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Thank you velua. You've helped me a lot and I am so grateful to all of you for replying.

Thank you velua. After reading through I realize the issue, but I fear that I wouldn't be able to raise my GPA high enough because I only have the summer semester to work on it. This is so unfortunate but I will try my best. I have looked into a few people at these universities and it is true that they have their GPA on their CVs. I am going to keep looking for schools that match best for what I intend to do and the GPA scale.

Thank you gorki! This has cleared up a lot of my doubts and I will continue to strive to maintain my GPA and will definitely look at other schools. "you should look at it by advisors rather than programs" makes a lot more sense. I will look into professors mainly involved in CV, in particular, vehicular vision. Do you think it is a good idea to contact them prior to sending my application?

Thank you so much for your quick reply! It has helped me a lot and I feel a lot better now. Just to reiterate, they WILL look at other criterion and not just solely base it off my GPA? I will definitely try and sell my SOP using the research angle as this is what I intend to do. Thank you for letting me know of other good schools for CV and I will definitely apply to them. In your opinion, I do have a chance to get accepted in at least one of the schools you mentioned? Also, will I be competing with Master's students for a PhD admission or will they consider jumping from BS to PhD a separate track? If the former, then do you think having 3 publications is good enough?

Hello all! This is my first post on this forum and to be honest, I am freaking out a little bit. I would like explain a little bit of my situation and let you all know what my dreams are. I greatly appreciate anyone willing to spend their precious time to read this and to help me out. I will be a senior this fall and I have a gpa of 3.55/4.0 (but it might go a tad bit lower due to poor grades). I do have a publication in a journal and a conference and am in the process of working with another professor throughout summer to hopefully yield another publication. I will giving my GRE this July. I am majoring in CS and minoring in Math and 'Game Design and Development'. I am extremely interested in academics and especially in the field of Computer Vision and AI as a whole. My dream is to get straight into a PhD program in a very good CS school like Carnegie Mellon or MIT, however, my biggest fear is the lack of a strong GPA will bring me down. I am worried sick and I know that the classes ahead of me will only bring my gpa down. I am unsure how much my research experience is going to help with my application or if they won't even see all that after just taking a look at my gpa. Once more, I greatly appreciate anyone trying to help me and I thank you for your time and patience.