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Imo choose who you want work with, but MS generally don't have visiting day events, so it would be good if you can try to find out the reputations of your POIs somehow. Are they pushy? Are they accessible? Do they invest time into working with MS students or are they never around? Although I am sure with your profile you would be able to do great work at either place!

My area is kinda small and specific, I would choose ETH simply because of research interest match. Fun fact: CMU don't even have people that matches all my research interests XD. I definitely acknowledge I have my weak points and I am not a perfect candidate, but I couldn't help wishing ETH could be like EPFL and accept more direct PhDs! The competition for DD is crazy.... Well I guess it's not meant to be. For your situation, both schools are great for machine learning. CMU might be slightly better. Where are you from? If you are not european, US is also better for getting an industry job.

Rejected from cs direct doctorate, admitted for ms instead. My last name starts with "Y". Probably won't be accepting the ms offer because i have a phd offer from a us school.

lol perhaps. still, doesn't look too good when other people are getting admitted for MS and i am still being ghosted ?

I applied to the direct doctorate program. I contacted my POI in December, they said they would be happy to talk with me, but then ghosted me ? From that Chinese forum some other person posted under here someone said they got an interview. So I don't think my situation looks good at all......

omg congrats on the interview! normally it means that the chances for receiving is higher because interviews cost a lot of time from the professors. best of luck! do you mind sharing info their processes/timeline if your professor share with you during the interview? many thanks ❤️

Hi, Has anyone heard anything about the direct doctorate? Any interviews?

Does anyone know if ETH interviews CS MS/Direct doctorate applicants?

Has anyone went to a non EU college applied to ETH's MS or direct doctorate program and got accepted WITHOUT submitting a GRE test result? A bit of context: I go to school in the US, applying to phD right now. My field is CS so most American Universities don't really require GRE anymore, and ETH is literally the only one that's asking me for it. Not sure if I should just don't apply to ETH, because I'd rather do actual work relevant to my research than wasting my time on memorizing those random GRE vocabularies.

i did not choose any lab in my application but the invitation i got is from a lab that matches my interest and skills

yup i just got the invitation yesterday, good luck my dude!

Thanks! (although my invitation is from GCM, but I hope the interviews are similar)

Hi do you mind me asking what those interviews are like? I got an interview invitation as well. I have never done a research-related interview before and I am very nervous