b_brew Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I know some folks have received admission decisions in Computer Science, so I think it will be nice for everyone to share their profile, schools applied to, GRE score, TOEFL score(if applicable), accepts, awaiting decision and/or rejects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_brew Posted January 13, 2017 Author Share Posted January 13, 2017 (edited) I am still awaiting decisions from all the schools I applied to but here is my profile Profile: International, 2 years research experience, 1 conference publication, 1 publication under review GPA: BS 3.29 MS 3.30 GRE: Q160 V153 A4.0 TOEFL: 106 SCHOOLS: UIUC, U Pitts, Kansas State, Georgia State, Ohio University Edited January 13, 2017 by b_brew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undream Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I have not heard back from the schools I applied for. Profile: International / 1.5 year of research experience in Computer Vision Lab. of my undergraduate institution (Research Intern + Undergraduate Researcher) / 1 term teaching experience Publication: 1 IEEE national conference paper (Awarded Best Student Paper) GPA: 3.77 (CGPA) / 3.75 (CS GPA) IELTS: 6.5 GRE: 167Q / 150V / 3.0A LORs / SOP: 3 Strong (2 from the professors I worked with, 1 from head of department) / Strong LOR (I think) Schools: Brown (PhD), Princeton (PhD), ASU (PhD), UBC (MSc Thesis), McGill (MSc Thesis), UWO (MSc Thesis), Polimi (MSc), EPFL (MSc Thesis) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medstudent Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 (edited) Profile: American female / 2nd year med student / Worked in the industry as web dev for three years / 1 year TA / About nine months total research experience between undergrad, REU, and this past summer Publications: 1 IEEE conference publication. 1 presentation at a big medical conference. 3rd in an AMIA data mining competition (should get paper out of this). GPA: 3.6 (CGPA) / 3.6 (CS GPA) GRE: 166Q / 166V / 5A LORs / SOP: Three strong letters. PhD research advisor in the CS department here, an MD research advisor at the med school here, and my favorite undergrad CS prof. No big names or fancy school, but they should be very strong in terms of content. My SOP is very strong, have a clear research goal and plan. All of the labs I applied to are machine learning + medicine. I am a med student. Seems like it would be a big plus. Schools: Stanford Berkeley U Washington UCLA - had an interview with advisor two weeks ago Johns Hopkins UCSD MIT UW Madison Tufts Unranked home university, will no doubt get in here *** NOTE: I'm doing an interdisciplinary MD-PhD, with the PhD portion in computer science. This list seems very top heavy. I haven't gotten any interviews except for the UCLA one. I really have no idea how competitive I am. GPA is so-so, GRE should be above the threshold. No famous people writing letters, no big name schools. Edited January 18, 2017 by medstudent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarHeroAn Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Hi! I applied to five Canadian universities and haven't heard back from any of those. Profile: International / 3 years of research experience during my undergraduate (Research Intern positions + One major research project under a faculty from USA which lasted for 2 years + Undergraduate Researcher). 9 Months of relevant industry experience (will be 1.5 years by the time I join the program). Publications: 1 IEEE International conference paper, 1 IEEE National conference paper, 1 in review, 1 in preparation. GPA: 78.25% / 100% TOEFL: 114 GRE: 161Q / 155V / 5.5A LORs / SOP: 3 Strong / Strong SOP (I believe) Course: MSc CS (Thesis) Schools: UBC, McGill, UofT, SFU, UWaterloo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_brew Posted February 1, 2017 Author Share Posted February 1, 2017 Is there anyone with new info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oolong_pmt Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 If we haven't received anything from Berkeley yet, is it safe to assume we've been rejected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.letmeinplz// Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, oolong_pmt said: If we haven't received anything from Berkeley yet, is it safe to assume we've been rejected? Berkeley might be a little busy right now. Though check previous years of admissions and see if they only had 1 batch of acceptances or if they accepted people over time. Edited February 3, 2017 by .letmeinplz// Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhodesZhang Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I applied for Berkeley CS and got an interview. But I haven't received anything yet. Just a little depressed now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_brew Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 11 hours ago, RhodesZhang said: I applied for Berkeley CS and got an interview. But I haven't received anything yet. Just a little depressed now. When did you have your interview and how was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhodesZhang Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 12 hours ago, b_brew said: When did you have your interview and how was it? About 2~3 weeks age. I don't know how was it. I mean, we had a great talk, the professor is friendly and that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undream Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 On 2/4/2017 at 4:31 AM, RhodesZhang said: About 2~3 weeks age. I don't know how was it. I mean, we had a great talk, the professor is friendly and that's it. Would you share us your profile? