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From: crawford@boole.mitre.org (Randy Crawford)
Subject: Re: ABD - translation please?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:55:19 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.153806.9016@mcc.com> chen@serrano.mcc.com (Jack Jay Chen) writes:
>I believe that ABD stands for All But Dissertation, satisfying PhD coursework 
>but not completing the dissertation.  I had heard this term before only in a
>facetious context.

An ABD means the individual has completed all requirements for the PhD except
the dissertation and its oral defense.  In some circles, it is considered a 
degree in it's own right, superior to a MS and inferior to a PhD.  For example,
at George Washington University, they offer the "Engineer's" or "Applied 
Scientist" degree.  It requires 10 courses beyond the MS, and passing a depart-
mental exam.  Those who wish to continue on for the DSc (their weird doctorate)
need only complete a dissertation and defense.  Johns Hopkins offers a similar
"Advanced Certificate in Post-Master's Study", (although unlike GWU, it is not 
a prerequisite part of the doctoral program).

Randy
crawford@mitre.org

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From: murphy@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Daniel Murphy)
Subject: Re: ABD - translation please?
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Distribution: USA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:33:53 GMT

ABD stands for "All But Dissertation"
 
It refers to PhD candidates who have completed everything
else for the degree, such as course work, language requirements,
qualifying/candidacy exams, residency reqs., etc.
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From: nemleem@cs.vu.nl (Leemans NEM)
Subject: Request e-mail address
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Distribution: eunet
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:07:10 GMT


Hi folks,
Is there anyone out there who can give me the e-mail
address of the University of Edinburgh (Scotland).
Preferably an email address of the CS department.

Please e-mail any info to: nemleem@cs.vu.nl
Thanks
From: eia018@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr.A.Wilson)
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: ABD - translation please?
Date: 12 Oct 92 12:18:19 GMT
Organization: Department of Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK.

I occasionally see ads for jobs in US colleges and universities which
contain sentences something like the following:

		ABD required; PhD preferred.

Could someone please tell me what "ABD" means?

Thanks,

Andrew Wilson
Linguistics
Lancaster University, UK
email:  eia018@lancaster.ac.uk
From: infante@acpub.duke.edu (Andrew  Infante)
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: Reference letters
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:19:35 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

I don't know if this has already been posted, or even remember if I've
done it myself but this is it:

We all know now that most schools require 3 letters of recommendation for
application.  We know that they would appreciate one (at least) from a 
professor that you had that presumably liked you, gave you good grades,
etc.  Also, a letter from a previous employer (if you've been working for
awhile) who says you're hard-working and reliable etc.  

I'd like to know if anybody is planning to or already has submitted 
more than three letters or is this really overkill.  
Here's my situation.

I've had four employers in teh past year and a half.  Ok, this is not
how it sounds.  I got a p/t job (still got it) for 20 hrs/wk (now 30)
then I got a job as a SAS programmer at a company I had applied for
previous year where a friend now works and I've got a good relationship
with the president (my boss there  -the company's small) so I'd like
to use him - he's also very prominent around here, as a expert witness
at trials and stuff.
Then, this job ended in september, so that was only a few months.
I then got a job (btw that was 20 hrs/wk too, the sas) at the school here,
but the business school, instead of the hospital where I've been working 
steadily since the beginning (end?).  This job was p/t and ended in
August.  I worked for two people there.  Two phd psych professors who
hail from Carnegi Mellon who _will_ give me a good rec.
My current boss told me before I started working that if I lasted over a year
here that he would give me a good rec.
I still need a prof rec and I'm taking a class in the spring for that -
since I didn't really get any relationships with profs undergrad (sigh)
and haven't talked to any in more than a year anyway. 
So, what's the diff between a corporate rec and a academic rec?
Is five (or more) too many recs?


Ok, thanks.

later.

andy
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From: skb0229@zeus.tamu.edu (BHOGAVILLI, SURESH KUMAR)
Subject:  Need info about MS in Audiology
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 06:12:00 GMT


I am posting this article for one of my friends who is planning to
apply for an MS in audiology that might be offered in Colleges of
Liberal Arts and Speech pathology. 

I would like to know the names of the universities that offer this
program and 'the chances of getting an assistantship'. He has 2 years
of work experience as a lecturer (he has a Masters in Special Education).

Any information, especially from the grad students in this area, will
be highly appreciated.

