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Just curious, what did you end up choosing?

I accepted a PhD offer at Berkeley, but now I think I just want to go for a masters at Stanford (funded w/ fellowship), and maybe continue onto a PhD there. Would it be super uncool if I went back on my decision? I'm worried most about telling the advisor at Berkeley.

Lol, of course it would be tied now. I chose Berkeley. Go Bears!

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Shayens, good catch, I am leaning toward Berkeley a little bit. You seem like you like california better because you are going back, yeah?

Here's your stats aberrant http://colleges.find...ompare/270-1954

I'm tempted to choose based on which school gets most votes. It's better than my current plan of flipping a coin

I was admitted to Berkeley and MIT for EECS PhD, both fully funded, and am having a tough time deciding where to go. Here is my pros and cons list: Berkeley 1. Would-be-advisor is awesome in the field I want to go into, it is even rumored he will win nobel prize soon. His grad students have greats things to say. He has put a lot of effort in convincing me to come 2. It's in California. Sun, girls, LA a 5 hour drive away, longer if I take the pacific highway 3. It's near silicon valley (didn't get into Stanford ): and advisor has multiple businesses in area, i.e. good connections. I think I want to do something entrepreneurial after graduation 4. CON: idk if Berkeley is considered to be as cool as places like MIT, Stanford, Harvard, etc. If I ever change fields, working for awesome advisor won't carry as much weight as MIT 5. CON: Would-be-advisor is 65 MIT 1. Would-be-advisor works a lot with DARPA and lincoln labs. Research is interesting to me. 2. Cambridge/Boston is a huge college town. Lack of girls at MIT can be made up for by hanging out with people from other schools. Harvard right down mass ave. 3. I relate well with people at MIT in terms of problem solving, but i'm probably more laid back like people at berkeley 4. Majority of MIT is grad students; majority undergrad at Berkeley 5. CON: Boston is cold and ugly compared to california 6. CON: MIT is probably more stressful than berkeley Please post anything you want. I am listening to any and all opinions

Wow, stanford is more popular than MIT, didn't expect that one

Here are my reasons in decreasing importance: 1. The advisor I'd work with at Berkeley is very well known, has interesting research projects, and is making a large effort to get me to come to Berkeley (talked to me about research on phone for ~40 mins, gave me his grad students contact info, flying me out separately from visiting days because he'll be out of town then) 2. Berkeley is in the bay area, which I hear is a great place for startups. Potential advisor owns a few companies and would prob be a good mentor if I went this route. 3. People seem to be cool at Berkeley, maybe because it's California, also the weather is nice

Also, I talked with my professor and he said something about me being able to publish a conference paper, but probably not a journal paper yet. Have to decide by tonight.

Yes

Is there any chance one could get accepted into one of these top electrical engineering PhD programs without being published? Second question: how does working at NASA JPL compare to having a paper published (assuming not mundane tasks, in a field that you are pursuing for grad school)?