bigredx24x Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 bump bump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scheng75 Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 bump bump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HetEcon Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 I had to dig deep in the cookie jar to get this thread to the top. It is probably the most complete thread with the profiles of TMian applicants, their path to glory, and where they have applied. IMPORTANT Please, to all of those who are new to the forum (like I was a month or so ago), feel free to post your profile (iff you are comfortable). This establishes a great way to compare backgrounds, check-up with fellow applicants (if you have applied to the same universities), or have a foundation of information from which to ask questions (and PLEASE feel free to ask questions in the form of a NEW thread--you are sure to get some great, helpful advice). ALSO Pretty soon it would probably be a great idea to start an "official admit/reject thread," since the season is halfway over for most, and completely finished for others. If no one does, I will take the liberty of doing so soon. Best wishes and fingers crossed (for you, me, and everyone else) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfree Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 Erin,  Could you make this thread sticky? I couldn't find it since a few weeks ago. :( And, thx HetEcon. Kfree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scheng75 Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 Degree: BA in Economics with specialization in Computing & Economics MA College GPA: 2.78/4.0 Masters GPA: 3.93/4.0 Under grad Major GPA: 3.1 Undergrad Univ: UCLA Grad Univ: CSU GRE: V640 Q780 AWA5.0 Research: 1.5 yrs senior research assistant for Economic Forecast Presentation: one at WEA in 2004 Prof. Exp: 3 year of work exp in IT/Finance Desired field of graduate study: Ph.D in Economics SOP: Decent Recs: Good, but not spectacular Admits - UC Santa Cruz (w/ funding) - University of Washington (funding pending) Rejects - USC - UCLA Anderson Bus. Ph.D (Global Economics & Management) Pending: - UT Austin - Georgetown - George Washington U - UCI - Claremont Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ritwik Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 Erin, Please delete the posts which do not pertain to profile. Including this one. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reactor Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 UPDATE Degree: BSc in Economics (Greece), Graduate Diploma in Math (UK, pending) Undergrad GPA: 3.4 Undergrad GPA final two years 4.0 Graduate GPA (PhD in Business Strategy) 3.1 (resigned) Rank: 1st out of 400 GRE: Q 770 V 430 AW 5.0 (A760 2002) GMAT: 700 (2004) , 710 (2002) Area of interest: Economics (Game Theory, IO, Micro) Papers/Projects Graduate Level: 3 Undergrad Level: 6 Graduate TA/RA 1year Undergrad TA/RA 1 year Recos: excellent SOP: radical, math oriented Admits: (in order of preference) Universitat Pompeu Fabra MSc Economics ~01/03/05 University of British Columbia MA in Economics ~11/03/05 LSE MSc Economics ~15/03/05 Warwick MSc Economics ~October 2004 Rejects: Toulouse Master Economic Theory and Econometrics ~01/03/05 LSE MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics ~15/03/05 Pending: University of Toronto (MA Doctoral stream) ~04/2005 University of British Columbia Financial Aid ~any time from tommorow Queen's University (MA Econ) ~any time from tommorow UCL (MSc Econ) (It does not matter) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenbacker Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Undergrad: B.S. in Computer Science, Math minor, Denison University (Granville, OH, USA) 2001 3.79/4 overall 3.97/4 major 2 undergrad research projects (nothing published) Member Upsilon Pi Epsilon (CS Honorary) & Pi Mu Epsilon (Math Honorary) 4 Excellent recommendations (know all the profs very well), but little known faculty at little known departmnt Work experience: At Denison: TA for Robotics, tutored algorithms/data structures, fellow of CS department Since then: 4 years as member of technical staff at a major research lab... recently promoted to senior member of tech staff. GRE: 800Q, 620V, 5.5 AWÂ Admits: Ohio State University (PhD) UIUC (MCS)Â Rejects: MIT (SM)Â Waiting on: Harvard (SM) Cornell (MEng)Â (all in Computer Science) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jugs Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 Applied for : Databases & Information Systems Undergrad Major : Computer Science College : VJTI, Mumbai, India Degree : Aug 2003 GRE : 1390 (Q : 780, V : 610), AW : 4.5/6 Research Experience : DURATION : Sep 2003 - till date AREA : Research in handling large scale Astronomical Databases INSTITUTE : Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA, Pune) Projects : 3 Major Publications : SDSS J125637-022452 : High Proper motion L subdwarf, Accepted (with changes) , Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL) Recos : 2 from work place, 2 from undergrad college SOP : focussed on DB & Information Systems Homepage : http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/~gupchup Rejects : UC, Berkeley Georgia Tech Ohio State Univ. Admits : JHU , PhD (RA) ASU, MS (without aid) Pending : UIUC Wisconsin Minnesota Austin, Texas Umass, Amherst USC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reactor Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 Jugs, I clicked on your web-page and your resume and I got a whole lot of ?????????????????? ???? ???????????????? question marks. Are you aware of this? