Can look at the big data statistics, GAP 3.7 ~ 3.9 between admitted CS institutions.
Focused applicant institutions in this GPA range: USC, CMU, UCSD, Rice, Columbia, UIUC, UCLA, Upenn, Umich, Brown, Purdue, JHU, Gatech, Cornell, Yale, Duke, Uchicago, NWU. WUSTL.
Meanwhile, you can also take a look at the gradient tiering of school selection for CS in the US:
(This distribution tries to give applicants one more dimension to choose an institution, taking into account a number of factors such as the experience of authoritative advisors in the industry, popularity among Chinese students, number of enrollments, and different ranking systems)
The first tier of the standardized recommendations is: GPA 3.85+, GRE 332+, TOEFL 110+ with the following institutions:
CMU (Lottery)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CS (Lottery)/ MIS (Emphasis)
University of Pennsylvania
University of California at Berkeley (Lottery)
Georgia Tech
The second tier of standardized recommendations is 3.7+ GPA, 328+ GRE, 105+ TOEFL with the following institutions:
University of Chicago (Lottery)
Yale University
University of Southern California (Highlights)
New York University (Highlights)
University of California at Los Angeles
others are okay Consider the California Department: UC Irvine, UC Tabara, UC San Diego
It's worth noting that a large number of colleges and universities have multiple CS-related programs, and the difficulty level varies quite a bit, so be careful to screen them.
CMU can consider applying to a few more programs. But if you are stuck with MSCS, apply for CMU MSCS background is too much, it is not good to say, most of the GPA in 3.6 or so CMU admissions cases most of the programs are SE and INI admissions.
UCI, UCSB used to do the bottom, also not a big problem. But UCI has MSCS, MCS, Network System, Data Science and other programs to choose from, the difficulty of the application are different, details can be private message me to consult ~
I will introduce a similar to your three-dimensional seniors admissions information, in the following list of applications, he received six offers. you can guess when it is to their own a test of school choice.
In the application list above, the senior applied to 5 colleges and universities, and received 3 offers. you can guess which colleges and universities the senior was admitted to, and you can also take it as a test for your own choice of schools (I will publish the answer at the end of the article).
At the same time, you can also look at the real cases of these majors admitted on the platform of Hi Elder, which will hopefully give you some references for choosing a school.
There are many branches of CS majors, so you must decide what you want to study and research in the future, and also consider factors such as geographic location and future career plans.
Here are some of the different areas these top universities specialize in:
General: CMU, UT Austin,, Minnesota- Twin Cities
Software: CMU, UT Austin
AI &. HCI: CMU
Theoretical Computer Science: MIT & Cornell are better than Caltech or Yale
MIS: CMU, Minnesota- Twin Cities
Cloud: MIT & Cornell are better than Caltech or Yale
MIS: CMU, Minnesota- Twin Cities<
Cloud Computing: Columbia, NYU
Robotics: CMU, JHU, UT Austin
Data Science & Machine Learning: Columbia, NYU, JHU, USC, Minnesota - Twin Cities, Umass
Be sure that when writing the paperwork we have to figure out the direction of the program, your paperwork should be to match the needs of the program, be sure to let the admissions officer feel that you have solved the institutions and their programs, in order to be more impressed in the admissions officer!
To learn more about the CS program, you can read the tips shared by Anon, who is currently enrolled in Northeastern University's CS program, on how to DIY high-quality essays:
For employment-oriented programs such as UCI's MCS, NCSU's MCS, and NEU's MSCS, I would focus my essays on my application development projects, such as the web system I wrote in PHP, and the web system I used in my internships, which I wrote in PHP. web system, and the Java web project I did with Spring in my internship.
If you're in a program that offers with thesis options like WUSTL and Tufts, or a program that focuses more on research like Rochester or UMN, you can focus your paperwork on the research, like I would do with my experience in machine learning and data analysis.
In short. But there are many programs that don't care whether you want to do research or get a job, so just present yourself.
The detailed video can be seen on the website of HiSchooler.com
Now we are going to announce the answers
The three offers that Mr. Koko got were from the University of Chicago, Northeastern University, and Simon Fraser University, and in the end, Mr. Koko chose the University of Chicago.
If you have any other questions about your application, please feel free to contact me on private message, you can find the right seniors, we are all happy to help you with your study abroad journey~