Applying To Colleges

[© Tweed the Younger]

My brother's at George Washington for International Policy and loves it.

My final list is, incidentally (and approximately in order of preference):

Maryland — College Park (PhD, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science)
McGill (PhD, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience)
NYU (PhD, Psychology, Cognition and Perception)
University of Rochester (PhD, Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
Boston University (PhD, Computational Neuroscience)
Harvard University (PhD, Program in Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology)

Update: accepted everywhere!  Current top choices are Maryland and Rochester, with NYU and BU having outside shots.

Congratulations! How can you possibly choose?

My final decision is likely going to have to be based on the philosophy of my top schools.  The language sciences are a field riven by differences in their perception of how the mind works, and I have to navigate picking between the side with the momentum on its side (Rochester) and the side that holds personal emotional appeal (Maryland).

go with the sh**t you believe in.  let your blood ring true.

[ModerateCoward]

Going to be applying for programs inside my school this summer.

[N.i.K.]

USC's Price is probably the best one you have been accepted at so far. Though I'd hold out for Michigan, because they have one of the best public policy schools in the nation. Congratulations!

My brother's at George Washington for International Policy and loves it.

My final list is, incidentally (and approximately in order of preference):

Maryland — College Park (PhD, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science)
McGill (PhD, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience)
NYU (PhD, Psychology, Cognition and Perception)
University of Rochester (PhD, Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
Boston University (PhD, Computational Neuroscience)
Harvard University (PhD, Program in Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology)

Update: accepted everywhere!  Current top choices are Maryland and Rochester, with NYU and BU having outside shots.

Congratulations! How can you possibly choose?

My final decision is likely going to have to be based on the philosophy of my top schools.  The language sciences are a field riven by differences in their perception of how the mind works, and I have to navigate picking between the side with the momentum on its side (Rochester) and the side that holds personal emotional appeal (Maryland).

That seems like a good plan. Why not HAHVAHD though? Most people jump at the opportunity to attend HAHVAHD.

[ilikeverin]

My brother's at George Washington for International Policy and loves it.

My final list is, incidentally (and approximately in order of preference):

Maryland — College Park (PhD, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science)
McGill (PhD, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience)
NYU (PhD, Psychology, Cognition and Perception)
University of Rochester (PhD, Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
Boston University (PhD, Computational Neuroscience)
Harvard University (PhD, Program in Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology)

Update: accepted everywhere!  Current top choices are Maryland and Rochester, with NYU and BU having outside shots.

Congratulations! How can you possibly choose?

My final decision is likely going to have to be based on the philosophy of my top schools.  The language sciences are a field riven by differences in their perception of how the mind works, and I have to navigate picking between the side with the momentum on its side (Rochester) and the side that holds personal emotional appeal (Maryland).

go with the sh**t you believe in.  let your blood ring true.

Right now, I'm inclined to agree with you.  Six hours ago, I would've disagreed.  Argh, this is frustrating.

That seems like a good plan. Why not HAHVAHD though? Most people jump at the opportunity to attend HAHVAHD.

Most people likely didn't turn down Brown to go to Michigan State  But, even my anti-elitism (and that earlier decision was much more about money than egalitarianism, though it turned out to be an excellent one for many reasons other than money) could've been turned aside if Harvard showed me it had a program that was doing what I wanted in a place.  No such luck, unfortunately; it's a good program, but a good program for things I'm not really interested in (e.g., general auditory processing on basically a cellular level).  Maryland, Rochester, and NYU, meanwhile, have excellent programs in things very close to what I do (though the advising situation at NYU would be... complicated.), and BU's program, though more distant from my interests, is great.

[Tidewater_Wave]

My girlfriend applied to WVU.

[Lief]

I have now been waitlisted by the University of Chicago for the second time in four years, the bastards.

[Boris]

I have now been waitlisted by the University of Chicago for the second time in four years, the bastards.

Color me shocked; UChicago definitely has more hipsters per capita than any school in America.

[Lief]

I have now been waitlisted by the University of Chicago for the second time in four years, the bastards.

Color me shocked; UChicago definitely has more hipsters per capita than any school in America.

Isn't the UChicago stereotype that it's full of hard-working nerds?

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

I have now been waitlisted by the University of Chicago for the second time in four years, the bastards.

Color me shocked; UChicago definitely has more hipsters per capita than any school in America.

Isn't the UChicago stereotype that it's full of hard-working nerds?

I think he forgot that schools like Bard and Sarah Lawrence exist.

[Boris]

I've never heard of those schools and cannot say whether UChicagoans work hard as I have never visited during the schoolweek (Torie might be a better fellow to ask), but on the weekends they dress like hipsters, drink a lot of PBR and smoke a lot of cigarettes. And indulge in their knowledge of various obscurities, such as Norwegian drinking songs and infrastructure development in Nova Scotia. Super interesting and awesome people all around, but I could never thrive in that atmosphere since I'm not really an intellectual and never will be one.

[Boris]

Although I have visited on a day off colloquially referred to as "suicide prevention day" (maybe Torie can elaborate, if that was around when he was there), so I think the stipulation is that they do, indeed, work hard.

[Tidewater_Wave]

I have now been waitlisted by the University of Chicago for the second time in four years, the bastards.

That is where my professor got his undergraduate degree and many students of religious studies and theology attend. Good luck but stay away from the Alinski radicals!

[Sensei]

Multiple GW applicants! Go Colonials.

[© Tweed the Younger]

have a classmate who will be going to UChicago med school in the fall.  also my half-brother has a Masters in Anthropology

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

To all the vets out there: 13k a year in tuition is pretty manageable, right?

[© Tweed the Younger]

To all the vets out there: 13k a year in tuition is pretty manageable, right?

that's up to you, but if it isn't nothing is.

[N.i.K.]

I have now been waitlisted by the University of Chicago for the second time in four years, the bastards.

Are you going to accept a spot on the list?

To all the vets out there: 13k a year in tuition is pretty manageable, right?

Sounds cheaper than a UC.

[Senator Ben]

11 days until Ivy decisions.  Stressful, to say the least.

[Lief]

I have now been waitlisted by the University of Chicago for the second time in four years, the bastards.

Are you going to accept a spot on the list?

I'm automatically placed on it but there's not much chance to get off unless I actively grovel at their feet for the next few months. And I wouldn't have picked Chicago over Columbia anyway unless they gave me a lot of money, which they're obviously not if they're waitlisting me. So beyond being kind of annoyed it's not really a big deal.

[Χahar]

Rejected from UC Santa Cruz. LOL.

Also Davis, but I was expecting that.

[realisticidealist]

I've started applying for grad school already, even though it's pretty early (they have it open, so I guess it isn't that early). Really, really hoping for UW and an assistantship, though.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Rejected from UC Santa Cruz. LOL.

Also Davis, but I was expecting that.

I guess what I read about the UCs being intensely focused on grades was true...

[ilikeverin]

Rejected from UC Santa Cruz. LOL.

Also Davis, but I was expecting that.

Who cares; you're going to the University of Maryland, and that's that.  I may be trying to decide between it and other schools, but, given your interest in syntax, it is, empirically speaking, the only school you will need to go to.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

I got into American. Someone who's currently on their waiting-list will be taking my spot.

[Senator Ben]

Rejected by Northwestern.