Yuri_Gagarin

Wow!! Summer holidays are over, and finally I got on-campus housing in the last round. When I was thinking of going early to Stanford in order to rent an appartment I bought the flight for 09/02/11, but now I'll be moving to the apartment the first day that it's available 09/09/11, so I'll be doing a sort of nomadic life for a week, more or less. Do you know of any place to stay. There are some places in http://www.stanford.edu/dept/visitorinfo/plan/lodging.html, but does anyone already in the bay zone have a personal experience with any of them? Well, if you arrive and you want to meet someone just as lost as yourself to visit the campus, buy a bike, explore the zone, go to SF, or have a beer, send me a private message. See you on the oval !!

Any other advice for students paying for themselves?

Hi all structure geeks! I've applied for the second round of in-campus housing, but this time without stating that "I was going to live anywhere I was eligible for", so my chances are less than none. Anyway I've made my mind to live somewhere near the campus if it's affordable, or somewhere far if it is not and to benefit of this "unique" opportunity of becoming a cycle champion like Lance Armstrong. I have been checking the Padmapper site for a while, and it seems that most of the places offered are for summer (students leaving on holidays subrenting their places). How long before the beggining of the course do you think will be enough for me to show up and find something? I have thought of buying my plane ticket for september 1st, is it enough? Nice to meet you all. I hope to see you tanned on the Oval before the beggining.

Yeah, I read that too, but they got in the 1500$ Buckingham Palace of Munger. But I'm Spanish, we're in a heavy crise, I just can't afford that. I'm renting my home here to pay the accomodation there. I'll try to find something "not so far" from Stanford, maybe in a "Tour de France" leg range. Anyone willing to share a 2 bedroom appartment? I don't snore. I'll try to contact a friend, of a friend, of a friend, who lives in SF at least to have an idea of what do I need to rent a bedroom. Do I need a credit history? Do I need references? Lol, I will ask my "main" recommender to write me a letter of reference stating that I'm a tidy and good guy. I've also applied today for the I-20 documents and visa related stuff. At first I received an "automated e-mail" from gradadmissions@stanford.edu saying that "there were to many inquiries to be answered". Then I sent a 2nd email stating "Second Request" in the subject line and a human being, and not just a machine, answered that the documents were correctly received; they will contact me if anything is missing. The only thing that I think we should care about those documents is the price of the flights. The sooner we have the F-1 visa, the cheaper the flight. Allow 1 month for the I-20 and 1 month for the visa itself. We'll be buying the flight tickets by the beginning of August, when fares are at it's highest.

HORREUR!!! I've not been assigned any housing! And I chose every option meaning "own room" and "under 1000$;. And I chose the option that "I was willing to accept any type of housing" How does that option works? Will they offer me a housing by mid-september costing 1500$? How does the "2nd round" works? Should I change my preferences from the ones I chose in the 1st round? Will I have any possibility of being assigned to one of the "own room" and "under 1000$; options, or those are the ones completely crowded? My lottery number is 3445, quite high I think, because in the Statistics of 2010 says: The overall cutoff number for the last male, new graduate student assigned was 3418 Some students with lottery numbers higher than the overall cutoff number and assignment priority were assigned if they specifically listed the more expensive options that were not filled with applicants who specified the final choice that they would accept any option on campus. Any international student in the same situation? I don't know what to do in order to find a place by my own means. It's certainly difficult to plan a trip to the US, holding the visa, and to find something. AARRRRRRGGHHHH!!!

Does anyone have an idea of what looks like a "2 Bedroom Efficiency" in Escondido Village. I've read that those were one bedroom apartments that have been transformed to two bedroom ones, but I haven't found any drawing or plan reference about those. What have you done about the "Are you willing to accept any assignment"?. I don't want to pay 1600$ in Munger, neither to sleep in the living room of a "1 bedroom double occupancy" apartment, but I'm international, and I think that it will be really difficult to find something else outside the campus by the first half of September if I do not move with enough time in advance. What does it happen if you're not assigned an apartment? Is there any second round? Anyway, the "searchable map" of Stanford webpage is a pain. I leave you a Google Earth map with the main residences. It's a huge campus, It will take me time to get used to it. https://rapidshare.com/files/459312974/Stanford_Graduate_Housing.kml

Hi all, I've been admitted to M.S. in Structural Engineering both to Stanford and UC San Diego. My main interest is Earthquake Engineering, as this is my main motivation to study in the US, so... I've got this big dilemma. Which one is a better choice? Stanford is Stanford, and of course it has a better overall reputation. But one of my recommenders just called me to advise me to think it carefully, because San Diego is one of the leading universities in that domain. The problem with San Diego is that, of the two Very well known professors In Earthquake Eng., one of them has just retired, and the other one is currently the Dean of the Engineering School, and he doesn't take students to work with. What would you do?

Hi hello_every1 !! We're going to be peers! Which program are you going to enroll? I'm on Structural Engineering and I'm international too. I have exactly the same doubts as you regarding the housing. I send you a Private Message to talk about.

GOT IT !!!

Hi all, Do you already have access to your email xxx@stanford.edu?

Hi all and congrats, I've been admited to Civil Engineering MS at and I'm international. It's great to go to Stanford and it's cool to live at least for one year in CA. I've heard that Escondido Village is a little bit too quiet. What do you think? I'm european, and here the use of public transportation between university campuses and main cities is very common. Do you think that I will need a car if I want to visit SF on a regular basis?

Congratulations omega!! How did you hear from Berkeley? By email or by postal service?

One M.S. acceptance on friday and one Ph.D. rejection today from Berkeley. This goes very slooooooowwwwwwly... What percentage of people applying do you think visit thegradcafe.com and post their results, maybe about 20%?

LOL. Celebration of Kitsch!!

Does anyone have heard something about UC Berkeley or UC San Diego? There are too few people on the results page being admitted to those institutions.