Is a decent Computer Science MS attainable for me?

ZZHA8608
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 04:57:16 +0000

I am currently a junior majoring in Math and Computer Science in a relatively selective university(top 25-ish) with 3 semester left in college(we have two semesters in a year) I have a cumulative GPA of 3.6(had straight As and A-s after the first semester of freshman year but that 2.45 haunted me for most of my college career) and a major GPA of 3.72. I have not taken my GRE yet but I always do extremely well on standardized tests so I am pretty confident that I will be able to get at least 90 percentile or something along those lines. I don’t have any research experiences but I do have a summer internship experience at a fortune 500 company. I can’t really predict how good my recs will be but I am pretty sure they will be at least average.

If everything works out, I can probably get my major GPA to somewhere around 3.8 and cumulative to 3.65. It is unlikely that I will be able to get any meaningful research under my belt since I will be studying aboard next semester and I really don’t know any professors at Paris. Conidering my credentials, would I have a fighting chance at a decent Computer Science MS program? By decent I don’t mean MIT but something like UCLA, Duke, John Hopkins etc. Thank you for your advices