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigredx24x Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 bump bump always nice to be able to reference people's profiles. i forget all the time and have to reference this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnm Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 hey jugs i liked pics ... particularly that colaba one.. Btw your profile is also inspiring cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arizonan Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Degree: BS Computer Engineering, Masters (in progress) in Electrical and Computer Eng. College GPA: 4.0/4.0 Masters GPA: 4.0/4.0 Undergrad Univ: University of Arizona Grad Univ:University of Arizona GRE: V540 Q790 AWA 6.0 Research: A lot as part of my masters and some undergrad (summers mainly). Two conference papers. Two journal papers in preparation. Also, several years of TA (both undergrad and grad) Desired field of graduate study: Ph.D in EE SOP: Excellent Recs: Excellent Admits Berkeley (1 year fellowship) Stanford (3 year fellowship) MIT (1 year fellowship) Rejects 0 Pending: Caltech UCSD Georgia Tech Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piyushahuja Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Hey guys... here's my profile Desired Degree : MS Computer/Electrical Engineering Desired Specialization: Networking Undergrad GPA:3.88/4.0 Core GPA : 3.98/4.0 Institute: Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, Pune B.E Computer Engineering Research Experience: Only the final year project...with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune Papers / Work Ex : None GRE : 800(Q)+710+6.0 TOEFL: 300 ( 6.0) Admits: NCSU ( No idea abt aid) Rejects : Now this is painful... UCLA, UCSD, UCB, Stanford Awaiting: PennState Utexas, Austin Gatech Rice RPI Virginia Tech CMU  Neways, its nice to see people getting great admits.:tup: Cheers!:) Piyush Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scheng75 Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 UPDATE Degree: BA in Economics with specialization in Computing & Economics MA College GPA: 2.78/4.0 Masters GPA: 3.93/4.0 Under grad Major GPA: 3.1 Undergrad Univ: UCLA Grad Univ: CSU GRE: V640 Q780 AWA5.0 Research: 1.5 yrs senior research assistant for Economic Forecast Presentation: one at WEA in 2004 Prof. Exp: 3 year of work exp in IT/Finance Desired field of graduate study: Ph.D in Economics SOP: Decent Recs: Good, but not spectacular Admits - UC Santa Cruz (w/ funding) - University of Washington (no funding) - George Washington U (no funding) Rejects - USC - UCI - UT Austin Pending: - UCLA Anderson Bus. Ph.D (Global Economics & Management) anticipate ding - Georgetown - Claremont Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosfro Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Degree: BA in Economics with minor in Management College GPA: 3.25/4.0 Under grad Major GPA: 3.3 Undergrad Univ: UC Irvine GRE: V450 Q800 AWA 4.5 Research: 1 year research with Economics Professor Desired field of graduate study: Ph.D in Economics, in either Development/International Econ, or micro SOP: Good, focused Recs: Great! Admits - Mich State (no funding yet, im still hoping) - Texas A&M (full funding) Rejects - u ready, this is a LONG list - UCLA - UCSB - UC Irvine - UPenn - Penn State - U of Michigan - Rutgers - Boston College - UC San Diego (IR/PS) - Brown - Yale - Purdue - Arizona - Arizona St - USC - U of Washington - WUSTL (yeah i know i applied to a lot of longshots, but with my GPA, everything is a longshot)  Pending: - Carnegie Mellon - UNC - Georgetown - Claremont - Boston U (im assuming its a ding) - NYU (obviously a ding) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bons Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Degree: B.E. in Electrical Engineering College GPA:71% Undegraduate University: National Institute of Technology(NIT),India GRE : 800(Q),590(V),760(Anals) TOEFL:267 Research:Nil Work Experience:4 years(Not related to the intended field of study) Desired field of Graduate Study: M.S. in Electrical Engineering SOP:decent Recs:decent Admits: UC Irvine UC Riverside Reject: UCSC Pending: UC Davis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xenoone Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Applied for: Econ PhD (last minute decision to apply at all..) BSc in econ (international school) MA in econ (private US top 50 school) GPA: 3.92/4.00 undergrad, 3.75 masters GRE: V530 Q770 A4.0 (took it in December, no preparation whatsoever.. like I said, last minute decision to apply) SOP: provocative, mostly about what I concider important questions/ motivations for research; LORs: 1 ok with emphasis on TA performance; 2 extremely