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This is a really really helpful post. the one that i have been looking forward to find since march. Thank you very much and hope it helps other incoming students. I'm having a hard time finding housing via internet(I'm from Mexico and wont be able to visit prior my moving date, adding to htat the fact that I will be bringing my cat with me) So far my only option is at studio green on a 2 bedroom shared apartment. Is this place nice and in a good zone? Also, can one live decently wtih around 20K per 12 months paying a rent somewhere between 650 (studio green shared) and 800 (pet friendly studios or 1 bedrooms)? Thank you

I suggest you spend some time checking the following: http://thegradcafe.c...logy*&t=a&pp=25 comparing your profile with the posted results you can find how competitive your tentative admissions package might be. I come from a field where 1400+ GRE, plus 750+ subject GRE plus 3.8 undergrad GPA is not competitive enough, so my opinion might be biased, but I think you should seriously try to improve your stats.

Heading to Delaware. PDE's/Functional analysis rule!

Welcome aboard!!!

Hey that's cool, so I guess you aren't being required to take that summer ELI English course. I must report by July 12 in order to attend to that course. It is the policy of UD that international grad students students from non English speaking countries who are going to be assigned teaching duties must attend ELI English program. (regardless of their TOEFL scores, I guess) It will be nice, though, to have some time before the term begins in order to adapt to the city.

You have invested a lot of money and effort in this process, do you really to put yourself to it all over again? Choose from your options and don't hesitate, the longer you wait the harder it will be for you to depart from your home (I mean you will be even more attached if you wait one more year). Besides, your options are great. It is true that all of us would like to studfy at Princeton, Stanford or Cambridge, (we all like the glamour) but seriously you've got excellent options. I would personally attend UI-UC, but you seem to have already decided not to go there. A friend of mine has been attending Warwick for a couple of years now and she is very very happy. She's into dynamical systems I believe (I'm more Applied analysis-oriented, so I prefer PDE's) and it seems that they do leading research in that area. Go for it, you really got great options.

I've been told by a couple of grad students at the math department to whom I've sent e-mails, that one is able to live a pretty comfortable life with less than 17K (that's the graduate stipend at the math department for an academic year). I've been also told that you can find rents in Newark for around $500 a month and less if you are willing to share. I will be bringing my cat with me, so I guess that I will be paying more than that. I'm travelling from Mexico City, and you?

Hi there! So, finally there's a little activity on UD at The Grad Café. I'm also 95% sure I'll be attending. My PhD is on applied math. I'm an international student, so I must be there by July 12, and I still don't know where I'll be staying. I will be arranging housing via Internet and without previously visiting the place, which is kind of weird. Any of you are aware of the approximate cost of living?

So these are my final choices, and I should be deciding pretty soon. I need some advice, they both have strong departments on my research area, which is numerical solution of PDE's. While Waterloo has a lot research going on hyperbolic equations and fluid dynamics (my current topic) . U Delaware has one of the leading professors on the area of radial basis functions applied to the solution of PDE's and on water waves. What do you think? How are the reputations of these two departments?

Thanks, gonna check it right away

I think that the thread title is pretty descriptive. I've been offered admission to the University of Delaware and a nine month stipend of $1700 (minus tax, I'm pretty sure). I'm an international student and I'm worried about the cost of living. Any advice is going to be very helpful.

UT- Austin. Eyes closed.

It is a though decision. It all depends on whether you want to do ultimately: if you want to get a PhD, then UMCP should be your choice, since there is no guarantee that UW will accept you even if you take the quals during your masters, so you will be suffering once again this horrible admission process. Overall UMCP is bigger than UW and offers a lot more research options for your theses. On the other hand, Randy Leveque is really a top notch worldwide respected authority in scientific computing and systems of hyperbolic PDE's. In my particular case I would maybe go for UW (but that is just because I myself study hyperbolic systems of conservation laws). PS. I didn't apply for UW and now I'm regretting it, but I wasn't sure if subject GRE was a mandatory requirement, and the graduate assistant never replied my mail, so I simply didn't apply.

It seems that UD ain't that popular in grad cafe, judging from the number of responses this thread has had. Anyway, odds are that I will be attending UD from fall 2011, I'm an international applicant, so I will be arranging housing without a prior visit. One thing that worries me is the cost of living, I haven't received the formal financial package, but I've been told that I can expect a "generous stipend". How much money per year is needed in order to get by in Newark? I will be renting off campus. Somebody knows how much can I expect as funding from the math dept? Thanks.

Completely on the same situation, for the time being the decision is between U Delaware and the University of Waterloo (Canada) both have very stron depts for numerical solution of PDE's