I'm an undergrad math major at UCSD with 4.0 major GPA and 12 grad math/data science courses. I've been doing research in coding theory with Ken Zeger and in nearest neighbor search with Sanjoy Dasgupta. Both projects are currently being written up for journal submission. I also did a software engineering internship at Arista Networks. I'm applying in computer science with focus on algorithmic statistics and machine learning theory. I was told by a few professors I have very strong recommendation letters.
Results so far:
Georgia Tech: Accepted
U Wisconsin Madison: Accepted
Yale: Accepted
University of Washington: Accepted
Brown: Accepted
Stanford: Rejected
CMU: Rejected
Princeton: Rejected
Cornell: Rejected
Harvard: Rejected
UCSD EE: Unofficially Rejected
Of the pending universities, I've only interviewed at TTIC, NYU, UCSD CS, and informally at Columbia.
A school will resolve YES if I get accepted to the PhD program any time before Jan 1 2027, even if it is off a waitlist. Otherwise it will resolve NO. I will try to resolve each school as soon as I learn of their decision.
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@MarcoBazzaniOQdE lol do all yall ucsd math/ml undergrads know each other? lots of insider trading possibilities ๐๏ธ
@prismatic I know @jeans3 and will totally do insider trading on her market. Are there other UCSD math/ml undergrads posting on here?
@MarcoBazzaniOQdE nah i dont think so. there is a fair amount of people applying to grad school in cs next cycle though (myself included but for nlp)
@MarcoBazzaniOQdE yeah i def will make a 10k general and 5k what uni will i pick markets. ill ping you both on it if i remember then. this cycle is def rough tho, my friend in algorithms decided to take a gap since next cycle should be slightly better.
@MarcoBazzaniOQdE @jeans3 I guess just as a sneak peek to get yall's thoughts on it. im currently a junior for context. In NLP, *CL/COLM conferences are equivalent to Neurips/ICML/ICLR.
completed papers:
5th author, ACL
2nd author, ACL
1st author, regional conference
3rd author, AAAI workshop
in review:
1st author, ACL
1st author, CL (best journal in the field)
in progress (to be submitted to *CL conf review):
1st author paper, march cycle
1st author paper, march cycle
3rd author paper, may cycle
and also gave a smattering of talks at smaller confs and reading groups around the US.
so lol ig chance me, idk how this work tbh.
@prismatic This looks super strong! If I had to guess, you're competitive for the top 5. For comparison, I have 2 in progress journal publications (alphabetical author ordering, but I'm the primary person responsible for the results), and so far I've gotten into several top 10/top 20 schools (depending on how you order things).. I would expect you to do much better. The main way I could imagine you performing poorly is if your advisor or school is not well-known, but even then publications might be able to make up for it.