polarbear

Late to reply... Congrats!

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Well candidate B appears clear favorite. Do you really need to give enough time to perp. Math section? 85V:15Q seems to be good ratio in terms of prep. time allotment Right/Wrong?

Ancalagon: Thnx! ...hmm verbal 500ish well somewhere in midwest snowfield .... (ssshhhhhh!!!)

Also Univ. of Waterloo always comes 1st in ACM World Programming Contest... (it has been a norm for many years!)

gttts23: "8 years of experience in an industrial research lab and in the industry in a field closely related to the one I want to do my PhD in" PLUS cracking AGRE. Awesome! Not surprised with your offers.... congrats

CalmLogic: Thnx, research interest and my papers are primiraly from info. retrieval areas. Ancalagon: I was in one of the IITs (but had 'negative' in interest in Mech.) Any advice on GRE target scores?

Congratulations.

Fall 2009 Applicant GPA (Comp. Science) : 3.64/4.00 (well-known US univ/ not main campus/ sister campus) GPA (Mech; 4 Terms) : 2.66/4.00 (well-known university in India) Work Exp Industrial (US): Software (will be ~1 Yr; starting May'08) Work Exp Academic (US): TA (Grader/Tutor - 2 Terms); RA (3 Terms) Work Exp Industrial (Ind): Software (~ 2 Yrs) Recommenders' eduBG: Penn State(1), UC-Davis (1), and IIT (1) Publication* : IEEE (2), Springer LNCS (1), IASTED (1), ASEE (1) *All international peer-reviewed conferences in main categories (not student papers). Authored by me (not co-author). GRE : Not taken! Where I should apply for good program + fin_pack?