Graduate School Advice, Comp Sci Major, mediocre GPA, few extracurriculars

Dad_of_3
Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:18:29 +0000

This is purely anecdotal, but what I’ve noticed at selective grad schools in comp sci, you have the really outstanding PhD student who’s always wanted to be at the forefront and a bunch of less than stellar ones who didn’t get in as undergrads, but did so to grad school because their more talented classmates went for the big bucks in industry leaving the grad school field less competitive; these and foreign grads who couldn’t afford to pay for a BS, but are here on an assistantship and tuition waiver.