纽约大学计算机工程硕士录取：GPA3.2的奇迹

申请类型

研究生

教育经历

University of California, Santa Cruz， Computer Science， GPA 3.24

语言/标化考试成绩

免托福，GRE 317+3.0

工作经历

Chengdu RYD Information Technology Co. Ltd｜PDM developer

•Used Windchill 10.0 for PLM(Product Lifecycle Management) and PDM(Product Data Management) domain

•According to the users need, changed the system architecture of Windchill to achieve their PLM and PDM needs

•Designed and developed the file management, technical library, patent and universal module areas for Midea company

实习经历

Beijing Che Dao Jun An Science and Technology Cop. Ltd｜Trainee

•Followed a professor from Chinese Academy of Sciences to do research of vehicle-mounted system’s AI chip algorithm

•Self-studied the course of CS231N:Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition

Chengdu RYD Information Technology Co. Ltd｜Backend Software Engineer

•Learned the company product

•Did Backend Developing of Financial Loan System(include server and database, spring boot architecture)

•Tested system and fixed bug

•Communicated with technicians to improve the system to do research and developp AI algorithm

科研经历

ChampionsOP.gg

•Used HTML and css skills to build a game information webpage, in which provided League of Legends game information to the players by introductions, pictures and short video

•Displayed game updated tutorials and useful tips for players

Android Shopping Application｜Scrum Master

•Developed a trading platform which allows customers to post requests, and sellers from other countries provide quotes and trade with buyers

•Made all functions like normal shopping apps (register, login, post products, load products with the search function, auto-positioning function, profile page, order/buy history .etc)

•Used Android Studio to build the front-end and mySQL to control database

•Worked with front-end part, including building all the functionality of the app, designing work

MIPS Control Hardware

•Used MIPS assembly language to control Uno32 hardware

•Wrote a loop to control LED lights lighting sequences, and used four switches with a software-based delay to control the speed of LEDs moving

Android Travelling Application (TripPlanner)

Built a traveling software which allows users to start a new trip with setting the dates, budget and destinations and adding activities to the trip. Trip owners or members could invite other people and see them in their trips. People could also share the money by transferring by PayPal or Venmo API.

•Used Android Studio to build the front-end and Firebase to control database

FreeBSD OS Modification and Optimization

•Changed the rules of pages and processes picking and scheduled inside the operating system

•Added the encrypt and decrypt functions to the file by users

•Used VirtualBox as virtual machine

Use C to Simulate a Pipelined CPU

•Wrote a software version pipelined CPU with BTB array, cache and virtual memory functions

•Divided the whole process intofive-stage, Fetch, Decode, Execute, Memory and Writeback

奖项/证书

UCSC Dean’s Scholarships and Award;

Dean’s Honor for 3 Semesters

申请结果

New York University

MS in Computer Science

录取到Computer Engineering

学生优势：美本学生，申请比较占优势。该生申请过程中非常配合，并且对于自己定位也相对准确，没有选择最热门竞争激烈的CS，有的是CE或ECE专业。学生有工作经历且与本专业相关性强，推荐人含金量较高。

学生劣势：GPA不高，并且申请过程中，其中一位推荐人看到学生成绩后拒绝给学生继续做网推，已提交学校是否推荐也未知。

背景分析

学生为美本申请，但是GPA并不高，并且有下滑趋势。GRE在CS申请者中也并无太大优势。申请过程中避开了“门槛高”的专业，选择相对好录取的专业申请。

文书思路

学生是CS背景，又有明确的兴趣方向（Data Science 或者Analytics）,文书写作上直接具体到了研究小方向上，并且跟之前的工作经历相结合

申请总结

申请过程中，学生非常配合，并且在美国生活多年的亲戚对于文书润色也帮助良多。