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Hi, I recently emailed a professor to indicate interest in being a phd student under her and also listed my achievements, summary, etc. She replied saying that I should certainly apply to the phd program and that she will keep an eye out for my application. Also that I should remind her again in january, february 2012 about this. Is this a positive response or is she just being polite? Should I get my hopes up with this? Views, Comments?

Hi, I am an MS student - international student- (will finish in Dec 2011) applying for the Fall 2012 Admissions to PhD programs in CS and SE. I had applied for Fall 2011 as well but got rejected from all but 1 schools. I am applying again this time, Any advice for me? Should I refrain from applying again to the places that I had applied before or should I make sure to apply there again? One of the places that I had applied to was CMU and had made it to the waitlist however couldn't clear that. Would applying again make a difference? Changes in my profile since last time .. 1. Added 1 journal paper (journal ranked around 15 in the area) and 1 editorial in a journal - Both co-authored. 2. annual excellence award from the college of engineering - given to one student from the UG and Grad student body in engineering every year. Fellow second timers, nth timers and others .. Please let me know the dos and don'ts for a second time applicant like me, if you have any inputs regarding that. Thanks.

This is what I have been doing: Google Analytics helps you to track if your website or specific pages have been visited from an area. When I get such a notification, I access the 'access logs' which would mostly be available on your server or provided in the cPanel somewhere by your hosting provider. I then check out the IP addresses (unique) for that day using some geo or whois lookup, and know for sure who exactly accessed your website since institutional address in almost all cases tell you the identity of the institution. Also, if someone downloads a pdf file, a paper or a cv for example, there isn't a way to trace that I suppose using google analytics or unless you provide links through some script that handles the request for a specific file. scanning the access logs in that case is the only way of being sure about such visits, also this is only if the visitor/organization hasn't opted to be anonymous or keep the information private.

@kd1990 where have you applied to? CS? whats your overall profile?

well the thing that makes me wonder is that why have I got no reply yet from any universities. Maybe its the CS programs thing, they generally reply in the first week of Feb from what I have seen in surveys on thegradcafe, anyway it still makes me wonder and worry as to why have they not said anything yet. Comments?

I have heard from multiple sources that they do, also, from my experience, I have been tracking the activity on my website. I find that a number of universities actually visited my website and downloaded some of my papers, I am guessing that they must be taking papers into consideration if they are doing that. My applications are to PhD in CS programs in top US universities.

If you have a GRE score like that (okay) but have very good GPA, good research experience (multiple papers published) and strong letters of recommendation, won't that help and ensure in securing admission to a top school like Stanford/Berkeley and also get funding?

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My profile: Master's GPA: 3.96 (currently in the last sem US univ.) Publications: 10 published, 4 in process (all co-authored - 2 with first name) , co-chair 2 workshops. GRE: 740 / 510 TOEFL iBT: 115 Undergrad GPA: 2.21 (International) Excellent and very strong recommendation Letters International Applicant Applied for Fall 2011 (PhD CS) to: CMU (SE) Stanford Berkeley U Wash., Seattle Georgia Tech. USC UC Irvine UC Santa Barbara Arizona State University Please rate my chances on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 = reject, 10 = admit for sure. My undergrad GPA is bad but won;t the high GPA in MS, combined with the research work, cover up for that? Also, what do you think is the date for most of these universities that marks the time after which you stand a very high chance of reject, if you don't hear from them by then i.e.?