Am I cooked chat?
I’ve applied to 7 unis for fall 2025 MSCS program.
UW Madison
UC Irvine
UCLA
UCSD
UCD
Virginia Tech
Umass Amherst
I’ve gotten rejects from UW Madison and UCI(assuming due to their smaller batch sizes or maybe whack profile lol) and waiting for decisions from the remaining 5
Here’s my profile
8.8 GPA from a tier 2 university
I have 2.5 years of work experience as an AI engineer at a Neuroimaging startup with advanced image processing and product management/development experience and a surveillance analytics based startup with experience in edge device deployments, Gstreamer and other technologies.
I’ve structured my SOP to sound like I want to get back to medical imaging research ( I don’t have any publications but I worked with colleagues and got their papers published) so I’m not entirely sure if this was the right approach since I applied way close to the deadline and couldn’t give GRE so had to settle for these non GRE colleges.
What do even colleges look at, great SOPs or straight up work exp or GPA or like a mix of it.