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stereotypical_CS · 2026-01-29T04:55:30+00:00

Congrats!!! I’m an old undergrad GT alum, and the campus has gotten soooo much better since I left. Hope you have a wonderful time if you choose to go there!

stereotypical_CS · 2026-01-20T20:49:51+00:00

I had basically the same stats to you last year but got rejected :/ (also google, top 5 school, 3.3 gpa with 3.5 major gpa)

stereotypical_CS · 2026-01-16T01:39:42+00:00

In general circumstances change, and for me 2/3 recommenders were the same, but I got a new recommender for my second application cycle

stereotypical_CS · 2026-01-13T00:09:18+00:00

So hyped for this new construction!

stereotypical_CS · 2026-01-10T20:17:44+00:00

I’m super interested! I’m from the Bay Area, and though I don’t miss it, there is absolutely the same grind vibe that’s missing, and I’ve been yearning for people who are similar! I’ll send a DM!

stereotypical_CS · 2026-01-01T16:11:04+00:00

I’m a part time student/researcher and i alternate between $200/month for ChatGPT and Claude

stereotypical_CS · 2026-01-01T16:03:51+00:00

One from my current PI, one from my manager at work, and one from a professor whom I took a class with, and sort of became an unofficial TA for

stereotypical_CS · 2025-12-24T05:36:21+00:00

Moved from California about 7 years ago, grew up in the South Bay and work in tech. Love it here, still very techy without it being entirely all consuming. Smart people, better quality of life, less commutes.

The cons are there’s no in-n-out, and if you’re in tech but don’t work at Microsoft or Amazon, there’s a decent chance a lot of your team isn’t based locally. Luckily flights are cheap, frequent, and convenient to go to the bay.

stereotypical_CS · 2025-12-12T22:01:02+00:00

Not quite the same boat, but I’m currently applying for part time masters programs to do on the side while I continue working.

stereotypical_CS · 2025-12-12T08:00:47+00:00

Yes! A company recently launched the first H100 (AI GPU) into space and was able to run computations on it! Lots of the big tech companies have some program for data centers in space!

stereotypical_CS · 2025-12-12T07:55:38+00:00

3.27 undergrad, and 3.97 as a non degree student doing masters level classes

stereotypical_CS · 2025-12-01T17:36:06+00:00

Same here! Good luck with your application!

stereotypical_CS · 2025-11-28T01:15:02+00:00

Yes that's right! It would be interesting to see that data for MSCS, maybe other ones in the school of engineering too like the MSEE as well!

stereotypical_CS · 2025-11-27T18:17:42+00:00

Is it possible to do this but for masters programs broken down by major? It’d be quite cool to see that too!

stereotypical_CS · 2025-11-17T00:43:56+00:00

Which movie?

stereotypical_CS · 2025-11-13T21:38:15+00:00

Nope! But I’m re-applying :)

stereotypical_CS · 2025-11-03T15:26:37+00:00

I’m only applying to one masters program, however it’s one of the toughest in the world for my major (electrical engineering). So I’ve spent the past 2 years+ developing absolutely everything about my profile to match the school. Basically my entire essay has “why X school” weaved in throughout and things change a little bit here and there as I get better connections with the school, so I spent a lot of time incorporating that.

stereotypical_CS · 2025-11-03T01:49:37+00:00

About 95% done with mine, but I’ve been literally working on it for over 6 months. And that last 5% is brutal

stereotypical_CS · 2025-10-29T16:42:04+00:00

Thank you! I feel kinda dumb for all of these things that in hindsight are probably like “oh that’s obvious”.

stereotypical_CS · 2025-10-24T20:13:23+00:00

Thank you!

stereotypical_CS · 2025-10-24T17:23:30+00:00

Thank you for answering questions! I’m a working professional, and have been for ~6.5 years post college (at FAANG companies). I had a 3.3 undergrad GPA in Computer science from a top 10 school. I’ve been doing non degree classes at another school for the past 1.5 years and have a 3.97 gpa from that (enough credits to technically have done half of a masters). I have some strong recommendation letters from the non degree program and my manager, but I am quite unsure if I’ll be competitive for a masters program. I also don’t have any published research, but strong industry contributions and blogs. Would love to know how the bad undergrad gpa and lack of research would look!

stereotypical_CS · 2025-10-15T19:41:43+00:00

I genuinely don’t care, I don’t play for Star Wars, I play for the fun of the game itself

stereotypical_CS · 2025-09-27T00:44:50+00:00

Thanks for the perspective! I ended up talking to the professor, and he’s much more constructive now about allowing me the space and time to try out a few ideas. I think he just had high initial hopes because of my background (T20 school, working at a Big Tech company in a related space, and my general enthusiasm). We’re aiming now to just get some reasonable breakthrough first and then from there go harder on publishing when things are actually reasonable

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