Chance Me for Ph.D Computer Science Fall 2016

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Undergraduate Institution- University of Wisconsin-Madison

Major- Computer Science

Major GPA- 3.87

Overall GPA- 3.73

Last 2 years GPA- 3.9

GRE

Quant - 170

Verbal - 169

Writing - 4.0

Research Experience at UW

15 months (ongoing) in Machine Learning. No publications yet.
3 months (ongoing) in Computer Vision. No publications yet.
3 months in Human Computer Interaction. No publications.
Other Experience

Machine Learning project centered technical internship at Intuit.
Software team member in Wisconsin Robotics, a student organization at UW.
Interested Fields for Ph.D

AI, Machine Learning, Robotics

Universities applying to (in rough order of preference)

Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Princeton, Berkeley, CalTech, University of Washington, Harvard, Cornell, UPenn, Columbia, Brown, UMass Amherst, UT Austin.

Could anyone please evaluate my profile for these universities. Any advice on what I can do now to improve my chances to get admissions is also greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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Are you a US Citizen? (big+) Your GRE score is superb and GPA in the right range. What are your recommendation letters like? I would start interviewing the individual programs and professors in your field and see what would be a good fit for you. You are going to be there for 4-5 years and it will take a lot more research to determine how well you fit together. Most programs only have a handful of Ph.D students. Start by talking to your current faculty and see who they know and recommend.

CMU was recently raided by Uber, so check into it carefully.