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Today I told one of my safeties, University of Utah, that I won't be attending. A few hours later I saw someone post on the admission results that they were accepted there and it was their first offer. I can't say for sure that me declining had anything to do with that, but it may have. In any case, I'm going to send my rejections asap from now on.

It's the Titanium Bits tutorial. http://sites.google.com/site/titaniumbits/

Unfortunately, I don't.

A 460 verbal is 49th percentile. Considering your field, I wouldn't worry about it at all.

I took the GRE yesterday and didn't see any numeric entry questions. My experimental section was verbal.

Don't worry about your verbal score, just make sure you don't bomb the quantitative section. I used Barron's to study for both sections and recommend it. The math in there is harder than on the real test, so you'll be all set.

Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation or whatever book you used in your theory class. You should know your automata theory and computational complexity theory very well going in and be able to answer whatever question they throw at you. My knowledge of architecture was weak so I bought Hennessy and Patternson's Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach which is truly an excellent book, but that was overkill. The material in there is too advanced for this test. There are appendices in the back that function as a good review with stuff like caches and pipelines though so you can get some use out of it if you have it available. I ended up getting the book Computer Architecture and Organization: An Integrated Approach by Murdocca and Heuring. It did its purpose, but you may want to just study the book used in your class if you're familiar with it. My class used no book and we did not cover caches or pipelines. For networking, I went through the tutorial here: http://www.comptechdoc.org/independent/ ... ing/guide/

I also took the test back in April and got 87%. If I had to take it again, I'd peruse the Corman algorithms book first. I have a feeling that anyone who knows that book solid can score in the mid-90's. Personally, I found the pdf by that cmu guy to be invaluable.