Mihai's Ph.D. Applications
I applied to various schools to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science. My target schools ranged from MIT (website: http://web.mit.edu) to University of California at San Diego (website: http://www.ucsd.edu). It is interesting to see how diverse the admission schedules are: University of Wisconsin at Madison (website: http://www.wisc.edu) demands applications to be mailed in no later than December 15th, while Rice University (website: http://www.rice.edu) accepts applications till February 1st.
But enough about deadlines and paperwork. I was accepted by several schools, and I was invited to visit some of them. The whole visit process is another story: visits are almost recruitment visits. Each schools tries to present its best and brightest, just to get you, an aspiring Ph.D. student, to sign up 5 years of your life with them.
Here are the results:
| School offering Ph.D program in Computer Science | Accepted | Visited | ||||
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| Cornell | no | no | ||||
| Carnegie Mellon | no | no | ||||
| University of California, Berkeley | no | no | ||||
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | yes | yes | ||||
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | yes | no | ||||
| University of Texas, Austin | yes | yes | ||||
| Princeton | no | no | ||||
| GeorgiaTech | yes | yes | ||||
| Rice | no | no | ||||
| University of California, San Diego | yes | no | ||||
| Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | yes | no | ||||
| University of Washington | no | no | ||||
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | no | no | ||||
| University of Arizona, Tucson | yes | yes | ||||
Quite a mixture. My choice: not yet made (as of April 5th, 1999).
Well, since my latest update (see above), I have made my choice, moved from California, and now my e-mail address ends in @cs.wisc.edu. Guess where I went!?