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I have fortunately been accepted to both Cornell and Yale's applied physics PhD programs. They are my top contenders right now and I am trying to decide between the two. I will visit both schools. But at the moment, I would really appreciate your opinion on these two schools. My interest is in...

They are both in experimental condensed matter.

But if a publication can greatly enchance of my odds of getting into a top graduate school and thus open up much greater opportunities for me to learn in the future, I cannot just turnn a blind eye to that possibility, be an idealist and only care about what's best for me now, right?. Not...

But how would grad school know that the research under Prof B is harder than prof A's research?

Here is the dilemma that I am facing with these two professors. The question is should I work with Prof A or B. With Professor A, I have a 35-50% chance of publishing a paper. I have been working with Prof. A since this semester. He is only a research assistant professor who works under the...

So from the lack of response, I figure it's not very useful?

Is a control theory class usueful for someone who wants to do experimental physics in grad school?

I say why not, go for your passion. I applied to Princeton to a large extent because I really fell in love with it after watching "A Beautiful Mind", which prompted me to visit the school. Well even though I got deferred in early decision and subsequently got rejected at the end, it was still a...

At my school, engineering classes have a lot of plug and chug's on homework and exam problems well physics classes have a lot more mathematical questions that require derivations.