Chances at MIT, Stanford, CMU, Berkeley, Cornell, etc.

Graduate School
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<p>Ok so I'm currently a freshman at Georgia Tech and these are my dream grad schools for CS.</p>

<p>At the moment, I have a 4.0 from my first semester.</p>

<p>I plan on doing GRE during the summer. SAT scores were 700- CR, 740- M. (For reference)</p>

<p>This summer I am signed for a research position in computational physics.
In the fall, I am planning on doing research in CS debugging</p>

<p>Plans for the rest of my time at Tech:</p>

<p>Summer 2014 internship.
Fall 2014 research position
Summer 2015 internship</p>

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<p>I'm not too worried about GREs or research experience, honestly, but if I were an applicant at the end of my time here (Spring 2016), would I have a chance at these schools?</p>

<p>My main worry is GPA and how low it will go as classes become more difficult. Thoughts?</p>

<p>MAIN CONCERN: How much leverage would I have with a possibly lower GPA?</p>

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<p>Nobody can “chance” you for graduate school, and you don’t have “leverage” getting into graduate school.</p>

<p>You don’t need to take the GRE the summer between your freshman and sophomore year, either. There’s no advantage to it. I mean, if you want to get it over with, that works, but it’s not a big deal.</p>

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<p>15%, 2%, 5%, 6%, 5%, respectivelly</p>

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<p>I thoroughly disagree, pyroknife. A recent unpublished study I found in a rubbish bin the other day suggested that Cornell’s selectivity ratio has gone up .05 over the past three cycles, and therefore his chances at that institution should only be 4.82018%, with a 95% confidence interval.</p>

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<p>As was said, we can’t really chance you for grad school and, even if we could, you are but a freshman. You have so much to do still and doing well your first semester doesn’t mean you will do well when you actually get to the difficult courses. It is good you are getting into research oriented work early on though. Good luck to you!</p>

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<p>How good your application is depends on how successful your research is. Like what kind of letters can you get, whether you’ve published any papers etc. Without knowing how your research went we can’t really chance you.</p>

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<p>I think this is a good idea because then you don’t have to worry about the GRE later. You will probably want to take the computer science GRE though.</p>

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<p>What makes you think your GPA will drop?</p>

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<p>well a 4.0 sure as hell won’t rise, will it?</p>