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What are the target schools for Stanford MSCS? Which one of the following undergrad CS program would be the strongest feeder?

UofT, UBC, Waterloo, UChicago?

What are the target schools for Stanford MSCS? Which one of the following undergrad CS program would be the strongest feeder?

UofT, UBC, Waterloo, UChicago?

Looking to take a college physics course that grants credit as a high school student. Are there any online options?

Is there a way to petition or is it entirely impossible?

Might as well just make ranking methodology 100% based on donation to QS.

Once again proving that global college rankings are hot trash.

Met a Stanford professor through an open source project. Should I network with him and see if I can do any work for him? Or should I just focus on opportunities at my own schools, which I am more familiar with and becoming RA and contributing to papers is more of a sure thing?

Basically, can Stanford prof influence MSCS admission like they can influence PhD admission?

Plan:
Annex Laurier
Annex UoG
Annex McMaster
Annex UofT
Annex UoA
Annex UNC

I’m pretty sure this is more of a trend for lower year students who did “well”, but as a warm reminder to everyone, before you post something, please think about other students at this school.

You’re smart—smarter than most of the people at this school—and so are your friends. However, remember that the below “average” students exist at this school; they are human beings, and they matter.

Can we stop posting things like the following to mislead high school students

“Everyone at Waterloo gets FAANG internships”

“I’m a first year and ALL of my friends are getting paid $30+ on their first internships.”

“Everyone in CS that I know got a very good internship”

“The average Waterloo CS student earns $300000 at FAANG upon graduation”

First of all we know those of things are not true. The vast majority of CS students don’t get good internships until their coop 4/5/6, and MANY CS students never gets a FAANG+ internship. And no the average coop earning is not $30 for first year students. Half of the class is not employed this summer or got some non-CS adjacent jobs.

But more importantly. The usage of words like “everyone”, “all”, “average”, and the forced association with “Waterloo CS”, is quite dehumanizing. It almost sounds like that the not super cracked students at this school are not your peers, or even worse, not a human/doesn’t exist to begin with. We all know that at this school students excel. It it’s not everyone, and if toxic competitions have not yet killed all of your sympathy

Dehumanizing people like that makes them feel bad.

I am aiming for top MCSC/CS PhD in the United States (Stanford, MIT, CMU, Berkeley, etc)

After first year in CS, I ended up up with 3.96 GPA/91.8% MAV/ 90.5% FAV

Is this good enough for me to lock in for research/extracurriculars after keeping up with this level or do I need to improve my average?