Graduate School Admission Results

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UZH; 1a/1w/1r/15p

Waitlisted at UZH PhD Economics received via email

gpa is both undergrad and master. 2 year RA during master + 3 year RA undergrad. no predoc.

GPA is grad. 0a/3r/0w/1i/25p

I have a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a one-year Master's degree in Computer Science (Conversion degree). I have four years of work experience as an SWE. I have no research experience outside of my dissertation and no publications. I have no TA experience.

Dual BSc degrees in computer science and neuroscience. First program I interviewed for, didn't do enough prep, fumbled the interview hard.

Unconditional acceptance offer. International student from Mexico. No GRE. Three LORs from PolSci and Comp. Sci professors. Bachelors in IR and additional training in Statistics, Econometrics and Computer Science.

Very good student from top French university (Ecole polytechnique). None of us got in, even the best. Good LoRs, good motivation letter. No idea what happened.

Chinese applicant with a Chinese bachelor's in computer science. GRE not required & not submitted. 1-year-long research experience at an EPF Lausanne lab. 1 first-author conference pub & several non-first-author pubs. Probably decent LoRs. Also got admitted to Data Science MSc program. ESOP rejected for both programs.

BSc from Tecnológico de Monterrey, 2 LoR from Tec de Monterrey professors, mid SoP, 1 internship, 2 years as undergrad research assistant, no ESOP, no GRE. Robotics and autonomous vehicle's background.

I come from Polytechnic of Turin, currently at my third year for Mechanical Eng. Other than obtaining almost always maximum marks, I also participated to a merit-based course called "Intraprendenti", with some extra-curricular programs and activities. Normal letters of recommendation (I suppose), good motivation letter. I applied for ESOP, wrote a good Pre-proposal. Got Rejected from ESOP. I have no internship experience, nor do I have research activities other than the thesis I'm writing.

Top 2% in bachelor's program, three strong letters of recommendation, decent motivation statement, two years of work experience, strong extracurricular activities and leadership roles. Came from a top 100-150 European university. (Also got into Msc Data Science and hence the repeating statement.)

Top German CS university, CS Major Top 3% out of 300. 6 semesters. 3 big industry experience. 1 tutor experience. Distinctive Thesis. 1 Strong 2 moderate recommendations

General rejection letter. I think the problem was that my background was a bit too engineering-ey for this course.

GPA 1.02/1.0 - BSc from University of Technology in Austria - 1 strong and 1 exceptional LoR - teaching experience