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Stupid apps, literally.
Dec. 11th, 2005 05:22 pmThe graduate major option on the Georgia Tech online application says "Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering". While there are lots of cool things, like SN2, that only involve 2 molecules, somehow I don't think that's what they meant.
I guess I really shouldn't be making fun of them. It's spelled right on their website, so it's probably just a mistake that was made while transferring the information to the third party who hosts the app. Plus, Georgia Tech has the most sophisticated online form of all my schools. UT Austin's is ridiculously primitive -- the sections are labeled "Page 1", "Page 2", etc., and you can't go to one until you've filled out everything in the pages before it, even though you can then backtrack all you want -- but WashU and CMU aren't much better, sadly. WashU had a really nondescript text box that was like, "Some people have personal statements. You can put whatever you want here, if you feel like it." And I haven't found the Statement of Purpose section for CMU at all. And they do things like not tell you the character limit of a form field and then just truncate it when you submit. I had to redo my rec forms 3 times because I'd paste in the prof's title, and it'd seem fine, and then I'd look at it again and it'd be like "Professor of C". Oh, and WashU had date fields that they wanted to be MM/YYYY, and when you submitted it, it would drop the leading zero off the month, so it was impossible to have the format they wanted.
I helped James check over his apps, so I'm kind of jealous of his nice forms. I'm not sure if that's solely because of the schools he applied to, or because EE tends imply a certain degree of computer-ness that apparently ChemEs don't have, even if they do modeling.
Oh, and then I couldn't find anywhere on the Berkeley Law site that mentioned that you could apply online through LSAC -- it just has a section that's like, "Print out this application" -- but LSAC has an application for Berkeley anyway.
EDIT: I take back all the nice things I said about Georgia Tech's application. Their essay section includes word limits, which I followed faithfully and am in fact well under, but when I submit, they convert it into a character limit that's incredibly stingy considering they're asking for essays from college students who presumably use words longer than five letters. In fact, their counter includes spaces, so the average word length is actually 4.6. >_<
*shakes fist*
I guess I really shouldn't be making fun of them. It's spelled right on their website, so it's probably just a mistake that was made while transferring the information to the third party who hosts the app. Plus, Georgia Tech has the most sophisticated online form of all my schools. UT Austin's is ridiculously primitive -- the sections are labeled "Page 1", "Page 2", etc., and you can't go to one until you've filled out everything in the pages before it, even though you can then backtrack all you want -- but WashU and CMU aren't much better, sadly. WashU had a really nondescript text box that was like, "Some people have personal statements. You can put whatever you want here, if you feel like it." And I haven't found the Statement of Purpose section for CMU at all. And they do things like not tell you the character limit of a form field and then just truncate it when you submit. I had to redo my rec forms 3 times because I'd paste in the prof's title, and it'd seem fine, and then I'd look at it again and it'd be like "Professor of C". Oh, and WashU had date fields that they wanted to be MM/YYYY, and when you submitted it, it would drop the leading zero off the month, so it was impossible to have the format they wanted.
I helped James check over his apps, so I'm kind of jealous of his nice forms. I'm not sure if that's solely because of the schools he applied to, or because EE tends imply a certain degree of computer-ness that apparently ChemEs don't have, even if they do modeling.
Oh, and then I couldn't find anywhere on the Berkeley Law site that mentioned that you could apply online through LSAC -- it just has a section that's like, "Print out this application" -- but LSAC has an application for Berkeley anyway.
EDIT: I take back all the nice things I said about Georgia Tech's application. Their essay section includes word limits, which I followed faithfully and am in fact well under, but when I submit, they convert it into a character limit that's incredibly stingy considering they're asking for essays from college students who presumably use words longer than five letters. In fact, their counter includes spaces, so the average word length is actually 4.6. >_<
*shakes fist*
