[Application Timeline] I got rejected from all 6 programs. Here were my stats :)
My stats weren’t crazy but worth a shot, now I learned more for when I reapply for the future :)
I got rejected by
UCSD
Columbia
UCLA
CMU MSCS
CMU MSML
NYU (I emailed them multiple times my transcript for months but they never updated my account so rejected by default?)
- US citizen
- top 30 school
- study abroad in #1 school in Korea
- GPA: 3.5
- no GRE
Research:
- 3 years of robotic + ML research (1 paper)
- did NLP graduate research class and made a paper and submitted (got rejected like a week ago lol)
- did personal Quant C++ research paper for fun
LOR:
- my PI would is well respected at my university
- NLP research professor also MIT alumni
- Professor who I TA with for 2 years
Teaching/leadership:
- about 3 different leadership roles
- 4 TA positions my last 2 years (NLP + Webdev)
Experiecne
- 2 FAANG SWE internship
- SWE internships at big social media app
- SWE startup internship
- ML startup internship
My essay was pretty good imo, worked on it for 6 months and got it reviewed by professional writers
Yeah there are like 100x more better profiles than me so I’m not butthurt. I already found a FT job so I’m doing that but I wish everyone else in the process still luck ! Don’t give up :))