avicus Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Anyone else got a similar experience? The program is quite decent, engineering PhD, not famous but in the top 20% (according to NRC 2010 rankings). Frankly did not expect to even get admitted at all. Or it could be because that I'm pursuing an outlandish field (remote sensing)? R Deckard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pauli Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Do you mean applying to just one school? No, that's rare. I also applied to only one school, but that's because I had a back-up plan of going to industry if I wasn't accepted (I eventually did). R Deckard and O1O11OOO1O1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktel Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 I only applied to 2 schools for my Master's, both Canadian. Luckily I didn't know about this forum back then or I probably would have had a nervous breakdown thinking I should have applied to 20 or something avicus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avicus Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 Haha yeah! The peeps here are really gung-ho LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avicus Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 Do you mean applying to just one school? No, that's rare. I also applied to only one school, but that's because I had a back-up plan of going to industry if I wasn't accepted (I eventually did). Yeah I only ended up applying to 1 school. Initially planned to apply to ~10 schools, but the application fees proved to be too expensive for me to justify, seeing that I did not think I had good chances at those schools. So I only ended up applying to my backup, which turned out to be more selective and more prestigious (for my field) than I was given the impression of (by superficially skimming USNWR rankings). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pauli Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 but the application fees proved to be too expensive for me to justify Aaaaaaand that! Average application fee: $50 Typical # of schools applied to: 10 Total application fees: $500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POG0628 Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Average application fee: $50 Typical # of schools applied to: 10 Total application fees: $500 It gets better though, you have to think about all the application costs. For example: I applied to 12 schools. For me the average application fee was probably closer to $60-70. $23 per GRE score report. The community college I took some of my courses at during high school was $10 per transcript. One school required the materials be submitted through Interfolio, another $25. I had to submit inserts with two sets of my transcripts, so for those my current university charged another $10 per ($20). I've often joked that graduate applicants must be good for the economy. avicus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hope4fall2012 Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 I wish I could have just applied to one school and taken a chance. Would have saved a lot of time and money. Unfortunately, I applied to 7 schools, and the money I needed to pay for everything (GRE, TOEFL, reporting scores, application fees, courier charges) was crazy. Had to save for almost a year on my measly grad school stipend. Looking back at it, I would be saying the same thing as the lovely girl in orange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atiti Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Applying from outside the US can be much more expensive. APART FROM GRE "COSTS" and application fees you might have to 1. do TOEFL- another expense 2. Evaluate Transcripts 3. Sometimes. translate transcripts sometimes, the credit cards in my country cant pay application fees so you have to post a foreign cheque and that of course pay bank charges!phew yeah, I applied to only one US school- Notre Dame and got in! I do not live in the US and didnt know whether ND was prestigious or not, its not known in my country! I just applied cos it had the course i wanted and i wasnt required to evaluate my foreign transcripts (which is an additional expense!) and i wasnt required to write TOEFL.. (It really all goes down to the expense..lol). Oh, i couldn't pay the application fees from my country (come from a developing country where we DO NOT use credit cards-believe me! and we cant send money abroad through western union in my country, we can only receive) and when i heard the cost of drawing a cheque and posting it i begged my uncle in australia to pay for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coonskee Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 I did the one school thing. It was because the school to which I applied was my top choice school (for a variety of reasons) and I am really unhappy in my current MSc program -- so, I applied as a transfer, thinking that if I didn't get in, I'd reapply next year and cast my net wider. The gamble paid off, which makes me happy Pauli 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Behavioral Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Aaaaaaand that! Average application fee: $50 Typical # of schools applied to: 10 Total application fees: $500 $50 would be on the extreme low end for my field. The average application fee was $75-$125/school (not counting GMAT/GRE, Transcripts, etc.). avicus and vermoose 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillary Emick Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 I only applied to two programs, which seemed pretty reasonable at that time, but after I got rejected at one of them it produced some pretty hellish anxiety. I was accepted at my top choice with generous funding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cajunmama Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 I only applied to one school and got in with funding. It was either the one school or industry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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