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sikyon

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  1. Housing is super easy to find generally speaking - it's a university town and renting is extremely common. The price of housing depends on what you want. 1 room will run you anywhere from 300 in the summer to 500-600 in the fall. An apartment will run from 600-800-1000 depending on how nice it is. If you have roommates, I would advise screening. Remember that the CN $ is higher than the US $ currently, and from what I hear from friends that have worked in the states our food is more expensive and our gas is much more expensive as well ( about 1.1 per liter now, in USD that's about $4.3/gal) The weather is pretty good. It's decent in the winter (significantly cold) and it can get hot in the summer (getting a place with AC will be recommended) but otherwise its quite nice. It is a university town though so beware that most of the activities here are confined to bars and clubs.
  2. Ah OK, I simply assumed you were Canadian. My mistake!
  3. I was not aware that they had any tuition award offers... tuition is only 7k for out of province students for masters? 3.5k for all phd students? It's not exactly a huge amount. I suggest you talk to the supervisor and see what he can do.
  4. I don't think you can really accept Princeton's offer and then decline it in favor of Stanford, if they offer aid later. I believe that if you accept an offer of financial aid from one school, another school cannot give you funding for admission unless the first school specifically tells them that they have released you from your obligation (and vice versa they cannot withdraw the offer of funding if you accept without your permission). Trying to get around this system is, I believe, grounds for termination from both schools. At least that's what it seemed like on the letters about funding I got from schools.
  5. After writing the GRE last year and looking at admittances this year, I am wondering what the value of the GRE is. While I did well on it, I don't think the questions really prove anything. Consider that the first section on math is high school level, the second section on verbal is primarily enhanced by vocabulary and the third section is apparently subjective. Nobody really needs this stuff. If you are in a program that uses math, you're going to have to have much more math than the GRE to have gotten by. If you are in a program that requires lots of words... well it might indicate how well read you are but wouldn't reading comprehension and writing samples give a better example anyways? Honestly I don't understand why the standardized test isn't the LSAT. The LSAT primarily tests logical reasoning and analytical abilities - skills required for every field. Personally, if i were a professor, I would give much more weight to an LSAT score if my applicants had that than the GRE.
  6. I was admitted yesterday too! But I'm also on the waiting list for financial aid... which really scares me. Do you know if there is a visiting weekend in MSE and if they will pay for part of it? I'm an international student from Waterloo (Canada). Nanotechnology Engineering program. I'm probably only in the top quarter of my class for marks (we use a 100 point scale, my gpa is like 81 which I guess is < 3.7). However, I have a TON of research experience... I've worked for like 4 companies doing R&D and I've published 1 journal paper as first author, 1 as second author and I have 2 reviewed conference papers as second author. I think that international funding is limited at stanford which basically means I'll probably use this admit as a bargaining chip in my other applications. Stanford would be great but my research skills are rock solid so funding matters a LOT to me.
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