Yeah, well aware of that, thank you for the info anyway
. Passion for research and recommendation letter by professors are the most important, but a first class honors wouldn't hurt. Lol. I did plenty of readings for the admission requirements. If you could excuse my being pedantic, you may want to know CMU, MIT, Stanford are not Ivies (they are better than most of the latter though).
Anyway back on topic, can someone shed some light on local professors' salaries? :P