Calling all CS grad school applicants

[polarbear]

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:

"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" PLUS cracking AGRE.

Awesome!

Not surprised with your offers.... congrats

[polarbear]

Also Univ. of Waterloo always comes 1st in ACM World Programming Contest... (it has been a norm for many years!)

[Modeler]

The rejections keep piling up, most recently from Penn, but had an awesome visit at Michigan. Anyone else have any fun visits so far?

[heavyrain2408]

gttts23's profile is outstanding

Is there anyone here that has been accepted into UFL? I heard my friend said that because of the budget-cutting, this year UFL only accepted 7 new PhD students into the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering and applicants with verbal lower than 450 will get rejection. I wonder if it is true or not.

@deadcoder: Congrats on ETH-Zürich. It is excellent.

[deadcoder]

Hi heavyrain2408, thank you so much...

It seems that you are quite familiar with ETH-Zurich. That's why I want your opinion about choosing my final one. Should I go for it(ETHZ) and send NO to OK State U and UTSA? What do you think???? Btw.. I'm still waiting for my other universities (Purdue,Northeastern,Rochester) results. Please pray for me...


Thank you again

gttts23's profile is outstanding

Is there anyone here that has been accepted into UFL? I heard my friend said that because of the budget-cutting, this year UFL only accepted 7 new PhD students into the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering and applicants with verbal lower than 450 will get rejection. I wonder if it is true or not.

@deadcoder: Congrats on ETH-Zürich. It is excellent.

[Modeler]

Though I don't personally know much about ETH-Zurich, if it is excellent as previously stated then that would be better than Ok-State and UT-San Antonio, neither of which have I heard of as being particular good in CS. If you are accepted to Purdue or Rochester then I feel the decision is much tougher. Also Zurich sounds like an amazing place to live, whereas Oklahoma is one of the most depressing states I've ever been in.

[deadcoder]

Hi Modeler,
thank you so much for your reply about my questions. You are absolutely right. I chose those two universities as my safety. Thanks to God that I got acceptance from them. And about Oklahoma and San Antonio(Texas), I have searched a lot over the internet, and didn't find much impressive information about those places, specially San Antonio (Too hot in the summer, Transport system is not so good), whereas Zürich is a great place to live, no doubt about that. But still I have a dream to attend Purdue. Please pray for me and thanks again.

[CalmLogic]

I heard my friend said that because of the budget-cutting, this year UFL only accepted 7 new PhD students into the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering and applicants with verbal lower than 450 will get rejection. I wonder if it is true or not.

That would explain why someone who posted at TheGradCafe said he didn't get funding for his PhD admit at UF.

[heavyrain2408]

@deadcoder:
In 2006, I studied in a summer program school and knew one professor from UIUC. He told us something about Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Although he got his Ph.D. from Lausanne - EPFL but he did assert that EPFL and ETHZ are both very good in CS and EE and can be comparable with top 30 US schools in USnews ranking I also visted their website and had a good impression for these 2 schools.
I can say that they are much better than both Oklahoma State and UTSA (I never heard they are really good in CS before)

[heavyrain2408]

That would explain why someone who posted at TheGradCafe said he didn't get funding for his PhD admit at UF.

What's wrong with the Gators?