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Hi Amanda, I am on the waiting list for the Family Student Housing (which is the only option for me to cope with the housing costs at Santa Barbara), but I expect to be on this list for a long time -- I submitted an FSH application quite recently. Mr. A

Going to UCSB in the Fall. I'll probably go there with my spouse, so living in the San Clemente apartments is not an option. Though, if I were going to live there as a single grad student, I would definitely choose living in a 4-bedroom apartment primarily because the off-campus housing costs in the region are just going through the roof. Mr. Anonymous

Are you sure?

Yes, you do ]:->

Thanks CSC. I'm thinking about the location as the last thing to consider. What criteria have you used making such a judgement?

Hi. The question is plain and simple: what school you would choose for doing a PhD in computer science? (You may give an answer applicably to your sub-area of interest.) Arguments are highly appreciated! Thanx.

The placement record of your potential research advisor (as it's been already pointed out above) is an important factor (especially it is, I believe, if you plan an academic career). However, I am sure that more important is how good a match you and your potential advisor(s) are. How similar are your research interests? How well the advisor treated his/her former students? Is it typical for the advisor's students to be first authors of the papers the advisor and his/her students collaborated on? And so forth. The importance of an advisor cannot be overestimated since a bad advisor may prevent you from achieving the stage at which you may be placed anywhere. So, if you have two equally great potential advisors whom personally and whose research you adore, take a look at their placement records -- if there is a great difference, choose the one who annually delivers bunches of fresh assistant professors to highly ranked universities =) If you're planning a career in industry, then it is probably domain-dependent how important the reputation of your former advisor is for your decent placement.

Hello, In case you've received an offer from UCSD and want to discuss some of its details, feel free to do it in this thread. I'll start. As a couple of other fellows, I recently received an offer to the master's program, though I applied to the PhD. The same e-mail indicated that my PhD application is still under review. As someone asked what I feel about it, whether it's a good sign, I do not think it is a sign at all =) MS is another program with different entry requirements. And the worst detail of the MS program is that master's students do not receive funding, which nullifies all the sweetness of the offer. I hope, you have something to add to this thread.

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/RankList?entitytype=7&domainID=24&last=5&start=1&end=100 10. UCSD 56. UCSB

Hi California88, I though you said that "[you] have been guaranteed 5 years tuition waver." Why should you care about any fluctuations of the tuition fee if you are not going to pay it anyway?! If the tuition changes, the corresponding item in your funding package will change appropriately. Am I wrong?

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