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@blankslate: I am in a similar position as you were in. I was admitted to Stanford, CMU, Berkeley, Princeton. Princeton is fully funded. Are you happy with your decision? Do you like the Princeton Master's program?

Ah okay, nice find. Also, good job finding the stats on those other schools -- I had no idea that the Stanford MS acceptance info was out there. I'd be interested to hear more about CMU's acceptance rate as well, though I'm doubtful we'll get any concrete info since this is the first year of the program.

where did you hear that they want to enroll 25 students? I know that someone posted about that in the results section, but it seemed like conjecture rather than anything concrete.

I would also like to hear people's thoughts on this (I'm in your exact situation).

Well, I just checked online and saw that I received a 5.0 on the AW section. So in summary, my GRE score was: 460 Verbal 780 Quant 5.0 AW I know that admissions people don't usually care about the AW section, but I'm hoping that my relatively high AW score can offset my low Verbal score, at least by a little. At this point, summer is coming to a close, and I haven't made any plans to retake the GRE. Hopefully I don't end up regretting this...

Just took the GRE at 8AM this morning and bombed the Verbal section -- I ended up getting 460 V and 780 Q. For the Verbal section, I was averaging around 580 on practice exams; I must have made some serious mistakes at the beginning of the test for my score to drop so drastically. I am a native speaker, born in California. Prior to this morning, I had hoped to be competitive at the top Computer Science M.S programs (Stanford, CMU, etc.), but now I am extremely worried... Will my low verbal score ruin my chances of being accepted into these programs? My stats are as follows: Undergrad School: UCLA Major: Electrical Engineering w/ emphasis in Computer Engineering (EECE) Cumulative GPA: 3.765 Upper-Division GPA: 3.8x (don't remember off the top of my head) GRE: 460V 780Q (still waiting on AW score) Research Experience / Publications: I started research with a very well-known CS professor last year, and got a publication as first author within the first 10 weeks (I worked extremely hard because I wanted to make up for the years I didn't do any research). Will continue research with this professor for my remaining 2 quarters at UCLA, and anticipate getting more publications. Internships: 2 summers as IT at a venture funded software startup 2 summers as software engineer at Cisco I've tried to compensate for the fact that I am primarily an EE major by focusing my outside efforts (research, internships) on CS. Can anyone please provide thoughts? Do I really need to retake the GRE?