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ZapperZ, I see your location is in Chicago. Are you affiliated with U of C? Anyway, I heard some news about UChicago, and I was wondering if anyone here can corroborate it or give me any more details. The graduate secretary Nobuko McNeill said in an email to a friend of mine, "Because of...

Well, obviously. I do wonder, however, how much of a correlation there is between performance on the physics GRE and performance on qualifying exams in grad school. 250+ grad students isn't big?

And another thing. I was shocked to get into Chicago, since their average Physics GRE score is 872, and I scored MUCH lower than that. I got in on the strength of the rest of my application. So my question is this: does this mean my fellow students are all extra-superb test takers...

Thanks for the info. I'd really like to pursue materials stuff, which is why I'm kind of leaning towards Chicago. UIUC's size kind of freaks me out a little. Also, I heard the UCSB has no qualifying exam, which strikes me as really strange. They must have some way to weed students out, so...

I'm an undergraduate senior right now, and I've been accepted to UCSB, UIUC, and UChicago. I Need to decide where to go by April 15. I'm interested in condensed matter, so my first inclination is that I would be crazy not to go to UIUC. But of course I'm going to visit them all in the next...

I've heard from UIUC, UCSB, and UMass, and was accepted to all three. Illinois and Santa Barbara are beyond my wildest dreams, so I was thinking that it was goint to be a tough decision, but Santa Barbara only gives a $15k stipend for a 9 months TA-ship, and with living expenses being what they...