Advice to Applicants for Graduate Studies

1. UC Berkeley
   "Beyond good grades, good GRE scores, and positive recommendation letters, the one thing that can improve a student's chances of admission into our program is a track record of research publication. A publication in a reputable conference in the area of computer-aided design really makes an application stand out."
   
   
2. USC
   "So the key point is to get admitted through normal channels. Beyond good grades, good GRE scores, and positive recommendation letters, the one thing that can improve a students chances of admission into our program is a track record of research publication. A publication in a reputable conference in the area of Compilers or Parallel Programming (e.g., PLDI, POPL, PPoPP, SuperComputing or IPPS) or in Computer Aided Design (e.g., ICCAD, DAC) really makes an application stand out."