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Has anybody heard from Columbia MPH?

Maybe regionally, but not globally. I know for sure VT, Florida Tech and Texas Tech are not known as Tech globally. Anyway this is irrelevant so I won't say anymore.

This might be irrelevant, but Tech is only used in reference to Georgia Tech.

It depends on your specialty but overall it is almost as good as the top 4 for getting industry jobs after graduation. The only downside is the location, Atlanta is not like silicon valley so you will have much less interaction with industry when in grad school.

This is how I would rank them in wireless comm: UCSD UCLA GaTech Umich Just to add that UCSD is perhaps at the level of top 4 for wireless comm while others are all at a lower scale.

Ditto. To hell with you bankrupt good for nothing Berkeley, and your stuck up loser faculty who make less than a blue collar (check their salaries online, it's public info), and your four-eyed retarded students who could never be in a relationship if it wasn't for online (losers) dating websites, and your wretched puke-colored Cory hall (EECS), and your senile morons center aka LBL that is defeated by its Russian counterpart every year in pure science (check LBL science frauds online)...... I don't and will never want to be part of you!

Nothing. Elitist bastards just don't give a s**t about us, rejected mediocrities. I bet they send out rejection letters only out of legal obligation, otherwise we would have been completely ignored.

Hahaha..... I don't think it's gonna hurt your chances

Yeah seems like gonna be rejects. I emailed my POI twice last week (with whom I had some correspondence in January and who told me he would follow up my case and let me know the situation) but haven't heard back so ......

Does Berkeley interview all the admits? How many UCB EE interviews did you see on gradcafe thread and how many admits? As far as I can remember there were only 2-3 interviews posted but like 10 admits. I brought up this question in the CS thread where one of the ad com faculty of Berkeley EECS (CS) posts every now and then but didn't get a reply. I agree that chances are very low for us, but I would be surprised to find out they have waited on sending the rejects for so damn long.

Chances could be low (they always are with schools like Berkeley unless you are stellar) but it wouldn't make sense to me that they delay rejects for so long. If we were all sure rejects we should have heard earlier, there has to be a reason why it is taking so long, perhaps they have had too many applicants this year and they admitted the stellars in early Feb and now they are finalizing the rest.

Horrible service, Berkeley admissions..... I want my 90$ refunded

https://willow.coe.berkeley.edu/gradmits/gradapp and now it's back up again

same here... haha gotto prepare myself for a reject.... 90$ wasted wasted wasted....

Well last year rejects came out sooner (but admits were around the same time as this year, early Feb). All of us have been F5ing gradcafe thread non-stop so correct me if I am wrong but I have seen ~20 MIT EECS admits and >30 Stanford EE admits (PhD and MS) but <10 Berkeley EE (not CS) admits (I think usually MIT and Berkeley have similar admission quota and Stan is a little higher). I was not interviewed but unless things have changed from last year, not all Cal EE admits are interviewed. I emailed gradadmission@berkeley twice after the first wave (or only wave as you claim) of admits and asked about the decision on my application and they replied that there has been no decision yet (last time was Thursday). All that said, chances are you are right. I guess my resume is not attractive to bay area elitists so I better stay at my east coast MS institution and get a hassle-free PhD.

Good find. Still I feel like I haven't seen enough interviews/admits for EE on gradcafe thread (I saw more CS interviews than EE while we know Berkeley EECS admits more EEs than CS) but maybe it's just me trying to stay hopeful..... hopefully the decisions will finally come out this week. Good luck to all of you for Berkeley and everywhere else.

I started the forum below on Berkeley EECS in Engineering section so CS-majors waiting on admission do not get "agitated" by EE posts. We would be pleased if Professor Shewchuk could comment on the question concerning Berkeley interviews for EE admission where he sees fit. Thanks again for your help and advice Professor Shewchuk.

You have either completely misunderstood the concept of online forums or suffer from a severe case of inferiority complex towards engineering majors. In any case, I believe gradcafe is a moderated forum and it is up to the moderators to warn users about irrelevant posts not a Decaf. So please, keep your thoughts and problems to yourself and handle your torturous waiting like a grown-up.

Thanks for sharing this piece of information. Does this apply to EE as well or is it just CS?

Same here.... let's make the bastards reply.... didn't pay 125$ to get tortured with no reply

I have seen very few admits on here and gradcafe thread.... seems unlikely that all the admits are already out

Has anyone heard from Berkeley in the past two weeks? Does anyone know through communication with a faculty or admission office when we should be expecting to hear from them?

Congrats! When did you hear from Berkeley? Also could share your area within EE?

It really depends on what you want to do after graduation. If you want to become an entrepreneur in say silicon valley or start your own consulting company in EE-related fields then investing in doing an MS at Stanford is worth it. If you want to get a job in a company, even the big ones, as an engineer/scientist then it wouldn't make that much of a difference which one of these top schools you have graduated from -- what matters is what you have done/learned there. So in this case I think you should stay at Tech since you will get to save some $ and also you probably already know some of the prof's and some of them also know you well so you have a better shot at building a strong research resume. On a separate note, I have heard that Stanford MS students can very rarely find prof's with whom they can do research and that in general Stanford MSEE is a very engineering/course based program and its graduates have minimal research experience if any.

RA/TA positions at Stanford EE are almost always given to students already enrolled in the program for a year or more who have taken classes or research courses with Prof's. RA/TA awards are almost never awarded to applicants who contact faculty members. This also goes for Berkeley and seems to be what distinguishes Stan/Cal admission from other schools where applicants can get RA/TA by contacting faculty.