favorable but from intl profs (though one could compare to two Minnesota PhDs oroginally from my BSc school, they are both in tenure-track positions at top 10 depts now) Research: one short paper on applied math question published in an intl journal; BSc empirical thesis; two working papers submitted with application (far from submission quality); RA experience (6 month) for a star prof; TA experience - 3 years (1.5 years grad macro); Matlab, Stata programming experience (not sure it matters)   Admits: Minnesota (full funding) Wisconsin-Madison (no funding) Pitt (funding, amount pending) Pending: Penn State Rejects: Cornell Brown Virginia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aw2129 Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 Degree: BS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering College GPA: 3.7/4.0 Masters GPA: 3.9/4.0 Undergrad and Grad Univ: Univ. of Wisc. Madison GRE: V630 Q790 AWA 4.0 Research Exp: 1.5 years in Electromagnetic/RF field with thesis. Work Exp: 4 years in several leading electronic industries, with 3 US patents pending. Intended Field of Grad study: Masters/Ph.D in Engineering Management/Operations Research. SOP: Good Recs: Good to excellent. Admits Stanford  Rejects Princeton MIT Pending: Columbia Cornell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CS_MS_Anonymous Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 Applied For: MS and MS/PhD in CS Degree: B.S. Computer Science & B.S. Math (Pure) Math and CS GPA: 4.0/4.0 Overall: 3.97/4.0 Rank: Within top 1% University: ok US university (Top 30 CS, Top 50 overall) GRE: [V: 570, Q: 780, W: 4.0] => :( Research Experience: 1 yr Research experience in data mining (w/emphasis on the Web) including a summer with a grant. Unfortunately I have no publications. Reccs: 1-2 Excellent LORs and 1 good (he didn't know me that well, but I did really well in his class and he had access to a lot of good school statistics e.g. overall class rank). I think - I never asked any of my recommenders to rate their LORs. Admits: Stanford MS Cornell MEng Columbia MS and other less competitive programs Rejects: MIT MS/PhD UWash MS/PhD Berkeley MS I've decided on Stanford :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dileep Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 Degree: B.E. in Computer Systems Engineering Undergraduate %: 82% Undegraduate University: NED University of Engg. & Tech., Pakistan. GRE : 790(Q), 640(V), 5.0(AWA) TOEFL:257 (5.0) Research:Nil Work Experience:2 years Teaching Experience: 1.5 years Desired field of Graduate Study: M.S. in Computer Science Admits: UFL, Gainesville (no aid) Kansas State University (aid info awaited) Pending: UT Austin TAMU VTech Iowa State Univ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ok_theone Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Degree: BE Electrical (Telecommunication) Engg Undergrad GPA: 3.85/4.00 Undergrad Univ: National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. GRE: V570 Q790 AWA 4.5 TOEFL: 287/300 Publication: One publication in an international conference Work Experience: Working for the past one year in a company which develops video products for Embedded Systems. Desired field of graduate study: Ph.D in EE SOP: Decent Recs: Acceptable Admits UT Austin (no aid) Penn State (no aid) UT Arlington (no aid) Rejects Stanford Columbia Pending: Cornell Virginia Tech UCF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brown Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Degree: MS Computer Engineering Undergrad GPA: 80% Undergrad Univ: Azad university, Tehran, Iran Grad GPA: 90% Grad Univ: Sharif University, Tehran, Iran GRE: V370 Q800 AWA 3.5 TOEFL: 267/300 Publications: 3 IEEE conferences, 2 Elsivier conferences, 1 journal (special issue) Work Experience: RA (for a year) Desired field of graduate study: Ph.D in CE (Computer Architecture) SOP: Well focused Recs: Strong Admits NCSU -- ece (pending aid) Rejects Wisconsin Madison -- cs Upenn -- ee UCSD -- cis Pending: Texas Austin -- ee (definitely rejected) UMD -- ee (definitely rejected) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabro57 Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 Degree: M.B.A. (accounting) Minor: Business valuation Graduate GPA: 4.20/4.33 Undergrad GPA: 3.81/4.33 Undergrad+Grad Univ: 3rd tier (canadian) GMAT: 760 (Q49, V42) Research: Not much except for a business valuation empirical paper as part of MBA Prof. Exp: 4 years in public accounting firm (before MBA) Desired field of graduate study: PhD in Accounting (duh) SOP: Good to very good Reccs: Very good, but from unknown professors (ie. 3rd tier canadian)Â Admits/Rejects:Â - Rochester (admit, full aid) - Carnegie Mellon (admit, full aid) - Boston U (admit, no aid) - Cornell (reject)Â Pending:Â - MIT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webdoctors Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 Degree: B.A.Sc. (Computer Engineering) Undergrad GPA 3.24 Univ: Univ. of Toronto GRE: 540/760/5.5 (v/q/a) Admit: Cornell M.Eng Rejects: Just about every Univ can think of in top 15 list. :tup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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