Please email to b-suresh@tamu.edu

Thanks in advance.

suresh

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From: miss059@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pug)
Subject: GRE and guessing...
Organization: Pug's Pub and Pleasure Palace
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:06:40 GMT


Ok, I'm a little confused. When I started to get prepared for the GRE, I
was informed that it was better not not guess because of scoring. This
was in books that were prepatory guides as well as the material from ETS
about getting ready for the test. When I took the General Test this past
weekend, it plainly stated that it was better to guess then not and to
answer all questions. Has ETS changed their criteria or was I just
confused all along. I could swear it was better to not guess on the
general and to guess on the subject. Did I get them confused?

Thanx.

-- 
Richard Bainter          Mundanely     |       "Teachers are supposed to
Phelim Utred Gervas      Society       |        teach you *HOW* to learn 
Pug                      Generally     |        not *WHAT* to learn."   
  miss059@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu  |  pug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu  |  pug@wixer.UUCP
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Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo,soc.college.grad
Subject: Need info on CS grad schools
From: <ROCHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 12 Oct 1992 15:32:23 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

     I would like to obtain information and comments regarding the doctoral
program in computer science of the following schools:

    1) SUNY at Stony Brook
    2) U of Washington at Seattle
    3) U of Pennsylvania
    4) U of Michigan at Ann Arbor
    5) Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute
    6) U of Southern California
    7) Dartmouth College

     I am more interested on infos not contained in standard dept. brochures.
How strong are the doctoral programs in comp. sci. at the above schools?

     Thank you in advance.....

                                             ron
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From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
Subject: Re: GRE
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 04:53:16 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Originator: clin@periodic.eng.umd.edu


In article <1arfapINN6r4@coral.bucknell.edu>, desikan@bucknell.edu (sridhar desikan GR) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.204636.8845@wam.umd.edu>, madrid@wam.umd.edu (Gonzalo De Cea-Naharro Romero) writes:
>|> Can anubody recommend a good GRE preparatory book?
>|> 
>|> madrid@wam.umd.edu
>
>If you are preparing for GRE general test, the preparation text widely used is 
>by Petersons. It is very popular and will be available in all book stores. 
>However the practice tests in the book are not good ones and it is advisible to
>take the actual tests published by ETS.
>

   Are you sure Peterson's makes a GRE study guide?  I have seen one by
Barron's (at least the SAT's) and by ARCO and even by the Princeton
Review.

   The main problem with using the ETS tests is that the answers are
not explained.  It is the most realistic test, since they are real
tests, but if they explained answers, then one could figure out
"how the ETS folks think" which is what the Princeton Review purports
to do.   Some of the advice in Princeton Review is reasonable, and others
not so.

   Obviously, it would be advantageous if you could get a hold of
every GRE test given in the last two years, because the test does
repeat questions (which is why they try not to reveal the answers
in books so often) though you can be sure that if ETS sells the
test, most if not all the questions will not appear on future
tests.  However, it does still give the most accurate "feel" for
what the test is like.

    If some organization really wanted to, they could legitimately
get the answers to these tests.  Obviously, it would undermine
the value of the test.  Of course, this wouldn't be a problem
if no questions are repeated, but if I recall, the ETS folks
calculate what percentage of people get a question right, and
more importantly, how many of those who got it right got high
scores.  By keeping stats on this, and using questions (usually
in the experimental section) over, then they can more or less
insure that the average test score stays uniform from test to
test so that a 600 on one test should mean the same thing as
a 600 on another test.

--
Charles Lin
clin@eng.umd.edu
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From: mminock@feta.engin.umich.edu (Mike  j Minock)
Subject: MATH GRAD-SCHOOL
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 04:24:18 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: mminock@feta.engin.umich.edu




Greetings!

I am posting for a friend of mine who is interested in going to
graduate school in mathematics. She already has a B.S. in math from
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and is interested in going for a
Ph.D. The question she has is which schools are likely to admit her,
and of these, which are likely to offer some type of funding
(TA,RA,fellowship).

Here are her stats:

Education: B.S. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.  
GRE: Very good. 800M,800A,620V, and 90% Math Subject.
GPA: Could be better.~3.0 cumulative undergraduate
	(mostly hurt by first two years at university)
	~3.5 in mathematics classes, and even higher for grad level
	math courses.
Recommendations: Sound, but nothing spectacular.
Statement of purpose: She hasn't written it yet, but she is mature and
        writes very well.
 
She has the resources to apply to perhaps six or seven Ph.D. programs.
She wants to get into the best program she can (Woman faculty members a 
definite plus), but she also wants some type of funding.

Any suggestions on which six she should apply to?
Any info on math graduate school in general?

I particularly welcome any responses from math grad students,

thanks. 

