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Hello! Does anybody know when are Stanford's MS&E PhD decisions going out? Their FAQ page says early February.

I agree with qualthian that you should apply if it's your dream school, especially if other parts of your application (research experience, publications, industry experience, recommendation letters or GRE) are strong. According to this: http://cs.stanford.edu/content/faqs#b15 you meet the minimum GPA requirements for MS at Stanford.

Hi Owego, My 2 cents: I don't really know if the program is "prestigious" and what weight it carries with employers. However, Penn is a great university (not quite sure how strong they are in CS though) and I took a look at the course requirements for the program; they are essentially the core CS classes for an undergraduate degree in CS. In fact, I believe if you master the material you shouldn't find trouble finding a job in the software world (in my experience so far software companies really care more about if you can actually code than where you got your degree from; the most the degree can do for you is get you to the interview stage). Hope that helps.

Congratulations for those who got in

I am frankly surprised, I can't imagine what their criteria might be. I'm hoping it's not the GRE so it looks like research experience is also important for them

I didn't get in

Aghh!! I hope that doesn't mean one more week of waiting

Does anybody happen to know if they're still going to be on time? Panicing!

CS242, CS243, CS245, CS255

Thanks justsayani! Wow, that's more nerve wrecking than I thought.

I really wish it's tonight but I am not at all confident, if I have to take a bet I'd say next week at the earliest. Hopefully I'm wrong

Thanks ssk2. Interesting blog post btw

I really hope you guys are right

Their webpages (e.g. http://cs.stanford.edu/content/phd-and-ms-programs) now say that the decisions will be sent by end of March, instead of 16th March as it was until recently. I was hoping to know the decision by the end of this week Does anybody know what they're planning to do?

Same here.

Thanks all for your replies, I feel better now lol josefchung: Yeah I did try to do that but being a remote NDO student it was hard to get the professors to know me enough to write a meaningful letter. Good luck ssk2 and pogopuschel with your applications too, hopefully we can become colleagues soon!

Apologies if I am not adhering to board policies by posting this, I'm new here and saw many similar posts I applied for the MS CS program at Stanford Fall 2013. I work full-time as a Software Engineer so I am looking to enroll in their Honors-Coop option. My undergraduate GPA is very high (equivalent to 4.0/4.0) and I graduated first of my class but I am an international student and come from a rather unknown school. I took 4 graduate courses CS at Stanford as a non-degree student (1 A+, 2 A and 1 A-). 2 LoR from professors from my undergraduate college and 1 from my manager at work which should be good. 90% percentile in Quantitative GRE but mediocre/low scores for Verbal and AWR (English is not my first language...). I have no research experience but about 2 years of industry experience at a major software company. Thoughts? Waiting is making me anxious