Materials Sci / Mechnical Eng Admission Results 2007

Graduate School
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<p>Seems the admission results of these two realms are not widely discussed here, so, any news?
Okay, i’ll start first:</p>

<p>Mechnical Engineering (Applied Mechanics)
Clemson - Admssion
Maryland - ?
Gatech - ?
U.Mich - ?
Carnegie Mellon - ?
Harvard - ?
Stanford - ?
U. Virginia -?
North Carolina State U.- ?
Washington State U. - ?</p>

<p>Materials Sci & Eng.
U. Rochester - Rejection
U.Penn - ?
Johns Hopkins - ?
Columbia U - ?
Gatech - ?
U. Virginia -?
U,Mich - ?
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst - Waitinglist
UCSB - ?
U.Washington - Rejection
U.Taxes, Austin - ?
Ohio State U. - ?
Purdue - ?
Delaware - ?
Virginia Tech - ?
Drexel - ?</p>

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<p>You applied to that many school?!?!?!</p>

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<p>Ask for my friends also~ :-p</p>

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<p>whoa how much did u spend for application fees?</p>

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<p>ME MS (thermal programs)</p>

<p>UT-austin: in+monie$
UM-annie: never going to get back to me because i annoyed them too much</p>

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<p>—Materials Science—
Berkeley - Accepted
Caltech - Accepted
Columbia - Accepted
Harvard - Accepted
Michigan - Accepted
MIT - ?
Northwestern - Wait-listed
Stanford - Accepted</p>

<p>—Mechanical Engineering—
Princeton - Accepted</p>

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<p>Congrats Addwit!</p>

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<p>Wow, Addwit, you are sooooo cool~<br>
btw, do you know any URL of online status check of Columbia, Harvard, Mich, Stanford?</p>

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<p>addwit, and all of you other people with ridiculously impressive across the board acceptances, I would like to ask you a question.</p>

<p>…How?</p>

<p>Specifically, what do you think did it for you? Did you have outstanding research /multiple published papers? did you get to know your PI’s and prof’s really well and get excellent recommendations from them? do you have some fantastic vision and a great personal statement? perfect GRE’s/4.0?</p>

<p>I’ve seen it discussed before but I want to hear some more specific stories.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance</p>

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<p>Of the schools you listed, only Michigan let me check my status online.</p>

<p><a href=“https://weblogin.umich.edu/[/url]”>https://weblogin.umich.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I wish I knew. I’m still in shock by my success…it’s ridiculous. </p>

<p>Strong parts of application:
-Straight A’s past freshman year, finished major early with 4.0
-Good research experience including two REU’s
-I must’ve gotten a very strong letter or two or three, though none were from anyone famous</p>

<p>Neutral parts of application:
-GRE was ‘good enough’. Certainly didn’t stand out.
-Statement of purpose seemed alright, but I’m sure it wasn’t much of a factor</p>

<p>Weak parts of application:
-No publications or conferences (though a paper based on work I did at my last REU should be coming out soon)
-Very few awards</p>

<p>So, overall, I think it was just that I do well in the classroom, have done good things in the lab, and had professors who thought highly of me.</p>

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<p>Grades and GRE are usually cutoffs, but don’t get you in.</p>

<p>Research experience and rec letters are the most important, especially if your recs come from people who are well known in your field.</p>

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<p>GRE may be cutoff, but I think Grades go into an informal formula, at least for engineering. Research experience and recs are the other two factors. If you have really good GPA and really good recs, then a lack of research won’t hurt you. Similarly, great recs and great research with some publications can counter a not so high GPA(not so high being say a 3.3-3.6).</p>

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<p>Dirt, I have heard that before, but it seems that (especially with cs) a lot of people with 3 years research experience, a couple of publications, aand some internships aren’t landing admission into most programs not only just the top ones.</p>

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<p>Did you just go to wolverineaccess–>prospective–>View Application Status?</p>

<p>I’ve checked it a hundred times before but I never see anything change…</p>

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<p>I really don’t think you will get intot he top schools without research regardless of your grades. No one I met on all of my visits lacked research experience.</p>

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<p>I have no idea how CS works and that isn’t the topic of this thread.</p>

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<p>Seems the results of these two realms are really very late…
BTW, do you know anything about the 4.15 Contract?</p>

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<p>You need some research sure, but a semester worth is enough, if your grades and recs are exemplary.</p>

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<p>Here’s my final tally - All Mech. E.</p>

<p>Berkeley - MS - Rejected
MIT - MS - Rejected
Stanford - MS - Rejected
UCLA - MS/PhD - Accepted
UCSB - MS/PhD - Accepted
Cornell - MS/PhD - Accepted
Georgia Tech - MS - Accepted
UT Austin - MS - Accepted
UI Urbana Champaign - MS - Accepted</p>

<p>Surprise rejection was Stanford, which I heard had a 30% or so admit rate for MS. Surprise accept was Cornell, which has admit rates similar to that of MIT, Berkeley. Still, the only regret I have was not getting into MIT - some of the research there looked right up what I wanted to do, but the advisors I talked to at the top choices I’m considering right now - Cornell and GA Tech - seem to have funding for anything reasonably related to the field- so I guess the only thing I’m going to miss is the MIT name and living in Boston. </p>

<p>Still haven’t decided yet though - So many factors to consider @_@</p>