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Updating the Thread and closing this. UWashington - Reject UCSD - Admit. UCSB - Admit. DUKE - Admit. Stanford- Reject.

Thank you all who posted replies. A special thanks to grotesqueidols, Gaiden59, DJLamar, farseer (Thanks http://forum.thegradcafe.com/uploads/emoticons/default_smile.png' alt=':)'> ), thisAintNoGame !

It looks like we deviated a little away from the required information. Can any one share or compile some typical selection processes? Say from previous exp in school A(need not give name) they have multi round selection, in school B they have a single round and so forth.Also it would be nice to have in the forum a collection or 1 main sticky on the top with info such as top schools for CS PhD broken down with specialization and typical requirements/range of scores, for admission. Thanks.

Thank you all. I will keep you posted. The reason I have posted here is statistically if you observe the last 4 years of admits and rejects displayed in gradcafe and other such databases, you would observe that the admit decisions are made early, and rejects follow. (especially for the schools I applied). Now I have not even heard via email from any of them. So wanted to find out if any blunder in my profile exists which I should fix? Thank you again and any such feedback will be appreciated.

Agreed. Thank you grotesqueidols and tempProfileS I will consider your feedback as well.

Thank you Gaiden59 and thisAintNoGame. I would like to keep this thread open a little long to see if I can gather additional feedback. Yes, generally what you mention makes total sense( Don't know if we can apply Bregman divergence in my field: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bregman_divergence ). SOPs are tailored to areas and some of my ideas of work in the professors areas were mentioned. I am into AI and did get to publish at the tier 1 or premier conferences (ACM,IEEE, AAAI, SIGKDD, ICML, another IEEE and more). I also got 2 travel awards for the tier one conferences. Frankly I had no time for GRE(It was a walk-in exam), but I would make a note of the same and rewrite if I apply next year. GPA also has its magic agreed, but imagine taking your classes via video while traveling from conference to conference for one full year ... oh Yes!

LORS - 2 Professors (Popular), 1 Manager at work. I really worked hard for my research team at school and hence could publish. I am confident my professor would complement the same in LOR. ------------ It would be great if anyone would find time for there 2 cents on the above profile review. Also datamineguy, DJLamar, and thisAintNoGame it would be great if you could take some time out for the same. Thank you again.

Looking for a profile review: Profile: I am a international student with US MSCS degree from Tier 1 School.GPA: 3.4 (Lots of CS courses than required)I have 2 years work exp, 2 years of research assistantship at school, 4 product internships.Research: 2 Journal articles, 4 Conference Papers, 6 workshop papers. and other research related activities. Also mentored UndergradsThe only low is my GRE (due to busy at work, no preparation had to take it): Quant: 760 Verb: 340, AWA: 3.5Toefl (had to take the exam with no preparation) : 107/120 Applied for Fall 2010 Phd Program: UWashUCSDUCSBDUKEStanford Are any of these safe universities for profile? Also applying for Fall 2011 Program(if none of above give me a offer): What are some other Universities which I should consider to apply next year?