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[stackoverflow]

Hi Everyone, I think I've finally narrowed down to a list of schools and I would like to get some feedback on my choices. My background:

• CS Major at a small liberal arts college in the US
  
• Overall GPA: 3.5, Major GPA: 3.8
  
• GRE, Quant: 770, Verb: 490, Writing: 5.0
  
• 1 Paper accepted at regional conference, presented
  
• 1 REU with paper submitted to regional conference, 1 poster submitted to low-tier national conference
  
• 2 Research projects in progress
  
• 3 Letters of recommendation from professors I've done research with
  
• Interested in NLP, Information Retrieval, and Databases
  
  I think that is it...let me know if there is any other info you need.
  
  
  
  Schools:
  • NYU
    
  • University of California - Riverside
    
  • Harvard
    
  • University of Washington
    
  • Boston University
    
  • Columbia University
    
  • Northeastern University
    
  • University of Pennsylvania
    
  • (If you have any suggestions for schools in the areas I'm interested in please let me know, it's been difficult to find good matches)
    

  Thanks!

Edited September 24, 2011 by stackoverflow

[newms]

Hey stackoverflow,

I think you have a pretty good range of schools that you should definitely be competitive at. Your research experience looks pretty good, especially if it's in the areas you're interested in for grad school. I'm not exactly in your area so I can't really comment on the strengths of those programs in those areas, but I've also heard that UM-CP has a good program in the areas you're interested in, so perhaps you could also check out their program if you haven't already. If you can put together a strong SoP and if your letters speak well of your research potential (as expected) then I'd think you'd have a pretty good chance with most (if not all) of the schools on your list. Good luck!

Edited September 24, 2011 by newms

[stackoverflow]

Thanks, newms. I'll definitely look into UM-CP.