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Originally Posted by gttts23
GRE 800Q, 620V, 4AWA
GRE CS 870, 97th percentile
TOEFL 110
BA in CS, Summa Cum Lauda from a top-150 university (according to the 2007 Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranking - their methodology is a bit woo-woo, so it's just to give a reference).
3 conference papers (fortunately it seems that no one in the committee read them  ).
Almost 8 years of experience in an industrial research lab and in the industry in a field closely related to the one I want to do my PhD in. I tried to make my SOP as focused as possible.
I selected schools according to potential advisers, and would be very happy to work with all of them. |
@gttts23 Nice profile and cngrats on great admissions.
I am a future applicant, and need your valuable opinion on following:
1- After eight years of experience how easy/difficult is it to get accepted for PHD (I have more than 8 years experience)?
2- Is age a hinderance, any threshold age (for CS PhD)?
3- How valuable is having relevent work and teaching experience, but not research, in field of interest?
4- After this much experience on usually depends upon a handsome salary/month, how to cope with this situation during PhD, if one has a dependent family?
Sorry for digressing from the subject of the thread.