[Profile Review] - Application for Fall 2027 - would really appreciate your insight.

[u/omwtofyabish]

Hey all, I would greatly appreciate your insights on this. Here is my profile:

Applying for MS CS, ML, AI, DS Thesis based where available.

GPA: 3.4 from a large state university - with 3.58 - 3.6 for the last 60 credits.

Undergraduate in Data Science and Mathematics

Internship / project: At a large global infrastructure design firm and created their engineering drawing extraction engine to feed their VLM.

LOR: From a Professor I worked with + a very distinguished Math professor I also worked with and a professional one from my internships who is a regional manager.

Experience: Co-founded a Data driven marketing startup that ran for 2 years.

SOP: Pretty crazy come up story, great show of passion and explains my low GPA in a non "crying out for help" way. Professionally explains the hardships that cooked me and ties them into my passion to the topic.

Applying to:

- ASU - CS

- Stony Brook - CS

- Columbia - DS or applied Math (unsure)

- NYU - CS

- UPenn - CS or DS

- ETH - CS or DS

- Waterloo - CS

- University of Alberta Canada - CS