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2014 College and University Entrance Thread - Page 4
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Cam Connor
Canada786 Posts
People that say that are greasy buttnerds though so don't take it to heart | ||
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On March 06 2014 15:32 n.DieJokes wrote: I love this school, my grand parents met here :D But as like a kinda general question, whats with IOEasy? I come from math so I didn't pick up this prejudice and frankly I'm kinda surprised. Even undergraduate OR is some somewhat hard stuff, stochastic processes and linear/integer/convex optimization are like real math classes >.> lol, IOEasy. Yeah, people do call it that here sometimes. I think that the classes are kind of known for not having as high a workload as some of the other engineering disciplines. That said, we're apparently a pretty good school for it, and there are always tons of companies looking for IOE interns and the like. I would say there is a little bit of truth to it, but mostly its just different types of engineering poking fun at each other. I have a friend in the IOE program if you have any specific questions about the curriculum or something. He's got an internship with some financial company in NYC this summer, so I'd say he knows how to get the most out of the program. One last thing about Umich, don't be afraid to go to a big school. I came from a small private school and everyone assured me that I would hate going anywhere with more than 5000 students. They were wrong. Michigan is awesome because there are so many people (and a lot of funding floating around) that no matter what you're interested in, you can find a group of people doing it. Anyway, if you have any other questions I'd be happy to answer them. Hopefully you'll join us :D | ||
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Kenpachi
United States9908 Posts
So far I got into all of my rolling admission schools lol. Uconn accepted me with a generous scholarship and admitted me into their honors program which is really cool. Purdue just accepted me last night I feel the next bunch of schools will be harder on accepting me lol. VTech GA Tech Tufts UMich Case Western | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
I am wanting to go to MIT for one form of mechanical engineering or another, and do a Masters(and possibly PhD) there. I am not one of those people that simply dream about how cool it'd be, I am one of those people who feels they have a legitimate shot. Currently I am doing a Mechanical Engineering undergrad at a Top 10 engineering university in Canada (yeah yeah =/ ). Mechanical engineering has the highest second GPA entry requirement after first year, and out of all those people I am Top 1% when it comes to GPA. At the same time I am finishing a second degree simultaneously (Economics), and my economics performance has been so high I've been offered to have my entire degree paid for by the department if I take full-time study in economics instead of Mechanical Engineering. I am extremely passionate about engineering, it is so cool and I love every bit of it, even the content the enthusiastic profs consider dry. I have two years left to complete my degrees, and while my academic performance may be outstanding, I feel that I lack in other areas. I have had experience in management and supervising positions during employment (not engineering related), and I feel that that in the workplace I do very well... But I have not done any research, haven't been involved in many clubs (especially school clubs). I spend time with my girlfriend, go skiing on the weekend, and study. How should I budget my time in my last two years to allow me to have a chance to take a masters at MIT? Is it even possible with hard work? To be clear, to me, if I don't get into MIT, I will be happy with my career and going to work and working my way up the ladder. However a school like MIT to me is like the olympics... I want to go for the experience, I want to learn from the best, I want to prove to myself that I have the diligence and hardwork to be one of the best. I want to be the best engineer I can be... if there is one thing I wish to be good at, this is it. | ||
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Ideal26
United States185 Posts
First, I'll just tell you a few things I've learned about MIT from students there that I've met while going to grad school recruitment weekends. MIT is understandably an intense program; they have a history of accepting more grad students than they want, and then disposing of the weakest each year (you have to take regular exams to stay in the program). For masters it might not be such a bad process since you're only there 2 years, but for PhD most students would prefer going to Stanford, Yale, Cornell, etc. Big schools with excellent programs that don't make you quite as miserable. This is what I've heard from physics students; the mechanical engineering atmosphere might be different. Maybe someone else here will know more? Moral of the story, there are several top notch universities to consider for engineering, especially if you stay for a PhD, you want to be in an environment where you can do good work without being too unhappy. You have a couple years, explore your options. As far as things you should do to make your application standout: internships every summer, research, publish papers, get lots of programming experience, perfect grades, perfect GRE scores, excellent subject GRE scores if you have time to prepare for them. The year you apply, begin researching professors you want to work for; you go to a grad school for the professor, not for the school. Find 2-3 professors at MIT you would like to do your masters with, email them asking if they'll be accepting students the year you plan to apply, talk to them about their research. If a professor at MIT wants you in their group, you'll have a better chance at being accepted to the school. Best of luck! | ||
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Chocolate
United States2350 Posts
However a school like MIT to me is like the olympics... I want to go for the experience, I want to learn from the best, I want to prove to myself that I have the diligence and hardwork to be one of the best. I want to be the best engineer I can be... if there is one thing I wish to be good at, this is it. This sounds like a nice thing to put in your application when the time comes. I just got a full tuition scholarship to Vanderbilt, probably going to go there now | ||
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
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catplanetcatplanet
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n.DieJokes
United States3443 Posts
