nush19 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 12 hours ago, sumedh.gangurde said: Any view on this, need some advice... choosing NYIT's ms in architecture, computation and technologies (55k usd and 2 year course) or going for march in australian uni mainly UTS, UQ, UNSW with 2 year course and 40k usd tution??? my key interest is computational architecture, NYIT provides that course. but the uni is not as big as the likes of UCLA UPENN ETC and its in ny too. i wanted to know whether getting into the mentioned AUS unis would be beneficial w.r.t salary or taking the us route? UQ had given avg salary as 55k aud for architect Maybe try putting this up on archinect? I think you will get more insights there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyboardranger Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 18 minutes ago, planningapplicant said: It was March 4 for interview requests from UBC last year FYI! Edit: made a typo with the date! Thanks for letting me know! Finger crossed for all of us here... planningapplicant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dasen Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 8:10 AM, oatmilklatte12 said: In: UPenn Michigan UC-Berkeley Cornell UNC Tufts Waiting: Harvard MIT Georgia Tech UVA Out: Hi, Can I ask which track did you choose when you apply to UNC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dasen Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 On 2/23/2022 at 3:15 PM, oatmilklatte12 said: Got into Berkeley about two weeks ago and just got a full ride with insurance and a stipend at UNC! I saw some people were hearing back from GT and Tufts, so I wonder when those will be coming out. Hi, Can I ask which track did you choose when you apply to UNC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamoncu Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 Congrats! May I ask if you received an interview request from Cornell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTreePrince Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 Checked the Rutgers portal and saw a decision was made! "Admission will be offered after submission of the following document(s): Financial Documentation" Still no email decision or information on funding. planningapplicant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plannerboi Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 On 2/20/2022 at 5:55 PM, plannerboi said: Just discovered this site/thread this week, and wanted to post as I am an applicant with an unusually low GPA, as a result of personal struggles in undergrad Age/Gender/Citizenship 28/M/USA Undergraduate degree/School/Year graduated BS in Environmental Planning / mediocre mid-Atlantic state-school / 2016 GPA - GRE - TOEFL <2.6 GPA, no GRE Work Experience: 1 year college planning internship @ a local nonprofit 6 years government planning work, 3 in lead/project management roles Letter of recommendations: (from whom) 1 - undergrad advisor/prof in 3 classes 1 - boss, mentor throughout govt career 1 - senior colleague 1 - agency director Schools applied to: MIT, Harvard GSD, Cal Berkeley In: Cal (10K Funding), MIT Out: Harvard GSD Wait-list: Awaiting: Results: out at GSD, but 10k fellowship from Cal! just need to get financial info from MIT, and my journey here will end! good luck everyone, and congrats! HHSSHH and eastcoastplanner 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YYY666 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 4 minutes ago, plannerboi said: out at GSD, but 10k fellowship from Cal! just need to get financial info from MIT, and my journey here will end! good luck everyone, and congrats! Congrats!! I am an international student and have not received any news from MIT so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plannerboi Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 19 hours ago, cbirdsey said: Congrats - are you applying for M. Arch I? thanks! i applied to the Joint Program in City Design and Development (CDD), so i'll definitely be bopping around architecture classes if i go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mid City 1991 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 Age/Gender/Citizenship 28/F/USA Undergraduate degree/School/Year graduated BS in Political Science / southern state school / 2016 GPA - GRE - TOEFL 3.8 Work Experience: 1 year policy experience in DC 1 year disaster response 3.5 years at CDC nonprofit, now Director of Community Development Letter of recommendations: (from whom) 1 - undergrad advisor 1 - boss, mentor throughout career 1 - Mayor-President of our medium-sized city Schools applied to: MIT, Harvard GSD In: GSD and MIT Out: Wait-list: Awaiting: Results: blackroll15 and atlplanner 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mid City 1991 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 