[錄取] UC Berkeley EE PhD
看了前面的神人的錄取文之後,覺得自己錄取UCB大概是撿到的吧....
不過也許能帶給大家一點信心,就是正常人也是有機會的!!
Program:
PhD in Electrical Engineering
Admission:
Carnegie Mellon University with first-year fellowship 2/4
UC-Berkeley with first-year fellowship 2/9
University of Minnesota with RA 2/15
Purdue w/o funding 2/28
Rejection:
MIT
Stanford
Pending:
umich
Gatech
UCLA (tell POI that I was admitted to UCB)
Background:
2005-2009 BS in Electrical Engineering, NTHU
GPA: 3.77/3.9/3.92 (Overall/Major/Last 60) Rank: 7/55
2009-2010 MS in Electrical Engineering, NTHU
GPA: 4.0
Research Area:
Memory circuit design
Test Score:
TOEFL: 99
GRE: 410/800/3.0 <-這可以給很多人信心吧!!
Work Experience:
TA in NTHU
工研院 (~2 yrs)
Honors and Awards:
清大電資學院優秀學生獎學金 *2
兩岸交流獎學金
潘文淵文教基金會獎學金
旺宏金矽獎銅獎
書卷獎x1
Recommendation letters:
1 指導教授+1上過課的清大教授 (graduated from Berkeley)
+1 工作的老闆 (graduated from MIT)
Publication:
First-author IEEE Journal (under revision) x1 (JSSC)
First-author IEEE conference x1 (Symp. on VLSI, oral)
Co-author IEEE conference x5 (include 2 ISSCC, 1 Symp. on VLSI)
心得:
這個結果真的遠超出我的預期,所以收到mail的時候都快心臟病發了。
雖然我成績不是頂尖,GRE又超差,我覺得研究機構的工作經驗和publication
(雖然沒有神人多) 應該是錄取的原因。
我大概從大三還大四就嚷嚷著要出國念PhD,和當時的專題老師聊過,他也十分贊成
我出去多看看。然後在他甜言蜜語(?)下,我就留下來跟他念碩班了。很幸運的,做到一個
十分有"前瞻性"的題目,發了一篇知名的international conference,老師就很爽的讓我
一年畢業了 (不知道這個有沒有加分)。因為老師知道我要出國,所以實驗室有的沒有的
paper都會幫我掛co-author,虛張我publication的聲勢。
然後我就去之前project合作的單位上班,賺取學費。
TOEFL和GRE都沒補習也沒出國考,有點慘不忍睹,只能安慰自己很多學校都不看GRE的,
想不到還真的是這樣。
申請的準備就是一直在留學版爬文,和身邊一些學長姐的幫忙。
application丟完之後,就開始寄信給每所學校相關領域的老師,雖然只有極少數的老師
會回信,但是每封回信都是很大的鼓勵。
在過年期間,收到Berkeley大咖教授寄信說要interview,還以為是在做夢T_T
後來skype interview只講了大概7分鐘,主要是關於之後的研究方向,
interview完也感覺不出來會不會錄取,然後昨天就收到這所被我歸類在夢幻組學校
的錄取信了!!
回想起來,同時要上班要考GRE/TOEFL要寫paper要丟application,真的是很累的一件事
,但是現在什麼都值得了T_____T
我要感謝我身邊無數的貴人,溫馨留學版,還有一直在我身邊支持我的男朋友,相信他也
很快就能拿到admission的!!!
祝版上每個人都能錄取自己理想中的學校!!
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