Plz Advice me

[MDK]

Sorry, Duplicate post

[CalmLogic]

Sadly, i dont know any of my senior, going for MS from US, all i know, is only one guy that too a relative of mine who is from the same college and did MS from Marist College last year

That is sad, so I agree with MDK. You may want to ask the faculty at your school what they know about placements. As MDK says, people on the admissions committee are very risk averse. So with your university apparently having no reputation at all (or maybe even a negative reputation as an easy school), even to get into NCSU may require a good GRECS score to boost your profile. Also, you may want to research Rutgers if you can afford their tuition. If you checkout the profiles at Edulix, you will see that Rutgers takes people with rather moderate GRECS scores.

If you have a lot of money lying around (which is doubtful since you don't have work experience), I would possibly recommend taking a graduate level distance learning course this summer or fall like Analysis of Algorithms at UF for $1800 (which is the cost for out-of-state students):

UF College of Engineering: UFEDGE
COT5405: Analysis of Algorithms

That would help you prepare for the GRECS while also giving you a boost if you got an A or B in the course. (Maybe only 25% of UF students get an A for that course after the curve is done, but you could mention in your SOP exactly how you ranked in that course since the grades are posted online.)

Regarding safety schools, as MDK suggests, Texas is a good place for safety schools (except for TAMU and UT Austin). The tuition and cost of living is cheap while still having the benefits of a good location for internships and job placement. I would be shocked if you couldn't get into UT Dallas since they even take non-CS majors. The funding at UT Dallas sucks though, so if you would want funding after the first semester you may want to consider UT San Antonio in addition to other Texas schools that are less popular among international students for CS.

[tryingtocrackit]

Originally Posted by MDK

Since your college doesn't seem to export many brains to the US, I would highly recommend applying for low ranked universities such as UT Dallas, UT Arlington, NJIT, GMU,IIT-C and SJSU. Not that you aren't good enough for top schools, but the committee would be reluctant to choose you out of the huge pool of Mumbai University, Anna University and NITs. Unless you have something outstanding in your profile, don't expect good news from top universities.

thanks mdk for ur suggestion, earlier i thouht that getting a good gre score would be the tough part for admission process, but now it seems the road ahead is not that easy that it looked earlier on

[tryingtocrackit]

Originally Posted by CalmLogic

That is sad, so I agree with MDK. You may want to ask the faculty at your school what they know about placements. As MDK says, people on the admissions committee are very risk averse. So with your university apparently having no reputation at all (or maybe even a negative reputation as an easy school), even to get into NCSU may require a good GRECS score to boost your profile. Also, you may want to research Rutgers if you can afford their tuition. If you checkout the profiles at Edulix, you will see that Rutgers takes people with rather moderate GRECS scores.

If you have a lot of money lying around (which is doubtful since you don't have work experience), I would possibly recommend taking a graduate level distance learning course this summer or fall like Analysis of Algorithms at UF for $1800 (which is the cost for out-of-state students):

UF College of Engineering: UFEDGE
COT5405: Analysis of Algorithms

That would help you prepare for the GRECS while also giving you a boost if you got an A or B in the course. (Maybe only 25% of UF students get an A for that course after the curve is done, but you could mention in your SOP exactly how you ranked in that course since the grades are posted online.)

Regarding safety schools, as MDK suggests, Texas is a good place for safety schools (except for TAMU and UT Austin). The tuition and cost of living is cheap while still having the benefits of a good location for internships and job placement. I would be shocked if you couldn't get into UT Dallas since they even take non-CS majors. The funding at UT Dallas sucks though, so if you would want funding after the first semester you may want to consider UT San Antonio in addition to other Texas schools that are less popular among international students for CS.

Thanks calm logic as always for your knowledgefull reply, you are a living digital library man.

i will check those courses and will tell you and one more thing one of my brothers friend who is in M.M college also affiliated to kurukshetra university got admits from usc and some more colleges, i will try to get the details from him and will post here.

[tryingtocrackit]

hi calm logic and mdk

sorry for a late reply was busy with college exams, i am posting the same query over edulix forum, there seem to some members from other colleges affiliated to same university.

One last thing, could you tell me which university could i get in if i apply for spring 2009 and i am not into research thingie and dont plan to do Phd later on. And if i take GRECS than what score would help me get to in GAtech or some other ivy league universities.

[handsome_94]

When your university isn't well known then Sub-GRE score shows who you are. Good score in it can get you anywhere!!

They see universities reputation for obvious reason. They know that some college which is ranked in top 10 in some country, will definately will be getting good students compared to other colleges, and a guy there with some say X aggregate will be better than guy with same aggregate in some unknown college in the same country.

But if you give sub-gre and get good score in it, then that shows how much you can compete in global scale..and if you get good score than you are as good as others as sub-gre tests your knowledge in a specific area though not in depth, but it still is better indicator of what a person knows rather than just elementary school maths , english and stuff!!

[tryingtocrackit]

Originally Posted by handsome_94

When your university isn't well known then Sub-GRE score shows who you are. Good score in it can get you anywhere!!

They see universities reputation for obvious reason. They know that some college which is ranked in top 10 in some country, will definately will be getting good students compared to other colleges, and a guy there with some say X aggregate will be better than guy with same aggregate in some unknown college in the same country.

But if you give sub-gre and get good score in it, then that shows how much you can compete in global scale..and if you get good score than you are as good as others as sub-gre tests your knowledge in a specific area though not in depth, but it still is better indicator of what a person knows rather than just elementary school maths , english and stuff!!

thanks for the reply and ya i am also looking into GRECS exam