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Reflecting on CS Graduate Admissions

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Reflecting on CS Graduate Admissions Get link Facebook X Pinterest Email Other Apps March 08, 2015 I was just indulging in my favorite bad habit (reading hacker news), when I came across a discussion about prestige in faculty hiring - namely, the fact that the majority of CS professors across the US come from the top 18 or so universities, and that even within that, there's bias. The HN discussion turned to Ph.D. admissions, with a commenter noting: " I'm not sure, but I'd bet that the best institutions actually don't care where their applicants come from. They can afford to just choose the be

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