explorer-c
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so even if I only worked with 1 prof for 6 semesters, I still have a chance with 1 great LoR and 2 useless ones?
Thanks
Yes if that 1 prof would vouch for you and send a personal email/phone one of the professors in your target university.
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I have yet to see a school that states CS GRE as a requirement. I did my undergrad outside US and got into several top schools without taking the CS GRE.
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I'm enjoying it while it last. Go out whenever I want. Hanging out with friends, staying out late, clubbing, etc. the kind of things that I probably wouldn't be able to do as freely once I became a grad student.
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Ok, you are absolutely right.
Instead of applying to 5 universities, maybe I would have to apply to 6. For example:
I am going to apply MIT and UC-Berkeley as the top universities.(2)
UI-Urbana-Champaign, according to USNews and World report has a 69% total admissions. Well, this data is perhaps confusing, but I want to try there too. (1)
UMich has a very good department too and Ann Arbor seems to be a great city. (1)
So, in conclusion I must choose other two universities to apply, and following your advice, I will choose that two trying to ensure the admission (although perhaps this is much to say...)
This is being a very useful thread for me, because now I am almost sure about 4/6 universities, and I have the guidelines in order to choose the other two left.
Thank you again angusBF!
Generally all the top 10 univ are considered top universities and all of them has around 10% or less admission rate for PhD students. So that means, while UIUC and Gatech might be easier to get into than MIT (which is always a crap shoot), they're still pretty hard to get into. Umich is just outside the top 10 and I believe also has a low admission rate for PhD (~15% I think, still not an easy university by any measure). So again, plan your applications accordingly. Just FYI, the average GPA for the accepted PhD students at the top 10 schools always hover around 3.7-3.8, and they also have plenty of research experience on top of that. That's why even a 4.0 GPA is not a guarantee for admission at any of those schools.
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Hey again,
I am wait-listed at MIT CS at the moment and I am really hoping to be accepted there by April 30th. Most people on this forum say that nobody ever declines offers from MIT, which is completely untrue. Faculty at MIT say that approximately half of all the offers they make are declined since the people who are accepted at MIT are likewise accepted at all the other top schools (Stanford, UCB, and CMU). So it's only a matter of how many reject *this* year. So we'll see.....perhaps with a little bit of luck a dream will come true :-). Otherwise, I'll see you at UNC this fall. I will be going for a Masters there for 2 yrs.
I didn't know UNC offers fully funded masters. Financially, do they give you the same deal like the PhD students?
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I have got thru MS at UMich and UPenn both Computer Science without aid. Which one should I choose. My interests are AI and Robotics
The two are perfectly comparable with UMich probably slightly better for CS. Since you're only going for masters, I'd say choose more based on the location.
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Is anyone here still on the wait list? Have you heard anything at all? I'm about to give up on ML admissions at this point.
Aren't you supposed to have given decision to your other schools by this point though?
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Go to San Francisco for a conference in June. The timing kinda sucks though because it's exactly in the middle of the world cup, but I pretty much have to come and present my paper. Anybody else going to CVPR? Maybe we can hang around to watch some football match together.
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thanks, I am looking for honest opinions here as I have been through this process and its a long & stressful one.
You still have time until the end of this year though. So if you can find a research position in a university and managed to publish I think it would be a significant boost for your application. Anyway, good luck! It's definitely a tough process. Also, definitely apply to more than just 1 university because even if you have a perfect profile, there's no guarantee that you'd get in.
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Hey,
I am thinking of applying for Ph.D. at CMU (software engineering). My credentials are: -
- 4+ years as software engineer in one of the big networking companies in US
- MS CS from US university (3rd tier) 3.75 GPA
- one publication in ISSRE 2006
- was TA for 3 semesters
- MCA from India (8/10)
- the sticking point is bachelor`s is non-science (it is business)
- i need to take GRE but the last time I took it I scored 2070 (Q:800, V:560, A:710)
what do you folks think? anything I can do to improve my chances?
Thanks!
To be honest there's nothing that particularly stands out from your application to warrant an admission to Software Engineering PhD at one of the top CS dept in the US. Sorry if it sounds harsh, but I'm just trying to be blunt here. 3.75 is not that high of a GPA for an MS, and it's not from a top tier university either. Your research credential is also average for an applicant with an MS. I think your best chance is to publish more and have someone really famous in Software Engineering write a glowing LoR for you.
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Hi,
I've got an admit to the MS in CS program. I've also got an admit to Georgia Tech. I'm finding it tough to choose between UNC Chapel Hill and GaTech. Any pointers, guys?
Depends on what your field is, but in most areas like vision, robotics, HCI, theory, etc gatech wins. But you're a master student, so I'd say research is less important. If i were you I'd choose more based on the location because the two universities are not that far apart in ranking (Gatech ~9-10 UNC ~20-25)
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Depends on what you want to do. For Graphics definitely Brown, for PL/Systems definitely UWisc.
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U. Maryland, College Park is one of the best computer vision schools (its group is huge)
How could I forgot UMD. Azriel Rosenfeld, the godfather of computer vision was there. He was deceased half a decade ago but UMD is still one of the best for computer vision.
