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Hello everyone! I was wondering what the general consensus was on attempting to enter an Accounting PhD program directly from undergraduate studies, and if the consensus is positive, appropriate universities to consider? I'll post my profile, and hopefully that will help you to better assess whether I should consider going straight for the PhD (which is my definite end goal, I KNOW that I want to teach and perform research). I attend a relatively unknown university (AACSB accredited) in Missouri. This largely couldn't be avoided, I am very poor. Accounting major, Computer Science minor 3.7 overall GPA, 4.0 major GPA Will be graduating with Honors and with an Academic Distinction Served as service chair for our Beta Alpha Psi chapter Activities Chair for the Honors college I am in the process of conducting undergraduate research (hopefully to be published), which was conducted with the Dean of the Business college and another faculty member. The research being conducted is the development and analysis of a probabilistic approach vs. a fuzzy-neuro approach to fraud risk assessment. I have received letters of recommendations from Dean of the College of Business Chair of the Honors College Chair of the Accounting Department I have also worked as an IT Audit & Data Analysis intern at a CPA firm in St. Louis for a summer (3 month) internship. I will be CPA eligible upon graduation. As far as scores go, I have not yet taken the GMAT (currently studying for it), but I have taken the GRE already and received a 163/164/5.5 (verbal/quant/analytical writing - approximately 90th percentile) without studying for it, so I think I will score well on the GMAT as well. If anyone has advice whether or not I should go straight for it, please feel free to comment. University recommendations would be fantastic as well! My research interests lie primarily with quantitative methods, audit and fraud. Thank you all! - Ozy

Hi, Want to apply for MS in Networking, Wireless Networking, Data Mining, OS, Security. Kindly Evaluate. Thanks in advance. My Profile is : B.Tech in CSE, The ICFAI Univ, Dehradun, India GRE : 316, 155(v), 161(q), 3.5(awa) Toefl : 108, 24®, 28(l), 26(s), 30(w) cgpa : 6.7 /10 (topper at 10 cgpa) 4 publications, International Journals, CSIR Journal and IIT-D a) International Journal of Applied Engineering Research [Get Ready to Eat 0’s and 1’s] b) National Conference, Ministry of Science and Technology, CSIR [Artificial Intelligence in Games] c) National Conf. on Radar & Satellite Imagining [An Architecture for Web based Monitoring and Control of S-Band Doppler Weather Radar] d) Proceedings IIT-D conf. [ Excellence in Higher Education] 6 months internship at ISRO, bangalore - Worked on (a) Web based Monitoring and Control of S-Band Doppler Weather Radar (b) DWR Shri Hari Kota Image Data Display through Web Interface now will be working in DRDO , Chennai or Under an emeritus scientist for next 6 months, 2 months internship at Haryana Space Application Center Other Projects:- a) Shuttle Radar Topography Mission NASA Data Surface Plots Successfully framed the JAVA software for plotting the terrain graph using Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Data. b) Data Mining and A. I. Predicting the Friendship Levels on Social Networks Used Support Vector Machine Algorithm and J48, Navies Bayes Classifier in WEKA. c) Cloud for File Sharing and Resource Allocation d) Managing Data in the Clouds Framing a file sharing data cloud for the University using Ubuntu Open Source Data Cloud Server. e) Artificial Intelligence Hearts Algorithm Developed an operating system independent algorithm to beat the popular game Hearts. LOR's from Sci. at ISRO, Sci at DRDO/Emeritus Sci., College Hod, Dean of College Best Research paper award in DRDO Conf, Member Federation of Indian Chambers of Agriculture, Trade and Services, Social Representative of College Robot Team, Artificial Intelligence Dept, Selected as System Software Engineer at Capgemini, Has been Interviewed by "Hindustan Times and a popular blog on the Internet" Name published on Univ. Website for bringing accolades to the Univ. Made an algo to break the Hearts code, Cloud Data Sharing project for Univ., Worked on Data Mining, Batch topper, English in Higher Secondary Education II and III positions among various Inter College Competitions Shortlisted for SCC , Lt. Col in Indian Army Zero Work Experience, Graduated May 2012, Will be working in DRDO for six months *national project* will that count ? Kindly suggest some Safe.Moderate Univ. ? ! Thanks in advance . ! Kind of you. List goes down here : 1. Univ of Maryland College Park 2. Texas A & M Univ 3. Univ of Minniosta 4. Ohio State Univ 5. John Hopkins Univ 6. North Carolina State Univ 7. Univ of Illinios @Chicago 8. Univ of Texas @delas 9. Illionis Institute of Technology 10. Univ. of California, Irvine 11. Michigan State Univ 12. Columbia Univ. I sure can edit, do away with ambi. Univ. Kindly reply with some mod/safe Univ. I should consider.

Hi, I'm on a mad rush to get applications completed and sent out before the Fall 2011 deadlines at grad schools. I'm interested in MS in Robotics or AI though I guess I'll have to go for some safe MS in CS applications as backup. GRE 1510 V-710 Q-800 GPA 3.5 on 4 I did my BE in CS from a reputed non-IIT/NIT college in India. I have three good letters of recs. I had one paper at an international conference. My final year project during BE won the best project award in the university. I have done miniprojects in Robotics. Considering all this, what do you think are my chances in the following list? UMich, Ann Arbor, MS in CS (Robotics and Vision) Gatech - MS in CS USCal - MS in Intelligent Robotics University of Georgia - MS in AI UPenn - MS in Robotics (I sort of thought this would be the best bet, but then I browsed many of the old threads and now I'm not sure at all) Univ of Texas A&M - MS in CS Columbia Purdue Northwestern Also, can you suggest some state universities I can apply to that will have lower fee structures for the MS program? It's the first time I am really "seeing" the meaning of the dollar in my country's currency terms! :( What are the chances of financial aid? This last minute rush means my univ list is pretty narrow. Are there any univs that I'd really miss out on by not waiting one year for the next admissions session? I don't mean the private ones where the MS will be very expensive. The Cornell CS dept's MEng program has a deadline of Feb 1. Do I stand a chance there? I didn't keep it in my list because I am still confused about the MS/MEng debate which comes up each time I ask a teacher or a senior about it. ETA: I completed my BE in 2010 and am working now. I am not sure how that will help or hinder the admissions at colleges. Verukal.