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thnok Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 (edited) I applied for CUNY, NYU, Maryland, Michigan, University of Illinois and University of Colorado Boulder. Haven't heard back from anyone else, who applied get any news from them? Edited February 8, 2017 by Cyril Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mynamjef Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 (edited) Profile: poor undergrad grades at UIUC, transferred and finished BS in Computer Science at sister school with 3.5GPA, 2 year software developer experience for USPS, 9 credits @ 3.89GPA of 400 level CS coursework done online thru UIUC (non-degree student) GRE: Q168/V158 Focus is limited to top tier online Masters CS programs with no thesis/research portion Awaiting results for: UIUC MCS - applied January 14th Georgia Tech MS CS - waiting for UIUC decision before submission Edited February 9, 2017 by mynamjef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medstudent Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) I got into UW-Madison PhD yesterday and got an email from the UCLA POI that his lab remains interested in my application and should be wrapping up their evaluations in the next few weeks. Rejects from U Washington and Stanford (no huge surprise there). EDIT: Just got an interview request from faculty member at Tufts. Edited February 10, 2017 by medstudent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mynamjef Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 3 hours ago, medstudent said: I got into UW-Madison PhD yesterday and got an email from the UCLA POI that his lab remains interested in my application and should be wrapping up their evaluations in the next few weeks. Rejects from U Washington and Stanford (no huge surprise there). EDIT: Just got an interview request from faculty member at Tufts. Grats! UW-Madison is a huge admit for CS now if only the rest of us were this lucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_brew Posted February 10, 2017 Author Share Posted February 10, 2017 3 hours ago, mynamjef said: Grats! UW-Madison is a huge admit for CS now if only the rest of us were this lucky I know right..but I'm sure decisions will keep rolling in especially this month and the next. Fingers crossed guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex1 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Profile: International, 1.5 years research experience, 2 publications under review. Software dev internships at Google and Microsoft GPA: 90% (university medal) GRE: Q170 V166 A4.5 Course: Ph.D. CS SCHOOLS: UC Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, CMU, U Washington, Cambridge AcceptedRejectedNothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuree Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Profile: International with US undergrad, 3 years research experience. 3 conference publication, 1 publication in press, all first-author. Applying for PhD. GPA: 3.98 GRE: Q170 V165 A4.0 SCHOOLS: Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton, MIT, U Washington, Cornell, UVA, UCSD, Caltech, Gatech, Dartmouth, UIUC. taylorty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurfew007 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 I applied at 12 schools total. Mostly because several waived my application fee. I'll keep this updated as decisions come in. Profile: American with US undergrad at smaller, not well known institution. It's a satellite campus for a a state flagship institution. 1 year research experience (no pubs). 10 months industry experience in analytics group at Fortune 50 company. GPA: 3.94 GRE: 161Q 163V 4.0AW Schools and Decisions: Purdue N/A University of Colorado - Boulder N/A Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Reject on 01/24/2017 Indiana University N/A University of Notre Dame N/A Vanderbilt University N/A University of Oregon N/A University of Tennessee - Knoxville Admitted on 02/06/2017 Kansas State University Admitted on 02/14/2017 University of Central Florida Admitted on 02/17/2017 University of Kentucky N/A Washington State University N/A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_brew Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 On 2/18/2017 at 7:20 PM, kurfew007 said: I applied at 12 schools total. Mostly because several waived my application fee. I'll keep this updated as decisions come in. Profile: American with US undergrad at smaller, not well known institution. It's a satellite campus for a a state flagship institution. 