smallest class ever!

[nibot]

For those who haven't heard, yes I accepted the offer from University of Rochester.

I've been in touch with all the other students who came to the recruiting weekend in February. Only two of them (excluding me) accepted the offer! We were worried that we'd be all alone, but it turns out that three other non-visiting domestic students and six foreign students accepted, for a total of twelve.

Here is the data pertaining to the incoming class:
Data Pertaining to the Incoming Class

Notice the huge class that we follow. Hopefully that won't be problematic.

I wish all depts would make these kind of charts and graphs available. (-: I'm not sure that they really intended to make this one public, though.

incoming students with web pages:
Jaewon Park
Teresa Negrini — "Jetzt auch mit Auto!"

I have been very unproductive lately. At work they are bugging me to finish this tomography software, but to do so I need a lot of microscope time. Pretty much the only option for that is to work the midnight to 08:00 shift, which I just might do. But only if they'll really love me for it.

In leui of actual work, I updated the project web pages jpegrescue and hoshenkopelman, the latter due to a back up of emails requesting various things.

Comments

[ragnus.livejournal.com]

Looks like you'll be the shining star over there :D

[janviere.livejournal.com]

Yay, I hope you're happy there.

I'm amazed at the ratio of foreign applications to domestic. I wonder what that's like at other universities and departments.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

As I heard someone at one of these departments say: "The number of foreign applicants is, for all practical purposes, infinite."

Still, somehow I think they must get tipped off about some depts and not others. IIRC, UNC had only 80 applicants total. Or maybe I misunderstood the statistic.

[janviere.livejournal.com]

Wow, big difference. Reminds me of something Malik said about admissions in CS: "The top student from China is probably pretty competitive." Me: "What about the top student from Moldova?" Him: "Well, it would depend if we'd had good students from there before." Sheesh!

Ms "jetzt auch mit Auto" looks pretty cute. Or maybe German is just sexy. http://www-clued0.fnal.gov/~tnegrini/diplom/unlust.gif

[emidala.livejournal.com]

wow, big difference between your class and the others. oh well.
one of my physics people here happens to be from washington: I'll ask him about that u-dub person. :)

[nibot.livejournal.com]

excellent.

[vyncentvega.livejournal.com]

Huh. I wonder who she knew?

[squarkz.livejournal.com]

three other non-visiting domestic students

that's kinda risky...

anyway, congratulations on being accepted! looks like you had quite a bit of competition.

someone at UW was telling me the earth sciences department only admitted 12% of their applicants, but i'm not sure if that includes foreign students. now i was to know the statistics for the rest of them! (i'm especially wondering about caltech's numbers, since they only admitted six people and only two of us visited.)