Re: (GRE Success! ) Profile Evaluation for MS CS

Hi Prashant,

Your profile and GRE score looks good, I think you have good chances
of getting funding. Just try to apply at the right time and email
profs of your interest. The published paper should also help.

Sincerely,
Akshay Jain,
Graduate Student,
Vision Guided and Intelligent Robotics Lab,
Dept. of Electrical And Computer Engineering,
University of Missouri, Columbia.

On 10/9/12, prashantchaudhary112358 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am planning to apply for Fall 2013 MS CS. I have prepared a 1st version of
> my shortlisted universities.
> I needed a review from you guys for suggestions and get closer to my final
> list.
>
> Profile :
>
> GRE : V - 610 (160), Q - 780 (163), AWA - 3.5
>            Total - 1390(323)
> TOEFEL : 108
>
> Academics :
>
> Completed BTech (Computer Engg.) from College of Engineering, Pune in May
> 2011.
> GPA - 8.54/10 (topper is 9.5)
> 12th Std : 85.5 %
> 10th Std : 83.60 %
>
> Final year research project in Data mining.
> Published international paper for the same in Springer LNAI/LNCS conference
> related to the same project.
>
> Part of college micro-satellite project worked in custom protocol
> development and simulation.
>
> Very little extra-curricular activites
>
> Work experience : working as software developer on a bookbuilding and
> trading application in a leading Wall Street investment bank since last 14
> months. Work is pure programming but not related to core CS stuff.
>
> Presently I am interested in Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and
> artificial intelligence.
>
> This is the first version of universities that I have shortlisted :
>
> University of Illinios, Urbana-Champaign (is it too ambitious?)
> University of Wisconsin Madison (might drop, wasnt able to find much info
> about research in the above fields)
> Pennsylvannia State University
> University of Minnesota, Twin cities
> Georgia Institute of Technology
> University of California, San Diego
> University of California, Irvine
> Ohio State University
> SUNY Buffalo
> Stony Brook University
> North Carolina State University
> Rutgers
>
> I have not been able to get the funding(TA/RA) and job scenarios at these
> universities. I dont have many seniors whom I can contact.
> What is the best procedure do you suggest for getting this information?
>
> Please review the list and let me know if it suits my profile.
> Also, let me know if there are any more suggestions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Prashant.
>
>


-- 
Regards,
Akshay Jain.