Just now, Mid City 1991 said: Age/Gender/Citizenship 28/F/USA Undergraduate degree/School/Year graduated BS in Political Science / southern state school / 2016 GPA - GRE - TOEFL 3.8 Work Experience: 1 year policy experience in DC 1 year disaster response 3.5 years at CDC nonprofit, now Director of Community Development Letter of recommendations: (from whom) 1 - undergrad advisor 1 - boss, mentor throughout career 1 - Mayor-President of our medium-sized city Schools applied to: MIT, Harvard GSD In: GSD and MIT Out: Wait-list: Awaiting: Results: Got the call from a MIT professor yesterday! Over the moon! eastcoastplanner, planningapplicant, atlplanner and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterlemon Booming Tiger Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, nobodyyyyhh said: Lmao?shortest rejection I ever seen, admission sometimes could be weird, take it as a motivation, remember, Harvard rejected Jack Ma ten times! THX bro! I was like a sad bird for a whole day. As an international applicant, here is some information for reference. Age: 23 GPA: 3.94 GRE: 335 Toefl: 111 Top 4 architecutre school in my country Some international competition awards. Some internships. Some individual reasearch and relating publications, and strategies adopted by local governments. 3 Letter of recommendations from my instructors, boss and the dean of the college. Edited March 2, 2022 by Waterlemon Booming Tiger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastcoastplanner Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 3 minutes ago, Waterlemon Booming Tiger said: THX bro! I was like a sad bird for a whole day. As an international applicant, here is some information for reference. Age: 23 GPA: 3.94 GRE: 335 Toefl: 111 Top 4 architecutre school in my country Some international competition awards. Some internships. Some individual reasearch and relating publications, and strategies adopted by local governments. 3 Letter of recommendations from my instructors, boss and the dean of the college. There are so many well-qualified applicants in this thread, the competition for GSD this year must have been insane! TomorrowsParties 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeitorleaveit97 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 Hi all! Congrats to everyone who has had good news so far. Are there any phd applicants on this thread? Has anyone heard back yet? I applied to: MIT, Cornell, Columbia, and Harvard. Would love to hear from folks in the same boat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinchinchilla Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 (edited) On 2/25/2022 at 9:14 AM, Chinchinchilla said: Age/Gender/Citizenship 27/M/Int'l Undergraduate degree/School/Year graduated Bachelor of Economics / a top public university/ 2017 MPP / a Midwest university / 2019 GPA - GRE - TOEFL (for Int'l students) 3.4 (bachelor and master), V167 Q167 AW4, TOEFL112 Work Experience: 3 yrs of work experience: 1 yr senior data analyst at a city government, 1 yr data engineer at a civic tech startup in urban science, 1 yr consultant in planning at an int'l bank Letter of recommendations: (from whom) One from my manager in the city government, two from master program(a professor who instructed my term paper and I was his TA, another professor I worked with in a geographical science project). Schools applied to (PhD programs) : UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UW, USC, ASU, Georgia Tech, UMich, Cornell, UNC Chapel Hill, Penn, Rutgers, MIT. In: USC, Georgia Tech Out: UCLA, UNC Chapel Hill, UMich, UC Irvine Wait-list: Penn Awaiting: UC Berkeley, UW, ASU, Cornell, Rutgers, MIT Results: USC, UCLA, UNC Chapel Hill, UMich, UC Irvine, Georgia Tech, Penn Received two emails to check portals at noon. In at Georgia Tech and wait-listed at Penn, both interviewed last week. I had a great conversation with a professor at GT and his dog. Penn's interview was not conversational and the professor just moved on to the next question after I finished speaking, which somehow made me pretty nervous... Edited March 2, 2022 by Chinchinchilla planningapplicant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericplans Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 On 2/14/2022 at 10:26 AM, ericplans said: I'm going a little nuts waiting. Only applied to schools in my area, because I can't relocate right now! Going for a PhD in planning. Anyone have any insights on when I might hear from University of Maryland (application was due Jan 19) or Virginia Tech (application was due Feb 1)? Age/Gender/Citizenship 39/M/USA Undergraduate degree/School/Year graduated BA in English Lit/International Development (undergrad, 2005); MPP and MUP from well-respected public school (2012) GPA - GRE - TOEFL (for Int'l students) 3.78 cumulative (graduate), no