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This is correct, princeton's cs masters program is rather small (think 10-15 students per year) but AFAIK they all receive full TAship

Hey root-kefir, 3 room double means that there are 3 rooms for 2 people in the apartment : 2 bedrooms and one living room. You should have the unit number s.t. you can look on the floor plan for the layout (on the housing website: https://sp.princeton.edu/uservices/housing/floorplans/graduate/ you will need a puid though -- if you don't have one yet, pm me and I'll send you the pdf). In general 3 room doubles in OGC are very nice, congratulation!

Hey Ms Clio, you're welcome! Free breakfast is for graduate college resident only, you need to swipe in if you go to breakfast at one of the other residential colleges. It's a very average continental breakfast, but you can always bring your own stuff in to complement it. Take care!

Heyy MsClio! NGC is fine, and dining halls are a great way to meet people outside of your department imo. 95 meals is what the majority of people take and is enough for 6.5 meal a week, usually dinners monday through friday, sunday brunch. You also get free breakfast in GC and most people I know grab something to eat with their lab-mates for lunch. In my experience there wasn't that many people using the common kitchen, so it would be feasible to cook there regularly, although not sure if you'd want to after seeing them (they are rather unclean, which create some problem with insects...)

Hey adjunct, most contracts will be sent towards the end of May. If you need to contact the housing office, you should call them, they are notorious for ignoring emails.

No worries, grats and good luck at Stanford!

Hey Ronny, As cs_phd has written, GPA is just one of many thing they look for, and probably one of the less important: there might be a cut-off based on GRE/GPA, but after that, what counts is reference letters, research experience (including publications), and statement of purpose (mostly for fit with prof/department). You will be competing with master's students for phd spots, but the admin committees take in account the years spent in graduate school already when evaluating research potential...depending on the venues/first authorship, 3 publications coming out of BS is very good to excellent! By the way, cs_phd is right in saying there are other good programs in the field outside of big 4, you should look at it by advisors rather than programs -- you probably want to discuss with your undergraduate profs/LoR writers and grad students in your field if you have access to them about the reputation of different potential advisors before applying. Good luck with the applications!

As an update, seems like the college confidential post I linked was wrong, and "[...] undergraduate and graduate alumni ties [are] given equal weight" per Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye as reported in http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2015/05/legacy-status-remains-a-factor-in-admissions/

Most first year graduate students live in dorms (NGC, some OGC), but then move into apartment-style housing (lakeside, lawrence) for the remainder of their program. I don't find NGC that bad, and I'm glad I had a meal plan for the first year as it is quite convenient and it is probably the best way to meet people outside of your department. Sharing a bathroom with 5 other people is annoying ofc but the janitors clean it every day so there's no problem there... Also, you can ask for a two-room single in NGC if you want more space.

Yeah, you do participate in the incoming draw if you apply for housing by the April 15th (see https://hres.princeton.edu/graduates/incoming-students).On the application form, you will rank the different type of rooms from your favourite to the last one you would accept. You should probably avoid selecting "OGC double" if you don't want a walk-through. Good luck!

Yeah the "1 bedroom" all have one bedroom and one kitchen+living room. You can see the floor plans on the websites of Lakeside and Lawrence. If you select two bedrooms, you'll only occupy one bedroom, and (most likely) you will have a roommate living in the second bedroom. Good luck!

GC contracts are for 10 months, you can get a summer contract or you can decide not to (e.g. if you are away for an internship). Apartment contracts are for the whole year (July to the end of June), per https://hres.princeton.edu/graduates/my-housing/your-contract

This is false, afaik all cs masters admits to Princeton get TAship + tuition waiver which I assume is the package received by OP.

Thanks for sharing. I am also a current graduate student, and was asking because while, as bigrelief said, the divide is a common saying, it seems exaggerated, and I haven't felt, in my short experience, as a second-class student. bigrelief: regarding undergraduate clubs and events, most of them are open to graduate students as well. bleep_bloop: don't take the comments section of the daily too seriously...

Same experience here, although situation might be slightly different next year without Stanworth and Butler and with Lakeside. In any case, you should be able to get into Lawrence assuming, as Bleep_Bloop said, that you are flexible on the type of apartment. I don't think there's an official answer on this, but someone on http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/914031-child-of-graduate-school-graduates-a-legacy.html says probably not.