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spatra101

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    New York
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    2016 Fall
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    Computer Science

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  1. Hey, the company you applied for.. was it for an internship or was it a full time position?
  2. So this is kinda off topic but this is where I can find most experienced people in computer science. Any advise or insights will be helpful. Recently, I applied to a company for a software developer internship (Very big multinational company but not primarily tech). I had a phone interview with the HR and then 2 interviews with the engineering team. During the phone interview, the HR rep. asked me for my GPA, since its low and not mentioned on my resume. Hesitating I said 3.0 when in fact, it is 2.8. Well, that was over and I did very well in the other 2 technical interviews. Turns out, I have been offered the position. However, they will be doing a background check (vendor is First Advantagee). Do you guys think they will access my transcripts and verify the GPA amongst other things? Some things I have heard so far... 1. most of the time, companies only check to see if the applicant is enrolled or not and degree status. 2. Because of FERPA, most schools will not disclose transcripts and GPA information. Has anyone gone through something similar ? Thanks.
  3. I am going to be applying for graduate school (M.S.) for Fall 2016 in Computer Science this year. So I want to see if anyone has any insights or comments or advise for my profile since it's not the best... I started college at school A and went there for 2 years before transferring out to school B. School A is a medium sized not so famous urban university (something like SFSU) and school B is a huge flagship state school (something like ASU). I performed very poorly at school A due to several reasons which I plan to explain in my SOP and ended up with a ~2.6 GPA. However, >80% of the courses at school A were general ed. liberal art courses. I will be graduating from school B with about a ~3.2 GPA. Now since most competitive graduate schools set minimum (sometimes recommended) requirements at 3.0. Do I have a chance? If both my GPA's are averaged, they would average to about ~2.9. Some pluses in my profile (I think): 2 student assistant positions of technical nature (technical assistant & Enterprise Infrastructure assistant) 1 summer internship in software engineering at JP Morgan. Also, in regards to the GRE, I'm taking it in the summer this year so I still have a fairly good amount of time to get better. My mocks right now are giving me 310-315. By the summer I'm confident of a score between 315-325. Some things I have heard from people: 1. People have gotten in with GPA's < 3.0, either because of work experience or their Technical GPA was high. 2. Grad admissions mostly care about your grades in major related courses... 3. You can ace the GRE, write a strong SOP and get good LOR's and it just might work.. BTW, the schools I plan on applying to are: UC - Davis UC - Santa Barbara UC - Santa Cruz Virginia Tech UC - San Diego Ohio State University at Buffalo SUNY What do you guys think? anyone in or was in a similar situation? any comments, insights,.. anything will be appreciated!
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