boneh3ad

I got in and will be visiting next Wednesday. It is up among my top 3 right now. I am pretty excited...

So...... any advice on what to talk to profs about when you finally get there?

Alright, I suspect I am no alone in this situation. I have been admitted to several schools so far, so over my spring break next week, I plan to jetset around to as many as I can squeeze in so that I can get a feel for my top choices before that April 15 deadline. Some schools, like Ga Tech, have a set routine that they do for admitted grad students, so they already have my visit mostly planned out. However, some schools, like Texas A&M, put the onus on me. I have a tour set up and such, but I need to contact professors and set up the rest on my own it seems. Can anyone offer some advice as far as what to do while I am there and what sort of things to ask professors? I got guaranteed a TA or RA position, so its not like I have to go fishing for them, I just need to meet some professors that I am interested in as far as I can tell. The problem is, I have no idea how that meeting should go.

Well I emailed Berkeley about a slightly related issue, and while they didn't exactly answer my original question, they did manage to tell me that all ME admissions decisions will be made by March 27th, so for those of us still waiting, we have 9ish days left before we are guaranteed to have been accepted or not.

Email or snail mail? I ask because I applied there too, so I would imagine that I would be hearing one way or another soon.

I have UConn over UNC. Louisville is overrated... majorly.

I didn't get that invite as an MS student, but then again I got my letter back in December.

Yeah someone said they got an acceptance email this past Friday. Now I am freaking out because I haven't got one yet...

I applied direct to Ph.D. at TAMU, so they probably aren't giving out funded MS offers.

So was I...

I have come across this too and it confuses me. A lot say April 15th, yet a couple of my programs have said that they make decisions on a rolling basis THROUGH the month of April. WTF Mate?!

So... anyone else heard anything from anyone yet?

"Yes!" Says the boneh3ad of 2 weeks ago...

I need some advice from fellow engineers since our depts might be different than others. I have about a week and a half before spring break, over which I would like to visit as many of the schools as I can, but there are still 6 schools that I haven't even heard from. Is it considered ok to email them and just say "hey how far along are you guys? I was wanting to take a visit but don't know whether to plan one or not." or something like that? I am really getting stressed out with trying to plan these trips and also keep all my school work in order, so I need some advice...

No, I got assigned someone. Just how about the official information email address for the department? There has to be some point of contact on the department's website.

Email the advisor they assigned to you and tell them you would like to make a visit and ask if there is any set program for such a visit for admitted grad students.

Well then in the spirit of the original post, I suppose that if you guys need more mods, then I can try to lend a hand some.

I was disappointed with Sim City 4. For me, it added so much micromanaging that it took away from the whole "build a city" experience. If I wanted to manage things that closely, I would run for mayor of a real city.

Yeah, a lot of those games are a lot easier when I play them now than they were when I was 10. Go figure... Sim City still rocks me though... geez was that hard.

Has anyone in Mechanical Engineering heard from Berkeley at all? I know this question was asked in the Mechanical Engineering thread, but I wanted to "unbury" it so that it was more visible. I haven't heard a peep since I got the automated email saying that they had all my application parts.

For the record, my first post (or was it second...) said something along the lines of "..., if the plan actually is to expand to graduate school in general rather than just admissions." On top of that, I think it is actually a good thing that people are interested in expanding your site. That means you have created a site that has developed quite a following and a group of people that would be more than happy to continue patronizing it. In addition, you seem to have Google adsense on your front page, so wouldn't expanding the site lead to more traffic, and thus more revenue anyway?

I will be flying around the country visiting as many schools as I can fit that I have gotten into.

I broke out my old Super Nintendo, and between classes and working, I have been playing a lot of Donkey Kong Country.

What about if, under the existing format, under the "Applied Sciences & Mathematics" forum, have two subforums, one for admissions, and one for everything else. Then follow suit with all of the similar categories.

I got my Purdue email on a Sunday... FWIW And sheesh I am getting tired of waiting!!!