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@ canuckBoy: did you get a reply from julayne ??? my app is still holding for review, i wonder when itll go to under review, if at all it does .........

@ AbaNader wow i am so gawd smacked thanks so much dude, the world suddenly makes sooooo much more sense now. lolzzzzz @ CanuckBoy did julayne reply ????

i am sure she is going to reply. Actually my advisor has asked to not disclose the fact that he shall be supporting me, so in that spirit i cant tell you his name, I hope you wont mind that. but i will tell you that i am on the nano/MEMS design side of things. actually ill tell you that not only the areas you are looking at but the whole dept and all its areas are very strong. I really think it should get even higher rankings than it currently does. they really allow you all the freedom to work and research and give you the latest tools and facilities to play around with. its pretty awesome. )))

actually i didnt do any applications for my masters, since i got the fulbright fellowship to attend purdue so they (the fulbright commission) did all the paper work, they just sent me a couple of acceptances from the universities where i got in and i made the choice of Purdue. So my guess is as good as yours. Although i would say this that one of the most helpful people who i found to be is the grad office secretary Julayne Moser. lets hope we hear something good in feb. btw congrats on the toronto admit. from what ive seen at purdue if the committee likes your profile they'll offer you an admission right away and asign a temporary advisor to you, if they are ok with your profile it is made avaialble to the rest of the faculty who if they take a liking to you they'll ask the grad office to make you an offer. All Phd students are requiered to have funding from a prof available very rare cases can pay for them selves, while masters students may have to fund themselves for atleast one semester before they find funding as TA or RA with a prof. But yes, if a prof recommends you your chances do increase....

hi everyone, really nice to see a dedicated thread for us. i have applied to the phd prog at purdue mech for fall 2012. I have already received a masters in ME from purdue back in 2008 so i am now trying to get back in for my phd. My credentials are no way as stellar as some of yours are but are presented as under, nevertheless: 01 provisional patent application filed for a device designed, fabricated and implemented while at purdue during my masters. Mentioned as the inventor 01 second author paper recently published in an IEEE journal. GRE 158 V, 162Q, 4.5, TOEFL 117, Professional Engineer Australia Professional Engineer Pakistan 06 years expereince in the oil and gas industry. I am planning (if i get back in) to work with my former advisor again. He intends to support my application although about funding I have no idea. My current application status is HOlding for Review since Dec 27 and the graduate office told me that the application review process will start on Jan 09th and it would take a couple of weeks. I am not sure what is happening right now but itll be three weeks by coming Monday. My only saving grace till now has been that i havent seen a single ME admit for Fall 12 till now on the gradcafe results page. Do any of you have any info. please do share. Good Luck !!!