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I am done with all of my applications as of 12/13. The last few months have been the perfect sh*t storm with a lot of personal, family, and school related problems, not to mention health and anxiety problems for the first time in my life.

I am also feeling the void that comes with having nothing to do other than waiting. But I plan on using this time to completely detach and wind down. I've been doing way too much lately and it's time to just be. This is the perfect time to practice letting go of everything that causes thoughts about what may or may not happen. We did what we had to do, and we did the best we could. Now there's nothing more to be done. So, just let go.

I'm wondering if I have a shot at CS PhD programs at any of the above schools?


GPA: 3.66, double major at Vanderbilt in CS and math
CS GPA: 3.94
GPA last two years: 3.89 (did degree program in 3 years)

GRE(assumed--need to take): 166 verbal, 166-170 quant, 5.5 writing

Have previous degree from liberal arts college in art
Have written ACT math questions for a textbook in all major bookstores
Taught SAT classes in Thailand and in US
Found mistake in national standardized test in high school

Did internships at Harvard, MIT, NASA (all were in astro/aero, but I did CS work)
(also admitted to internships at Princeton, Stanford, Caltech, Harvard--in CS)

Published papers in philosophy, biology, physics, (might get an aerospace engineering pub by the fall)

Run marathons

And if I can't do that, I'll settle for solving problems.

I want to add to humanity's knowledge of the world.

This isn't a beauty contest; what do you actually want to do that isn't the fanciful ravings of a poet?