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  1. Hey guys, thanks for all the support and help, you are really great! If you haven't heard from schools yet, don't worry that can also mean you are accepted. I just heard some gossip about a physics student who didn't hear from stanford at all so he just assumed he was rejected. In September then he got curious and called them about why so and they just told him "oh, sorry about that. Well, if you want you can come next week and start right away" :-) I don't know if it is true, but people from there told me... Anyways, rafi, all communications between the universities and me has been via e-mail. Sunxcat, I haven't heard anything from them since the weekend. Do you know how it works with visiting days and international students? I can't believe they would be paying for a flight from Europe. Also, how important is it to attend this meeting? I would really like to meet some people there before the semester starts and everyone is busy with work but it is a 15 hour flight and a 9 hour jetlag... The funniest thing is that my mother is more excited about going to grad school than me :-) She invited all her neighbours and they got totally drunk on sparkling wine and planning a holiday in california :-) Hendrik
  2. Hello everyone, after I got a rejection from Berkeley yesterday I just received a brief admission mail from Stanford saying that I got in and that details with financial support will follow next week. My specialization is Computer Vision and (to a lesser extend) Robotics which makes admission is a bit weired since Stanford doesn't have a CV group. My stats are Q800, V430 (yes,no typo), AWA 5.5, CS GRE 860 TOEFL 283 and a GPA of 1.2 (scale 1.0=best...4.0=pass,5.0=fail) at Karlsruhe, Germany. I have two strong recommendations from known Profs in Robotics and Computer Vision and one from a Postdoc which I know well but who did not do research with me. Besides Stanford, I had applied at Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz but I haven't heard from the latter one and Stanford acceptance makes it kind of obsolete. So, thank you Erin for this great forum and everybody else for keeping it alive. I have not been posting a lot messages but I have certainly read a lot of them which helped me a lot during all the waiting time. Also, the CS GRE Forum is a really good resource for sample problems. Good night, it is now 6am local time and I am still excited but I definitely have to go to bed now :-)
  3. Congratulations again! UC Berkeley is really a great school, was my #1 choice too... ..but I got a reject email just 10 minutes ago :-( Anyways, I can still try again next year Cheers Hendrik
  4. That's what I would do, compose a list of all topics covered in high-school with lots of buzzwords. Then, e-mail the list to the school and offer to get it signed by a professor. Furthermore, you can offer to do a test that covers this material - they most probably don't have one so they will say no thanks and you leave a good impression. :) Oh, and maybe you find a webpage with some test questions, even if it is romanian. That again won't help them but it won't hurt either.
  5. Congratulations, Nicole! I hope there'll be even more admissions for you, you certainly deserve it. Romanian education seems to be really good - my girlfriend is from there and she's done math stuff in high school that we do in 2nd year university! Cheers =Hendrik=
  6. I just received my score by mail. Results: 53 right, 1 unattempted and 11 wrong 50 formula. It looks like the test was graded quite generously. In a normal university exam, you can be glad if you receive a "B" with that score.
  7. Erin, that is a good question. Basically, there are three relevant sets of numbers: -the integers (usually named |Z or |N if you take only the positive ones) -the rational numbers (named |Q), containing all numbers that can be written as a fraction p/q -the real numbers (named |R), containing all numbers All of them are infinite but the first ones are smaller than the last one, because they are "countable infinite", the last one is "uncountable". This means that you can write down an infinite sequence in which all integers and fractions occur. -For integers this is trivial (take 0,1,-1,2,-2,3,-3...) -For fractions you write all of them in a table ---------------> p | 0 1/1 2/1 3/1 ... | 0 1/2 2/2 | 0 1/3 2/3 | 0 1/4 2/4 V q To put these fractions into a sequence, you walk through this table diagonally and add every number you encounter to your sequence. The "real" numbers are a bit more complicated :-) Let's take just the numbers between 0 and 1. Every one of them can be written in binary notation like 0.1101010110... If we assume that we can put all real numbers into a sequence, then every real number gets a position number in that sequence. Then, we construct a new number, written in binary which takes a "0" as it's n-th position if the real number n-th in the sequence has a "1" at its n-th position. If the n-th number in the sequence has a "0" at its n-th position, our new number gets a "1" there. Our freshly created number is a valid real number between 0 and 1, hence it also has a sequence position, which we call "m". Now here is the trick: What is the m-th binary digit of our new number? If it is "0", it has to be "1" because the m-th number has a "0" at the m-th position. If it is "1" it has to be "0". So we are stuck in a paradoxon. Paradoxons are forbidden in mathematics, so the assumption that real numbers are countable must be wrong, hence they are uncountable and therefore, their set it greater than the one of the integers.
  8. Hello Everyone, there are definitely differences in how the countries are treated. See for example http://www.stanford.edu/dept/icenter/GenInfo/stats/Stats_Fall_2002.pdf for a detailed list of foreign national students. Unfortunately, that file lists only the number of accepted students, not the number of applicants. However, you can still relate this number to the population count of the countries For my case (computer science) it looks like this: PhD Students Country population 7 Israel 5mil 9 France 61mil 1 Germany 82mil 50 India 900mil Now, by using murphy's law you can figure out where I am from :-(
  9. Thanks Jaideep, couldn't believe it when I heard it :-) I did not read and books and don't know what Schaum is. I just went through all my lecture notes, wrote down all the information that I "kind of" knew but not exactly and practiced to get standard questions faster. Most of my bookmarks go into this forum, it is really great for practice questions - Thanks again!!! Some of them are a bit too hard though. Don't do them, you don't want to get used to solving complex problems having much time. Better are easy problems with very little time. PS: Texas rocks, especially Austin! Done an Internship there and that was the best time of my life!
  10. My score is 860 (94%), whew that was a lot of luck - I did not feel very comfortable since the practice test was much easier. Here's my advice for anybody who has still got to do the test: Most Important ones: - Study _all_ topics in the overview, not just the ones in the practice test. The real test will have a totally random selection of questions. Nov 8 for example had a lot of graph theory - Study for breadth not depth, most if not all of the questions require just some basic knowledge and the ability to think quick. Others: - Learn space/time complexity for all algorithms like vocabularies - Learn a complete list of NP-complete problems - this way you can be sure that if you don't know about the problem, it's probably in P - Pace yourself. I wrote down the time after every 10 questions to see how I was doing. - Skip questions in areas you are not familiar with and come back to them if you have finished the rest. Most of them are phrased in a way that you can solve then even though you don't know anything about it. - Many questions are in a way "what is the result of a program" or "is word X a part of the language Y". Here, try to understand what the piece of code or the language does and then apply this to the question instead of "debugging" to program by going through it step-by-step. For long and complicated programs, this is much faster and gives you less errors (once you have practiced it a bit).
  11. Hello everyone! I am taking the general GRE tomorrow and there is one important question left for me: Is the grading of the essays done - always in the U.S. or - locally where you took the test or - on the same continent?? I know that my personal opinion expressed in the essays should not matter as long as the strain of thought, vocabulary etc are correct, HOWEVER no one is really impartial and during my stay in the U.S. I have found out that most people there have quite different social and political standpoints. Maybe you even know what type of people correct the GREs. I have learned they are mostly graduate students, but there is probably a big difference between english literature majors, economy students and general liberal arts students. Thank you very much for helping me. =Hendrik=
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