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From: beutel@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Jim Beutel)
Subject: Lookin for Karen Bishman - Gator Grad
Reply-To: beutel@chdasic.sps.mot.com
Organization: Motorola SPS ASIC, Chandler, AZ
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 20:24:35 GMT

Desparately seeking Karen Bishman. Graduated Florida State
Gainsville in early 80's Computer Science Major. Worked for
Lockheed Burbank, IMS Inc Consulting, ARCO all in Southern
California. during the 80's.


---
Jim Beutel	

Motorola SPS ASIC            beutel@chdasic.sps.mot.com
1300 N. Alma School Rd       Computer Operations 
M/S CH290  AZ50              office:  (602) 821-4967
Chandler, Arizona 85224	     telefax: (602) 821-4963


Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
From: rbp@netcom.com (Bob Pasker)
Subject: Re: CS Address for San Luis Obispo and e-mail help
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:44:37 GMT

ntprlr@eskimo.celestial.com (NightProwler) writes:
>Could some kind soul please post or e-mail me the internet mail address
>for the gradinfo person at Cal State Poly @ San Luis Obispo?

	polyslo.calpoly.edu

and to those looking for long lost friends.  try asking your sysadm
about how to use netfind or telnet to brunco.cs.colorado.edu and login
as "netfind" (no passwod).

-- 
--- bob pasker
---- rbp@netcom.com
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From: sureshb@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh K Bhogavilli)
Subject: Need info about MS in Audiology
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 05:27:47 GMT


I am posting this article for one of my friends who is planning to
apply for an MS in audiology that might be offered in Colleges of
Liberal Arts and Speech pathology. 

I would like to know the names of the universities that offer this
program and 'the chances of getting an assistantship'. He has 2 years
of work experience as a lecturer (he has a Masters in Special Education).

Any information, especially from the grad students in this area, will
be highly appreciated.

Please email to b-suresh@tamu.edu

Thanks in advance.

suresh




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From: tazman@wam.umd.edu (John A. Romano)
Subject: EE programs at WPI, Hopkins, Udel
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:42:55 GMT


HI!

I'm looking for information on graduate EE programs at the following
schools:  Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Johns Hopkin's University,
and the University of Delaware.  I have books/catalogs on these 
programs, but I'm hoping to get some feedback from someone who has 
been to one of these schools or is going there.  Also, besides the
EE programs themselves, what is your opinion of the school in general, 
the social climate, financial aid, being a TA/RA, and the city the 
school is in.

Thanks in advance for your help!
--
John Romano
Telecommunications Engineer
University of Maryland - College Park
301-405-4430   smiley@dcs.umd.edu
__

-- 

**************************************************************
*       John Romano       *                                  *
*  University of Maryland *     gEEk, runner, triathlete     *
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From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo,soc.college.grad
Subject: Re: GRE and guessing...
Date: 14 Oct 92 03:11:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: eng.1992Oct14.031114.25013
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Originator: clin@erlang.src.umd.edu


In article <Bw3734.FMs@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>, miss059@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pug) writes:
>
>Ok, I'm a little confused. When I started to get prepared for the GRE, I
>was informed that it was better not not guess because of scoring. This
>was in books that were prepatory guides as well as the material from ETS
>about getting ready for the test. When I took the General Test this past
>weekend, it plainly stated that it was better to guess then not and to
>answer all questions. Has ETS changed their criteria or was I just
>confused all along. I could swear it was better to not guess on the
>general and to guess on the subject. Did I get them confused?
>
>Thanx.

   Yup.  It's the other way around.  The General test does NOT penalize
for guessing, but the subject test DOES penalize for guessing.   On
the CS Subject test (as with several others) it was number correct
minus one-fourth number incorrect.  That's how the raw score is
calculated.

--
Charles Lin
clin@eng.umd.edu
From: slqqv@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: CS grad school mailing list
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:55:53 MDT
Reply-To: slqqv@cc.usu.edu
Keywords: CS Grad school
Organization: Utah State University

Hi
	I would like a mailing list of grad schools in CS

	Thanx

	Please reply on slqqv@cc.usu.eduOP
From: KSADEGH@auvm.american.edu (Kayvon Z. Sadeghi)
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: Re: Public forum for SOP's
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:30:29 GMT
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center

Nice job. Somebody had to start it. But I think a little more organization
would make it look nicer. For instance, I would dedicate the first
paragraph to my background, my undergrad, and my computer knowledge. The
second paragraph could go for my experience. All the nice things about
the new school could come in the third one. And I would probably, dedicate
the last one to my plans, you know, "... And I am planning to continue
my studies as a Ph.D. student in so-and-so University." and so on and
so forth.
---
------------------------------------------------------------
KAYVON Z. SADEGHI                  K.SADEGHI@IEEE.ORG
VOICE: 202/244-0789
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From: ganesh@seminole.b17c.ingr.com (Ganesh Rangarajan)
Subject: MBA via correspondence (REPOST)
Reply-To: ganesh@seminole.b17c.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:32:17 GMT


