Malgor

AGT is the current trend in CS theory as my Master's advisor says, so I think this was expected. Both of you are my competition ;-). However, I hope that we will all get in one of the Universities we mentioned. Thus, I guess we need to cooperate in the sense that when admitted to a University we withdraw our application to the "less interesting". What does MPI stand for?

Well your interest seem to be identical to mine. I haven't received any information yet (I applied to 17). Where did you apply? Mine are MIT UC Berkeley Stanford Cornell Washington Gatech Southen California Columbia University UC San Diego Yale Brown NYU Stony Brook Northwestern Waterloo UC Santa Barbara RPI Can you tell me plz, where was the interview from?

I would like to ask whether the graduate admission comittee will consider a higher GPA in your current graduate studies than your undergraduate. For example in my case I have 8.5/10.00 in my undergraduate (I think it is safer not to make any conversion, but according to some estimates this grade is greater than 3.4 which is the raw conversion). My current graduate GPA (Master) is 10.00/10.00 with 75% credits completed. Obviously undergraduate GPA may count more since the curriculum consists of c.a. 40 courses, while the Master curriculum consists of c.a. 10 courses. However, do you think that they will simply ignore the graduate GPA?