Re: (GRE Success! ) PhD APPLICATION HELP

I might get good references.But the thing which is haunting me is i dont have a publication till now.I am not sure whether i can get one before the application procedure commences.

I chose Iowa State and Univ of Utah because both have good active researches going on in Detection and Estimation Theory.I will eliminate Univ of Iowa.I was just thinking on keeping a safe one.I cannot go to ambitious high ranked schools.

The  schools which i want to add in my list are Wisconsin Madison and Rutgers eliminating Univ of Iowa and Michigan State.

Also i want to know whether a MS from Vandy will help in the application procedure or it will remain as my chances would have been a Bachelors from India??

Waiting for your valuable inputs.


Abhraneel

________________________________
 From: Srihari Yamanoor <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2012 9:34 AM
Subject: 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:

 
>  
>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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