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Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison To the poster below - about the rant on CGPA. Exactly what i was discussing with a friend. In India, some of the IITs do give 9.8-9.9 level cgpas, and in some IITs, you can't score above 9.2-9.3 in a department. At VIT, it was possible to get 9.7-9.8 in a BTech CSE, and in my batch of MS Software Engg, it wasn't possible to score beyond 9.2 tops because the professors were stingy. University of Pune i heard has people who are toppers have only 80% as their maximum. Wisconsin adcom probably filtered through the 2000 applications with a generic GRE>325, GPA>9.5 and arrived at a list of 200-300 people from whom they would have admitted around 30-50 people with full funding and 30-50 with partial funding, and 30-50 with no funding, rejecting everyone else. Since the total number of applicants is 2000, it's not hard to imagine there are a lot of applicants with over 9.5 cgpa. Of course, this is not the only college that does this. They are simply oblivious to how a particular college does grading in India and just looks at CGPA. This is also the reason why some European students have a hard time getting into top US colleges as in some European colleges, it's hard to score above 5 on a scale of 6 which is like 8.3 on a scale of 10, which isn't looked very favorably, while in Europe, that would be a mindblowing score. Anyway - this is just the nature of the admissions process. You'll get a better college!
Added on November 30, -0001
Sociology, University Of Minnesota Was on the waitlist. I had a Skype talk with director of graduate studies (she's also one of my POIs) yesterday and received offer of admission and funding info just a few hours later! Super excited!!!
Added on November 30, -0001
Mechanical Engineering, NSF GRFP Just got the NSF GRFP, this is my third try (once as an Undergrad, once as a Fulbright Fellow, and now as a Grad Student). The feedback is key, or at least it was key for my updates. Congrats to everyone who got it and to everyone else, keep your head up... feedback will make you stronger!!!
Added on November 30, -0001
