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I can tell you a bit about NYU and NYU-Poly. NYU is much stronger in theory related topics. NYU's CS department is part of the Courant Institute. My impression of Poly is that their program and students are more focused on programming. Poly does share all of NYU's resources since it has become it's engineering school. You can access all NYU facilities and use all of its services like every other NYU student. Also, Poly students can take a number of courses at Courant that'll count towards their degree. I don't remember how many, I think it's 3 courses. Personally, I think Poly has a pretty good reputation with employers around here. On the other hand, I've also heard a lot of bad things about Poly though even after the merger. Just to put it out there since you mentioned information systems, you might be interested in it, NYU has a master's program in information systems. It's a program between NYU Courant and NYU Stern, where you take half the required courses in each school. Basically your curriculum is half cs courses and half business courses.
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Girlfriend (London) vs stipend (Paris)
Flandre Scarlet replied to thecage's topic in Decisions, Decisions
Paris. -
Queens College vs College Staten Island (New York)
Flandre Scarlet replied to Juanmihd's topic in Decisions, Decisions
After briefly skimming their cs pages, I think CSI definitely has a much better fit for your interests. Queens college hasn't offered any courses in pattern and language recognition this past spring and isn't offering any for this coming fall semester. I've always had the impression that QC is generally better in cs though (maybe that's not true). If you're certain that you'll stick with pattern recognition, I'd pick CSI. Otherwise, I'd go with QC. -
I only applied to two schools, both of which is in NYC. I didn't think of it at the time, but if I had applied to more, I would still only pick schools in the city. The city had what I wanted and I couldn't afford to pay living out of state. On top of that I have to live with my family, so applying in-city was pretty much my only option.
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Need help with pseudocode algorithm assignment
Flandre Scarlet replied to remsta's topic in Coursework, Advising, and Exams
Well, think about what needs to be done and what are the steps to achieving it in plain English. You can do all this in a single "function." hints: 1. What needs to be stored? 2. What to do for each value that the user enters? You need to do something to calculate the max, min, count, and average. How to do each of those as the user enters each value? Hope that helps. -
How's Singapore for Computer Science?
Flandre Scarlet replied to skyoyo's topic in Decisions, Decisions
Let me correct that, I guess you aren't burning bridges since you are just withdrawing from the program. I'd take the PhD offer because PhD > masters in almost every way. On top of that, you're probably not going back to your current school after you get your PhD, so it wouldn't matter if you leave. -
How's Singapore for Computer Science?
Flandre Scarlet replied to skyoyo's topic in Decisions, Decisions
Burning bridges. But, I'd take the PhD offer. -
I've always thought that your chances of getting into a PhD program are higher if you do a master's thesis. I don't know how it works at other schools, but at NYU, you only have the option to write a thesis if you have at least a 3.7 gpa in the foundational courses. To me, the people choosing the thesis option are a bit more distinguished. At the very least it shows that you can do research.
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Is Magoosh really good as they claim
Flandre Scarlet replied to Dot1's topic in Decisions, Decisions
Their free vocab resources are pretty good. -
ETH Zurich vs. University of Cambridge (Ph.D. Mech. Eng.)
Flandre Scarlet replied to itsmi's topic in Decisions, Decisions
Whichever one you think you will have a better life in over the next couple years. I'd take Cambridge. I like England. That's about it. Oh, and the name. -
USC vs. NYU-Poly: Biomedical Engineering
Flandre Scarlet replied to CBME's topic in Decisions, Decisions
USC is better. Tell them you want to back out from the program for personal reasons. You'll just lose the tuition deposit. -
Well, depends on how problematic cost is. I'd choose Purdue and reapply for a PhD later. No funding for PhD is gonna suck.
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CUNY Hunter vs. CUNY City College Mathematics
Flandre Scarlet replied to tinycat1969's topic in Mathematics and Statistics
I went to Hunter for undergrad. It's a pretty good school. A couple of computer science professors I had also taught math at the Graduate Center, they're good professors in my opinion. I don't know much about either school's graduate math programs. Which one fits your interests better? I think that's probably the most important factor. Let me know if you have any questions I might be able to answer about Hunter. Hope this was useful in some way. -
Between UIUC and Stony Brook, I would decide based on the strengths of each department. Whichever one is better at what you're interested in, you should go with it. Also, I don't think it's just reputation that UIUC wins over Stony Brook on, I'm pretty sure UIUC will offer a better education as well. That is not to say that Stony Brook sucks.
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I guess I had a similar problem with "missing documents", but it was with my letter of recommendation. NYU's site says that they only accept letters of recs online, unless under some exceptional circumstances, they will take paper recs. Well, I submitted one of my recs on paper. A month later, I was told I was missing required documents. I called them to find out what happened. It was really the paper rec that they said was missing, but they said they had found it already. Problem was solved after that.
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I have no research experience, so I don't even know if I'll like it. But, I'd like to contribute something to the field. I love algorithms, I'd love to be paid studying them. Other than that, I suck at everything. School's the only thing I'm half decent at. I probably won't end up with a PhD though. Economic reasons and incompetency =(.
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Agree with Rantar.
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Masters of Computer Science - CU Boulder vs. Georgia Tech
Flandre Scarlet replied to jeffmag's topic in Decisions, Decisions
I agree with everyone above. Georgia Tech. I don't think GA Tech is industry and application focused. I believe the US News rankings are based on PhD programs (I could be wrong), which makes GA Tech quite the academic school in CS. -
Hey there, I very briefly skimmed both school's cs pages. Both have dedicated faculty in your interests. NCSU does appear to have a much larger department and more research areas. Having options is always a good thing. Did you go through all the faculty's areas of research? You'll probably find out which school is stronger in data science and networks doing that. I don't know anything about the two cities, can't tell you much about job prospects, funding, or student life.
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What's the average undergrad GPA like in your uni?
Flandre Scarlet replied to gradcoffee's topic in The Lobby
I would say my undergrad school's average is around 2.9-ish. Big public university in New York City. -
From the beginning, studying for the GRE
Flandre Scarlet replied to suprrupe05's topic in GRE/GMAT/etc
I would start here: http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/prepare?WT.ac=grehome_greprepare_b_130807 On that page, scroll down to Math Review. It's review of all the concepts on the test.