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Comment My department is mostly American (Score 1) 1131

by HyperBlazer on Saturday September 29, 2007 @08:56PM (#20797909) Attached to: Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students?

I'm a grad student in the chemistry dept at UC Berkeley (arguably the best school in the world for my field). My department is mostly American; it's much harder to get in as an international student.

For public schools, US citizens are cheaper to pay for (since, in the sciences at least, the dept/your advisor pays your tuition. US citizens can get resident tuition, while international students can't). This is one of the major reasons that UC Berkeley has so many American students, followed by the top of the top among international students.

Undergraduate research is also really important in the admission process in Berkeley's chem dept. It's assumed that you have done research before coming here, and a lot of international schools don't push their undergraduates toward research experience. So again, US students have an advantage in the admissions process.

Anyway, this probably varies from school to school. Public/private is one divide to consider. Top 5/not top 5 is another.

A Fresh Look at Vista's User Account Control 332

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 04, 2006 @03:10PM from the let-me-in dept.

Art Grimm writes to mention a post at Ed Bott's Microsoft Report on ZDNet. There, he talks about Vista's User Account Control, and the issues he sees with the setup as it exists now. From the article: "The UAC prompts I depicted in the first post are those that appear when you install a program, when you run a program that requires access to sensitive locations, or when you configure a Windows setting that affects all users. But as many beta testers have discovered, UAC prompts can also show up when you perform seemingly innocent file operations on drives formatted using NTFS. In this post, I explain why these prompts appear and why some so-called Windows experts miss the obvious reason (and the obvious fix)."

Financials Indicate Microsoft Prepping for War 349

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 28, 2006 @02:27PM from the man-the-trenches dept.

SpaceAdmiral writes "Microsoft has surprised analysts by forecasting significantly higher expenses in the next fiscal year, an indication that the company might be getting ready to do battle with its online rivals. According to analyst Eugene Munster of Piper Jaffray, 'It looks like Microsoft is going to war with Google.'" From the article: "According to Mark Stahlman of Caris & Company, the fact that Microsoft plans to spend significantly more in 2007 was an indication of renewed aggressiveness in its competitive strategy and an indication that the company was returning to the kind of actions it exhibited before the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit in the mid- and late 1990's. 'It's pretty clear that Bill is running the company again,' Mr. Stahlman said, referring to Bill Gates, 'and they are going to remake the business. They are being much more combative and much more strategically managed.'"

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