Recent content by mobilehobo

Definitely worth taking if it won't bog you down too much. I've never heard of pre-AP classes (my high school couldn't even get regular AP classes) but I'm assuming they cannot be too difficult. I wouldn't worry about the teacher expecting too much from your previous class. A majority of the...

Colorado's rejection letters went out today.

Something else I would consider instead of rankings: Not to doubt your desire for physics or anything, but there is a possibility you might change majors once you get into college. I entered as Chem. engineering and changed mine 3 times (counting adding majors) and I've ended up as a double in...

they probably just sent out their flyers everywhere and got a lot of exposure.

I've been in Kansas all my life and even though it sounds weird, I really like it. Manhattan (KS that is) is fun college town and is a little more liberal then the rest of Kansas. Let me know if you have any Kansas questions!

I fully applied at Colorado and haven't heard anything. I've accepted an offer, but they don't respond to any inquiries. I also got rejected from from SUNY even though I told them to withdraw my application. Lehigh told me they got 700 applications (how?) when I got their acceptance. According...

Yeah, it looks like quite a few universities house all their REU's in the same building. It's probably kind of nice so you have more than 12 people you can talk to.

Most likely we'll be staying in those as well. It's not official yet but they said they expect to "provide housing in the form of 4 bedroom apartments with 4 students per apartment" which means Nittany from what I've seen. I've heard they're pretty nice. I'm really excited about State College. I...

Congrats! I've actually heard great things about the electrical engineering program there. The program I am doing is also engineering. It's "materials" so everything from engineering to chem to math... Do you know where you'll be living yet?

REU/summer program meet-ups; Post where you are going and meet your peers! I just wanted to make a place where all of us lucky devils who've been accepted to REU's (any subject) can post where we are going and possibly meet some other students going to the same program. I also wanted to make...

Don't lose hope yet! Apply at Vermont. Their deadline is early April. http://www.uvm.edu/physics/?Page=complexmaterials.html It's materials and I don't know what your focus is, but it's worth a shot. The late deadline indicated it's less competitive (top ranking applicants are decided by now)...

Accepted at Cornell and rejected at Duke? ? That seems very strange to me. Cornell has much more highly-ranked physics program than Duke; I cannot image their program is less competitive than Duke's. I sent almost identical personal statements to each one as well; I only altered the section...

I've applied: Cornell- CLASSE (didn't send rejection, but didn't make it) Cornell- CCMR (they said they are sending out offers this Wednesday) Colorado- heard nothing.. I don't think I made it. SUNY- will decide next week. Lehigh- nothing yet. Wisconsin (engineering)- nothing yet Penn State-...