CS PhD Profile Evaluation

[phd4me2013]

Hey Everyone,

I am a domestic senior undergraduate CompEng major from USC. I was hoping to get some opinions on my chances of admission to some CS PhD programs.

University: USC (California, not Carolina)
GPA: 3.97
GRE: Not Taken Yet (For reference, SAT was 800M/800CR/650W)
Research Experience: Spent junior year working on data visualizations for machine learning research, got 3rd author position on two workshop papers at major conferences.
Work Experience: Interned one summer at a startup, the next at Google Mountain View on the Search Infrastructure team
Letters of Recommendation: 1 from research advisor, 2 from professors where I was one of the top students in the class and vocal, but no deeper outside-class relationship.


Schools I'm thinking of include:
UIUC
U Washington
UT Austin
UCSD
UCLA
Brown
Columbia
Duke
NYU
UNC

Thanks!

[phd4me2013]

Any input?

[valkener]

Your chances are good in my opinion! Beings that you are very smart you can get great GRE scores and that would seal the deal for a reputable PhD program, imo.