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  1. 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biorXiv with undergrad advisor currently under review at a journal applying deep learning to a problem in neuroscience; unpublished senior thesis on the same topic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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