<p>Hello Everyone,
I am currently a masters Computer Science student at a decent state college. My overall GPA is around 3.83 while my CS GPA is around 3.9. I don't have my GRE scores yet. Leadership wise I am involved in several organizations in my school including running the local chapter of the ACM. Publication wise I have several minor publications and I hope to have some papers accepted into more prestigious journals before I complete my master. With all of these factors considered what do you think my chances of getting admitted into Harvard's Computer Science PhD program are? From Harvard's site I believe their average admit GPA is 3.8.</p>
<p>On a similar line of thought, I personally don't think I will make it into say MIT. Should I even try and apply there? And what about other top Computer Science schools?
Thanks,
Jim</p>
<p>Other top schools? Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Stanford.</p>
<p>I don’t know much about graduate students admissions in computer science. In biology PhD students usually apply straight out of BA programs, though I am sure there are exceptions.</p>
<p>@jomjom
Just curious, what are you basing that on. I have heard MITs average cs admit is near 4.0 while Harvard is near 3.8. Is that because more apply at Harvard? Or is it because Harvard looks for more rounded individuals? I would be very interested in the details.</p>
<p>@mathmom
Here is a copy and pasted list from USN:</p>
<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology*<br>
Stanford University*
University of California–Berkeley*
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign*
Cornell University*
Princeton University
University of Washington
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Texas–Austin
California Institute of Technology*
University of Wisconsin–Madison*
University of California–Los Angeles*
University of Maryland–College Park*
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor*
Columbia University*
Harvard University
University of California–San Diego*
Purdue University–West Lafayette*
Brown University*</p>
<p>You know FaceBook ?
There are lots of MIT computer science students started social networking-type start-ups.
Some of them even got PhD computer science with dissertation on internet based social networking .
None of MIT people succeeded.</p>
<p>Look at Mike Zukerberg, he is Harvard drop-out. and he is youngest billionaire …</p>
<p>@jomjom yes but simply because people are successful doesn’t mean its harder to get in there. I think you are right from what I have read others saying but I still I don’t see why its so.</p>