Re: (GRE Success! ) PhD APPLICATION HELP

Hello Abhraneel,

With good references, you can set aside some of your worries about the GPA.
I am concerned with some of the schools in your list:

Univ of Utah (SPAN LAB)

The school is good, but the state, while beautiful is worse than Bihar in
how backwards it is. Given that you will spend a few years living in a
given place, this would be a bad choice.

University of Florida

Which one? Gainsville is okay, not great, but the rest are hopeless. Only
go if the research is compelling.

Iowa State University - Not recommended.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Fine

University of Iowa - Iowa is not famous for education at all, so I am not
sure why you picked 2 schools from here. Iowa is in the same category as
Utah as far as backwardness goes.

University of Maryland CP (Speech Processing Grp) - Good

Michigan State University  - Other than Ann Arbor, I wouldn't recommend any
Mi. schools.

Good Luck,

Srihari

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Abhraneel <abhraneel.sinha-/[email protected]>wrote:

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>
>
> Hi,
> My Scores are as follows,
>
> GRE:
> Quant -780
> Verbal -530
> AWA -3
>
> I did my Engineering in Electronics and Communciations Engineering from
> WBUT with a UG GPA of 8.3. I have 1.5 year experience in TCS(irrelevant)
>
> Currently masters student in Vanderbilt University (GPA 3.3 ..Major GPA
> 4.0)
>
> Research Area ----Detection and Estimation Theory
>
> Research---Phoneme Recognition using HMM and matching the phonemes of
> normal people with the phonemes of High Risk,Depressed Person(This is not
> the exact title but working on this one)
>
> Publications --None yet...Working to submit one in ICASSP 2013
>
> P.S.My Professor is ready to take me as PhD in Vandy but still i am
> looking for some better opportunity,as i am satisfied with the research
> over here in Vandy
>
> Initial University List
>
> University of Minnesota
>
> Ohio State (Off lately they gave loads of Unfunded PhD,dont know whether i
> should apply or not)
>
> Rutgers (looking to apply in WINLAB for application of Signal processing
> in Communication)
>
> Univ of Utah (SPAN LAB)
>
> University of Florida
>
> Iowa State University
>
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
>
> University of Iowa
>
> University of Maryland CP (Speech Processing Grp)
>
> Michigan State University
>
> Since my overall GPA is somewhat low will it affect my application ???My
> Major GPA is 4.0..Also i will be applying to the universities those who
> have a deadline of 15th Jan after my 3rd Sem result and i am confident of
> getting another 4 which will lift my GPA to 3.51
>
> Please feel free to suggest any other Universities
>
>  
>



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