<p>I don’t really want to give my email out, but you can PM me. For the first paragraph, I talked about how I got into math in elementary school. It should probably be some small story about yourself.</p>
<p>eaglesfan90: Thanks a lot.
I have made a draft containing 1000 words and 10 paragraphs. Thouhg there is a lot of modifications remain to put on it, I doubt about the length. Is 1000 words and 10 paragraphs SoP too long for Harvard/MIT?</p>
<p>Rule of thumb for SOPs is no more than 2 pages. Mine was 6 paragraphs, ~1200 words.</p>
<p>I think it’s ok if they don’t say there’s some limit. My MIT one was like 920. It’s more about being concise and making sure you aren’t saying anything unnecessary.</p>
<p>Has anyone heard back from USC, Brown or Northwestern in regards to Masters in Computer Science/Computer Engineering? I finished by application late January but still haven’t heard back.</p>
<p>Maybe check on gradcafe to see if anyone’s heard back. It is kind of late though, so you might want to contact someone at those schools.</p>
<p>My SOPs were all a page long, about 600 words.</p>
<p>Also to update, I’ve received decisions from the following EE/ECE/EECS Masters programs:</p>
<p>Princeton
Stanford
UCLA
Cornell
Berkeley</p>
<p>Still waiting on:</p>
<p>UT Austin</p>
<p>Heard from:</p>
<p>MIT
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Georgia Tech
UC Irvine</p>
<p>Waiting on:</p>
<p>Columbia
Johns hopkins
harvard
michigan
UC Santa Barbara
UC Los Angeles</p>
<p>Ya I applied to a lot 
Seems kind of late and bleak for those latter schools…</p>
<p>GF was applying to Geophysics and petroleum engineering.</p>
<p>Stanford - MS Energy Resource Engineering - Accepted
Rice - PhD Geophysics - Accepted</p>
<p>Austin - Pending
CSM - Pending</p>
<p>Rest don’t really matter. She’s taking the Stanford offer anyway.</p>
<p>anyone got a GPA of around 3.5 or so? How did you do?</p>
<p>^ I wonder about that too!</p>
<p>I know some people here got results back from Stanford M.S. EE program. When did you get your results and where you accepted/rejected?</p>
<p>Still waiting for my result.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>@spectastic: yes, my GPA is around that, although my junior/senior GPA is much higher… I thought some schools would that that into consideration, especially since I come from a very strong engineering school and have a lot of research experience. Rejected from 3 out of 5 for PhD… 2 of those schools accepted me for masters… still waiting to hear from 2, but it’s pretty late in the game so we’ll see. Good luck to you, though!</p>
<p>where did you apply to? and where were you accepted (with funding I assume)? Also, where do you go to school?</p>
<p>@danielp1211: I got my acceptance notice from Stanford MSEE on Feb. 21st</p>
<p>Here’s my recap:</p>
<p>Undergrad: University of Kansas</p>
<p>Major: Math with lots of CS/Biology/Chemistry coursework</p>
<p>GPA: 3.74 (including a pretty bad final semester)</p>
<p>Research: I’ve done projects in genetics, computational biology, and synthetic biology over about 3.5 years. I graduated in 2011 and have been doing research since then.</p>
<p>Area of Interest: synthetic biology</p>
<p>Publications: one minor-author on a Nature paper, and minor paper in submission</p>
<p>GRE Scores: 800Q, 660V, 5.0AW</p>
<p>Other: Amgen Scholar and some school-level awards/honors</p>
<p>Interviews:
UW-Seattle Bioengineering
UW-Seattle Biology
Northwestern IBiS</p>
<p>Acceptances:
UW-Seattle Bioengineering
Northwestern IBiS
BU Biomedical Engineering
Utah Bioengineering
UC Davis Biomedical Engineering</p>
<p>Rejections:
Berkeley/UCSF Bioengineering
Stanford Bioengineering
MIT CSB
Harvard Systems Biology
UW Biology? (I haven’t gotten a response and it’s been ~2.5 months post-interview)</p>
<p>Attending: UW Bioengineering!</p>
<p>Undergrad: Purdue University</p>
<p>Major: Electrical Engineering</p>
<p>Cumulative GPA: 3.93 </p>
<p>Research: 1 summer and 1 semester writing computational EM code in matlab. </p>
<p>Area of Interest: Electromagnetics and Optics, DSP</p>
<p>Publications: Zip, zero, nada!</p>
<p>GRE Scores: 790Q (164) / 710V (167)</p>
<p>Other: ECE department scholarhips (aka money for good grades). Worked 2 years full time as a software engineer at an engineering company that lets us do all sorts of interesting things (no red tape). Gained lots of experience working at this company :)</p>
<p>Recs: 1 from research professor, 2 from company managers.</p>
<p>Acceptances:
PHD:
Purdue (2 fellowship offers)
UIUC (TA/RA)</p>
<p>MA:
CMU (some financial aid)
UMich
UCLA</p>
<p>Rejections:
MA:
UCB
Caltech</p>
<p>Haven’t heard back from:
UT Austin (MA)</p>
<p>Attending: Don’t know :(</p>
<p>Thanks for posting your profile, what are referring to in mentioning “MA”?</p>
<p>Most likely Masters</p>
<p>@codejunkie</p>
<p>masters</p>