Calling all CS grad school applicants

[deadcoder]

Hi heavyrain2408,
Thank you so much. I was waiting for your reply. Your post really help me a lot for choosing my final one. As you already knew, I'm waiting for my other results. If no more acceptance then I'll definitely go for ETH-Zurich. Thank you again. Take care... and pray for me.

Originally Posted by 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)

[Modeler]

I wrote this elsewhere in the forum, but since this thread is my child I feel justified in posting this here. This afternoon I received an email stating that I've been awarded the STIET fellowship for the study on incentive-centered design at Michigan. 2 year fellowship at 30k, plus another 3 years guaranteed, most likely as RA. Needless to say, at this point I'm extremely excited! Now I won't be sweating the wait-list at CMU. Also, I received an email that seems to imply that I was recommended for this fellowship after I visited the department, so take your visits seriously even if you've already been accepted! Also, this makes me much less bitter about Duke rejecting me, .

[Kee]

Wow! Way to go, Modeler!

[hvtung]

I applied for PhD in CS and here are my admission results:

Accepted: UC Davis (1 year TA)
Rejected: Stanford, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Columbia
Pending: Cornell, Northwestern, NYU, and Virginia Tech

[cawka]

My status for PhD in CS applications

Accepted: UCLA, Purdue
Rejected: MIT, Berkeley, CMU, Washington, UC Santa Cruz
Waiting: USC, CalTech, JohnHopkins, VirginiaTech

[wild runner]

I applied for PhD in CS.
Accepted: UW-Madison, Duke
Rejected: U Pennsylvania
Waiting: Cornell, UCLA, Rice, UC Davis

Now I'm having hard time choosing between UW-Madison with some $1400/month and Duke with $2500/month. Any suggestions?

[Ancalagon The Black]

Accepted to UMD MIM (not quite CS but pretty similar) !!

[Modeler]

Congrats on all the acceptances and good luck to all those still waiting on admissions. It surprises me how many programs have still not responded by this point.

Status Update (All PhD):
Accepted:
Michigan [30k Fellowship for 2 years, 3 more years guaranteed at at least 24k] (ATTENDING!!!)
UMD (Applied Math and Sci Comp) [15k as TA]

Waitlist:
CMU (COS Program)

Rejected:
Harvard (System Bio)
Stanford
Penn
Brown
Duke

No Official Word:
NYU
Northwestern
Cornell

[antztein]

Wild Runner,

What is ur area of interest?
That should help you decide the university.

I think Duke is a good choice, its highly ranked (not as high as Wisc-Madison)
and weather is much pleasant in North Carolina than Wisconsin. Also you get a lot of money here!!

I would choose to go to Wisconsin-Madison only if I wanted to do my PhD in Databases.

Hope it helps!

[Duong_Qua]

Admitted:
- UC Berkeley (tuition waver + 18.3K stipend fellowship/9 months - 4 years)
- Cornell (29.5K tuition waver + 24k stipend fellowship/9 months - 1st year)
- Uni of Washington (tuition waver + 18K stipend fellowship 1st year)
- NYU (full tuition waver + 24.5k stipend/9 months - renewable)
- Gatech (33k tuition waver + 19.5K stipend/9 months - each year)
- Uni of Toronto

Waiting: Harvard, UCLA

My research interests are Machine learning/Data Mining/AI/Computer Vision/Algorithms/Optimization

Any idea where should I go?