1 year research experience (no Kansas State University Admitted on 02/14/2017 I also got accepted to Kansas state University, are you planning to attend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurfew007 Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 7 hours ago, b_brew said: I also got accepted to Kansas state University, are you planning to attend? I haven't decided for sure yet. It's the only school I've been admitted to where I have any information on funding, so it's looking like a good choice right now. I was told they'd be having an open house on the weekend of April 1st so I'm hoping to attend that before I make any decision. I'm not sure at the moment if they'll be paying for travel expenses and such for it. Waiting on a response to that inquiry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underscore_frosty Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) Academic profile: American male with a BS in CS from a comprehensive, state/regional university that is not well known. One, roughly 6 month REU experience (not to toot my own horn, but I received an extension to the award for my apparently excellent work) which resulted in a poster presentation at the NSF REU Symposium. Additionally, high marks in senior level CS electives (4 or 5, I'll have to take a look at my transcript) and high marks in a research oriented CS class (3 research projects + 1 lecture on a topic of our choosing). Experience: 4 years IT experience, currently employed as an information security analyst, 2 years tutoring in a dynamic, laboratory environment. Publications: 1 poster presentation at a national level conference/symposium (see above). GPA: 3.50 cumulative, 3.58 major. GRE: 158Q, 164V, 4.5W LORs: 3 strong LORs. One from my (former) advisor (former because I redeclared in a different catalog year which for some reason assigned me a new advisor), one from a professor who has continually encouraged me to attend graduate school (who also taught the research oriented CS class), and one from my REU advisor/mentor. SOP: Learned from my mistakes the first time round and definitely improved. Program(s): PhD, MS (thesis option) Schools: BSU (MS, where I did my REU), EWU (MS, my home institution), WSU (PhD) Areas of interest: Cyber/information security, logic/metalogic, computability logic, theory (particularly applications of category and object theory to computability theory), formal methods in SE (what I did my research in at the REU), social network analysis with memetics Decisions: None (?) so far, either good or bad. Around this time last year is when I received my rejections, but I have yet to hear anything back. That said, I noticed something curious when I went to audit my degree. Way at the bottom was a little blurb that said "Graduate Level GPA (GGPA): 3.00" with a date of 17 JAN 2017. This is for my home institution, and to my knowledge I haven't taken any graduate level classes, and if I did I certainly didn't receive the bare minimum 3.0 to pass. I was a little perplexed by this because I hadn't seen that entry prior to this morning. Searching around didn't yield any answers either. So this may be an unintentional indication of admission to the MS in CS program at my home institution, only the adcom would know. Reasons for applying where I did: WSU has a research center dedicated to researching the smart grid and IoT devices, and part of that research includes evaluating the security of such things. Also, WSU has a research center for network science which is related to social network analysis. I applied at my home institution as a safety school and because I currently work in the area (and there are rumors of a promotion in the works). Knowing all the faculty and being on good terms with them is also good. And BSU of course because I did my REU there and my former advisor there has already extended an invitation to continue work on the project I started should I be admitted. Furthermore, knowing that my academic profile is somewhat less-than spectacular, I applied at schools that were within reach (and I only applied at 3 because of funds and timing). Anything else: I'm just incredibly nervous right now because this time of year is when I received those oh-so-painful rejection letters. I'm always nervous when I check my email because I'm afraid of that, "Mr. X, We regret to inform you that...." This year feels different though. Even if I end up not being admitted anywhere, I have a kick ass job to fall back on (literally the only job I have really enjoyed). Anyways, good luck to y'all! Edited February 23, 2017 by underscore_frosty choward 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udeben Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Hi all, Anyone applied to university of Ottawa, Phd program in computer science for fall 2017? If yes, when did you apply? Have you heard any news from them? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1337coder Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Profile: US Small private catholic school. 2.5 years work experience at fortune 100 company. EE major GPA: 3.6/4 GRE: 167Q / 166V / 4.5A Accepted: Carnegie Mellon CMDS University of Utah MS Rejected: University of Wisconsin MS Princeton MS TBD: Stanford MS Maryland MS Virginia MS UC Berkeley Meng Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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