d3amon

Did you apply for MS or MS/PhD?

Congrats omega!!! Do you mind sharing your profile?

Congrats!!! How did your recruiting weekends go?

Finally some good news. I got accepted with a full scholarship in Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh.

lol. Don't believe everything you see on the Results tab...

I really have no idea what are their ad stats. I applied to the MIT too. As far as Stanford concerns - $125 app fee?!!! They should be first to announce decisions!

I didn't hear about any admits in Structures.. I think every branch handles their own admission process, so I guess there must be someone in charge. I know that Dr Stojadinovic had something to do with it last year or a couple of years ago... Btw, I was told that Structures group usually receives about 350 applications, and they admit only around 50 students each year...

Well, it might be that Cornell desires students in Applied Sciences because their Structural program is focused mainly on Computational Mechanics, etc. When I informed my US adviser (who graduated at Cornell) about this rejection, he wasn't surprised at all. His comment was smth like "Yeah, I am concerned about Cornell. They had a major faculty turnover recently.." Even though I would prefer an acceptance from Cornell, I can't say I'm stressed about getting a rejection.

I got a rejection from Cornell yesterday.

No, I contacted Graduate secretary. They are probably waiting for professors to receive funding so they can offer assistantship to the certain number of admitted students. I guess they sent out admission offers only to domestic PhD candidates they wanted the most (and who were granted a fellowship). That is my reasoning... Btw, does anyone know which professor is in charge for admission at Berkeley? Dr Stojadinovic maybe?

I guess so.. When I asked "why so late", I got this reply: "This is the date that most students will get a reply about their application. This is the typical time frame for decisions."

I just wrote to UMN to inquire about the status of my application, and I got a reply that I will hear about it around mid April?!!!! They must be joking with me... They mailed out some decisions already, so it doesn't make any sense...

Anyone applied to Erasmus Mundus IMFSE (International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering)? I got an interview invite yesterday, so I'm super nervours...

hey, let's try to keep this thread Structures-related. There is another topic devoted to Transportation Engineering...

Congratulations phunky! Things are looking good for you! I really do hope to hear something in the next couple of weeks. Waiting is killing me...

Even though I think the information we provide here might be completely misleading, here we go: Undergrad GPA: 9.70/10.00 (regionally reputable European Univ) GPA at the US uni: 3.90/4.00 Top student of my class GRE Q: 790 TOEFL: 108 Honors, Awards, Fellowships: Many honors based on GPA, 1 year full exchange scholarship at the US state uni, grant for a research project at famous European uni Research exp: 7 months of research experience in the US; will have some more this semester at the aforementioned European uni Publications: Coauthored a conference proceeding (ACI Conference) Internship: 3 summers of professional internship (nothing fancy though) LoRs: a really good one from my research supervisor in the US, another one from a US professor (a pretty good one I believe), a perfect one from a European prof SoP: I love to think it looks great; but I am not sure any more

Congrats!!!

Cornell will send out decisions sometime between the end of February and the beginning of March.

Thanks for the info! I didn't hear anything yet...

congrats!!! that's a great program!

Did you hear anything at all from MIT? They were supposed to acknowledge the reciept of supporting documents, but I haven't heard from them yet and the deadline was like 10 days ago..:S

Is there any offers already? I think it would be cool if we would inform each others about decisions as they arrive. I've applied for MS/PhD at Berkeley, MIT, Cornell and just MS at UMN. Anybody applying to the same schools?

As far as I know MIT offers only MS leading to Phd in Civil engineering...

Nope, I'll have only a 3-year Bologna degree which is similar to the US Bachelor degree. That's why I thought it may be an advantage for me. Anyway, does anybody know how much V and AW scores matter? Is MIT using the GRE as a way to reduce the number of applications at the very beginning, or do they actually care a lot about it? Of course, I am concerned only about the Civil Engineering Dept philosophy on this matter. Btw, they mention on their website that successful applicants score above 750 in Q, but they don't mention V and AW...

Thanks for advice Moghi. I have one more question. Do you think that the coursework completed could make an impression on admission committee? For example, I have taken PS concrete, Intro to EQ engineering, EQ steel design, Advanced Structures, Advanced Mechanics of Materials and Intro to Bridge Design as undergrad. I think that most of the undergrad students haven't taken those classes, so would that give me any advantage over the other applicants?