death by applications

[nibot]

Graduate school applications... sucking.. my ... life a...wa..a.y.

okay, three for sure: (by which i mean, for sure that i'll apply)

1. Univ California Berkeley
2. Columbia University
3. Univ Maryland College Park
4. Princeton — for emidala

and these are in the running:

• Carnegie Mellon Univ. (CMU)
• Brown University
• Univ Colorado Boulder
• Yale (I don't remember how this one got on the list. I must have been delirious)
• Univ Hawaii (mostly as some kind of joke, yes

Physics in all cases, except Berkeley which is "Applied Science and Technology" and Columbia which is Physics and Applied Physics.

uuurgh

somebody.. say.. something interseting

Comments

[emidala.livejournal.com]

aummm...

PRINCETON. :)

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

something interesting. :/

[roxymartini.livejournal.com]

nono, something interseting
ha.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

yes! something interseting!

now where is it? (-:

how are those topologies? (-:

[nibot.livejournal.com]

somehow I'm underwhelmed.

[squarkz.livejournal.com]

CU-Boulder has such a shiny physics department! i went there for a tech magazine writing conference, and i was a physics major at the time, so i got someone to give me a tour. very impressive. and shiny.

Applications suck

[forvrkate.livejournal.com]

Done, except for mailing GRE scores & Letters of Rec:

+ CMU
+ U Georgia, Athens
+ U North Carolina, Chapel Hill
+ U South Carolina
+ Clemson U

May or may not add:

+ U Maryland, College Park
+ Duke

Re: Applications suck

[nibot.livejournal.com]

How'd you decide on those schools?

I hate ETS ever more — $15/school to send scores is just one more annoyance... I feel like I need a student loan to cover my application costs. :-S

Apply to UMD, College Park! (-:

I like how most schools have online applications now, and some even have the online letter of recommendation gizmo. But they seem to have forgotten one of the main benefits of applying online... it seems that most schools use ApplyYourself or Embark as their application service, but you still have to enter all your information N times... if only they'd share data.

I kind of think it would be nice if disciplines other than med schools would do the system where there's a common application, where applicants rank schools and schools rank applicants, and then there's a stable matching process. But then there's the question of, for whom would it be optimal, and for whom pessimal??

[emidala.livejournal.com]

princeton is the only school you need. :) you should fly out and visit it: my physics friends (and they are the smartest and most amazing people I've ever met, you'll love them) will sneak you into the department and the institute for advanced studies, and you'll be friends with steinhart & co in no time. see, getting into princeton is easy! :)