Waiting to hear from AP at Harvard ... they're late this year according to gradcafe.com

Ahh, why does this have to be such a difficult decision?grae313 wrote:My biased opinion:
Yale is good in quantum computing, but if you have interest in anything else besides this, Cornell is the place to be. Cornell's nanofabrication facilities are the best in the country, and I formed this opinion after touring Berkeley, UCSB, and Stanford. The number, variety, and quality of instruments combined with their availability to students is unparalleled. We have top professors, amazing resources, and fantastic people. Yale has strong names in that one field, but does not have a comparably strong reputation overall in physics. At Cornell you will have the best equipment there is available to you 24/7 and the freedom to work with any professor in any department who will accept you as a student in their lab.
Well, the open house was this past Sunday--Monday.sravanskarri wrote:Any one heard from Harvard AP/ Engg Sci recently ?
Nice! Cornell is a great place and our grad students are happy. Don't forget to notify other schools of your decision so that they can hopefully admit someone else off the wait list.TrueBLUE wrote:Thanxx a lot noojens and grae313. Has greatly helped make my decision. So Cornell it is for me!!
I am glad that I knew thatCKtalon wrote:Applied tends to be easier.
Even a Cornell professor told me once that getting into the Applied Program is much easier than the Physics program.
He meant getting into AP Cornell is easier than getting into Physics, Cornell with a Physics background. I am sure having good Physics back ground helps more than EE/MSE to get into any AP program.Tosh wrote:A lot of people seems to say so.. but wouldn't applied be harder since those who major in materials science, engineerig and chem could also apply to AP?