I recently got into AWS and going for Google soon. However, I am more inclined towards Ph.D (after few years of work experience). Any tips on getting into Ivy league for Computer Science Ph.D? Which Ivy league would be easiest to get into? I am confident I can score 330+ in GRE and get good recommendation letters. My GPA is good but I don't have a stellar university either for BS or MS or prior research experience. How should I prepare to get into Ivy league for Ph.D? I am ready to undertake multi-year effort to build my profile to get into some Ivy for Ph.D Edit 1: self-driving ML (took a course related to this in UG) Distributed systems (did assistant-ship in Master's). Interested in these 2 fields. However, more inclined towards ML. Reason is not just salary - not happy with climbing the corporate ladder. I think I will be happy in academics even with lesser pay.
Top schools prefer people freshly out of undergrad or Masters because they want to work you to death. If you're older or have a family, you'll likely produce fewer papers for your advisor. As a result, you'll have a harder time gaining admission. Do the PhD sooner, rather than later.
How soon? Like what age group people do PhD on average
Average starting age is probably 22-25. I did my PhD in 3D computer vision and RL (basically autonomous vehicles). I only know of 1-2 people over age 30 out of ~60 PhD students in the CS AI groups.
I want to know the answer as well. But more importantly have you decided your specialization interest? I cannot figure out what I like in math or computer science to even think about phd
🍿what's the area you want to do research on? Not all ivy league have top phd program for CS.
Edited and added research areas interest
Why ivy league? Not all Ivy league school has the top CS ph.d program
Ivy league because of funding opportunities for research. Easy to get funding as a Stanford student than student in mediocre university.
1. Stanford isn’t Ivy League. 2. Not true that other schools don’t get funding. 3. Find a professor and not university. That matters a lot. PS: Graduated from an Ivy League myself. So I know how hard it is if you don’t have a good guide. Schools like Georgia Tech, UWash, UIUC have good programs and funding as well. Even USC has good funding
Strong reference + good PS. Email professors to show your passion and your past achievements. Choose best program/professor instead of school. Hurry up if you want to do it this year - deadlines are coming
What's PS
Where do I even start... Personal statement
Which research area? (I went to a top-3 school for an ML/CV focused PhD)
I want to try for Self-driving cars ML research
Best SDC research is going on in industry right now.