Graduate School Admission Results

Canadian student

350 in QS, GPA 9.5/10, Rank 2/50; summer internship at a Canadian uni, bachelor's thesis at CERN + American ivy, working as a research engineer full-time (since the past 6 months) at a London uni (top 10 QS); a lot of practical experience in theoretical CS (type theory, formal verification), scientific computing and HPC (maintaining open-source software, 2-3 software papers and conference proceedings, internships, work ex); strong SOP, strong LORs. Accepted for the Computational Science and Engineering program.

anyone from India got accepted?

9.1+/10 GPA; EU student; 1 exchange year at a top 15 university in the U.S.; 1 ongoing RA; 1 ongoing internship; 1 completed 6-month internship; 1 completed startup experience; no pub

2 years work experience as SWE, CS and MIS bachelors, no publications.

Very good student from top French university (Ecole polytechnique). None of us got in, even the best. Good LoRs, good motivation letter. No idea what happened.

Chinese applicant with a Chinese bachelor's in computer science. GRE not required & not submitted. 1-year-long research experience at an EPF Lausanne lab. 1 first-author conference pub & several non-first-author pubs. Probably decent LoRs. Also got admitted to Data Science MSc program. ESOP rejected for both programs.

BSc from Tecnológico de Monterrey, 2 LoR from Tec de Monterrey professors, mid SoP, 1 internship, 2 years as undergrad research assistant, no ESOP, no GRE. Robotics and autonomous vehicle's background.

Top 2% in bachelor's program, three strong letters of recommendation, decent motivation statement, two years of work experience, strong extracurricular activities and leadership roles. Came from a top 100-150 European university. (Also got into Msc Data Science and hence the repeating statement.)

Top German CS university, CS Major Top 3% out of 300. 6 semesters. 3 big industry experience. 1 tutor experience. Distinctive Thesis. 1 Strong 2 moderate recommendations

Top 0.5% of graduating class, 250-300 QS CS Greek university, no GRE, moderate to strong LoRs

2 years of experience as SWE, top 3 german university, one good and one very strong LoRec (did his PhD at ETH), sadly sucky GPA because I cared more about partying than grades during undergrad