On March 07 2014 16:00 FiWiFaKi wrote: + Show Spoiler + Hey guys, I was wondering if I could get some advice since lots of smart people at TL, and I'm sure lots of you have done lots of research on universities, however my question is about a Masters program, which seems like is the minority of the people posting in this thread, but doesn't hurt to try. I am wanting to go to MIT for one form of mechanical engineering or another, and do a Masters(and possibly PhD) there. I am not one of those people that simply dream about how cool it'd be, I am one of those people who feels they have a legitimate shot. Currently I am doing a Mechanical Engineering undergrad at a Top 10 engineering university in Canada (yeah yeah =/ ). Mechanical engineering has the highest second GPA entry requirement after first year, and out of all those people I am Top 1% when it comes to GPA. At the same time I am finishing a second degree simultaneously (Economics), and my economics performance has been so high I've been offered to have my entire degree paid for by the department if I take full-time study in economics instead of Mechanical Engineering. I am extremely passionate about engineering, it is so cool and I love every bit of it, even the content the enthusiastic profs consider dry. I have two years left to complete my degrees, and while my academic performance may be outstanding, I feel that I lack in other areas. I have had experience in management and supervising positions during employment (not engineering related), and I feel that that in the workplace I do very well... But I have not done any research, haven't been involved in many clubs (especially school clubs). I spend time with my girlfriend, go skiing on the weekend, and study. How should I budget my time in my last two years to allow me to have a chance to take a masters at MIT? Is it even possible with hard work? To be clear, to me, if I don't get into MIT, I will be happy with my career and going to work and working my way up the ladder. However a school like MIT to me is like the olympics... I want to go for the experience, I want to learn from the best, I want to prove to myself that I have the diligence and hardwork to be one of the best. I want to be the best engineer I can be... if there is one thing I wish to be good at, this is it. Well, that's kinda the worst reason to go to MIT. At least for PhD, that might fly for masters. You should go because you're interested in a certain sub field and you want to work with a specific person or group in that sub field. Your personal statement, really one of the big pillars of your application, is going to be about the research you've done and the research you want to do at MIT. So first you have to do research, as much as you can. Really any research in the beginning, talk to some of your mechE prof's you had good relationships with an try and join their labs.You're a little too late for REU's this summer so find research at your home institution, then next summer apply for REU's. That's most important, after that start taking grad classes. As many as you can, skip over the pre-reqs whenever you can. Obviously do well in those, taking some higher math wouldn't hurt either. Your LoR's will come from the people you do research with so make sure you have a good relationship with them. And that's it, try and get as many publications and awards as you can get. GL Warning: Grad School may be hazardous to your relationships :/ Edit: Yay Chocolate! | ||
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Ideal26
United States185 Posts
On March 08 2014 07:47 Chocolate wrote: I just got a full tuition scholarship to Vanderbilt, probably going to go there now Congrats!! That's one of my graduate school options, I'm going to visit the campus in a couple of weeks. I've heard great things about the school, best of luck there! | ||
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Chocolate
United States2350 Posts
On March 10 2014 10:55 Ideal26 wrote: Congrats!! That's one of my graduate school options, I'm going to visit the campus in a couple of weeks. I've heard great things about the school, best of luck there! Thanks! Yeah, the campus is just wonderful, as is the city. Some people say the social scene can be a bit elitist (more for UG than grad school, obviously) but I don't think it will be so bad. Maybe I'll be doing research with the same prof as you, even.I am going to get involved in it ASAP. Thanks to everyone else too! Good luck to you all and just remember: it's just a game with lots of rules and plenty of tricks. | ||
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b3h47pte
United States1317 Posts
 I applied to CS PhD programs:Stanford - Accepted CMU (CS and HCI) - Accepted University of Washington - Accepted UC Berkeley - Denied MIT - Denied University of Illinois Urbana - Haven't heard back yet. I was the creator of the 2011 thread if you want to look at my undergrad results (2011 Results). Good luck all! | ||
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
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catplanetcatplanet
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On March 12 2014 06:36 b3h47pte wrote: Funny how time flies I applied to CS PhD programs:Stanford - Accepted CMU (CS and HCI) - Accepted University of Washington - Accepted UC Berkeley - Denied MIT - Denied University of Illinois Urbana - Haven't heard back yet. I was the creator of the 2011 thread if you want to look at my undergrad results (2011 Results). Good luck all! grats on stanford! second time's the charm :D | ||
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n.DieJokes
United States3443 Posts
On March 12 2014 06:36 b3h47pte wrote: Funny how time flies I applied to CS PhD programs:Stanford - Accepted CMU (CS and HCI) - Accepted University of Washington - Accepted UC Berkeley - Denied MIT - Denied University of Illinois Urbana - Haven't heard back yet. I was the creator of the 2011 thread if you want to look at my undergrad results (2011 Results). Good luck all! Congrats! Whats your focus? | ||
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b3h47pte
United States1317 Posts
Thanks all! My plan is to see how I can make video games that can aid in society/science (i.e doing science like EteRNA/FoldIt) though I hope to make games that are more inline with mainstream games and abstracting the science away from the majority of players. I think this kind of counts as HCI? Though failing that, my plan is to do graphics (probably something to do with real time rendering) or graphics architecture. | ||
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catplanetcatplanet
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Chocolate
United States2350 Posts
Today is Ivy doomsday... GL to all Harvard's email still hasn't gone out yet and their site is down, sigh... Princeton - Rejection Harvard - Waiting List. I actually expected this because from what I know about Harvard's admission process I was pretty much guaranteed to make it to the committee, and from there about a third get accepted/WL/rejected afaik Faaaaaaak Got in to Duke Still holding out for Stanford because I wrote at least one really good essay for them I wish I had got just fucking Semifinalist in that Intel STS thing, would have made everything so much better | ||
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catplanetcatplanet
3836 Posts
Accept: CORNELL!! Davidson Case Western Reject: Harvey Mudd Caltech (same day as swarthmore, kinda killed the mood  )Rice Waitlisted: Williams Carnegie Mellon (priority) Dartmouth Waiting: Stanford Got into my second choice :D was my dream school since middle school (before visiting Caltech). Incredibly surprised and excited! | ||
The_Templar
your Country52798 Posts
NC State* Waitlisted Cornell Carnegie Mellon* University of Chicago Columbia** Rejected Brown* Duke* MIT** CalTech Northwestern Harvard Princeton Pending Johns Hopkins* UNC* *Schools that I was very confident about getting into **Schools that I was very confident I'd get rejected Extremely surprised about Duke, Brown and Columbia in particular. | ||
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