I am posting this here again since I got no replies and I'm really not
sure if it got distributed correctly.
I was trying to find a list of universities which offer MBA through
correspondence courses.  I tried looking for such a list in the library
(Gorman, Peterson's etc) to no avail.  At least, if you are in a University
which offers the same, can you please send me email.
Thanks in advance,
--Ganesh
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From: trinas@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Speedy Gonzalez)
Subject: More info on specific schools wanted
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 22:02:51 GMT


HI,

I asked for information on Management Information Systems before.
Now that I have narrowed my research, I was looking for some infor-
mation on schools I don't know too much about.  They include:

Boston Univ.
Clarkson Univ.
DePaul Univ.
Pennsylvania State Univ.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.
Rutgers/Newark Univ.
Drexel Univ.
Univ. of Minnesota
Univ. of Rochester

Any information regarding general campus life, housing, financial
aid information AND/OR masters/MBA with concentration in MIS AND/
OR PhD information is welcome.

Posting or preferably email at trinas@mentor.cc.purdue.edu.

thanks in advance,
Trina

Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
From: rrome@nyx.cs.du.edu (Robert Rome)
Subject: Need Email Help!
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix (sponsored by U. of Denver Math/CS dept.)
Disclaimer1: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of
Disclaimer2: Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
Disclaimer3: control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 18:37:04 GMT

Hello.  I have just started with NetNews and I am trying to contact a 
friend of mine via Email.  He is at American University in Washington DC,
and uses NetMail.  His address ends with @auvm.cics and I cannot seem to
write him using that address.  My address is rrome@nyx.cs.du.edu and if
you have any ideas please contact me at this address because I'm still
not so hot with the NetNews yet.  Thanks for any help.

Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
From: s8325281@mail.ncku.edu.tw (Ian Smith)
Subject: ee-gradinfo list request
Organization: National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 04:01:58 GMT

To everybody!

Hi! I found that the list of EE-gradinfo is deleted from this newsgroup.
I wish there is a kind soul who don't mind reposting it again. I'll
appreciate that. Thank you beforehand!

Ian
s8325281@mail.ncku.edu.tw
:)

Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo,soc.college.grad
From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
Subject: GREs
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 22:07:36 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Originator: clin@harmonic.eng.umd.edu


    I had to endure the GREs, again.  I took it a little over
two years ago, but now that I am applying to the computer science
dept. here, they want more recent scores.

    I used to post that the ETS folks who made up the test and
who also sold old versions, didn't explain the answers to the
questions.    This has turned out to be wrong.  In at least
one General test sold by ETS (Vol. 8), they do explain the
answers.   They used to say you couldn't really improve your
score by studying for it.  The reason being that some people
could pay for courses (Kaplan, Princeton Review, etc.) and
that favored the more well-to-do (middle class and above).
They must have changed their mind when they saw that you
could make money selling such guides, and now they do.

    Since these tests are actual tests, they come closest to
being the kind of test you will get when taking the real thing.
For some reason, it is difficult for certain companies who
make study guides to emulate this style, and some are WAY
off when they make up the test.

    When I went to take the test today, I saw lots of people
with the ETS paperback tests that are commonly sold.   I once
read that ETS had a non-profit status, but seem to make "profit"
anyway.   In some ways, the test making business is still quite
a business.

    Even though I'm not sure I really approve of these test, as
long as graduate schools require them, then one has to try to find
ways of dealing with the tests, and getting these books appear
to be one of the cheaper (though not really cheap) ways of doing
this.

--
Charles Lin
clin@eng.umd.edu
From: peterson@CS.ColoState.EDU (james peterson)
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: Re: ABD - translation please?
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:24:55 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department

In article <buehlman.718898465@werkz02> buehlman@iwf.mabp.ethz.ch (Buehlmann Thomas) writes:
>eia018@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr.A.Wilson) writes:
>
>
>>		ABD required; PhD preferred.
>
>Are you sure it was not spelled "a BD required..."
>or "A BD ..."? To this looks very much like
>"A bachelor's degree required a Philosophiae Doctor
>preferred.
>

Good grief.  "All but dissertation."

-- 
james lee peterson				peterson@CS.ColoState.edu
dept. of computer science                       
colorado state university		"Some ignorance is invincible."
ft. collins, colorado  (voice:303/491-7137; fax:303/491-6639)
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