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if you are seriously considering ohio then i think you deserve to live there. it is a crime to not choose ucsb

yeah it sucks but at real schools they hire professors for research and not teaching ability (although i'd love to hang out with your dope liberal arts faculty some day)

is it just coincidence or did you intentionally choose the two most racist states in the uSA?

i'd still go with BU. borodovsky is alright but he's kind of old school . there's better comp bio out there (and tons of good research at BU) . plus like i said you can just work at the broad

dude have you ever been to university?you don't pay for the coursework, you pay for everything else otherwise you'd just buy a textbook and read it

berkeley stipend is like 30k, how is that difficult to live on? if you're considering leaving your significant other then the relationship's not worth saving (uh oh shouldn't have said that hahaha) Anyway i guess you'll enjoy UCLA

haha (and to the original poster just choose ksg and stop worrying about personal attacks on an online forum)

Imperial has a better reputation internationally AND in the USA . But really you are ignoring an important factor, which is the programs are very very different Personally, I'd go for Imperial. It will give you the chance to live in Europe for a few years, which is fun. UCSD is a really nice campus though

Berkeley no question (but learn to spell it). this is a no-brainer. berkeley is a top tier graduate program. UCLA, while good, is definitely a notch below berkeley. Also, berkeley culture is more fun, grad student life is good, and you aren't stuck in los angeles...

Media Lab no question. you can take MIT graduate CS cousework . more importantly, you can get letters of recommendation from MIT course 6 collaborators but once you go to the Media Lab, I can't imagine you wanting to leave for a ph.d. program somewhere else. the media lab is just dope

Berkeley has Lior Pachter who might be a good fit for your interests. At this stage, I would carefully consider the faculty at each school. Berkeley is top ranked in mathematics and biology so you can't go wrong. And like you said, UCSF is more medically oriented... It's a tough decision, but i would go with Berkeley (personal preference) and certainly don't let the fellowship influence your decision Edit: Also Lior Pachter 's da bomb so if you're interested in his lab, i highly highly highly recommend going to Berkeley

I would go to BU. Who are you interested in at GA tech? Koonin is good but he's inaccessible to most grad students (and you wouldn't want to work in his lab anyway) Otherwise BU has a good program and it's across from MIT/Havard so you can go to research talks every week. Also some BU professors are affiliated with the Broad

Go to UArizona. They have a top 10 ecology department where you can do top quality research Also Tucson is a good city. i think it is much nicer than Columbia The best way to describe Tucson is everyone has a fixed gear bike (for better or worse) haha

I think school B (Stanford?) is a good choice Going to any school to work with 1 or 2 professors is very risky. Also, there are tons of benefits to going to a school that is top ranked in every field.

I would go with UCB too. CEE at MIT is good but the quality of life is significantly worse. Academically, it sounds like they are on equal footing. If you want to work internationally, I think MIT has better name recognition.