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  1. I just got a peculiar email from a Prof at Columbia. He said that it "unlikely" that I will be offered admission at Columbia. I am quoting the email in this post:
  2. I've heard from NYU Ph.D. (CS). Admitted. No news from Columbia, but I called them up and they said they'd get back to me in a week.
  3. Hey Kirti. First of all, you have not made clear whether you're interested in a Masters or a PhD. I applied for a PhD and I can give you a perspective in terms of my opinion to make it to the top CS programs in the US. GRE: In my opinion, the general GRE is of little relevance for a top CS PhD program, unless its atrocious. Anything about 2100, with an 780+ in Quant, and not anything lesser than a 4.5 and 500 in the AWA and Verbal respectively should meet the GRE bar -- if it exists in the first place. TOEFL: I dont think this matters at all, as long as you can get something like 270. A-GRE: I was of the opinion that of all the standardized tests, the subject GRE is the one that is given maximum weightage for the PhD programs. But having a good A-GRE score still does not ensure admission. Having a poor score however, could rule you out. Try to make around 75+ percentile. Subject GRE becomes even more important if your undergrad. school is relatively unknown to the admission committees. GPA: Well, GPA is important to an extent. I know that all Department Rank 1s from my college have consistently made it to the top programs. Research experience: This is an unstated, yet the most important factor for admissions in my opinion. Having one or two research papers could go a long way towards your admission at top schools. Having said that, this is probably the most difficult thing to do. Anyway, good luck.
  4. Great job charlieboy! Your scores were intimidating! So its only fair that you got in at Columbia. I'm still to hear from them. The webpage says pending. Have NYU though -- and am reasonably happy with that! Hopefully we'll both meet in NY. :-)
  5. Thanks anak and matek. Your comments were encouraging. Also I heard that being in NY is a big plus since one can also work with researchers in IBM TJ Watson and profs at Columbia.
  6. Thanks guys. Vipul, you asked for my profile, here it is (from another post): Apping for: Ph.D. in CS (Theory & Algorithms) GRE: Q:800 V:670 AWA:6/6 Undergrad GPA: 8.5 / 10. Postgrad GPA (I'm already a masters, apping for a Ph.D.): 9.5 / 10. Recos: 3 from CS profs, two good, one average - and then one reco from a humanities prof. - which would be very strong, but I don't know if that counts. Although that humanities prof. is a famous poet of sorts. Every prof likely to say at least top 15% in academic maturity and top 10% in motivation (some might say still better). Subject GRE: 96 percentile. Work experience: One year as a software developer. Research papers: None. ------ Guys, how is the CS department of NYU? What is its reputation? Is it considered good?
  7. $20K is the amount that they mentioned on the offer.
  8. Hey guys, Just wanted to share that I got an admission with financial aid for a CS Ph.D. from NYU. This is a pleasant change from the long string of rejects that started back on February 18th. I am still to hear from UPenn, Columbia and CMU (ACO program). Received the offer through email yesterday morning. I want to thank everyone in this forum for helping me out a great deal and wish good luck to everyone whose still to hear from their favourite places. Thanks guys.
  9. hey anak. i applied well in time. all my recos reached in time. the only thing that did not reach them in time, were my subject GRE scores, and those they permitted and acknowledged receipt of. I applied for the Ph.D. program. I got acknowledging emails from cornell cs faculty saying that my file was complete and now under review. I had contacted two profs, and they had encouraged me, but that didn't help for me I guess. best of luck for your app dude.
  10. hey anak, it was my an email that was sent from some weird account, and to a large number of people altogether.
  11. Just received a decline mail from Cornell. Sigh. Now theres only four more schools left: NYU, CMU, Columbia, UPenn.
  12. has anyone received any offers / rejects (other than murboy's reject from cornell that he told us of) from NYU, Columbia or Cornell for a CS Ph.D.?
  13. Hi, I know a friend who got a (CS) Ph.D. transfer from IIT Delhi to U.Penn. last year. His transfer was facilitated by the fact that in the first year of Ph.D. at IIT Delhi, he was able to make good progress on one of the problems that he was solving, and got a publication out of that.
  14. I thought I'd quote a correspondence with a Brown grad. student at the CS department:
  15. It was a snail mail. I'm in office right now so dont have access to it. From what I recall it was dated at February 17th, 2004. :(
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