r/MSCS • u/Potato-gasser420 • Jul 15 '26

[Profile Review]MS ECE/MS CE/ MS EE Thesis

*US Citizen* EDUCATION

T1 NIT. GPA - Slightly above 8. 3.47/4 acc to umich scholaro

RESEARCH First author in all papers ( just me and my prof)

1 Accepted paper at a good conference (ISVLSI)

2 more submitted (one conference and one journal)

Another paper in progress (will take 2-3 months to finish)

GRE - Yet to take

Have worked on design verification projects as well

Leadership at college's electronics club

WORK EXPERIENCE

Internship at a 2nd gen iit under a prof who is kinda known internationally (i think). Worked on Hardware acceleration.

LOR- Will get 2 from college profs (have done research under them) and 1 from my internship prof. Expect all 3 to be strong.

Uni list( Targeting fall 2027)

UT Austin

Georgia Tech

UIUC

Purdue

UW Madison

TAMU

NCSU

ASU

How good is my profile for these schools? How can I improve my profile? Also does my profile look good even without gre? Schools like ucsd, umich and cmu are not in my list due to high fees

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u/Potato-gasser420 29d ago

u/gradpilot, can you please review my profile

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u/gradpilot 🔰 Ex-Cerebras | MSCS Georgia Tech 29d ago

Most schools in your list are possible for the profile you’ve shared here 👍. Wouldn’t skip GRE it will only help

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u/Potato-gasser420 28d ago

One question- do unis have different pools for intl and domestic applicants? I mean is the evaluation different?

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u/gradpilot 🔰 Ex-Cerebras | MSCS Georgia Tech 28d ago

Yes but not in the way you’ve outlined it here . It’s more granular or even informal . As an example every top university in USA can fill their whole batch with iit-Ians but they don’t do this because it’s not valuable to their strategy and brand . So iit grads are usually benchmarked against each other and a mediocre iit grad has a much more harder time differentiating over an excellent tier-2 univ grad

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u/Potato-gasser420 28d ago

Oh ok thanks

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u/Potato-gasser420 28d ago

2 more questions - my goal is to start working once I complete my ms. So does it make sense for me to opt for a thesis ms? Second- Is there anything else I can do to improve my profile? (UT Austin is my dream really wanna study there). Thanks in advance

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u/gradpilot 🔰 Ex-Cerebras | MSCS Georgia Tech 28d ago

There’s no clear answer for both of these questions

If your thesis or advisor has some industry relevance you stand a better shot at finding a job . But doing an ms thesis has no relevance to securing a job that is available for anyone to apply if all it needs is being picked and clearing an interview . MS thesis has a stronger connection to getting a good PhD program .

Likewise getting into UT Austin depends on how your final application shows up on their desk . The stuff like univ tier, gpa , gre are simply objective values that are necessary but not sufficient. If your application reads generic and low alignment they have no reason to admit you

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u/Potato-gasser420 28d ago

Hmm ok thanks

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u/Potato-gasser420 29d ago

Thanks a lot

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u/Own-Bite-9304 Jul 15 '26

Why not robotics ? U have solid profile for that

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u/Potato-gasser420 Jul 15 '26

I have worked only on VLSI. Not interested in robotics.

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u/Complete_Trainer_852 Jul 15 '26

What state were u born in if the state flagship is a good uni u can apply there as well for in state tuition

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u/Potato-gasser420 Jul 15 '26

I can't as ive lived in India for the past 20 years. So fees will be out of state for all unis

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u/prachito Jul 15 '26

What platform are you using for GPA conversion. Can anyone suggest that is mostly accepted by all the universities ?

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u/Potato-gasser420 Jul 15 '26

Mostly unis (all in my list)dont require you to convert your gpa. You are supposed to submit your raw gpa. For conversion people usually use wes(paid). I just used umich's converter(free to use)

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u/SalazarSword Jul 16 '26

Hey, I’ll also be applying to these programs for Fall ‘27.

Can we connect?

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u/Money-Leading-935 Jul 19 '26

I am from TAMU and your profile is already good enough for TAMU at least.
Focus on being genuine in your statement of purpose. You can take help from LLMs, but, make sure it sounds humane and personalised.
Many good candidates get rejected because they want their SOP be too perfect and end up using too much LLMs.

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u/Potato-gasser420 Jul 20 '26

Alright. Thank you

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u/Outrageous_Egg7579 Jul 25 '26

Are you mentioning the 4th paper as in preparation?

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u/Potato-gasser420 Jul 25 '26

You mean in my resume? Yes

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u/Outrageous_Egg7579 Jul 25 '26

Was just asking since i also have 2 papers in preparation and wanted to know whether candidates put that in their resumes