phd4me2013

Yeah, most schools are pretty cagey about putting out their admissions statistics... I would postulate that especially if undergrad admissions are more competitive than grad the school would be unlikely to make the statistics public. For anyone whose interested, here are some other places I've found: (Of course some mix together Masters and PhD, or don't separate international from domestic) UNC - http://gradschool.unc.edu/admissions/stats.html University of Washington - http://www.grad.washington.edu/about/statistics/admissions/ UT Austin - http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/prospective/stats/ Anybody have any more of these?

Any input? What I've really been confused by is how hard it is for US based students to get in to US schools... For example, see these links: http://gradschool.du...cs/admitcps.htm http://gradschool.du...about/stats.php Duke CS PhD 2012; Total Applicants: 312 Accepted: 39 Rate: 12.5% Domestic: 37 Accepted: 12 Rate: 32.4% International: 275 Accepted: 27 Rate: 9.8% 32.4% is a hell of a lot better than 12.5% !! What I'm curious about is whether this phenomenon is generally true at most US schools, including the 'big 4'. So for example MIT's ridiculous 4% admission inflates to a 'real rate' of ~15% for domestic students, which really isn't so bad... Any thoughts?

Hey Everyone, I am a domestic senior undergraduate CompEng major from USC. I was hoping to get some opinions on my chances of admission to some CS PhD programs. University: USC (California, not Carolina) GPA: 3.97 GRE: Not Taken Yet (For reference, SAT was 800M/800CR/650W) Research Experience: Spent junior year working on data visualizations for machine learning research, got 3rd author position on two workshop papers at major conferences. Work Experience: Interned one summer at a startup, the next at Google Mountain View on the Search Infrastructure team Letters of Recommendation: 1 from research advisor, 2 from professors where I was one of the top students in the class and vocal, but no deeper outside-class relationship. Schools I'm thinking of include: UIUC U Washington UT Austin UCSD UCLA Brown Columbia Duke NYU UNC Thanks!