Admission

Dear Wei-Lun,

On behalf of CSE's graduate admissions committee, I am pleased to inform you that we plan to recommend you to the Graduate Division for admission into our M.Sc. in the fall of 2008 without financial aid.

The final decision on the offer will be made by the Graduate Division, but history shows that they usually follow our recommendation. The offer is also contingent on submission of all required documents. You should hear from the Graduate Division by email in a few weeks.

Congratulations! We have received more than 450 applications this year but could only make a limited number of admission offers. I'd highly encourage you to consider our department seriously, visit our homepage at www.cs.ucr.edu to see the exciting activities in the department. We are a young but fast-growing department with diverse and dynamic research areas. FYI, the department has about 120 graduate students. Many of our M.Sc. and Ph.D graduates have found faculty jobs in academia (including UC Irvine, University of Arizona, Case Western Reserve University, North Eastern University, George Mason University, University of Massachusetts, etc.) and RD jobs in well-known IT companies (including IBM Research, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Yahoo!, CISCO, Qualcomm, Oracle, etc.). Many of our faculty members and students have won the best paper awards at international conferences and various prestigious awards and fellowships such as the NSF Career Award, Air Force Young Investigator Award, ACM Fellowship, and IEEE Fellowship. Our faculty is highly visible in research communities (many of us serve on the editorial boards of multiple leading journals in our research areas) and very successful in winning research grants (our new research grants in 2007 were about $5M). Moreover, Riverside is a small, vibrant city close to Los Angeles (60 miles west), San Diego (90 miles south), the pacific beaches (70 miles west), high mountains with multiple ski resorts (4 within 60 miles), and the desert (Palm Springs; 45 miles east).

Please feel free to email me at any time if you have any questions. I'd also be appreciated if you could keep us promptly updated on any change of your status. In particular, should you decide not to accept our offer for any reason, please let us know ASAP so we can consider the next person on the waiting list.

I look forward to seeing you in Riverside.


Tao Jiang
Professor and Chair of the CSE Graduate Admissions Committee


Also, the hard ticket just arrived.



The tickets sold out in just few minutes. Seats in orchestra cost more than $200 per ticket. I feel so lucky that I can buy it with face value.


Welcome to bay area, Eddie!!