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You may want to take the GRE subject based test, if you can crack it then it will give you an additional edge over the other students ... it seems that most of the grad schools give higher priority on subject based tests. Your GPA is good enough, dont worry about that. In the mean time you may try establishing good communication with some of the proffs under whom you have taken some courses and who knows you more than the other ... target 4 to 5 proffs and then select finally from them.. usually the proffs are very considerate and helpful as they have undergone the same process for themselves as well .... Finally try securing a position at your present school.. just as a back up. Work on your SOP and try getting some help from your seniors, friends or even proffs for reviewing it .. SOPs matter a lot for the grad schools ... if you have presented some papers or posters try mentioning them in your resume ... give as much info about yourself (specially academic) as possible in your resume ... I hope this helps .... All The Best

Hi Brown, CONGRATS on your admits and funding from UMCP and NCSU :tup: :tup: :tup: What I know abt the funding of UMCP is, your 1/2 TA will cover upto 6 credits/sem and the money that you'll be getting is sufficient if you share your apartment with some one .... You Health insurance will be covered in full by the Univs ... and there will be a mandatory course regsitration fee of $250 for upto 8 credits and $ 460 for more than 8 credits per sem, which you have to pay by your self. You can get some more info regarding the funding at the UMCP EE website ... look at graduant students menu and click on Grad Handbook .... This link contains a lot of info ... Best markiV

CONGRATS Brown !!!!! :tup: :tup: :tup: Are you joining UMCP then? If you do... get into the YAHOO group of UMCP fall 2005. I hope to see you there .....

Firstly CONGRATULATIONS ... for the great admits .... All of them are great schools .... I have seen both Lehigh and Bolder... have no idea abt NCSU ... What I can say about those two is, CU Bolder is much larger and active in research than Lehigh, both of them have decent location, but I would prefer Bolder more as it is in Colorado and at the foothill of the Rockys, Bolder is nice play to stay ... but a little expensive, where as lehigh wont be too expensive. Dept wise Bolder has a wide variety of research going on with a high number of students and faculties ..... Lehigh is not that big,, but the campus is really nice and the environment is good as well... a little far from Philadelphia .... but the Lehigh valley is wonderful ...... did you get funding from any of these two? My prev advisor and one of my friend is from Bolder, what I heard from them, is they have a superb signal processing grp and a close tie with NOAA. The funding is little competetive over there .... regarding funding at lehigh.. I have no idea .... what I heard from one of the proffs is ... the dept is running low on funds at present ..... Hope this helps

Gsteria .. "The loneliness of the long distance runner" ... from Iron Maiden???

Name: - Age: 26 M/F: M Location when applying: Massachusetts Major(s) in undergrad: Electrical Undergraduate institution: Jadavpur Univ (India) Major(s) applying for: Electrical Engg Area of specialization: Signal Processing (speech processing ) Degree(s) earned: MS, BE Degree(s) applying for: PhD Undergrad GPA (try to adjust to 4.0 system): 4.2/5.0 Class Rank (if applicable): NA GRE Verbal: 570 GRE Math: 800 GRE Writing: 5.5 How many months did you study for GRE general: 3 GRE Subject (if applicable): NA How many months did you study for GRE subject: NA Researched as undergrad in University (y/n & years): 1 Researched as undergrad in Industry (y/n & years): 2.5 Published (y/n & # of articles): 8 (Int Conf), 1 (IEEE trans) Other: 5 (invited speaker) Advice to those applying to grad school: be confident, never give up, work hard, research about the schools before applying, try getting in touch with some of the proffs, get some publications (very helpful), go over your SOP repeatedly until u're satisfied, always have a couple of backup univs. Accepted Schools (aid: y/n and how much and what form): University of Maryland, College park (TA, 16K) University of Delaware (Fellowship, TA, 14K) George Washington Univ (Fellowship, TA, 18K) Lehigh Univ SUNY SB Poytechnic Univ Rejected Schools: Columbia Johns Hopkins Univ of pennsylvania Waitlisted Schools: NA Chosen School: University of Maryland

Excellent work .... these things help a lot ....

Thanks peter, The UMCP Yahoo grp seems to be growing as time is passing by .... have u decided upon a place to stay there yet?

That's true ... communicate with the Dept...or the Graduate school you may have received some contact info either from their emails or from their postal mails ... tell them that you want to postpone your acceptance .... All the Best

Thanks Diablo ... I will do that ...

CONGRATULATIONS .... and Best Wishes for your academic career

First of all ... CONGRATULATIONS !!!! Have no idea abt NCSU .. but UCF has quite some funding .... in fact you can keep on pestering the proffs for funding.. who knows.. you may get one soon .... They have some pretty decent research going on and I heard that they do a lot of work for NASA All the Best

Hi Peter, it's great to hear that u're going to UMCP, are you an International or a domestic student? Do you have to take the english competency exam?

go for NEU... you'll get excellent job opportunities in MA and NEU is well known as well ...

Any one heading to UMCP please PM me .... I will be joining UMCP EE PhD program