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I'm an senior undergrad in CS, and I'm applying to grad school for Fall 2012. I've found several interesting distributed systems papers written by Prof. Leonidas Guibas and his lab, and I'm interested in working with Prof. Guibas. It turns out that Guibas is a Prof in both ICME and CS. I don't have much preference for whether my degree comes from ICME or CS--I just really want to work in Guibas' lab.

Unfortunately, Stanford only allows prospective PhD students to apply to one Stanford program at a time.

Here's my question: should I apply to ICME or to CS? Is one program more selective than the other?

For reference, my stats are...

3.5/4.0 GPA

1 journal paper (third author), and one other journal paper (first author) in review

5 conference papers (3 are first author)

4 summers of academic internships (REU and national labs)

1 industry internship

3 strong letters of recommendation

I'm scheduled to take GRE in a couple of weeks, and I'm expecting 800 math, 550 verbal based on practice exams.

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I'd apply to CS, since that is Guibas' home department and that is what your undergraduate degree is in. Also, maybe this is just me, but I wouldn't want to take a bunch of non CS classes, which it sounds like you'd have to do for the ICME program...

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I'd apply to CS, since that is Guibas' home department and that is what your undergraduate degree is in. Also, maybe this is just me, but I wouldn't want to take a bunch of non CS classes, which it sounds like you'd have to do for the ICME program...

Thanks! I'm pretty mathy, so I don't have any qualms about the ICME course requirements. I think the CS and ICME course requirements both align well with my interests. Any thoughts on which program (CS or ICME) is less selective?

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