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As an above posted said, UC Irvine is the top school for Graduate studies in Informatics. They have a whole DEPARTMENT for Informatics!!

The Bren School at UC Irvine is one of the best HCI schools out there, and is only climbing up the rankings.

If you aren't in any debt and can fund yourself without loans, I'd say go for it If you are in debt I'd say don't do it

Thanks. Please list all your sources, this is really helpful.

Here is my SoP I used, I'm still waiting back on responses: hi every1 im applying to ur program!!!!!!! *holds up spork* my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol...as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i applied to ur phil program, 2 meet random ppl like me ... im 20 years old (im mature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 watch invader zim w/ my girlfreind (im bi if u dont like it deal w/it) its our favorite tv show!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!!! shes random 2 of course but i want 2 meet more random ppl =) like they say the more the merrier!!!! lol...neways i hope 2 make alot of freinds here so please except me to ur program!!!! DOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <--- me bein random again hehe...toodles!!!!! love and waffles, * ~t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m~*

I disagree, UC Irvine's LPS is quickly climbing the ranks and will inevitable supplant Pitt. I say down the line, UCI will look better on a CV than Pitt.

UC Irvine has a Top 10 machine learning program.

Does anyone have any success stories of getting into grad school through a "back door". I mean, not through the traditional means in some way? Let me tell you my situation: So I have a 2.8 GPA and a BS in computer science from a top 50 university that is also a public state university. This summer I'm doing research work for a professor who gave me three A's/ A+'s. She is paying me money at part time hours. The graduate students in this professor's research group hint to me that if she signs the proper paperwork, anything can happen. Is it too much to assume that I can get back into this school for my PhD with this professor as my advisor??

I still think dinosaurs are the most important area of study bump

2.4 GPA UG, 2.2 major Stellar GREs, double 360's 2 Good letters of rec from previous employers, 1 good one from my favorite TA I've got balls of steel.

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I want to be a post doc for about ten years of my life, moving from state to state every two years because postdoc positions are not permanent. Eventually I will stop trying to get a TT position at a top university and start teaching at my local community college where all my "loser" friends from high school attended. Those "loser" friends have already made more money than I ever will in my life. Oh wait maybe I'm being too realistic. I WANNA BE A PROFESSOR AT STANFORD!!