Grad schools
I’ve finally completely the arduous grad application process! It was a harrowing experience full of difficult requirements, unexpected essays and lots of application fees, but alas, I have survived.
Here are the list of schools I ended up applying to. Some schools got dropped due to various reasons, usually because their application process wasn’t online, which is especially disappointing for computer science departments.
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Diego
University of Maryland, College Park
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Washington
I also applied for the NSF graduate research fellowship. Thanks goes to this fine lady for helping me with the essays for the NSF fellowship, which served as the foundations for all of my essays during the grad application process.
[…] Initially I applied to lots of grad schools as a PHD in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). I did this because there are some interesting problems out there to solve, and I think I have the background to contribute solutions to these problems. I’m also very interested in Computer Vision (I’m taking a grad course in object recognition during this final semseter). I was planning to decide which track to pursue when I got into grad school. I really want to use computer vision and apply it to transportation research, and interviewed for a summer position in a research lab doing just that. […]
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