bkiag1

Undergrad Institution: Michigan
Major: EE
Overall GPA: 3.98
Type: Domestic Male

GRE: 166V/167Q/4AW

Research Experience:
-1st author IEEE paper submitted
-1 summer REU
-1 year UROP

Other:
Instructional Aide
Reviewed textbook for a prof

Applying Ph.D in EE to:

Stanford
MIT
Berkeley
Caltech
Harvard
Princeton
UCLA
Michigan (unofficial admit)
NSF fellowship
NDSEG fellowship

9000YearOldVegan

ahh don't say that. Maybe I am a troll, but those are really my stats.

ducphan89

it looks like Berkeley/UCSF has sent out all invitations and rejections. gluck to all who got invitation. sorry for those who didn't get one, but we're having other schools coming up soon

han79118

yea berkeley/ucsf bioe is done. 714 applicants this year, really competitive.

sarbruis

According to the Berkeley website, "For Fall 2011 we had approximately 500 applicants for about 68 admission slots" -- meaning ~200 more than last year. Jesus.

ducphan89

my god..this is crazy. hope this won't happen at other schools. otherwise, it would be waaayyy too competitive to get in anywhere.

han79118

maybe because of the nrc ranking came out last year..berkeley ranks super high.

ducphan89

@sarbruis: so did you get invitation from Berkeley?

sarbruis

ducphan89: I wish. I did get a phone acceptance from BU BME today, though, so that makes me feel a little better.

Oh, and about UW BioE: I believe they were planning to meet this week, but with all the snow and stuff, who knows. We'll probably know before the end of the month, though.

ducphan89

congrats for BU phone call, and sorry about Berkeley . did BU call you in the middle of the day (and out of nowhere)? I just wanna know to make sure my phone would be in range next week, if I received phone call. phone signal when I'm on campus is usually weak and idk why.

oh, I didn't apply to UW..I applied to WashU in St. Louis. from results of gradcafe last year, WUSTL called applicants Jan 23 sth. from the email I received from them before christmas, they will have meeting on Jan 23 or 24 sth. hoping to hear back from them next week..

sarbruis

The call was like an hour ago. It seems like they're doing rolling interviews, so they're probably not finished. The UW bit was directed at someone who brought it up two pages ago (sysbio).

ducphan89

my god..just check grad cafe and somebody posted a bit about WUSTL saying he/she received email that "a decision will be available tomorrow on the website"..I haven't received such email, but I'm about to crap out now..

sysbio

@ducphan89

I think Wash U's trying to make a philosophical decision about admittance. It's like Schroedinger's cat. They're both accepted and not accepted until they log in to the website and collapse the waveform.

ducphan89

or it could be that the decision has been made long before they log in, so there's no such observer-induced collapse. otherwise, it would be too unfair that one get accepted or rejected based on a random event.

sysbio

ducphan89 said, "it would be too unfair that one get accepted or rejected based on a random event."

I must be more cynical that you about this whole admissions process. I think a lot of decisions hinge on 'random' factors. lol. Which five random people read your application and decided it was better than some subsample out of the other 700 in the pile. Although, I suppose that's 'arbitrary' and not 'random'.

Until the concept popped into my head earlier, I never thought of the admissions process as a quantum phenomenon. That's kind of funny. My application was entangled with me from the moment I sent it off, and whatever happens to my application happens to me instantaneously no matter how far apart we are. lol