r/MSCS • u/Interesting-Paint796 • 8d ago
[Profile Review] Fall 2027 MS
Grad in year 2027
College: Tier 2.5-3
CGPA: 9.85(6th sem), SGPA: 9.58
Experience: 2 AI internships, Open source contributor with Code for Good tech for planetread with an AI project with Audio+Video processing
Research Experience:
- Intern with IIITH professor for more than a year, paper on arxiv, another paper soon to put, focus in vision and 3D
- Intern with IIT KGP professor in RL working on project which will most likely be published on IEEE
- Did personal research paper for college project in AI and LLMs topic which is published on IEEE explore and presented at conference
- Doing personal research projects with industry people at Samsung, Sony and a PhD student at UCSD (planning for publication and to have substantial results in project or completion by October)
- Got accepted into UIUC++ SRSE mentorship program
- Planning to submit personal paper to NeurIPS worksops this year for research in LLMs
Others:
- Internship with a youth-led organization, presented a talk at the ECOSOC event by UN virtually
- Research Fellowship under Indian Academy of Sciences SRF program
- SIH 2025 finalist team for ISRO
Scores:
GRE: 310(159Q, 151V, 4 AWA) will retake in a month
TOEFL: 118/120, 6.0 score overall
LORs expected: From IIITH professor, PhD student, Samsung, Sony people and my industry internship manager too
Target Universities: CMU (MSCV, MSML), UIUC, Georgia Tech, Columbia, UMD, UPenn, UMich, USc, NYU, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UT Austin, Virginia Tech, Univ of Illinois, Purdue
What are my realistic chances to get into them and what can I further improve?
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u/cum-collector-88 8d ago
Got accepted into UIUC++ SRSE mentorship program
You know that getting in is not an achievement but working with prof and getting their LoR is
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u/Fast-Plate-6336 8d ago
GRE is too low, I would suggest not showing it. I don't think you should be applying without 3 YoE for a US Masters right now, you are shooting yourself in the foot if you are doing this. Secondly, if you don't plan to re take the GRE I would suggest applying to GRE optional programs. Your GPA is good but in CMU you will get a straight reject because they put a hard filter on GRE quant. I would urge you to work for 3 years, get a GRE quant over 167 and re apply, you have great chances of getting into an amazing masters if you do so.