Wayne Yang

Thanks, man. Good luck for your new study! Umich and UNC are both awesome schools.

Thanks bunny! Now there are already 12 rejections, but I feel better now since I have been receiving admissions as well. You never now what's about to happen.

Thanks, siitrasn. I think UT Austin is better than the one offered in the main campus of Cornell since Infosci at Cornell is too short (1year) and the location is far away from any Tech industry.

Hi siitrasn, thanks for your advice. Now I realize my strategies of ps might lead to some misconceptions of my profile to admission committee, I also read my friend's ps (he has been accepted to MHCI, HCDE too) and found that he clearly showed his career goal and his entrepreneurial characteristics. I guess my PS is not a successful one. But things get better, recently I was admitted into MPS of Cornell Infosci and Master of information science at UT Austin, any suggestion on these two places? I prefer the reputation of Cornell, but the program is only one-year long and the location is far from any big city. I don't know Austin a lot, so any advice will be very helpful!

Hi szsz, thanks for reply, I have sent you the invitation.

Hi qkhitai, I'm studying at a 985 university, but not a top tier one like Zheda. I guess that can also be a reason.

Hi szsz! Glad to hear the good news from you. I am very interested in HCDE(though I was rejected), so would you mind telling me your background and any experience in HCI so I can learn something and improve myself?

Hi, everyone! I am an senior international student from China. Though I major in computational mathematics, I do have a strong interest in HCI. That is why I paid my most of my attention to HCI application instead of financial engineering which seems to "closer" to my major. I applied master of HCI and METALs at CMU(rejected by both), HCID and HCDE(rejected by both), Media lab(rejected), Umich, Cornell, NYU ITP, and Gatech(no update from these yet). I also applied some MFE programs (also got rejected). I paid so much efforts to my application. I spent 4 months on designing and writing my SOPs, but the results are depressing. The rejection letter from HCDE said that the admission rate is around 20%, which means my efforts and backgrounds didn't even get my into that percentile... My undergrad major is applied mathematics(3.84/4). I also studied some CS courses with all As, but I am only familiar with scientific computing softwares like MATLAB and R and some front-end languages like HTML and CSS while my skills in C++ and Python are just basic. I have 3 research experiences in HCI(I wrote a workshop paper as the 2nd author and it was accepted in CHI2015). I have aTOEFL score over 110 and GRE score 324. I wrote in my SOP that I would like to focus on computational social science and learning technology in my graduate stud so I think my SOP would appear research-oriented. I think my biggest weakness in my application is that I don't have professional working experience and I don't have any experience in design and psychology. I am having a hard time waiting for results from remaining schools( based on present outcomes, I don't have much expectation on remaining programs). I am not sure what I should do if I want to apply for the next year? Is it better for me to change my direction to finance engineering or keep my chasing my interests? I do appreciate any help!

Hi, everyone! I am an senior international student from China. Though I major in computational mathematics, I do have a strong interest in HCI. That is why I paid my most of my attention to HCI application instead of financial engineering which seems to "closer" to my major. I applied master of HCI and METALs at CMU(rejected by both), HCID and HCDE(rejected by both), Media lab(rejected), Umich, Cornell, NYU ITP, and Gatech(no update from these yet). I also applied some MFE programs (also got rejected). I paid so much efforts to my application. I spent 4 months on designing and writing my SOPs, but the results are depressing. The rejection letter from HCDE said that the admission rate is around 20%, which means my efforts and backgrounds didn't even get my into that percentile... My undergrad major is applied mathematics(3.84/4). I also studied some CS courses with all As, but I am only familiar with scientific computing softwares like MATLAB and R and some front-end languages like HTML and CSS while my skills in C++ and Python are just basic. I have 3 research experiences in HCI(I wrote a workshop paper as the 2nd author and it was accepted in CHI2015). I have aTOEFL score over 110 and GRE score 324. I wrote in my SOP that I would like to focus on computational social science and learning technology in my graduate stud so I think my SOP would appear research-oriented. I think my biggest weakness in my application is that I don't have professional working experience and I don't have any experience in design and psychology. I am having a hard time waiting for results from remaining schools( based on present outcomes, I don't have much expectation on remaining programs). I am not sure what I should do if I want to apply for the next year? Is it better for me to change my direction to finance engineering or keep my chasing my interests? I do appreciate any help!