Choice of University today, changes your life tomorrow
By HSB
If you are in the process of deciding the which Graduate School to attend, this article will give you an insight on how the University you decide today will impact your career, life, and everything else in your life.
I’m trying to highlight the importance of selecting the right University to attend. By now most of the students should have got admission and will be in the process of deciding which University to attend. Don’t make the common mistake typically all the students makes. Mistakes like
1) You might have admission in 5 Universities, without doing much research about 2 Universities, don’t eliminate 2 universities from your choice.
2) You never know one of those 2 university might have very good funding opportunities or might lead to better job finding opportunities.
3) Always try to find what is the policy of the University for allowing students to apply for Internship. for example, UT Arlington, you can work as intern for 2 semesters in CPT. There is no conditions like, you will have to be enrolled in thesis track or your internship work must be part of your thesis. Some universities like NCSU – will allow internship only if your thesis work is similar to your internship. Kansas State will not allow student to do internship during Fall and Spring semester, students can work as intern only during Summer. There are some universities that doesn’t allow internship to students in CPT at all.
4) So, make sure you look into all possible combinations of of your choice of university will fit to your needs.
I have put together list of 12 questions ( Happy Points Method ) every student should ask about each University, before
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Hi I have a question. Normally it is said that a CPT cannot last longer than 12 months, otherwise I wuold be losing my OPT that I would get from my masters. But what If i needed a 15 month CPT rather than 12 month?
For example if my cpt expires in july 2009, but my H1B starts in october 2009, can I simply take 3 extra months of CPT? I won’t care that I won’t get an OPT after my masters.
Does anyone have any answers to that?
Hi….i was very relieved to see ur 12 step decision making tool….it worked very well…atleast for me….
But i still had a doubt for choosing my univ….
I’ve to choose between UTA, SMU(Southern Methodist Univ-dallas) and Polytechnic University- NY
UTA is good for VLSI, embedded and to an extent for TeleCom too….this is according to a student presently studying at UTA
SMU is good n reputed for its TeleComm….
POLYTECHNIC is good for wireless……
now i have deleted poly for quite many reasons….
N m confused between SMU and UTA… I m more interested in Telecomm and VLSI follows it. Now based on ur 12 step strategy, UTA wins….but i still somehow feel like giving a second thot to SMU,maybe coz it has tie-ups with nokia, ericsson, etc …
Life at UTA is very hard….
what do i do???? there are many more points, but it wud be nice if i cud chat with u once…..
I agree a lot about CPT. I currently got a CPT from a college in the midwest. It was a hassle finding a college that allows you to do that. On the negative side however, it is expensive