heyo

Did you end up talking to the CS dept?

I don't know what to tell you... Do you have a professor from undergrad you could ask? Maybe a former letter writer

Well that changed quickly. Seems like CMU is sending out a bunch of rejections right around now, including to myself.

I applied to the first four on your list plus few others and have heard nothing at all...

Last year's visit was March 10. Anyone know if no interview implies rejection?

I applied for CS here; our deadline was Dec 1, and I still haven't heard anything. I've seen USC take until June on the results pages...

Saw this post? "I talked to the office, they said due to the snow their office is not working at full capacity, so the results will be sent out by end of this week hopefully." I'll accept my rejection when it's Friday and I haven't heard back.

probably a good read before applications, but now that mine are submitted, there is no way I'm looking at that.

Anyone out there?

http://eecscal.mit.edu/Pages/CalendarViews/MonthView.aspx?RoomId=3&Date=1%2f29%2f2014+12%3a00%3a00+AM (See Jan. 31) Also heard they do not do interviews.

I think a large reason is the nature of the test. I think doing perfect often requires a knack for learning "tricks" that let you really quickly know or intuit answers. While many CS and Math students could logic their way through all of the questions, it would take a lot longer than the minute or so you have to complete them. It doesn't help that you'd also need to use their crappy calculator or calculate by hand, both of which add to the time constraint. I don't think most of these students are generally well prepared to quickly hand-wave through a lot of low-intensity problems, with a full bladder, dry mouth, and a lot of the other issues involved with the test itself.

I remember the PowerPrep software version's estimate to be pretty much spot on. I never bought Magoosh but used it to prep.

If it's something you want to do, go for it! I would seriously doubt you'd be rejected because of your GPA from 10 years ago considering everything you have been doing in the meantime, though I'm only an applicant myself.

Does anyone have experience or input in this area? I graduated from a US university for undergrad, and I've already applied for some PhD programs in the US. I'm prepared for the outcome where I don't get into any of them, and I've been considering all options. I've decided that the PhD won't be worth it to me if I have to pay for it, or if my prospects afterwards would not be great (if I went to Podunk U., say) I forget exactly how I came upon it, but I found that there is basically a lot of stuff going on in my research interests/area (robotics, specifically) at Seoul National University, and I've started to consider it. At the same time, I wonder what my prospects would be having received a PhD (or say, a Masters only) from there or from other universities outside of the US. I don't hear much of US students leaving the country for post-graduate work.

I'd be fine if my schools just gave me dates when I'd be notified.

So.. GRE $185, 3 extra score reports $75 + 7 app fees = $810 This even seems to be on the low end and I thought it was ridiculous. This south park kind of comes to mind...

Woops. guess I should have done that

You should definitely call or email them, yes, but I think if it were really too late the online application would have prevented submission.

I would send the program an email to see if you can get an extension on the decision.

One of my schools asked for research papers, etc. to be submitted. I sent in one short conference paper and my ug thesis, which was 40 pages; in retrospect, this seems to have been a bit of poor discretion on my part, but it is sent. Can I safely assume that if I'm correct in thinking so, the paper will just be tossed by some administrator and won't serve to piss off the committee?

After scanning a bunch of obscure and google-translated message boards, my impression is that if I want to get an RA/TA-ship, I should select "Yes" for the first question, and "Part-time work" for the second. This may or may not be right, but it's probably what I'll submit, in case it helps anybody.

Generally, will there be an online system where I can check whether a school has received and matched my GRE scores, transcripts, etc. after submitting, in time for it not to affect my application? I am mostly asking because for one school, it's somewhat conflicting and unclear which GRE code I need to submit the scores to; I made one best-guess, and I'd rather not spend the money to send them again if won't be necessary.

Some of my applications say to include career objectives in my SOP. I think it's obvious that my current goal is to become a professor or get involved in a research-oriented non-academic position - why else would I want to go for a PhD? I don't really want to add this information in my SOP, because I feel there is nowhere it really fits and would only serve to make my SOP sound more choppy and less cohesive. However, even more so, I don't want the people reading it to consider this a major affront. Edit: just realized another application asks for this, and also has a separate box for career objectives. Ugh.

One of my applications asks me twice - in two different sections - to list research topics and professors I'm interested in working on/with. It also asks me to describe my research experience and list citations for any published papers (and it also asks for a list of publications elsewhere!). This is frustrating me, because these things include the majority of my statement of purpose. I don't feel that copy/paste is a good solution, but if I take these things out of my SOP, there's basically nothing left. Why do they ask these questions multiple times when I think they're generally things that are expected to be addressed in the SOP? Is it appropriate to just list names/areas where I can, and for things that suggest a longer response to say something like "please see statement of purpose"?

I am filling out an application for a PhD in CS, and I'm not really sure how to handle this section. I only intend to enroll in a program assuming I get funded fully by a stipend or similar from the school. How should I answer these questions? "Please indicate if you will apply for, or are interested in financial assistance including federal loans, work-study and private financing programs." (Yes/No) "Please indicate if you are available for any of the following types of employment: Temporary work Part-time work Benefits-eligible full-time work" I know that sometimes funding ends up consisting of a Research or Teaching Assistant type position. Are these questions asking if I'm interested in this sort of thing or in some additional odd job?