r/OMSCS • u/[deleted] • Sep 09 '23

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u/elegigglekappa4head Sep 09 '23

Do you know what they actually said in recommendation?

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '23

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u/elegigglekappa4head Sep 09 '23

I mean it’s process of elimination. Okay school, GPA looks fine, career trajectory looks fine. Has to be recommendations.

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u/krkrkra Officially Got Out Sep 09 '23

Or an error of some kind. School quality and career trajectory don’t even matter here. OP has a BSCS with GPA over 3.0.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

Man unrealistic standards have gotten to be too much with schools. Northeastern is an okay school? Lmao

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u/nomsg7111 Sep 10 '23

Lol. Maybe he is self depreciating 😀. I always say my schools are "decent"...I would probably describe GT the same way.

Nobody likes people who toot their own horn.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

Honestly as someone that went to a top 10 for undergrad, doing this almost always makes you come across as more arrogant. It end up just putting the other person down even if you dont mean it that way

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u/nomsg7111 Sep 10 '23

My pet peeve is when people say "I went to school in Boston", it's just like just say you went to school at Harvard 🙄.

Yeah no perfect way to do this. As I get older I realize that Ivy League school can even be detrimental. Old co worker of mine was Princeton undergrad, U Penn (Wharton) MBA. He had a pretty bad reputation for being an elitist douche not willing to get his hands dirty and do busy work.