michigantrumpet

leogk, very impressive cv! Since you got an MS first, how many years do you expect your PhD to take?

Q: 790, V: 690, AW: 4.0, CS: 790/900 (75th %) Top 10 undergrad program (dual-degree music/engr BMus and BSE); GPA: 3.83 LOR: 2 research advisors (~1 year of research for them), 1 instructor (course with major term project) Pubs: 1 top conference (3rd author), 1 minor poster session Did not contact anyone myself. However, one of my research advisors did speak to a couple of professors on my behalf (without me asking him to!).

Congrats, leogk! The open house is over my spring break, so I'll definitely be there. What's your area of specialization within CS? Mine is systems software and hardware-software interaction.

It depends entirely on the school/professor. Some of my CS/EE grad student friends were definitely accepted places without interviews.

Berkeley too, apparently. At least with my Carnegie Mellon interview, it was with a potential advisor, not a general admissions thing. So, interviews can happen at any time and not necessarily in batches or all at once. Keep up the hope!

Well sure, but the truly obsessed can't wait that long I was mostly kidding anyway. And I do perk up every time my BlackBerry buzzes with a new e-mail.

I'm waiting to hear from CS (and one ECE) PhD programs... getting tired of hitting "Get Mail"! So far just a phone interview with a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon who knows my undergrad research advisor.