van@hpisla.UUCP (Van Walther) (12/16/85)
If you've got a 4.0 GPA from a BIG name school and place in the top 0.001% on the GRE its no sweat. HOWEVER, a 3.67 GPA, top 8% on the GRE and a 3.8 GPA in GRAD courses (non-matriculated) at Stanford didn't get me in.:-( Good Luck, Van
jsl@princeton.UUCP (Jong Lee) (12/19/85)
> If you've got a 4.0 GPA from a BIG name school and place in the top 0.001% > on the GRE its no sweat. HOWEVER, a 3.67 GPA, top 8% on the GRE and a > 3.8 GPA in GRAD courses (non-matriculated) at Stanford didn't get me in.:-( Your aren't kidding here obviously, but just out of curiosity, do you mean top 8% on all three parts, or just math, or what? Where did you go undergrad (I don't mean to pry, but again, just curious)? Stanford? Berkeley? If it's the former, isn't it the practice of most schools to not accept its own undergrads? Anyway, your credentials sound good; maybe recommendation letters did you in. Or you applied to an especially strong dept. For example, I got negged by Cornell's Solid State Devices dept. and got in everywhere else; and a friend got burned by Carnegie-Mellon's Robotics group, and his stats aren't too shabby. Just putting in my two cents worth. jsl@princeton *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
jae@whuxlm.UUCP (Jae Chung) (12/20/85)
> If you've got a 4.0 GPA from a BIG name school and place in the top 0.001% > on the GRE its no sweat. HOWEVER, a 3.67 GPA, top 8% on the GRE and a > 3.8 GPA in GRAD courses (non-matriculated) at Stanford didn't get me in.:-( > > Good Luck, > Van *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** NO!!!! I had less than 3.8 GPA from a not so BIG name school and placed below top 20% in verbal section of GRE and was able to get into their master's program (I also applied sometime in May--a few months after the deadline). Basically, I don't think they want all their students to have 4.0 from a BIG name school and place 99.999% on the GRE (this applies to all programs--PhD, MSAI, MSCS). I think what is important is that you know what you want to get out of the school and if Stanford could provide the faculty and the support you need, you should apply. If you want to get a feel for your chances of getting in, I think you should talk to some of the faculty and the students there. One thing I did notice while I was there is that they tend to favor those applicants with non-CS (like math, EE, psych, ...) degree with some CS background. --Jae