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Spring 2008 students : Did you decide on universities?

At this point low GRE score or low TOEFL score doesn’t matter. Admission is given to you and now its time to decide on universities. I’m getting lots of emails about selecting graduate schools from list of universities they got admission from. So, I decided to give a recap from my previous posts on how to shortlist universities. You can consider this post to be continuation of previous post on shortlisting schools and deciding on which graduate college to attend.

By now most of the students should have admission status for Spring 2008 semester. Some who got only one graduate school admission will not have much problem in deciding on which schools to attend. Students with more than one admission from graduate school will have big decision to make, that you will have to live with rest of your life. To help make you that decision, I’ will give some pointers with examples. This would avoid getting transfer to different university after 1 semester.

I had to make the same decision few years back when I applied for 5 universities and got admit from all 5 universities.

Example:

I have admit from SDSU, TAMUK and Fairleigh Dickinson University for Masters in Computer Science. Now, I’m confused on which one to select. I’m sure you must be confused.

Answer from Student perspective who doesn’t have much information will thin about the following questions

1) Which university has more scholarship chances?

2) Which university will have more part time jobs available?

3) Which universities of above 3 will help me to get job after M.S.

4) Then comes how much would it cost to study?

5) SDSU look better then other 2 universities, but its expensive. Shall take risk and go to expensive school or since cannot afford more than 2 semesters fee from parents, I should choose TAMUK?

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9 Responses to “Spring 2008 students : Did you decide on universities?”

  1. digvijay on October 23rd, 2007 9:56 pm

    hiii
    these were quite interesting points u gave ovaa here..
    but even i have some doubts in ma mind..
    a very serious doubt for choosing amoung 2 univs..
    >>polytechnic university,brooklyn
    >>NJIT

    which 1 shud i go with..
    can u help me???

  2. mohit on October 24th, 2007 1:45 am

    hi! I am a bit confused…
    I have received 3 admits so far…
    1. IIT Chicago, PSM Biology.
    2. UMass Lowell MS in Biology.
    3. North TExas Health Science Center, PhD Cell Biology.

    What do you I should do? I am waiting for replyz from 5 more uniersiiteis…
    please contact me on mikymohit@gmail.com
    or
    mohithulsurkar@gmail.com

    Thanks a lot for help.

  3. Happy Schools on October 24th, 2007 7:38 pm

    @digvijay
    Go to NJIT, it much better school and better place than Brooklyn.

    @ mohit
    Not sure why you have to be confused. I have updated the post on what question to ask. Its just an email away.

  4. Dinny Kurt on October 29th, 2007 8:35 am

    Hai i got admits from Syracuse, NY and IIT, chicago. I have some confusion in selecting the universities . Plz help me to choose the universities

  5. Dinny Kurt on October 29th, 2007 8:36 am

    plz mail me to thus id dinesh2985@gmail.com

  6. mufz on November 30th, 2007 10:13 am

    pls help me select university
    ms in EE specialization VLSI
    sjsu or ut arlington
    pls reply fast

  7. Raghuram on December 1st, 2007 6:37 pm

    @mufz
    Dont even think about SJSU go to UTA. thats far better than SJSU.

  8. Wajid on December 14th, 2007 7:47 am

    Suggest some univ’s for FALL 2008 according to my profile
    SSC:67.1%
    HSC:82%
    B.TECH:72.2%
    GRE:980
    AWA:2.5
    TOEFLIBT:57
    EXPERIENCE:1 YEAR

  9. myrtle on July 1st, 2008 11:34 pm

    Suggest some univ’s for Spring 2009 (MS in Engineering)according to my profile
    SSC:77.1%
    HSC:87%
    B.E:82.2%
    GRE:920
    AWA:3.5

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