@MYOS1634 - Is your internet connection still not back up?
Computer Science(BS) If I'm an ASU undergrad(Not Barrett) what are my chances @ Harvard grad school?
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Correction:
You have a real shot at Barrett if you have the stats they want, as long as you apply by Dec 1st.
When do you hear back from UMN and when do you need to give your answer to ASU?
An issue is that Arizona has a dual system : very good students get very good learning conditions and all others get lousy learning conditions, presumably because learning hasn’t been their primary objective till then and so the state won’t invest money in them until they’ve proved they were worth it, even if that choice may well cause them to fail (your concerns as expressed are valid). It’s not as pronounced elsewhere. so I would wait until Ihear back.
Getting into grad school is about your having high scholarship where you are and getting involved in research experiences. Also picking grad schools is about FIT with the department research interests. So you really can’t pick a grad school until you get into your upper division work and have experience with wheve your own research interests lie. Harvard grad school has specific strengths and professors interested in certain research areas but not broad across the board like a MIT or CMU. They are not one of the big comprehensive CS grad schools. Are you even looking to going to a PhD? Because Harvard doesn’t offer terminal MS.
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/computer-science/masters-cs-requirements
Seriously you aren’t really paying attention. @UCBalumnus gave you the undergraduate schools of some Harvard CS profs and you ignored all except for Maryland.
@MYOS1634 - My stats are (not so great) : I’m an international student who has taken a gap year after HS graduation. I’m trying to use this year studying for my SATs (Yes, I know I should’ve taken them earlier) and get a proficiency in a foreign language.
My GPA can’t really be converted into the 4.0 scale, at least that’s what I read for CBSE students.
10th grade- 8.2/10
11th grade- 60/100 (%)
12th grade- 75/100 (%)
I haven’t taken any AP classes. My TOEFL iBT score is a 90/120 (Requirements are 79, 85 in some cases at ASU).
SAT includes a 1520 superscore (Hence retaking it).
9 years in Piano, Trinity Guildhall College of Music, London syllabi.
I play tennis.
A few robotics courses, computer science courses.
Working on creating a mobile app.
Best creative writer in my school once. But yet I don’t know how I’m gonna write a great essay for Barrett. (Topic available only on September 9th).
2 recommendations (one from my CS teacher, one from a counsellor)
My transcripts are yet to reach UMN, so that’s that.
@BrownParent - I didn’t understand what @ucbalumnus was trying to say. All the colleges he listed are much, much highly ranked than ASU. When it comes to studying abroad for the first time, I hope you understand the fear of taking these huge decisions, nonetheless wanting to take them. All I felt like knowing was if ANYBODY from ASU has gone on to Harvard grad school, in the field of Engineering. (I should’ve specified it earlier, I know. Apologies.) In a way I feel that since Harvard’s CS is not on par with the other top tiers, it would be a little easier to get in and make the most of it, which is what I’m told to do since going to ASU or Georgia Tech for undergrad doesn’t matter much.
Utah is comparable in overall and CS rankings to ASU, and Bryant and Queens - CUNY are only thought of as regional schools. The point is that students from similar or lower reputation schools as ASU as undergraduates did get admitted to higher ranked graduate programs, and got hired as faculty at Harvard, despite academia being relatively school-prestige-conscious (but specific to the subject, rather than the school overall) among the various types of employers.
Professor Scott Hudson a Professor at Carnegie Mellon got his BS and MS at ASU and Doctorate from Univ of Colorado, Boulder. Nenad Medvidovic a Professor at USC got his BS ASU, MS & PhD at UC Irvine. Can’t tell you if anyone went to Harvard, but unless they were researching the things that the Harvard professors research they wouldn’t have applied. Grad student that do not have aligned interests won’t be in the running. Harvard is very difficult to get admitted to for CS grad school. There aren’t a lot of openings and it is quite highly ranked anyway. FYI.
@ucbalumnus @BrownParent - Thanks a lot. It reassures me. Hope this happens in daily scenarios for international students too!
@MYOS1634 - Check my reply to your question above please?
You have roughly a 3.3 GPA in American terms, I think - you’re a B+ student. Not sure what your odds are at UMN, they’ll be better if you applied Undecided but still so-so; it’s high reach if you applied to Engineering where 2100 would be expected.
@MYOS1634 - UCSB is one of those universities which has a page for requirements from Indian students. And they require just 60% average in each year in high school. I’ve seen others like this too. So it may not be the cause of getting rejected from any university, at least I’m hoping. They know the rigour of our country’s high school coursework. I don’t think my GPA can change now anyway. I’m working on my SAT, with an online course from Magoosh, the blue book, and CC.