02 Apr 2017

UCSD (University Of California, San Diego)

Computer Science, Masters (F17)

Accepted via E-mail on 28 Mar 2017

Note

Rejected from PhD, accepted to MS program. No funding, but recommended for TAship. Don't know how I got in at all with such a crap GPA...rejected from other lower-ranked CS programs. 3 good lor, good sop, research experience; 1 2nd author applied ml research article in mediocre journal, several unpublished and "in submission" projects, had interview with a prof. Just got lucky I guess - I think I was considered a wildcard admit. Some more transcript info: C + and an F in 5 honors math courses, C in advanced algorithms, As in 3 graduate machine learning courses and TA for machine learning/AI courses for 4 semesters. Other admits include WashU (PhD CS), U Wisconsin (MS in Bioinformatics), Stony Brook (MS CS), University of Rochester (MS CS). Rejects include NYU, UC Berkeley (lol), U Washington (lol), UC SB, TTIC, University of Chicago. I will choose this program.

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