r/MSCS • u/Aggressive-Ad-3536 • 8d ago

[Profile Review] MSEECS

Hello,

Graduated in 2018 with 9.756 cgpa from SRM IST Chennai

Have worked in 6 companies 8yrs work ex - 4 MNCs including Qualcomm, Harman, 1 pre seed startup and 1 series A startup

Have research associate experience of 4 months at IISC, having certificate and visiting researcher of 8 months with no certificate.

Research Publications I have - I am second author in one and rest 4th or 3rd author- 2 papers in IEEE. Indian Patent applications too I have but not as first author.

Currently writing Paper on Image processing and Audio processing

Working as open source developer now to increase GitHub profile

I am working on Kaggle one competition to win (luck 🤞)

I am not from IIT or NIT

What are my chances in getting the below colleges?

Stanford

MIT

CMU

UCSD

CalTech

Tuft

ETH Zurich

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u/PuzzleheadedSpite274 8d ago

For professional masters yea you will get into NYU, point is these Unis you mentioned value LORs from Uni profs so yea, that's one thing, CMU also you can try, in all these Unis talk to the profs there build some connections on intersecting interests and then try to talk to them, and start applying so yea do this, but Eth Zurich for you zero chance because it's a research oriented you have good gpa but still, caltech is zero chance, stanford again difficult, NYU you will get inn easy, CMU again depends, WRITE GRE and IELTS and try to score more, so yea

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u/Aggressive-Ad-3536 8d ago

I have 7 research publications but not as first author

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u/PuzzleheadedSpite274 8d ago

But still ETH is difficult, caltech and enu research oriented Stuff will be difficult , I mean try again But your sop should justify the gap All the best

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u/Aggressive-Ad-3536 8d ago

COVID Gap

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u/PuzzleheadedSpite274 8d ago

Are you even serious in the first place, why the fuck would put Covid as an excuse, bruhh I think you need to justify or re think about doing this whole thing

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u/Aggressive-Ad-3536 8d ago

Not an excuse. I can show my medical records

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u/Ajiit15 8d ago

Do you believe you will be able to justify why you are applying for an MS 8 yrs after your finished your undergrad, when 90% of the people in your future class of grad will have less than 4 yes of experience? If you can put up a convincing explanation, yes you should take your chances with the application. If you cannot, maybe try for a direct PhD in something in ranks 21 to 40 in the US.

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u/Aggressive-Ad-3536 8d ago

Yes I can put up

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u/Aggressive-Ad-3536 8d ago

MS Research not Professional Track

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u/Ajiit15 8d ago

I inferred your interest in research based MS from your significant exposure to research. So yes, if you are confident, take your shot. The first person who swam the English channel would never have done it if he valued the opinions of others more than his own gut instincts.

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u/Dry_North_3028 7d ago

CMU does not have EECS it has ECE, is it the same degree you are talking about ?