Just Another Profile Eval

[rawr_]

Type of Undergrad: Large State School (think Big 10, SEC, etc, but not Big 12), Triple major, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics. (In 4 years). Also, I'm a Domestic White Male.

Undergrad GPA: 3.87/4.00 (Cumulative), 4.00/4.00 Computer Science, 4.00/4.00 Statistics, 3.80/4.00 Mathematics

GRE: Range given: 510 - 610 (Verbal), 750 - 800 (Quantitative); CS test upcoming

Math Courses: Calc I/II/III, ODE, PDE, Discrete, Applied Linear Algebra, Abstract Algebra, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Theoretical Linear Algebra

Computer Science Courses (grad-level): Computer Graphics, Computer Graphics II, Computer Vision

Computer ScienceCourses (undergrad-level): Intro CS, Data Structures, Logic, Databases, Algorithms, Programming Languages, Networking, and a few more that are hard to describe

Other Courses: Mathematical Statistics (undergrad), Probability Theory (undergrad), Statistical Inference (undergrad), Mathematical Statistics (grad)

Planned Courses: Operating Systems, Probability Theory (grad)

Letters of Recommendation: 1 From a professor I've done research for 3 years with, 1 From an REU from 2 summers ago (had publication), 1 from REU from last summer (publication in works and leader in field).

Research Experience: 3 Years of research, 2 REUs, 2 conference publications (not top tier), 1 as first author. 1 Journal publication in works which should be submitted to a top tier journal by application date.

Teaching Experience: 2 Semesters of being a TA, Teaching again next semester.

Research Interests: Graphics, Vision, Machine Learning, Computational Geometry, Theory

SOP: Struggling

Concerns: Concerned about CS GRE score (I haven't taken Systems, Compilers or Automata). Low undergraduate university ranking. Low GRE verbal.

Other: Writing a math thesis on mathematics in graphics. Writing a statistics thesis on something or another.

Applying to:

Stanford

UC Berkeley

MIT

Princeton

UIUC

University of Washington

UPenn

UCLA

Harvard

Cornell

Columbia

Considering applying to:

UNC

Caltech

UTexas

Was wondering what my chances are at these universities. Been really hard to find any info about what the average (or better yet, lower bound) of people who get into some of these universities.

Edited October 21, 2011 by rawr_

[OH YEAH]

Your courses don't matter too much, so definitely don't list 'em out in your SoP like you did here. I think you have as good of a shot as any: 3 years research is great. If you've submitted to a top tier journal that is also great.

> Was wondering what my chances are at these universities. Been really hard to find any info about what the average (or better yet, lower bound) of people who get into some of these universities.

At least for Princeton, the overwhelming majority of people admitted last year came from "known" schools, and a great many from the very top schools in CS. FWIW, I didn't go to a well known school, so don't worry about it too much.

Just focus on your SoP. If you want someone to read it feel free to PM me.

[rawr_]

Thanks for the reply!

Figured courses would be on my transcript anyways so I didn't plan on putting them on SoP. Also got this template from elsewhere.

Kind of curious as to your profile since you got into Princeton (one of my top choices) from a not-as-well-known school.

Last thing I wanted to ask was how much submitting to a journal or conference counts, as in, not accepted/rejected yet but submitted/in submission/etc, since I'll have a few papers like this during December.

[zep]

Is it ok to list advanced CS classes on a CV in a grad application?

Some of my classes are special topics classes (all numbered CS 498). The titles of these classes are not listed on my transcript.