Study Abroad 留學之路 - 我的背景與申請結果

建議先閱讀: 留學之路 - 基礎知識、名詞介紹

接為美國大學，主要都是申請 computer science 的碩士 (Master)。
全部都是我自己申請的!
為什麼會申請這麼多家學校呢?
因為當時我越投越沒有信心...結果就越丟越多，最感謝的就是我的推薦人(老師們!)

Admission 錄取 (依結果日期排列)

	學校縮寫		大學全名
1/28/2014	USC	CS  MS	University of Southern California
3/06/2014	UCSD	CS  MS	University of California, San Diego
3/15/2014	CMU	ETC *註1	Carnegie Mellon University
3/22/2014	UCLA (最後決定)	CS  MS	University of California, Los Angeles
3/25/2014	Duke	CS  MS
3/26/2014	Columbia	CS  MS
3/28/2014	Ohio State University	CS  MS
4/06/2014	Johns hopkins	MSSI *註2
4/09/2014	UCI	CS  MS	University of California, Irvine
4/11/2014	Northwestern	CS  MS

註1: ETC   全名為 Entertainment Technology Center

註2: MSSI 全名為 Master of Science in Security Informatics

Rejection 拒絕 (依結果日期排列)

	學校縮寫		大學全名
unknow	MIT	CS  PhD	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
痛苦回憶..	CMU	SCS 5個
2/19/914	UW-Madison	CS  MS	University of Wisconsin–Madison
3/10/2014	Georgia Tech	ECE	Georgia Institute of Technology
3/12/2014	Harvard	CS  MS
3/15/2014	UIUC	CS  MS	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
3/20/2014	UC Berkeley	EECS  ME	University of California, Berkeley
3/27/2014	UCSB	CS  MS	University of California, Santa Barbara
4/02/2014	Cal Tech	CS  PhD	California Institute of Technology
4/03/2014	UM	CSE	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
4/03/2014	Cornell	CS  ME
4/12/2014	CMU	MSIT *註4
4/16/2014	Johns hopkins	CS  MSE

註3: MIT 跟 Cal Tech 申請 PhD 是因為他們只招博士生

註4: MSIT 為 The Master of Science in Information Technology

Background 背景:

Profile:

Bachelor of Science, CISE
南部某116國立大學，資訊工程學系

GPA 介紹請看這篇
Overall GPA: 3.95/4.0
Major   GPA: 3.93/4.0 (自己算)
Jr/Sr    GPA: 4.00/4.0  (自己算)

TOEFL-iBT: 

看我貢獻給 ET$ 這麼多錢...大家別放棄啊!!

12/22/2012   90  (R25, L24, S19, W22)
05/18/2013   91  (R24, L27, S18, W22) ==複查==> 95  (R24, L27, S22, W22)
09/14/2013   95  (R25, L24, S23, W23)
10/12/2013   96  (R29, L26, S20, W21)
11/09/2013   97  (R28, L26, S20, W23)


GRE:  
05/04/2013   148(V), 167(Q) , 2.5(AWA)
06/16/2013   145(V), 167(Q) , 3.5(AWA)

Recommendation 推薦信: 

1 from 大學專題指導教授 in NCKU
1 from journal paper adviser in NCKU
1 from close professor NCKU
1 from my supervisor in IBM intern

Publication (international): 據說對申請MS幫助不大

Journal paper * 1 (first author)
Conference paper * 1 (second author)

Work Experience:

Summer Intern, IBM   2012 暑假
Instructor of Programming Design Club, Private Hsing Kuo Senior High School, 2013, 2月~6月

Award and Honor:

Award of Outstanding Student (成大書卷名稱), 2009-2012
Research Creativity Award (國科會大專學生專題計畫研究創作獎)
中國工程師學會，學生分會論文競賽 佳作
Fifteen Place and Honorable Mention, 新竹地區賽, ACM-ICPC
Award of Excellent Work, National Collegiate Programming Contest, Taiwan

UCLA 校園一景

延伸閱讀:
留學之路 - 我要準備留學! overview
留學之路 - 準備流程、時間規劃
留學之路 - 基礎知識、名詞介紹


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