Question about CS grad school admission

Graduate School
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<p>Hey,</p>

<p>I had couple of questions about grad school admissions.</p>

<p>1.) If I finish my undergrad in 4 and a half years instead of 4 would that hurt my application a lot? (reason I might be delayed is because i didn't do too well in my first year)</p>

<p>2.) Is the major GPA the cumulative for the junior and senior years?</p>

<p>3.) My cumulative GPA for my junior and senior year is about 3.9. But my overall GPA is about 3.55. Do the grad school may more attention to Major GPA? </p>

<p>I still haven't given my GRE, but I want to apple to Stanford, Berkley, CMU, Urbana-Champaign, Cornell, UWash, UCLA, Georgia tech, Austin, UCSD for computer Sc. Are there any other college that I should be looking at? </p>

<p>What do you think my chances are in these colleges if I do well on my GRE?</p>

<p>And how important is research experience?</p>

<p>Sorry I asked a lot of question. It would be greatly appreciated if you could help.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>hey can anyone help pls?</p>

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<ol>
<li><p>No</p></li>
<li><p>Depends on the school.</p></li>
<li><p>For most schools, yes.</p></li>
<li><p>No way to tell - the top schools (which a lot of your choices are) care more about factors besides GPA and GRE.</p></li>
<li><p>For top schools, extremely so. You will not get in without research experience (I am assuming you are talking about PhD admissions here).</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Here is a very good guide to CS PhD admissions at top-10 programs by a prof who has sat on admissions committees at three of the top 10:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Eharchol/gradschooltalk.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>im talking about masters not phd, then how important is the research experience?</p>