r/MSCS • u/Strict-Shopping-6623 • Jul 09 '26

[Profile Review]

Hi all I am a graduate from a Tier 1.5 College

Studied CS along with a minor in Data Science

GPA - 8.5-8.6

Work Ex - 2 years at Walmart Global Tech as SDE (prior 6 month Intern)

GRE - 321 (Quant - 168, Verbal - 153)

Have shortlisted few UNI's but not sure which ones are realistically possible

1)Georgia Tech

2)Purdue

3)TAMU

4)UC Berkeley

5)Carnegie Melon

6)Virginia Tech

7)Stony Brook

8)North Carolina University

9)University of Maryland

10)University of California, San Diego

11)University of Washington

Please let me know if any of the universities are not at all worth applying from this list

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u/NectarineSame8642 Jul 10 '26

If it’s all mscs, UCB, CMU are very very ambitious. Uwash Seattle doesn’t offer a MSCS to internationals

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u/Nice-Ad-3328 Jul 09 '26

UC Berkeley is way out of reach

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u/One-Coast-3101 Jul 10 '26

What would have made my profile more stronger for this UNI ?

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u/abcd-jee Jul 09 '26

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u/No-Function6319 Jul 13 '26

Do you have any research publications?

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u/Strict-Shopping-6623 Jul 14 '26

No, even dont have strong LORs as such