mrhr0bin Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Thanks, it is a relief to get in, but now I have to choose one. I'm interested in earthquake engineering and want to supplement with some construction management classes. Out of curiosity, you mentioned MIT and Berkeley, why would you put MIT over Stanford for structural given the rankings? I am actually leaning towards Stanford because of their strong program and great location. Anyone have thoughts on why others are better? Big congratulations to you for getting into all these top schools. If earthquake engineering is your interest, I would suggest Stanford, Berkeley or UIUC. MIT has virtually nothing going on in earthquake engineering, where Stanford has Dr. Deierlein who is a hot-shot in this field. Berkeley and UIUC also have some hot-shots in their rank too. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orticio Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Hey guys, do you think Lehigh has a good grad program of Structural Eng.?? I´ve heard so, but I wanna make sure cause I didn´t heard anything about it during my senior year at Cornell... Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smbcpc12 Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Thanks, it is a relief to get in, but now I have to choose one. I'm interested in earthquake engineering and want to supplement with some construction management classes. Out of curiosity, you mentioned MIT and Berkeley, why would you put MIT over Stanford for structural given the rankings? I am actually leaning towards Stanford because of their strong program and great location. Anyone have thoughts on why others are better? Congrats on your acceptances! I'm leaning towards Stanford too (got into MIT but waiting for Berkeley)! Have any of the schools offered fellowships to you? I think that would probably be the deciding factor for me =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
structeng Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Congrats on your acceptances! I'm leaning towards Stanford too (got into MIT but waiting for Berkeley)! Have any of the schools offered fellowships to you? I think that would probably be the deciding factor for me =) Thanks! Congrats to you, too! No funding offers so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrock4real Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Hey guys, do you think Lehigh has a good grad program of Structural Eng.?? I´ve heard so, but I wanna make sure cause I didn´t heard anything about it during my senior year at Cornell... Thanks!! Congrats on your acceptance. Lehigh is definitely way up there for structural engineering, with top research facilities - were you at the open house? A couple of the professors I dream[ed] of working with (Fahnestock and Garlock) are both Lehigh grads. Plus, it seems they have really strong industrial ties, if you're looking to go professional. It's a relatively small program, though. orticio 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guishediaz Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 Guys just received an email fro Francisco Armero under the subject "Berkeley Application Update". Got accepted at 1:30 Eastern time!!!! They invited me to their Open House on April 6th. Anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrhr0bin Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Guys just received an email fro Francisco Armero under the subject "Berkeley Application Update". Got accepted at 1:30 Eastern time!!!! They invited me to their Open House on April 6th. Anyone else? Congrats. You've made it to your first choice program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrock4real Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Guys just received an email fro Francisco Armero under the subject "Berkeley Application Update". Got accepted at 1:30 Eastern time!!!! They invited me to their Open House on April 6th. Anyone else? Congratulations! Just got good news from JHU, as well. In with half-tuition fellowship. Amazed and humbled! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
structeng Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Guys just received an email fro Francisco Armero under the subject "Berkeley Application Update". Got accepted at 1:30 Eastern time!!!! They invited me to their Open House on April 6th. Anyone else? Congratulations!! Will you be heading to California? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p00f Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Quick question, does anyone know about phd program differences between Cambridge and US grad programs (aside from the year difference), for structures. I am still waiting to hear back from Austin but I was wondering if anyone had any advice. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS. Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Did anybody get any reply from MIT for Structural (SM)? I have seen that 16th is their open house for new admit. Confused Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szy Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Out of curiosity, you mentioned MIT and Berkeley, why would you put MIT over Stanford for structural given the rankings? I am actually leaning towards Stanford because of their strong program and great location. Anyone have thoughts on why others are better? I didn't know that, but then I'm an undergrad. All the rankings that I saw regarding CEE put MIT on no. 1 for PhD programs. I guess it's also because I would like to go into computational structural mechanics or Finite element analysis ( which of course is a bit on the mechanical side ) rather than geotetch, as you and a lot of others are. I just didn't really know that there were any 'structural' specific rankings out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szy Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 (edited) Congrats on your acceptances! I'm leaning towards Stanford too (got into MIT but waiting for Berkeley)! Have any of the schools offered fellowships to you? I think that would probably be the deciding factor for me =) Mate I hope you don't mind me askin, could you give us a look at your stats. And congrats for nailing the schools. It's really inspiring. cheers. Edited March 11, 2012 by szy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guishediaz Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 Congratulations!! Will you be heading to California? Well this is definitely my top choice and I would love to attend. Since I am a Fulbright I have to wait for my academic placer to confirm the funds and that's it I guess. Are u planning to go to the Open House? Is there anyone else planning to attend it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AldonSmith Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Which school do you guys feel has a better reputation and career prospects? PhD from U.Mich or from Columbia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crix Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Congrats to all of you who got accepted!! I'm still waiting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
structeng Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Well this is definitely my top choice and I would love to attend. Since I am a Fulbright I have to wait for my academic placer to confirm the funds and that's it I guess. Are u planning to go to the Open House? Is there anyone else planning to attend it? That's great! I'm not sure if I'll be at the open house in April. I am actually in CA now visiting Stanford at the end of the week. Today I'm planning on checking out Berkeley, too. I'll let you know what I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guishediaz Posted March 13, 2012 Author Share Posted March 13, 2012 Did anyone get a funding offer from UCB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guishediaz Posted March 13, 2012 Author Share Posted March 13, 2012 Guys, the new USNEWS Civil-grad rankings are out! These are the top ten: #:1 UCB & UIUC #:3 Gatech & Stanford #:5 Austin #:6 MIT & Purdue #:8 Cornell , U Michigan - Ann Harbor & VT #:11 Carnegie Mellon & Texas A&M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szy Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 nice. we're back at no. 1 congrats to guishediaz. scoring UCB is pretty damn big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooyankabir Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 I am an undergraduate student , i got admission on JHU(Ms) and Lehigh(PhD) University in structural Engineering,i had written a book during my undergrad,my GPA is 3.7 and i am still waiting to hear from austin university and minnesota,TOEFL score is 96! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guishediaz Posted March 14, 2012 Author Share Posted March 14, 2012 nice. we're back at no. 1 congrats to guishediaz. scoring UCB is pretty damn big. Thanks man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guishediaz Posted March 14, 2012 Author Share Posted March 14, 2012 UIUC My top 3 universities have accepted me so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmhall Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 This morning I was admitted into Stanford's DCI Master's program. Very excited. Hope I get some type of funding because 43k tuition per year... ouch! SF resident so I will be attending the open house on Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szy Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 wait? there's something called a double masters ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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