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Turns out the original letter was a mistake. It was meant to be a waitlist letter. It is pretty f**ing messed up. Apparently there is no financial aid with the offer. I dunno if this will change. and I have no idea what I will do now either.

turns out they had made a mistake. Their 'student assistant' was in charge of printing and posting wait list/rejection letters. THE DGS was pretty shocked when I mentioned the rejection letter. I dunno what I will do now anyway. I have already accepted an offer at a different school. Although they are not as top notch as BU, they atleast had the courtesy to see that I received the right letters! I'm after all more than just an applicant number! Its easy to say that. I dunno what I am gonna do though.

Ok this has got to be the worst joke ever played. Mid march i got a very rude rejection letter from BU, stating that they could not consider my application for admission. Today, April the 15th, I get an email ( with an official letter) congratulating me on my acceptance. I swear this is the sickest joke ever. Esp since I had been waiting for their response. After their rejection letter I accepted the offer from the 3rd school on my list. COuld they have made a mistake earlier and sent me a rejection letter when they actually meant to send me a waiting list letter? I wish I could strangle someone right now. That is how mad I am. And its 4.30 pm. I cant even call and yell at ppl on the east coast. has this happened to anyone?

is this even possible? I first get a rude short letter from BU stating that my application was rejected and then I get a mail today, April the 15th saying my application was accepted. WHat kind of rude sick joke is this?

i wish I had read the part about CALLS no EMAILS a month eariler.It would have made things more easier and probably could have bumped up my chances! but oh welll - we can't win em all:) ps:i loved the strategy of playing schools against each other. does that really work?

Pitt MS BME. I'm into the MSRC, orthopedic science center. I think cuz I was an MS applicant, I have not received any word on funding yet. If one of the professors or the department lets me know by April 15, I have decided I want to go to PItt. But if not, I'm still very very happy going to Purdue (PhD). The only thing though, is that every time I think about giving in 4 years for PhD, i sorta get cold feet. It sounds so werid, but its true. I'm ChE and I do believe I will like Biomechanics, but what if I am wrong? Sometimes I get strange amateur undergraduate thoughts like that. Are you going to Pitt for sure? I don't know much about their cog science center. I don't know if Pitt is different, but i have a similair offer from Purdue and they said that the fellowship was from the university and the stipend was from the professor who voted for my application. Both of them are essentially fellowships ( meaning I do not have to work in his lab for the first year), but since I am an internatioanl student, the felllowship will be administed as regular bi weekly pay (@20 hr/week). The second yr they will give me a RA position. I wonder if that is what they meant in your case.

I got my ChE degree from Univ of MN. ha! I wish I had that figured out. I'm in the midst of wanting to reapply next year, go to UPitt or Purdue or just pull my hair after having gone through too many of these nerve-wrecking weeks. What about you? have you made your choices yet?

hmmm..hard to say if he was impressed. It could be that he had had similiar conversations with other students. Is it just Northwestern you want to attend or is there a very specific research field present at that school that interests you? If it is the latter, I would hunt down the professor that works in that area and bug him till he begins to say your name in his sleep! lol.. ok i dont encourage getting a restraining order, but if there is someone whom your background and interests seem to match, I am sure presenting your case to them would prove worthy bothways. I couldbe wrong, but laying all your eggs in one basket is a huge risk. Meet as many people as you can. NETWORK NETWORK NETWORK

I went to DPSRKP for high school and hung out with a lot of IIT wanna-bes! We landed up outside your college a couple of times just to eat those parathas. I'm in chemical engineering right now.

IIT Delhi eh? hmm the one thing i remember about that place are those awesome parathas! what did u specialize in?

Is a 24K stipend 'liveable' for West Lafayette? I am not a spendthrift, nor am I married or have kids. But just wondering how decent the offer is. The university still wants me to pay $1300/semeter for fees and health insurance. After that and taxes (14% I think), will i be able to lead a decent laid back-need to visit the bars over the weekend-eat out once in a while-pay off my car-kinda lifestyle?

Nope. I was never told that I was nominated. I received the notification first my email and then Fed-Ex. The fellowship is apparently from the college of engineering and probably has nothing to do with my department. Good look fidning out about yours

After narrowing down all my choices (6/9) I think I have come to three conclusions. A) Go to Purdue BME. It was amongst my top three and is fully funded. The only real concern is the guy I will be working for. Although his field his biomehanics, he described a potential research project to me while we were visiting. The work sounded very tissue engineering related and I'm not too sure I would fully enjoy that. I have worked in tissue engineering before and although the field has a lot of potential, it does not have that appeal. But having never had any BME classes its kind of hard for me to judge what I will and wont like. B)That gets me to this option. Go get my masters at Pitt and get a feel for the field. Apply for Ph.D later. Run around the next month and figure out where the hell this money will come from. C) Or simply, laze around this year, try getting hired by a 'science related field', earn the bartender tips at night, and reapply to Duke/Stanford again next year. any thoughts?

i received the ross fellowship from purdue. it came in the mail last week. I don't know if that is because my dept is different (i'm bme). you could try contacting your dept and see what the status is .

christina, i got my BU rejection in the mail too. It was a blow to me. The four short sentences that they had managed to scramble together stung a lot. oh well. Have u made your decisions yet?