Atmospheric Science / Physical Oceanography

[hope4fall2012]

Is anyone else applying to programs in Atmospheric Science or Physical Oceanography? I wanted to discuss the reputation of certain schools as well as chances of getting through others.

[InquilineKea]

Yeah I am.

Dec. 31st: harvard EPS, princeton AOS

Jan 1: Caltech Planetary, Caltech Environmental, Caltech Biology/CNS (huge reach here)

Jan 3: Columbia Astro (may switch to EES depending on PGRE score)

Jan 5: MIT EAPS, UCSC (astro or earth science – still pending)

Jan 8: Arizona Planetary

Jan 9: Chicago Geophysical Sciences

Jan 15: Boston U, Colorado, UCLA ESS, Washington Atmos

Jan 20: Penn State Astro

Feb 1: Cornell Atmos

Edited November 21, 2011 by InquilineKea

[mike_ens]

Me too. Mostly (Physical) Oceanography programs. I'm at UW and am familiar with the different professors at both atmos as well as ocean. Just have to say that they are both great programs, and there are a lot of great scientists here. If you want to know more, don't doubt to PM me.

Good luck with application process!

I'm applying to NYU, UW, UCSD. Hopefully I'll get admitted into one of these Unis!

[hope4fall2012]

Wow..both of you are from University of Washington.. And an awesome list of schools..

I need a safety-net set of schools though.. So I'm looking at schools like Penn State, Georgia Tech and Stony Brook. How reputed are these schools? It might be very difficult to get into academia after graduating from these schools, but what about good research labs?

[waddle]

I need a safety-net set of schools though.. So I'm looking at schools like Penn State, Georgia Tech and Stony Brook. How reputed are these schools? It might be very difficult to get into academia after graduating from these schools, but what about good research labs?

What makes you think these are less-reputed schools? I don't know specifically about Atmos/PO programs, but at least in the Earth sciences, Penn State and Stony Brook are very well-known and highly-regarded. I've seen quite a few professors who've come from the Ph.D. programs at those places, and besides, it's hard to get into academia anyways. (This also depends on where you want to go (R1 vs. a liberal arts college vs. teaching-oriented school, etc.) after graduating, but that's a different discussion.)

[InquilineKea]

Me too. Mostly (Physical) Oceanography programs. I'm at UW and am familiar with the different professors at both atmos as well as ocean. Just have to say that they are both great programs, and there are a lot of great scientists here. If you want to know more, don't doubt to PM me.

Good luck with application process!

I'm applying to NYU, UW, UCSD. Hopefully I'll get admitted into one of these Unis!

Woah - small world, eh? Which profs are you closest with?

What makes you think these are less-reputed schools? I don't know specifically about Atmos/PO programs, but at least in the Earth sciences, Penn State and Stony Brook are very well-known and highly-regarded. I've seen quite a few professors who've come from the Ph.D. programs at those places, and besides, it's hard to get into academia anyways. (This also depends on where you want to go (R1 vs. a liberal arts college vs. teaching-oriented school, etc.) after graduating, but that's a different discussion.)

Isn't it much easier to get in academia for Earth Science than it is almost everywhere else?

[waddle]

Isn't it much easier to get in academia for Earth Science than it is almost everywhere else?

If "almost everywhere else" is biomedical sciences / cellular/molecular biology, then yeah.

[InquilineKea]

Well, Physics/Math too. Chemistry is also notoriously brutal (and competitive). And in the Humanities, it's shit impossible.

Edited November 25, 2011 by InquilineKea

[Gentlelife]

You need "talent" to get in academia in ALL fields. But in general, physics, math, philosophy and literature are the typical fields ordinary people flinch from going further.