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For those who are still waiting, CMU - RI sent out its acceptance by post. Best of luck.

Washington probably hasn't..

Very true. I've seen people get into Stanford with ~1300 in the GRE. The general GRE is probably the least important part of the application (except the TOEFL for international students which takes the bottom spot). The subject GRE is only slightly more important than the general. I am inclined to think that recommendations and the "departmental fit" are the most important parts of the application--possibly an order of magnitude more than the rest. Best of luck with your applications longhorn..

Well since you guys guessed it. Yep. I'm a 2nd year MSCS student at Stanford. Congrats michigantrumpet. You'll find out the exact number of people admitted if you decide to join. :-) As for numbers, they don't matter much. A GRE score above 1400 (Q>780) is fine and a GPA of above 3.6 is fine. The subject GRE is a substitute to your GPA and is useful only if you are from a university unknown to the admissions committee or if you have a low GPA (<3.3). What counts is your recommendations, past research and publications.. Cheers...

MS: (Top 4 CS prog): 3.85/4 [Named Fellowship(1y) + Research with two Professors for a year and half (first and second recommendations)] UG: (IIITA, India): 9.08/10 [university scholarship - Top 3 students (1y), Multiple other fellowships (3y)] GRE: 1570 (Q:800/800, V:770/800) - 99th %ile 2 Research internships in Canada during my UG (third recommendation). 5 papers (3 AAAI symposia, 1 ACM conf, 1 other) Multiple research projects. This year there were very few admits to Stanford CS--something like a third less than last year. Congrats everyone who got in somewhere.

It was a congratulatory phone call. My areas of specialization are machine learning and robotics. :-)

Yeah Lukas, that's the same case with India. The earliest you can get through your bachelors in engineering (4year prog) is about 21. Schools which offer courses that may be completed before time usually award 3 year science/arts degrees which aren't accepted in the US anyway. I'm 22 by the way. The CS thread seems dead though so I thought I'd post here. Don't know man. I've been trying to reason out my rejects so far. Quite a few of my seniors at college were admitted to PhD programs at the universities I got rejected at. The only difference in their profile and mine was that they all had 90%ile or better Subject GRE scores and I didn't give the test.. I think it is rather unethical of the grad admissions committees to refrain from giving out the exact reason for rejection. "There were too many qualified candidates" seems to be the standard nonsensical answer. :roll: Not being able to handle a couple of thousand applications (or less) seems quite funny to me. :x

What school u've finished: One of the good universities in India ( IIIT - Allahabad.)... GPA while undergrad, masters and class rank: 9.20/10, undergrad (just graduated in Dec) GRE scores, TOEFL scores 800A/770V/5.5 AWA 115 IBT Publications: 3 AAAI symposia, 1 ACM workshop, couple in minor confs. Research, Teaching experience. Interned for 6+3 months in Canada as a Visting Research Assistant in 2 univs. Schools applied to: Rejects: MIT, CMU, Berk (All PhD) Stanford, UMD, Columbia (MS waiting) UIUC (waiting) UPenn (waiting) UToronto (materials didn't arrive at program) (I feel I made a major gaffe in not giving the Subject GRE.)

Well it ain't over till the fat lady sings then.. :wink: Thanks!

Hi all. I just joined this community and ran through the thread. I must congratulate the people who managed to notch up their admits, they do seem very impressive. It would be really helpful if people also posted some stuff about themselves as it would give one a general idea of what expectations the top schools have .. I just got CS PhD rejects from MIT, Berkeley and CMU. Am still waiting out for UIUC and UPenn. Does anyone have an idea when they will come out (if not already?)