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  1. Just to clarify, I chose the funded PhD, and despite the opportunity to withdraw and take an unfunded MS offer or wait another year, I will absolutely still go to the PhD. I enjoyed the research my advisor was doing and the program gives me a lot of flexibility with research and coursework. I just want to know if I'm shooting for somewhere in academia, have I killed my chances by not going to one of the top 15 MS programs and then shooting for a high ranking PhD later? Looking back now, I messed up a lot in the application process (bad SOP, only had one research project that I had started a few months before applying, one good letter of rec). Enough that the 3 top 15 MS programs deferred me to their MS (I applied PhD but they offered me MS instead). I think I could have done incredibly well in their MS programs and I'll even have a paper published by the time I leave undergrad (didn't have it at application time). I will certainly go to the PhD program, but did I do myself a disservice by not taking a year off and reapplying?
  2. I am waiting on two universities that I have seen send out rejections for. Is it good or bad that I haven't heard anything. It would mean I still have a shot, right? There is LITERALLY no reason they would reject other people and not me if I didn't have a shot still, right? I haven't been interviewed by either program, which isn't good. But, why would they space out rejections if they weren't still considering me?
  3. So, I've seen a bunch of rejects to their PhD programs, while I have yet to hear anything. Is this good news or bad news? I was never contacted for an interview with either school. I don't understand why they would space rejections out if I don't have a shot. This is quite frustrating. I've called them both and I get the stereotypical response, "It often takes a long time to review these applications." Anybody have any insight?
  4. Is it cool to do this if you haven't talked to the POI? I'm in a situation where I'm waiting on a school that has sent out a good amount of rejections, but I have heard nothing. I would assume this is good news, but I'm not able to wait much longer. Is it unreasonable to email the POI without ever having been in contact with them before?
  5. I hear Matlab has good support for statistics, although I haven't used it myself. Whatever language you use though, make sure you have a good environment / easy-to-use graphical interface to develop in (they are called IDEs). You can have the best language for statistical analysis, but if you have to learn how to code via the command line you'll be having a whole other host of issues that will slow you down
  6. I had a 160/170/3.50 V/Q/AW on the GRE, 3.8 GPA with several grad courses taken, several TA positions, 2 years of research and 3 excellent letters of rec and I've been rejected from 7 schools, accepted to 1, and haven't heard anything back from 4 others (I'll just assume those are rejections given the pattern). I only applied to 2 schools in the top 10, the other 10 schools were uniformly distributed in the 11 - 40 range. Have all y'all been getting wrecked this application cycle or is it just me?
  7. I would retake the GRE if I were you, I here a lot of places have cutoffs that, if you don't meet them, can get your application automatically thrown out
  8. Pretty much where I'm at. The stats for people accepted to Columbia's PhD have been INSANE. They can't be finished yet, those people probably got offers from other schools
  9. Apart from a few schools, are the majority of PhD admissions pretty much done? I'm gearing up to get rejected from probably 10 schools if that's the case
  10. I saw that they had admitted a large number of people in January, but not much since then? Does anyone know if they are finished?
  11. I really like everything I've heard so far about Northwestern, is anyone currently enrolled in the program that can tell me how they like it?
  12. I have a fairly strong application, 3.78 GPA, 160V, 170Q, 3.5AW, My leading recommender knows faculty at every university I'm applying to and we are working together to submit a paper by November, my other is publishing a LOT and I got an A+ in his graduate class, and my other is a professor I TA for that seems to really like me. The only problem is that freshman year I got a B+ in an honors accelerated calc class, and first semester sophomore year I got a B in honors discrete math and a B+ in diff eq. Does this ruin my chances of getting into a top 10 masters program? I got A's in every other computer science and math course I've taken. I only want to get into UT Austin, but I fear I may have ruined my chances by being lazy my freshman and sophomore year.
  13. I'm looking at UT Austin and around 5 other schools in the top 20, but I mostly was interested in how I would fare applying to UT Austin. I don't go to a high ranked CS school, think top 50, but I've got 3 solid letters. One from a professor I TA for, one for a very well known author, and one great letter from a person that knows faculty at UT. Unfortunately, I didn't do so well in my first few semesters, getting a B+ in my honors accelerated calc class, a B+ in diff eq and a B in honors discrete math. Most of that can be explained by the fact that I thought I'd be doing premed and I had no motivation for those courses at the time. However I've gotten A's in linear algebra, multivariable calc, and algorithms, and every other course I've taken for CS, including 4 courses at the graduate level. Those grades are the only real flaw in my application. I've done research for 1.5 years, although I haven't published anything. My gre scores were 160V, 170Q. I really would like to go to UT, however I'm afraid its out of my league. Is there even a shot of me getting in?
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