone around tells the same thing about CMU, it is really famous for its CS program and engineering program is fairly good. I don't know if it is a good criterion but general and engineering rankings (QS, THE) of CMU is not always above the others. I might prefer to be part of a school which is not only well known for a single program but has a fairly good reputation in all of its programs. UIUC is really good in the field but the location is terrible and isolated. Some professors don't say good things about UCLA. But the city and the campus is an important factor. Right now, I lean towards UCLA because of the general reputation of school (maybe not really well known in EE) and the city. I suspect that I might not be really happy in UIUC. If I attend MIT aero, I would be worried about my future. CMU seems the safest choice but still can't really feel sympathy to it.
  5. Greetings to everyone! I am an EE undergrad student and applied to various PhD programs. I have admits from ECE departments of CMU, UIUC, UCLA, Gatech, and UC Santa Barbara. In addition, I have an admission offer from MIT Aero/Astro. I removed Gatech and UC santa barbara from the list. Now, here are pros/cons; 1) CMU has a great CS program and it is widely known. I will be a part of signal processing and machine learning group in ECE department so I can really benefit from CS program. USnews rankings are also good, competing with MIT and Stanford. However, Pittsburgh is not a big city and it might get really cold in winters. I also have an impression that the reputation of the school is only coming from CS and the rest of the school is not as great as CS. 2) UIUC is really great in ECE research and I will be advised by a prestigious professor. However, urbana-champaign is in the middle of nowhere and the school seems to be not publicly well known. 3) UCLA has a really great campus and it is in LA!! The group that accepted me also seems good. But the rankings are lower compared to the rest. 4) MIT is definitely the best among all but the department is not EECS. I have been in touch with a professor there for a while and the research is completely EE-related but nothing to do with Aero. I will also be a part of LIDS if I choose MIT. However, I am not sure if I can really land on EE-related jobs after graduating. Although I am considering to stay in academics, I might also work in the industry so I don't want to eliminate any options.
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