1. Pre-app :
1. Send emails to all the universities asking them about admission criteria and application deadline.
2. TODO: Make a sample preapp email.
3. October Mid
2. Select Universities Stage -1
1. Make a list of atleast 21 probable universities
2. Rank them in order such that 7 falls in each ranking triad.
3. Sep last week – Oct 3^rd Week
3. Select Universities Stage – 2
1. Finalize the top 10 out of above 2 after intensive debate and thinking on criteria like Goals/Location/Fin Aid…
2. Oct First Week – Nov First Week
4. App to unidersities Stage-1
1. Apply to 1-3 Universities with

i. SOP

ii. Reco letters

iii. Transcripts

iv. Send GRE/TOEFL Scores to these universities

v. Portfolio of

1. EE Projects

2. Public Admin Experience

2. Timeline Oct 22^nd – Mid November
4. App to Universities Stage -2
1. Apply to top 5-7 priority universities from Stage 3 using experience of stage 4
2. Timeline: Nov – mid Dec
5. App to Universities Stage – 3
1. Apply to 2-3 universities on your gut feeling even if they are not in the finalized list.
2. Timeline: Dec – Jan
6. Follow up

Deductions

• Finish SOP Recos and Transcripts by Oct 20^th
• Also Make Portfolios by Oct 20^th !!!
• Give GRE by Nov First Week
• TOEFL by Nov Second Week
• Give TSE by Third Week
• Target to Finish Apps by Mid December

Time and again it seems to be really really difficult to win people. I wonder what how trust incubates. We seem to trust people in about couple of minutes while even after a life-time one fails to trust a sincere person. Is trust a two way handshake? or Is it a culmination of events. Lessons in inter-personal phsychology!!

So what all unversities should Sweety pick up to apply for Masters’?

The universities to pick up should be a combination of Best, Good and Easy to Get In. So if we apply to say 10 univ each should be like 3,3,4.

The other criteria is picking up universities according to the interest. So say 5 with courses of Public admin + technology and 5 just Plain MS in communication but have courses in public administration.

The other question is what major should she pick up?

I think she should sit down and she in heart of hearts what she really really want to do. If that she figures out that to be for e.g Public Administration then she should pick up course which are a combination of Technology and public administration/ policy.

So the List?

Mark pointed out that inspite of declaring my self as half Catalan i didn’t ask forgiveness in the language. So here i go, “Perdoneu-me, si us plau”. Its has really been great hearing from friends after a long time. Every once in a while many small glitterring and tittering remenisces of mates makes one feel better but keeping in touch strengthens that bond.

On an unrelated point i’m interested in looking at alternative ways of authoring in modern times. The same ol’ traditional way of sitting, organizing ones thoughts and then pennning then down can certainly be bettered!! I remeber Jason at UCSC had an interesting idea of having a spider run through some of onces unrelated ideas and make a poem for you. He claimed this to be a good working material to render the poem better, than the traditional mode of the dreamers. Any other relevant efforts?

Mark pointed out that inspite of declaring my self as half Catalan i didn’t ask forgiveness in the language. So here i go, “Perdoneu-me, si us plau”. Its has really been great hearing from friends after a long time. Every once in a while many small glitterring and tittering remenisces of mates makes one feel better but keeping in touch strengthens that bond.

On an unrelated point i’m interested in looking at alternative ways of authoring in modern times. The same ol’ traditional way of sitting, organizing ones thoughts and then pennning then down can certainly be bettered!! I remeber Jason at UCSC had an interesting idea of having a spider run through some of onces unrelated ideas and make a poem for you. He claimed this to be a good working material to render the poem better, than the traditional mode of the dreamers. Any other relevant efforts?