On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 01:19:56PM -0600, Derek Davis wrote: > I have applied to graduate school, and been accepted to my top two > choices, University of Virginia, and Virginia Tech. However, I don't > know how to choose between the two.
My opinion is that the advisor is everything. I would recommend making a list of all faculty from both universities whose research interests you. Then contact each of them and ask them if they're taking students and basically try to get them to sell you on what they're doing. Scratch the ones that aren't taking students or who are rude. Then, with any advisors left over, contact a graduate student of theirs, and find out what they like or dislike about their advisor. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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