Applying to grad school

[nibot]

[Where] should I go to grad school? Somebody must have some suggestions. I have only about a 3.5 GPA (weirdly decreased by studying abroad). I've pretty much taken the big-name schools off of my list, the schools like MIT and Princeton and, sadly, Berkeley. I don't think I want to go to UCLA. I've been thinking a bit about going back to Sweden for grad school, but I'm hesitant, as it's just so far away. I like Lund, I think I'd like Uppsala too, and Chalmers has an excellent engineering program. I'm mulling over the Weizmann Institute, but I don't like Rehovot all that much, and there are just too few students there. and the emphasis is too much on life sciences. Going up a notch, I think I'd like CMU, or maybe UIUC, and there are excellent universities in Canada, like at Waterloo and McMaster. I suppose I need to talk to someone who could give me a clue where I have a chance to get in, and then I can figure out at which of those I'd be happiest. I am interested in a PhD program in something somewhere in the intersection of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics. Hmmm.

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[odd-dog.livejournal.com]

I've heard many good things about CMU, in terms of both academics and social life.