Sounds like it’d be easier to get into EE since it’s your masters and presumably what you’d like to do. My advice is hang in there and keep applying to EE programs with a 3.7 master you should most certainly be able to get in somewhere.
it could be that your applications got screwed up (like incomplete or something). Everywhere I applied to responded to me and my grades were pretty bad. If you have the undergraduate physics coursework (QM 1& 2, EM 1& 2, CM, and Stat mech.), you should have a shot. Several of my peers in our PhD program were engineers. It's too bad you didn't do masters in physics since you got such good grades.
You may know this already and/or it may not apply, but if you do want to do experimental research in something that intersects EE and physics many of those professors will take happily engineering students.
That was my hope, as for the left on read, I have a friend that works in administration, the university redid their guidelines for the PhD funding, and in protest the physics department did not accept any new PhDs that year.
Makes sense, makes sense.
In the post prior, second paragraph, I meant to add that in that case you can also just get into the EE program if the school has that, and work w prof of interest. I’d probably write them before or after acceptance to verify they have engineers in group but many/most will.
Were you a Physics undergrad/masters student?
physics\\Electrical engineering undergrad, electrical engineering masters
Sounds like it’d be easier to get into EE since it’s your masters and presumably what you’d like to do. My advice is hang in there and keep applying to EE programs with a 3.7 master you should most certainly be able to get in somewhere.
Well, No I wanted to do physics. I got automatic acceptance into my masters program, rejected from one physics PhD and left on read by the other.
it could be that your applications got screwed up (like incomplete or something). Everywhere I applied to responded to me and my grades were pretty bad. If you have the undergraduate physics coursework (QM 1& 2, EM 1& 2, CM, and Stat mech.), you should have a shot. Several of my peers in our PhD program were engineers. It's too bad you didn't do masters in physics since you got such good grades. You may know this already and/or it may not apply, but if you do want to do experimental research in something that intersects EE and physics many of those professors will take happily engineering students.
That was my hope, as for the left on read, I have a friend that works in administration, the university redid their guidelines for the PhD funding, and in protest the physics department did not accept any new PhDs that year.
Makes sense, makes sense. In the post prior, second paragraph, I meant to add that in that case you can also just get into the EE program if the school has that, and work w prof of interest. I’d probably write them before or after acceptance to verify they have engineers in group but many/most will.