请问加州大学戴维斯分校与OSU都录了，该怎么选择？

本人现在是一名研二的学生，目前在一所211，985的大学就读，学习的是视觉传达专业（本科也是）。准备今年申请美国博士（马上研三了），想寻找一起去美国读设计类的博士的小伙伴们。因为将来想从事教育事业，所以考虑好自己的未来方向。所以想请这里的大神们给我推荐一些学校。

另外，不知道我的gpa3.8（a- 86～89）够不够用。还有研三半年的学分要修。

很多项目在网站上都会指出文书的长度要求，但是之前也听说过“写短了显得你没什么可写，写长了显得你不能简洁表达”，所以就很犯难。想问问最后文书的长度应该怎样最合适？

比如规定1～3页，写几页合适？字数上限2500，写多少合适？

大家好！本人32岁，211&985南京农业大学食品科学与工程2007年毕业，GPA3.32;毕业后在疾控中心工作，本职实验室质量管理与控制，即将调到食品营养监测科工作（与公共卫生密切相关）。发表过质量管理相关论文2篇，微生物检测论文1篇。但影响因子不高，纯属为评职称用。上班后于2013年取得在职的211宁夏大学化学工程硕士学位。2016年2月取得雅思6.5分成绩，但写作很遗憾只有5.5  。无心再刷雅思成绩。

    由于2016年新西兰国家发展奖学金突然停止，导致我的留学计划被打乱，为不浪费雅思成绩只好另谋出路。现想申请通过国家留学基金委的奖学金项目公派出国读硕士（学历回国可承认，本人在职硕士只有学位证无学历），或者自己申请全额奖学金出国留学。专业与公共健康、食品营养为最佳，单位容易通过。

    问了一些留学的朋友，有说澳洲30岁以下签证容易，建议我选新西兰；有说新西兰、澳洲已经留学产业化、竞争激烈，可以考虑北欧；还有说美、澳都可申请。。。自我感觉申请排名不太靠前竞争压力小的学校+能够申请到相关专业+尽可能多拿奖学金，再通过CSC出国节约成本比较好，单位也容易通过。

   请问各位经验丰富的老师，像我这种条件的，目标国家和学校放到哪边比较适合？

个人材料专业  目前拿到了pitt ms的ad 还有TAMU  OSU

求比较

如题，在明尼苏达大学BICB（Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology）项目的官方网页上给出了比较细致的修课途径建议，在此贴出原文，希望对同学们有帮助~

How to Prepare Yourself

Many students have gaps on either the computational side or the life sciences side of this interdisciplinary field. With the large number of free online courses available on the web, there are now ways to prepare yourself without going back to college and taking undergraduate courses. This is particularly attractive to adult learners who plan to return to a university for an advanced degree. If online courses do not work for you, many community colleges offer courses in a cost-effective way that get you started with courses in computer science or biology. The University of Minnesota Informatics Institute maintains a website with additional information on how to prepare yourself for a career in informatics.

If your undergraduate (or other postsecondary) degree is in the life sciences, you will likely have an excellent background in biology but you may not feel comfortable with taking a graduate level course in computer science. MIT Open Courseware through OCW Scholar offers an “Introduction to Computer Science and Programming” course that is free, self-paced, and is aimed at students with little or no prior experience in programming. Follow this course up with a course on Algorithms. There are a number of universities that offer the course for free: MIT Open Courseware offers “Introduction to Algorithms” (6.006), which has course materials available for free on the website. If you want video lectures with the course, take the course at Coursera, which offers the course from both Princeton and Stanford. If you find programming difficult, you may want to take a course in a programming language (Python, R, Perl, or Java) at a local community college or local university. There are also online programming courses available from Extension Services at universities, such as UC Berkeley Extension.

If your undergraduate degree (or other postsecondary) degree is on the computational side, you will likely have an excellent background in computer science, mathematics, or statistics, but may not feel comfortable taking graduate level courses in biology and biochemistry. MIT Open Courseware makes MIT’s chemistry courses freely available. To prepare yourself for biochemistry, you need some background in organic and general chemistry. To learn the language of modern biology, MIT’s “Introduction to Biology” course is a good start. This course is enhanced with video lectures. To learn more about genomics and computational biology, the “Genomics and Computational Biology” course from MIT is still relevant, although already ten years old. Another course of interest may be the “Genomic Medicine” course from MIT, which was taught in 2004. The three biology courses are all multi-media enhanced, that is, they include video and/or audio lectures. A more recent course in “Molecular Biology and Genetics in Modern Medicine” from MIT covers basic concepts in molecular biology and genetics in a clinical context. This course is not multi-media enhanced. Coursera offers a course on “Introduction to Genetics and Evolution” from Duke University, and a course on “Introduction to Genome Science” from the University of Pennsylvania.

Explore the full range of massive online open courses (MOOCs). They are available through iTunes U, Academic Earth, Coursera, MIT Open Courseware, Udacity, and EdX. New players in this field continue to enter the market. Many of these enhance the courses with Discussion Forums, which work well when students take the courses synchronously, such as on Coursera. Because of the large number of students simultaneously enrolled in these courses (often, in the thousands), questions asked by students get answered very quickly and the dialogue can be followed by others who may have similar questions.

7月17号上海梅龙镇签证被check，收走了我所有材料（自己&导师CV，study plan 等等），未告知缺少材料然后给了我一张红颜色的单子，上面说要行政审查四个周。

8月8号新生orientation，8月21号是first day of fall semester，问了学校的国际处，回复说orientation可以不参加，但是最好需要21号之前到达学校。

我的问题是 网上所说三周clear是不是很靠谱？有没有什么办法可以催大使馆尽快issue我的签证，比如告知大使馆我的开学日期？难道只能在家干等着大使馆的回复吗？

PS：我的国内本科学校是哈工大，听说是非常敏感的大学，另外我在美国的研究方向是先进材料加工，纳米制造。