Admission to PhD EECS/EE at Berkeley/Stan/MIT for Fall 2011

paxboyo
Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:06:50 +0000

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I wish your stats were correct but seems that 2 of the USCs and the Penn State are at GT-Savannah which as far as I know is by far not the same as the main campus in terms of students, resources, core facilities, and what have you.

Among the rest you have some who have jumped to tech from faculty jobs in lower ranked schools after doing ground breaking research there and some (rice) who were lucky to be part of big discoveries/research while in grad school/postdoc. These are actually very good examples of people with outstanding research portfolios (much better than their peers in elitist schools) who could not land positions in prestigious schools as faculty and have ended up in Tech. If they had similar research portfolios with degrees from prestigious schools they were working for the elitists now.

And you’re right Tech’s new reputation along with atlanta’s bible belt location makes it far less coveted for faculty jobs than CA/Bos-Wash based schools.

Anyway thanks for your comments everyone. From your comments seems that the recom letters are the only weak spot of my profile. Nevertheless, I don’t see any reason not to give this a try as I have seen many MS holders with lower research achievements get into stanford. So will still appreciate inputs/comments on chances.

one question btw: does anyone know for a fact if admission committees at stan/cal/mit ask/contact applicant’s non-recommender advisors/co-advisors for evaluation? Has it happened to anyone you know?

Thanks