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  1. aber_leider

    Newark, DE

    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
  2. 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.
  3. Heading to Delaware. PDE's/Functional analysis rule!
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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?
  7. 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?
  8. 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?
  9. aber_leider

    Newark, DE

    Thanks, gonna check it right away
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. aber_leider

    Newark, DE

    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.
  13. 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
  14. And so the weekend passed and I got to call the graduate assistant... to many international applicants, bla bla bla. Well At least I won't be waiting for Canadian decisions anymore. Already was accepted to Waterloo. Any of you can give me some info about UW reputation on applied math? It has a very strong reputation in Mexico, but I wish to know how Canadians view it.
  15. This is suuuuuch a torture. I decided to call... not office hours anymore, I'll have to wait the whole weekend. I'll be completely nuts by Monday without a doubt.
  16. OMG OMg OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! My online status has changed from "under review" to "decision made" in UT website. Unfortunately I cannot check the actual decision online... I just e-mailed asking. FINGERS CROSSED
  17. Offered TA position for 9 months at UC Denver and admission to University of Waterloo
  18. Speaking about cruel jokes from adcoms, I was rejected from Stanford some four weeks ago. Today an e-mail from Stanford appeared on my in box. Of course, I thought that someone had declined the offer of admision and that my application was being reconsidered... no, it was once again the very same rejection email I had previously received. So, thank you for reminding me, I had almost moved on. Now I'm depressed again.
  19. Just got an acceptance for Waterloo, applied mathematics still waiting to hear from Toronto, though.
  20. By the way, my profile is more or less the following: Bachelor of science in Physics, GPA~3.6 (8.94/10) (average on math courses ~3.8 ; 9.5/10). Currently on a pure math masters GPA 4.0 (10/10). Undergraduate courses: 4 Calculus sequence (both spivaks), 2 Courses on linear algebra, 2 Courses on upper division differential equations, 1 Complex Analysis (Chuchill), 1 Real Analysis (Rudin), 1 advanced mathematics for physics (mainly special functions), 1 Numerical methods for PDE. (Plus twice as much courses on physics: analytical mechanics, thermodynamics, general relativity, electrodynamics, statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, etc, etc, etc...) Graduate courses: Real analysis (abstract measure and integration, Bartle), 1 Differential equations (Nonlinear equations, Perko and Jordan-Smith), 1 Mathematical methods of classical mechanics (Arnold), 1 PDE (Evans, classical theory), 1 Advanced PDE (Weak solutions, Sobolev Spaces, Bochner Spaces, Evans and Berezis), 1 Numerical Analysis (Stoer-Bulisch), 1 Functional Analysis (Kreyszig), 1 Numerical methods for hyperbolic systems of PDE. Honors thesis on transport equations, ! talk on a national conference, 3 summer schools on Differential equations and mathematical modeling, undergrad research on numerical general relativity and hyperbolic systems (leading to my honors thesis) no publications. Teaching experience as a TA and lecturer. One LOR from graduate chair. Applying to PHD programs on: -Stanford ICME (rejected) -UC Denver Applied Math (accepted) -UC Boulder Applied Math -WashU Statistics -UT-Austin CSEM -Rice Applied math -U Delaware Applied math - JHU Applied math and statistics - Columbia Applied math - Cornell Theoretical and applied mechanics - Northwestern ESAM - U Toronto Mathematics - U Waterloo Applied Math
  21. I'm an international applicant. I had a lot of contact with the graduate assistant at Boulder regarding my official transcripts back in November and December, and again some five days ago I wrote an email asking for my admissions decision (since i've noticed that most acceptance notices are given within a ten day period in mid-February). The response was that "the graduate committee is still reviewing applications and decisions will be made by April 1st" and that they hadn't received my official TOEFL scores. I replied that I had arranged ETS to report my scores in October, then the graduate assistant contacted International admissions and replied that they had just confirmed my official scores and that " I can assure you that the graduate committee does not consider your application incomplete" so they DID receive my application and are pretty aware about my status, I guess that if I had been rejected they could have simply told me that, instead of what actually happened. I quote: "Thank you for forwarding the information concerning your ETS request for transmission of your test scores. International Admissions has confirmed that your official TOEFL scores have been received. Your application is complete, and I can assure you that the graduate committee does not consider your application to be incomplete. Announcements regarding admission decisions will be made by April 1, and you can expect to receive notification of the decision on your application by e-mail or by phone."
  22. Hi there, I just received a letter from UC Denver telling me that the TA decision will be taken within the next week, when or how you learned that you won't be receiving a TA position? And also, I'm also waiting to hear back from UC Boulder, I sent an E-mail yesterday asking my admission status and I was told that the grad com is currently reviewing applications and that final decisions will be made by April 1 st, I wasn't told that I'm on a wait list or rejected or accepted, just to wait until April. How did you find about your status?
  23. Hey, hi. Just received an e-mail from Brown... rejected. It seems Tarot missed this one
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