Pl evaluate my profile | GRE 1370 (q:750;v:620) | Agre 73% | SVCE,Anna Univ,TN

[suprajajayakuma]

Hi all,
I am Supraja J, fresher in Computer Science and Engineering- June 2009 from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering affiliated to Anna University, Chennai, TN. I aspire to do MS in Fall 2010.

GRE 1370 (Quants: 750 Verbal: 620)
Agre 73% Topper's 84%
Yet to give TOEFL.
I have one IEEE publ. from a national conference. My other article is accepted for publication by IEEE in a world congress. Three other papers are under review in other intl. conferences and one journal.
I want to specialize in Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics.

I am in definite need of financial aid.
I am a certified in-plant trainee from Reliance comm.

Choice of Univs:
1. Univ of Pittsburgh
2. Univ of Utah
3. Univ of Arizona
4. SUNY Buffalo
5. Univ of Cincinnati
6. Univ of North Texas

Pl comment on the funding scene and living costs in 1,3,4.

How abt placement oppurtunities, living costs in 6 ?

I would be glad to get your replies.
Thank You,
Supraja J

[CalmLogic]

I want to specialize in Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics.

In addition to Utah that you mentioned, some other schools that I know are good for NLP (in no particular order) are Colorado-Boulder, UMich, Columbia, Brown, JHU, USC, UPenn, and UT Dallas.

UT Dallas did give a 50% tuition waiver to someone in this forum, but that caught me by surprise since I had never heard of them doing that before. As you may know, Utah sometimes gives a TA waiver before enrollment to some MS admits, though some PhD admits get nothing to start.

Regarding cost of tuition, as you may know, most state schools in NY and TX are cheaper. However, getting a TA, GA, or RA after the first semester seems very difficult at UT Dallas, USC, and other such schools that have a large number of international students. (UT Dallas has way over 400 MS students.)

More info on NLP:

http://www.urch.com/forums/computer-...tml#post819092 (Machine learning PhD questions)

Agre 73%

University of North Texas is too good for you But I don't know what their funding is like, so maybe it's worthwhile, afterall.

[suprajajayakuma]

Hi CalmLogic,
Thanks very much for your feedback. I know univs you have mentioned are way too good for NLP/CL but I can't afford them and my profile is no way close to getting admitted into any of them.
So I am not going to apply to those univs at all.

I want to get into Univ of Pittsburgh or Utah. Do you think thats possible or too ambi for my profile ?

Pl comment.

Thanks and Best Wishes,
Supraja J

[InternetAdmiral]

Originally Posted by suprajajayakuma

Agre 73% Topper's 84%

What does Topper's 84% mean?

[Ancalagon The Black]

That means that the person who scored the highest in the entire program got 84%.