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    I don't see mine either now, but I'm not sure how else to view app status.
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    But with it being competitive you'll be even more awesome once you get in
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    Are you looking at the research wing of the companies you are looking to apply to? They occasionally have their own hiring site/job listings. I'm not in your field so I don't know if this fits but it looks like DOW Chemical has a rotational program for new research scientists, I'm sure others have similar programs if they aren't just hiring PhDs as research scientists fresh out of grad school. Your adviser will have contacts in the industry to hook you up with interviews too, so you should have a good amount of ways to find a career post-PhD.
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    Perhaps you'll get more candid answers once you are away from the student's adviser so you can get a more honest view of the program rather than what is crafted to recruit students.
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    Depends on your area. HCI? Yeah of course. Networks or HPC? Not sure it is as important.
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    A one button click to wipe out an application is pretty poor design on Duke's part, should apply to NC State instead :-) Seriously though, I doubt your application is lost forever. They should reply to you soon about restoring it. Only way you could tell is by using the status page or if the status page is different than the application page (ApplyYourself for Duke I think) try logging into that too.
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    Haha yea that happened to me with Five Guys. We got some to go before leaving on a trip and somehow a week later when I got in my car for the first time since we left it still smelled like Five Guys. So I drove to Five Guys again. Must be a marketing strategy...
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    Some schools don't meet until after the deadline so a late letter doesn't disqualify. There is also the possibility of a final deadline for materials that is later than your deadline to submit the app (my CMU app had a deadline of Dec 1st for reduced fee, Dec 15th for full fee, and Dec 31st for all materials including LoRs). It probably will disqualify once they start having to make admit decisions though, so if possible go have a face to face meeting with her in her office. Professors are usually knowledgeable on when their deliverables are actually due and know how important it is to the students they are writing for.
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    I did, 2 schools replied the next day that they updated my application with the transcript I sent. Another school just allowed me to do it on the application itself. The only one that didn't want fall grades was CMU. I'm not sure a few classes will make or break you but might as well try.
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    His racism against white people aside, I was curious and looked at the diversity numbers for Toronto (most every school keeps these). If you look at their Reports and Accountability page and read the Performance Indicator 2015 PDF you find that UoT has "The proportion of students, first and senior year, who reported that they are part of a visible minority is increasing at the University of Toronto and is higher than Canadian peer institutions." This also held true for first-generation students... Not sure how well someone will do in graduate programs when they use anecdotal "man I saw some white people" experience vs real data but that is just me...
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    I don't think you are a failure, you just need to understand the weaknesses you have and how to improve upon them (or cover them up with your strengths). If you are set on working a few years first you should get at least 2 professors from your MS to agree to write you LoRs now for when the time for PhD apps comes (your third can be from work). If you are doing a thesis try to get a paper published from your work, a publication will really help during PhD apps since that is basically your job during a PhD. Everyone has a different path to take. So don't think that because you aren't exactly like what you think is the norm it precludes you from PhD-level grad school.
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    Our first semester we had a seminar class where professors would come and present their work so you would know if you wanted to work with them in research. One of the professors was asked about his reputation for teaching a pretty hard class with a tough grading scheme. His reply was "would you rather get an A and learn nothing or a B/C and learn a lot"... I wouldn't take a B as failing if you are at the GPA you need to not be on probation/graduate, research matters much more. I'm not sure your interviews after getting your PhD will lead with "oh you made meaningful contributions to X science? BUT WHAT ABOUT THAT B THOUGH?".
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    Also, you aren't stuck doing research with only professors at the university you go to. I am just a lowly MS student right now but by the end of my last semester I will have worked with professors at 3 other universities. So don't think that picking a university that provides better support and quality of life for you prevents you from working with who you want to.
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    Hotline Miami
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    I was really jealous that bio programs were getting results early and nothing is happening in CS yet, but this drama yo... No one cares if your school can beat up someone else's school. Go write or read or play some games.
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    They are probably using the US versioning of dates of Month/Day. Makes more sense that way when the deadline to submit for admission with financial aid is Dec 1st but the absolute deadlines without aid are later (March and May 1st). I agree that it might be confusing since the world using a different standard. Every CS department I applied to spelled out the month (so December 1st rather than 12/1)
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    am i doomed

    .letmeinplz// replied to cmykrgb's topic in Biology

    You can contact the department with an updated CV saying you had a typo. Worst case you leave it and have research experience that a lot of applicants don't have anyway. Also your SOP probably discusses your research projects correct? What you actually did matters a lot more to professors than some arbitrary number of days (I assume).
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    Do you mean University of Wisconsin - Madison? If you use http://csrankings.org/ you can look at the professors that have published at SIGGRAPH and TOG as well as UW-Madison's rank compared to every other school with average publications as a metric (just turn off all research areas except for Computer graphics since that is your interest). If you click the drop-down for UW-Madison you get links to each professor's website and can look at their research there.
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    Also if this candidate is some top% of the applicant pool they normally get they probably want to try to get them to accept admission before other programs might also admit them. I know I won't be waiting around for long after the first admit to figure out where I am going (there is probably 1 school I will be waiting for an answer before giving mine).
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    Did your apps not take in an unofficial score (you can dl a pdf with all the info from ETS)? They take your reported results at face value and once you are admitted is when official results/transcripts/etc really matter (if they don't match up your offer is rescinded). A few of mine even said not to send the official results until I get admitted, sort of how you don't mail in your transcripts until admittance. Also the GRE is probably the least looked at thing of your application, I think you'll be fine. And many don't update that they received the official GRE until they accept/reject you, it is possible they have it already if you sent it via ETS.
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    For MS I mentioned both networks and AI because I had not yet decided and I got in fine. So even if your interests are in too different areas it shouldn't matter too much in MS apps. Just make sure you talk about why each area is of interest and your work in them.
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    Not sure about your field, but I do know some that have already started reviewing applications in mine.
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    Why not extra credit as part of the assignment and not some separate work? Recently my HWs had several requirements for a system we had to build, and then an extra component you could build for an extra 10-20%. You still have to complete and work hard on the assignments but if you work even harder you get more points for an assignment.
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    Both require 30 credits, only difference is the allowable electives and the core classes. CS will probably afford you a little more freedom to take a course outside of data analysis/management (assuming that is the track for MS in Computing you would take). So if you see a course outside of your specific emphasis area that interests you, you could take it. They explain it in your link you posted. For Computing, the curriculum in each area is tailored for you. For Computer Science, it is a common framework between the X amount of emphasis areas. So you choose an emphasis by the electives you choose to take.
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    It definitely differs between departments and even professors within the departments, some are fine with it and some warn against it.. But if you mentioned them in the SOP (or if the application had you list professors you were interested in, I've had some that specifically listed professors I was interested in as "readers" of the application) you can probably consider that as contact. They will most likely be notified of your interest if they are not already on the admissions committee after you make it passed any initial culling of applicants. Unless you have some kind of connection with them (you or your advisor has done research with them, etc) it is a little late to email with "hey it's me, your potential GRA".
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