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I'd say not that many people (relatively speaking) in the computer vision community work in SLAM. SLAM is more popular among robotics community, so I think you should try to focus more on finding a department with excellent robotics program instead of computer vision (because the two don't necessarily coincide). Having said that, of course the best option for you is to go with departments that are good in both like CMU, Stanford, MIT, Gatech. Unfortunately I think outside the top 10 it'd be harder to find good robotics program because robotics is rather resource heavy ($$$) compared to just pure computer vision research.
Anyway, here's a partial list of what I think to be a good computer vision program outside the top 10 and Oxbridge.
Europe:
- ETH Zurich
- Lund University, Sweden
- University College London
- MPI Germany
USA:
- Caltech
- UCSD
- UCLA
- Harvard
- NYU
- Columbia
I don't know which one among those have people working in SLAM, I'm not that familiar with robotics. But I know for sure that Caltech's robotics program is one of the best in the world.
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Main question is which one is better academically and why for this area (I know both are great, but I guess one has to have a slightly edge over the other).
Both are neck and neck and I'm sure nobody that is familiar with dsp would tell you otherwise. If you're doing PhD then I'd say go with the fit, but since you're doing masters, from an academic standpoint it honestly wouldn't matter which one you choose.
If you find other reason, not academics wise, that you might find important / relevant, please let me know too.
For me, location is just as important. They're located in two very different areas. If you like living in a small suburb, go with UIUC; if you like living in big metropolitan city, go with Gatech. If you like snow, go north, otherwise go south. Etc.
For what it's worth, I was faced with the same choice (but different program, CS PhD for me) and I go with Gatech because it's better fit for me and I prefer living in Atlanta compared to Urbana-Champaign.
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I'm also in Computer Vision. Take it for what it's worth but I definitely have heard more about UMD compared to Purdue.
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It's as simple as this: If you know how to maintain a computer, go for PC; there's no reason to go for a Mac. Otherwise, go for a Mac.
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A friend of mine who had his MS in CS from Stanford especially highlighted two things. One is the excellent networking opportunities at Stanford; second is the difficulty in getting access to the professors there. Compared to the time when he was an undergrad at CMU, the professors at Stanford are relatively difficult to get in touch with. I imagine Princeton with its smaller department would be more like CMU. Add to the fact that you have to pay to go to Stanford, that seems like a no brainer for me.
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Thanks for the info - did your application status change any time from "No decision has been made" ?
It did change, but about a week late from the official email notification from them.
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@MrRoboto and @explorer-c
Did you apply to the PhD in Robotics program through the College of Computing at Gatech?
Nope. PhD in CS for me.
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How hard is it to get full tuition waiver+TAships/stipends for *masters programs* at top 10 CS schools? When I was applying for grad school this past year, I didn't realize masters programs were ever funded (it looks like some people on these forums have gotten full funding from places like Cornell and Princeton), so I only applied to PhD programs.
And I managed to get into some top 10 PhD programs, but I'm not as absolutely in love with them as I thought I would be (the advisors I had in mind weren't as good a fit as I thought, didn't meet any other students at the visitings days with the same interests as mine), and in retrospect there were a bunch of programs that I should have applied to but didn't.
So I'm wondering if, instead of going to a school I don't think I'll be happy at, I should try applying for masters programs next year (and I'll hopefully be able to boost my application when doing the masters, and then apply for a PhD again).
Any thoughts?
If you don't like your current programs, then by all means reapply next year. But if you want funding I suggest that you still reapply for a PhD rather than master because a funded MS is very rare. In fact, I don't know any other top program other than Princeton that offers funding for an MS student.
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Hi,
I have an MS in Industrial Engg. offer.
Apparently, I wanted thesis option, but have got this. And an offer from Virginia Tech has made the choice difficult.
Hope to get a shift to PhD soon enough...
In any case GT IE would be a great destination by all aspects..
BTW I am an international student from India. Looking forward to meet potential poomies.
I know a guy there who was able to find a faculty to work with while he was still an MS student. He later went on to do PhD under different faculty. So I think you should be fine.
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Hi All,
If you have accepted any offer and not in dilemma any more. Post here
I have accepted the offer from Cornell
Joining PhD Computer Science.
I've narrowed it down to UIUC and Gatech. Finally choose Gatech because it's better fit and just as importantly, better location.
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I applied to Stanford PhD, they offered me MSCS without funding. I've a principle of not taking unfunded offer so I'm not going to take it. Besides, fortunately I already have other offers.
Stats: International, 3.3 overall 3.5 major GPA, 800/570/4 GRE (the least important stat I think), 2 publications with 1 of them as a first author in the best conference in my field. As you can see from the stats it's clear that my research credential is the factor that got me in. Anyway, don't feel bad for yourself. Way too many people applied to Stanford (or other top 10 programs, for that matter) so it's always a crapshoot. I hope you applied to other top 10 programs. I honestly believe they're just as good, so don't worry about not getting accepted to Stanford.
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