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Hi all, Just was wondering what the wisdom of the web could tell me about my chances at highly competitive PhD programs in CS. I have not made up my mind yet about grad school, and am still considering industry after college. But some of my dream grad schools are Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon. Go ahead and give me your most honest predictions! The Stats: School: A good overall private research university in the Midwest (top 20 U.S. News for undergrad, for what that counts); engineering and applied science program is not particularly strong from a reputation standpoint, but high quality education, in my opinion. Double major: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science GPA: 3.95/4.00 (top 2-3%) GRE: 165 Math, 163 Verbal (based off several practice exams) (Sidenote: does anyone even look at writing?) Other (possibly) relevant bio: -Assume good, strong recs, but not super stellar, blow your mind recs. - Assume no research -Strong interest in "mathy" fields within EE and CS, such as information theory, machine learning, data science, control systems. Would want to purse research in those areas. If you have any recommendations for good programs in these areas, let me know! - 2 prior internships (1 in web development, the other in big data) at somewhat reputable companies that you've most likely heard of, but not Google or FB level. Probably not too relevant for grad school, but that is what I spent my summers doing instead of research.