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Hi everyone, A friend of mine has a sub 3.0 undergraduate GPA (translated using WES because she comes from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University) at 2.8. She also has a 3.5 masters GPA from the same university. The scores are 80% and 87% without the conversion. She has been working at Peking university (top school in China) for a year now with a famous professor (famous in China) as a research assistant. She will have a second author paper submitted in English and she has several papers in Chinese (but they were recently accepted in Chinese conferences and have low citation counts). She goal is to apply for a PhD in a field related to health economics. Does anyone have suggestions as to which schools she should target? She wants to get into UW, but I feel like this may be a long shot because of the sub 3.0 GPA during her undergrad... Any opinions or advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Hi, I'm a student in my senior year of Computer Science and I am planning to apply for a computer science masters degree (currently not considering a PhD) in the US. Based on my profile below, what do you think are my chances of getting into the schools below? Which schools would you suggest I apply for? School: University of British Columbia (top 3 Canadian school) Major: Honors in Mathematics and Computer Science (sort of rigorous in theory with graduate / honors math courses) Major GPA: 4.0/4.0 Cumulative GPA: 3.8/4.0 (roughly; maybe between 3.7-3.8) GRE: V: 151, Q: 162, W: N/A (on the low side but I only studied for a few days because I terribly busy schedule right now and only studied for a few days - I really messed up quantitative section by taking too long...) Publications: None... Research: Previously worked with two professors that come from top tier universities and they seem to have a good impression of me. I volunteered for a little less than a year with of the one professors and did a self study course with the other (didn't turn out too well IMO because I didn't have enough experience in the subject but he has good things to say). I am currently working on my honors thesis which hopefully adds more to what they could say about me. Industry: Microsoft, Amazon, and other local companies. Schools I would like to apply for (masters program): Carnegie Mellon University Stanford University Yale University Princeton University UCLA What schools would you suggest I apply for instead if these are too ambitious and should I try to apply for a PhD with this profile? Thanks! Note: I don't have much time to take the test again (I don't think I can take it again because applications happen early to mid December. Getting a higher quant score will be no problem but I have to invest time into it...