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I'll be going there but as a CS PhD student, not HCI. Although I'll definitely try to do some collaborative work with the people in HCI. In my opinion, Gatech's HCI is right up there with CMU and MIT. As far as I can see, they have excellent placement record for their PhD graduates.

I've decided to take their offer. It's a grueling decision but hopefully it's the right one for me. I'm an international and I'll be joining them as a CS PhD student.

In the word of my advisor: When you got into top 10 universities, it would make very little difference which one you choose. This is even more true if you do research because ultimately your advisor will be the one that has the most influence on your future job. If you're still unsure about it, do a quick check on the alumni page of the labs in the two universities. I bet both have similar placement record.

If you have visited both campuses, would you mind describing what you think about them?

I don't know about OR but in CS I heard Cornell practically offers every rejected PhD applicant an M.Eng. This is probably an exaggeration but I think the point is it is very likely for a rejected PhD applicant to get an M.Eng offer.

I believe that only applying to MIT is your biggest mistake. There are too many excellent candidates and too few available spots. I don't buy the 'only MIT do your kind of research' thing. I believe if you really look into it, there are a few other excellent schools that are doing the kind of research that you want. It doesn't have to be a perfect fit because you can always put your own spin to it. After all, it is going to be YOUR research. And trust me, choosing other universities won't necessarily make your research "lame". Anyway, you have a great profile and I wish you luck for your future application.

I have a similar problem only even more confusing, to choose between GT (rank 9 CS, not that highly rank overall) and another university (rank 6 CS, Top 5 overall). After careful consideration I chose GT because it has the best fit for me, and also because the excellent graduate placement record in the lab that I want to join (a few even go on to be a faculty in other top ranked university). So, here's my suggestions to your questions: 1. Rather than ranking I would look at a particular lab that you want to join and see the placement record for their alumni. 2. If you think you have an equally good fit at both university, I personally will always choose the larger faculty simply because I will have more options and collaboration opportunities.

My current advisor used to work with him before he joined GaTech. Anyway, expect a few PMs soon

Thank you! I'm into Computer Vision. I think it's almost certain that I'll be going there, but we'll see. Have you received the snail mail acceptance letter?

I just got an acceptance email from GaTech! This is one my top choices. Anyone else consider going there?

I got accepted into GaTech!! For my research interest, CMU is the only other place that is probably better than GaTech. They already said nay to me but that doesn't matter. I'm still very ecstatic about this . If you don't mind, I'll send you a pm to ask more about GaTech or Atlanta in general. Btw, you said in one of your posts that your undergrad research advisor is advised by Kanade. Are you talking about Jim Rehg? If you are, then I think we might be 'related' academically. Haha

GaTech is great for computer vision! It's one of my top choices . Do you have any comments about studying at GaTech?

Yes. As far as I know, CMU RI hasn't sent any decisions yet.

Hey, I remember seeing your posts in last year's thread. You're at RI if I'm not wrong? Do you happen to now anything about RI decisions this year?

Where did you see the results from RI? There's definitely none in the result page in here. I know that from previous years, RI tends to send the decisions a bit later than the other institutes, and HCI is even later than RI.

Me too. CMU RI is my top choice. Fortunately I think the RI has a tradition on sending out decisions later than the other institutes in CMU.

I think we already have this in the subforum. For Engineering: For CS:

Come on guys, other majors have their threads. We should have ours too! I know there are plenty of CS applicants in here. I've noticed that results are starting to come out. My field is computer vision but I haven't heard anything yet. Any news from your target schools?

10 and I'm genuinely interested to all of them. I think 10 is pretty standard; my professor got his PhD from a top program in his field and even he encourages me to apply to at least 10 universities

Hi to you too, I'm planning to apply to EECS myself for next year. I've been reading a lot, so I'm gonna respond based on what I've read so far Good, anything above 3.5 would be fine. But just out of curiosity, what is exactly your GPA? What field are you in and what are the conferences? Will you be the first author in any of those 3-4 papers? Good (see my 1st answer) For verbal, anything 450 and above is fine. For writing, 4 and above. Your quant is a bit low though for EECS, it might raise an unwanted warning flag to the admission committee. Try push it to >750. What is the nature of your work? Did you do any research while you're there? Who are you going to ask for LoR and finally what field are you going for? I can only give you an informed answer if you answer my questions above.