I have a somewhat unusual background, and am curious to know whether my experience is at all suitable for the schools I've applied to:
Undergrad: an Ivy, top 10 school in CS
Major: Neuroscience
Minors: CS, Linguistics
GPA: 3.60, CS GPA: ~3.5
MS in CS: a different Ivy, top 20 school in CS
Focus: ML
GPA: 3.98
GRE: 165 Q, 170 V, 5.0 W
Research Experience:
1 first author paper on biorXiv with undergrad advisor currently under review at a journal applying deep learning to a problem in neuroscience; unpublished senior thesis on the same topic
1 first author deep learning paper on arXiv with professors from MS institution
1 poster at a minor neuro conference
LoRs: all 3 are in computational / theoretical neuroscience and I believe have written strong recommendations; 2 are from MS institution (co-authors on arXiv paper), 1 is very famous in comp. neuro, 1 is less well-known; 3rd LoR is undergrad advisor, who is well-known in comp. neuro with strong ML credentials (his small research group got ~5 papers accepted at NeurIPS in 2018)
I've applied to a mixture of Comp. Neuro and CS programs; here are the places I've applied for CS (wishful thinking, I know):
UC Berkeley
Oxford
Princeton
Harvard - have received a Skype interview invite from a POI
UCLA
MILA
U. of Toronto
Are these unrealistic given my lack of a major conference publication and the fact that my LoRs are primarily in neuro departments?
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I have a somewhat unusual background, and am curious to know whether my experience is at all suitable for the schools I've applied to:
Undergrad: an Ivy, top 10 school in CS
Major: Neuroscience
Minors: CS, Linguistics
GPA: 3.60, CS GPA: ~3.5
MS in CS: a different Ivy, top 20 school in CS
Focus: ML
GPA: 3.98
GRE: 165 Q, 170 V, 5.0 W
Research Experience:
LoRs: all 3 are in computational / theoretical neuroscience and I believe have written strong recommendations; 2 are from MS institution (co-authors on arXiv paper), 1 is very famous in comp. neuro, 1 is less well-known; 3rd LoR is undergrad advisor, who is well-known in comp. neuro with strong ML credentials (his small research group got ~5 papers accepted at NeurIPS in 2018)
I've applied to a mixture of Comp. Neuro and CS programs; here are the places I've applied for CS (wishful thinking, I know):
UC Berkeley
Oxford
Princeton
Harvard - have received a Skype interview invite from a POI
UCLA
MILA
U. of Toronto
Are these unrealistic given my lack of a major conference publication and the fact that my LoRs are primarily in neuro departments?