Hello all ,
When applying as a graduate student to MIT CS major.
Will the school name , I finish my B.S from, matter to the admission ?
If no , What are the other factors ?
Thank you ,
Yes; otherwise how would you distinguish a 3.8 from Stanford vs. a 3.8 at the easiest state college?
Other factors include undergrad GPA, course rigor, letters of recommendation, research experience, etc.
Yes absolutely it matters.
Actually, for admissions in to MIT CS, in addition to the quality of your recommendations, they will consider the quality of your publications.
Actually, a number of grad school admissions folks note that the school matters much less than you think, particularly in CS. What schools are looking for is talented people who know how to do research. Getting a 4.0 from an Ivy league school with no research experience to speak of, is much less important than getting a 3.0 from Nowhere State, but with a couple of published papers, and letters of recommendation from those faculty who can speak directly to you as a researcher rather than as a classroom student. There are heaps of descriptions of the process on line. I can recommend http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf or http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/thies/howto-grad-school.pdf
Matt Might (http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-apply-and-get-in-to-graduate-school-in-science-mathematics-engineering-or-computer-science/), who admittedly does not admit at a top 10 school, goes as far as to claim that he does not look at GPA nor at which school was attended, unless it speaks to research opportunities. He claims that they do not correlate well with research talent.