last (pre-) grad school post

[nibot]

I found another graduate school ranker. It's based on a survey distributed to current grad students.

It says I should go to Rochester. Just ranking over "overall satisfaction," Rochester comes in second, after UC Santa Cruz and tied with Cornell. UNC is lumped in the third quartile. CMU did not respond.

I suspect this survey has a huge amount of self-selective bias in it, though. We should all sign up to take part in next year's incarnation. (There were 32 responses for Rochester and 28 for UNC — far more than for most departments, so the results should be statistically significant. Rochester has 135 physics PhD students, and UNC has 64.)

But I liked UNC so much!

Comments

[nibot.livejournal.com]

1 PM EDT !

[philonous815.livejournal.com]

1PM? where did you get that from?

Wow. I might have less time than I thought.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

The CMU letter specifies: "You may consider this offer until 1:00pm (Eastern Standard Time) on April 15, 2004." I think the agreement is just that programs can't have a deadline before April 15. On and after that date, anything's fair game.

[philonous815.livejournal.com]

So, have you decided?

I'm down to OSU and Minnesota now.