Got update on Quest. CS undergrad, GRE - 314, TOEFL - 106, 2.10 yrs Software Engineer experience.

TTPB: NYU is very popular mainly due to some very well recognized professors like Yann Lecun and Kyunghyun Cho. It is very unlikely as a Master student to do research with them (they will probably work only with PhD and post-docs). Also, maybe you would see only 2 courses with them; the rest of the course would be given by professors that you have probably never heard about. If you look at the statistics, mathematics, and computer science rankings in USNEWS, you\'ll see that Columbia is better ranked than NYU in all categories. Also, if you search," AI research index 2019 medium" on google, you'll see that Columbia has a higher AI research index than NYU. For me, Columbia is a no-brainer.

TTPB: NYU is very popular mainly due to some very well recognized professors like Yann Lecun and Kyunghyun Cho. It is very unlikely as a Master student to do research with them (they will probably work only with PhD and post-docs). Also, maybe you would see only 2 courses with them; the rest of the course would be given by professors that you have probably never heard about. If you look at the statistics, mathematics, and computer science rankings in USNEWS, you'll see that Columbia is better ranked than NYU in all categories. Also, if you visit this link, you'll see that Columbia has a higher AI research index than NYU https://medium.com/@chuvpilo/ai-research-rankings-2019-insights-from-neurips-and-icml-leading-ai-conferences-ee6953152c1a . For me, Columbia is a no-brainer.

Having a hard time to choose this over NYU's DS program...

Received email to check website.

TOEFL: 109 Was expecting good news from this university. Well I guess I just have to wait for others.

Email received about the rejection. Comments mentioned that the applicant pool was too competitive. Also expected outcome because TOEFL score was 97. Not meeting the minimum of 100 criteria. Good university, great program.

Mail saying I was waitlisted

Also submitted TOFEL 104. Admission with a GSAS Centennial Scholarship. Undergrad double majors: SCM and MIS from Business school

Admitted with a 25% scholarship. Undergrad in top 30 cs univ. in U.S. and double major in cs and stats. No publication. one-year research experience in 2 labs. One database intern in summer.

Got an email stating that I have been waitlisted. There were around 600 applications this year for this program. And they have put me on waitlist.

Didn't expect an AD this late in the game... Thanks god

USC said I was accepted for the spring 2020 semester not fall 2019 semester.