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If you had 5 minutes to talk about yourself in your new research lab at the first presentation, what would you talk about as new grad student?;-)

When I see the other ppl posting their profile here I feel more than below average.

Can a GRE subject test score really compensate an ok GPA (3.7/4.0)?

They didnt contact me yet, does that mean I'm out

last week

I dont get why it is even more tough to come to a top program with a MS already, thought that would be easier especially when coming from a 3 yrs bachelor ....

any news from UMich?

Institution: No 1 in my country Major(s): EE GPA in Major: 3.7/4.0 (best 10%) Length of Degree: 3 Type of Student: International GRE Scores (old version): Q: 760 V: 590 W: 3.5 TOEFL: 94 iBt Research Experience: 1 semester undergrad research assistant at exchange semester in US, 6 months honors thesis research, 5 months at institute lab, no pubs(possibly one soon but didnt mention that :-((( ) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: exchange semester with stipend?? Related Experience (ie jobs): 2x3 months internship in the industry, 1 year programming student, 2 years tutoring basic EE class. Recommendations : expected strong, all known in person >1yr (not just asked after taking a class with them), all well known profs (2 from the field of interest) Applied to: PhD Berkeleyrejected Harvard Princetonrejected Cornell Stanfordrejected Purdue Accepted UMich UIUCrejected Caltech CMU What I dislike is that there are never ANY reasons given, why I am rejected or what is missing in my app. Seems like I can only convince with a gold medal in a physics olympiad;-);-)

I dont only consider rankings (like arwu). This should not be a discussion about rankings but more about switching the univ after masters when I applied for ultimate PhD. I read somewhere that changing the research group inside one university might make the professor upset, but in the end its better than wasting time in a lab where I cannot do what I want to do. So why not changing the university? Wouldnt the professors understand this or even support with a LOR?;-) Any professors in this forum? ;-P any more opinions on that?

Hi all, I applied for PhD in EE in the US but didnt get into my very favorite school. Now I will go to a less popular school but I might want to apply for PhD again to a better one. Is it possible to change the university (in the US) after finishing the Master when studying in a PhD program? Do you think any professor would write me LORs for these applications or would they be too upset? I know that really depends on the situation but do you have any good advice? Thanks