Anyone applying to Applied Physics?
Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:39 am
Anyone applying to Applied Physics? Has anyone visited any school and was particularly impressed?
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I'm applying to all the schools with the biggest egos as well.crazy_physics wrote:I am applying to Harvard, Caltech, Stanford, Yale, and Cornell. Aiming Harvard, highest ranked and has the best facilities and faculties. They are really rich. But, I think it's probably not easy to get in because they admit qualified engineering backgrounds as well so the number of applicants is enormous. I think Stanford and Caltech typically consider mostly physics major undergraduates. I think Stanford's admission rate for Applied Physics is like 15-20 percent on their website. The Harvard admission office emailed me back and told me their admission percentage is below 10 percent, something like 8%. I have already visited some schools already.
With your mindset you obviously need to attend one of these schools. Glad I'm getting some eye-openers about the type of people who attend these places...physicsgraduate wrote:For me personally, Harvard (first) Stanford (second) are the goal. I am also applying to some ball-park places. These two top ones are just really unpredictable.
Hahahaha, man, this is great.crazy_physics wrote:Great, good luck.WhoaNonstop wrote: I'm applying to all the schools with the biggest egos as well.
What are you pointing to with these words ?ramathorn wrote: And if I make it in with both hands I will laugh and laugh and laugh as I dance across all the mangled corpses of the electrical engineers that stood in my way.
Materials Science, now go away.ITAphys88 wrote:hey i'm interested in applied physics programs, as well as materials science,
but i would like to ask you if you know which of the two is more suitable for getting a job in the industry after the phd.
thanks!
Whichever program will give you more social skills to interact with the people who could possibly hire you.ITAphys88 wrote:hey i'm interested in applied physics programs, as well as materials science,
but i would like to ask you if you know which of the two is more suitable for getting a job in the industry after the phd.
thanks!
Going on what riley said, engineering schools probably have more career guidance in place, which is not insignificant. It's nice to have recruiters come to you, rather than you constantly having to convince people you'd be a good hire.ITAphys88 wrote:hey i'm interested in applied physics programs, as well as materials science,
but i would like to ask you if you know which of the two is more suitable for getting a job in the industry after the phd.
thanks!