ptkmag

Well Neeraj was right. I got admitted. Woohoo!

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Are you also in the program?

You'll want to be top 10% in all of those categories if not top 5%. I'm sure you can do it. It sucks that those scores may have been your problem since you've obviously got the right stuff. Surprisingly I was reading that they even look at verbals at the top institutions. They have to have something to separate equally qualified candidates. On the bright side at least you didn't pick a safety school you'd be completely miserable at.

For someone with an undergrad education you seem to be very aware of advanced topics which interest you. I would imagine your undergrad institution and GPA would make you look attractive to a committee. May I ask what were your GRE scores?

What's your research interest?

That's interesting. I was just at UIUC (visiting). Really interesting campus. So you're at a top 5 EE institution with a GPA that has to place you in the top 10% of your class. What the heck happened? I'm supposing that your GRE's are also high. You must have pissed off your professors and got some crazy bad LORs. J/K.

Which schools did you apply to? Yeah April seems kind of late. I had a friend who went through something similar. He applied to top institutions in EE after he earned his BS from Miss State. Didn't get accepted. Went to work for three years (3 count em). Kept on sending out feelers, etc. Eventually UT Austin called him back and got him funded. So it happens.

So I noticed at least two other MS HCP applicants on the results board. What quarter did you apply to enter in? Have you done NDO credits before? How nervous are you? Me? I'm nervous. Here's my stats GRE Q=790 V=680 AWA=4.5, UGPA = 3.8. I don't know if that's good enough. If I had a list of five schools I wanted to get into, I'd feel better. But since I'm kind of doing a one shot or nothing deal, I'm getting anxious. How are you guys doing?