jwang511

CMU Robotics is TOP notch. Hands down CMU. Stanford is not bad for sure... but to be advised by someone from CMU's Robotics? They're all superstars there. Plus, I would give a slight edge to CMU for Machine Learning over Stanford Machine Learning.

I was under the impression that it is useless to contact professors. You need to be accepted into the school before they can do anything.... Yes, I can get recommendation letters from CMU...

Hi All, I am currently a (first year) PhD student at CMU ECE (not CS). I am not exactly interested in the research I am doing and I am looking to switch (either schools or advisor and stay at CMU). I do not have my masters yet. I am estimating my graduate GPA to be around 3.8 to 3.9. I have one first authored paper (at a 2nd tier conference). Do you think I stand a good chance for Stanford/MIT CS? (just due to the fact I want to live in a big city). Or do you think it isn't worth the hassle / effort for reapplying? If I do apply, it would be F2013 admissions... so I also potentially loose 2 years of my life (depending on how credits transfer over...) Thanks.