GRE Work Experience: 8 years in nationally respected non-profit research institution working on placed-based policy and planning issues, RPCV, Letter of recommendations: (from whom) Two from supervisors (one a former planning professor, both PhDs), one from director of my research division Schools applied to: University of Maryland (Urban and Regional Planning and Design), Virginia Tech (Planning and Global Governance, Urban and Environmental Design and Planning) In: VT Out: Wait-list: Awaiting: UMD Results: Officially in at VT! No funding info yet. Letter recommended that I reach out to my department "very soon." Not sure if I should expect a direct email or if I should initiate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbenthusiast22 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 On 2/14/2022 at 2:49 PM, Urbenthusiast22 said: Age/Gender/Citizenship 25/F/Int'l Undergraduate degree/School/Year graduated B.Eng. + B.A. from nation's top university; MUP from Ivy GPA - GRE - TOEFL (for Int'l students) 83 out of 100 for Bachelor's, V154/Q170/AW4.5, TOEFL114 Work Experience: 2+ yr full-time experience in planning, 2+ yr research experience in academic setting; internship experience in my home country centered around real estate development & consulting (private/public/non-profit) Letter of recommendations: (from whom) One from college thesis advisor, two from master's program (one from master's thesis advisor, both of them are PhD), one from previous supervisor Schools applied to: NYU Tandon (Civil and Urban Engineering program), USC Price, Cambridge (Land Economy), UNC Chapel Hill, Penn, Rutgers, MIT, Oxford (Public Policy in the School of Governments), Cornell, U Washington. Sorted by deadline. 10 in total. 3 of them are not traditional planning. In: NYU Tandon (full scholarship), Rutgers (no funding), UNC Chapel Hill (full scholarship) Out: USC (Interviewed), Cambridge Wait-list: Cornell (No interview, directly waitlisted) Awaiting: Penn (Interviewed), MIT, Oxford, U Washington Results: Glad to see more PhD applicants joining this thread!! Agreed that LOTS of results are coming in starting March. I will probably have to hold my breath for the whole month... 3a/2r/1w/4p Chinchinchilla 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oatmilklatte12 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 I just received funding from Michigan! Total OOS cost= 144k My merit award= 15k lololol urban_geographer_planner, HHSSHH, eastcoastplanner and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HHSSHH Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 geez, the waiting is killing me :< Am I the only one who keeps checking mit portal? eastcoastplanner, colime, planningapplicant and 4 others 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyboardranger Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Just got an email from UBC for a video interview! One step closer!! HHSSHH and planningapplicant 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planningapplicant Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Just now, keyboardranger said: Just got an email from UBC for a video interview! One step closer!! Ha! I just came on here to ask if anyone got one because I heard they just sent them out! CONGRATS ? If you want an idea of how it works, look up videos on UBC Sauder interviews. They use the same format at SCARP. keyboardranger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyboardranger Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 2 minutes ago, planningapplicant said: Ha! I just came on here to ask if anyone got one because I heard they just sent them out! CONGRATS ? If you want an idea of how it works, look up videos on UBC Sauder interviews. They use the same format at SCARP. Thanks thanks will look that up! Hope we'll hear from other Canadian uni soon enough, too! planningapplicant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmb15 Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 1 hour ago, HHSSHH said: geez, the waiting is killing me :< Am I the only one who keeps checking mit portal? Likewise - though it seems most people are hearing from a call eastcoastplanner 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastcoastplanner Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 1 hour ago, HHSSHH said: geez, the waiting is killing me :< Am I the only one who keeps checking mit portal? Right there with you. cmb15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban_geographer_planner Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Just got the admissions decision email from Rutgers! Looks like we'll have to wait a couple of weeks for financial support decisions though. raykiddo97, eastcoastplanner and TheTreePrince 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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