These are schools I looked at when I was looking for programs with people doing speech recognition and NLP
MIT
University of Illinois
Johns Hopkins
Carnegie Mellon
University of Southern California
Georgia Institute of Technology
U of Toronto
U of Alberta
Simon Fraser University
University of Ottawa
I accepted an offer for an MS at UofT. My interests are in NLP and Machine Learning too. Did you get accepted in the NLP lab or machine learning? I think the tuition for Canadians is about 7000 and more for international.
Also the Masters at CMU are unfunded correct? From the other Canadian schools I got into, the UofT offer was the best for funding.
I had missing transcripts for Johns Hopkins. I figure if they weren't interested in me enough to email me about it they weren't going to admit me anyways.
NLP, ya all UofT stuff is funded other than the applied masters I do believe. When I interviewed he said that acceptances and rejections should be out by this week, and if I didn't hear anything it would probability have meant that I was on a wait list. I don't know if that was just for the NLP group or not though.