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Well, I am interested in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, University of South Carolina has got a couple of very good researchers who work on topics pertaining to these fields and one of them encouraged me to apply during a brief session of mail exchanging. What's your profile like gal? And do let us know when you hear from any of your schools.

@csgal11: Thanks for sharing that What's your focus area btw? I am sure you will make it into one or more of these schools if not all! P.S. I have applied at the CS Dept at ND and Indiana, ECE Dept at VTech and the Human Centered Computing Divison at Clemson.

Rejections, rejections and rejections! Rejections galore! :|

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Oh my god! Host of rejects from Purdue! Good luck to those who are still waiting for a decision from that school.

Any news anyone? I have simply lost it! Having all sorts of dreams and nightmares and I just can't stop second guessing myself...the personal statement I wrote over the course of 3.5 months now seems totally banal and vapid to me! I am doomed!!! @OhMySocks: Hey you got an admit from RPI? Great! Congrats!

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@dat_nerd: I mailed all the grad co-ordinators in panic yesterday after seeing that..most of them gave me the standard "you'll hear when we want you to hear" lecture...freaking out like anything now! @JISNEGRO: Oh UCSD...last time they gave so many unfunded PhD admits that I stopped myself from applying even though I had prof contact...that's one crazy school! Good luck to you am sure you'll make it!

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@dat_nerd: Your profile looks very good to me! Am sure you'll get into at least a couple of places on your list, good luck! @Casper14: I think you can expect them to start giving out decisions by the end of this month and I have heard if anyone gets luck from the waitlist then they get notified around March end or early April. These are some scary times if you ask me!

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I don't know man, I don't think its a done deal before you actually get the decision and that too has to come with funding for me. So keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for the best. And both of my interviews happened before I actually applied to the program, what about you? What's your profile like? I am assuming its awesome as I see some real biggies on your list

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@dat_nerd: You had a Skype interview? And I think getting an interview call is definitely a good sign even if its an informal as it makes you aware that you are on their radar and they are looking into you. I have seen very few people get rejected after doing well in them, so that's a positive we can away take from this but I really started freaking out in the beginning of both of my Skype interviews and the professors showed empathy and calmed me down! BTW you got a cool name

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I think its more of an unofficial interview that one might have with his/ her person of interest from the department and it can be at the time of prof-letting or after applying. I had 2 Skype and a couple of other chat "interviews" with some of the professors even before I applied to those schools, but I don't think its mandatory and all as I have seen many get in without ever facing one.

I am currently losing my mind and my high pressure job as a developer ain't helping either. Does everyone feel this way? I mean its only January and am paranoid, don't know what will happen in the future. What about you guys? Anyone who has applied for PhD in CS? Anybody got a decision? If so then please give a shout out! If not then we can run riot together Cheers, paranoid dude

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Thanks TakeruK that was really helpful. But it would really do me a world of good if you or anyone else can share their Personal History Statment with me. Anyone?

Hi, am going to apply this year for a PhD in CS with my research prerogative being Comp. Vision and Pattern Recognition. Here is my profile in brief:- Undergraduation from one of National Institute of Technology's with CS major in India (GPA: 7.89/10) 3 research internships, all on document analysis and computer vision. 2 Springer International Conference and 1 IJCA journal publication. (1st author in all of them) GRE: 800Q + 720V + 4AWA TOEFL: 116. And here are the schools I have decided on applying after mailing some of the professors there:- 1. UC Davis 2. UC Riverside 3. Boston University 4. SUNY Buffalo 5. Toyota Technological Institute at UChicago 6. Rutgers University 7. Virgnia Tech 8. USouth Carolina 9. USouth Florida 10. University of Notre Dame 11. UC Irvine 12. NYU Are these schools gettable for my profile? Thanks.

Hi, I am thinking of applying to a couple of UC schools for PhD in CS this year and bumped into something called a Personal History Statement on their website that we have to send along with the usual SOP for admission. Not much was mentioned about it on their website as well. So am a bit stuck here and have a few queries regarding it :- 1. What is it exactly? How is it different from the usual SOP? 2. How long does it have to be? 3. I couldn't find many samples on the internet, can anyone here share his/her's with me? 4. How important is it for admission? Thanks.