I have been admitted to ScM Computer Science at Brown recently. I am a bit confused because I have no way of understanding how good Brown is simply from the ranking.
1) I am mainly interested in Machine Learning and AI. How good is Brown in those areas?
2) I would like to pursue a PhD later on but am not sure at this point. What are the chances of pursuing a PhD in Machine Learning after Masters?
3) What are the chances of getting a job after graduation? Could you also hint what kinds of jobs people get?
4) This question is mainly out of curiosity. Is there any advantage of attending Brown because it is an Ivy League as opposed to say other equally ranked computer science programs?
Things were incredibly tough this year, we got 20% more apps than last year and the quality of students applying was up quite a lot. All of our initial admits are done at this point. We will wait list a few students, but the response for our visiting Friday was really great so I can't say how likely the wait list is going to be. We are getting the rest of the notifications sent out as quickly as we can.
As for reading into admit dates from previous years, that is like reading tea-leaves The chair changes every year and does things a bit differently every time.
I appreciate all the stress that goes into applying to various programs, I went through all of the same stressful moments myself not long ago.
Let me know if you think there are things we did well or poorly---we are always looking to improve. Some things are unfortunately in the hands of the graduate school and out of the control of the department.
Also, it may not help you now, but this is how I look at applications:
http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/mcorner/cs-admissions
I hope that you all find great homes in CS grad school!
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