beenthere

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   by beenthere 16y ago

   As a reference point have a look at profile of my friend who is doing PhD on a full schol and is from a decent school (not IIT) http://www.linkedin.com/in/nmahatme he had done research while doing undergraduate degree and he got direct ad
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   by beenthere 16y ago

   @Vineet you can try doing some research, Grad Schools value that a lot. You can try joining some research institute in india (I know they are rare) and have at least a paper submitted before you apply A good idea would be to target WWW 2011
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   by beenthere 16y ago

   sadly unfunded masters, the MIT course was funded but my target group didn't had any funds. Also since my undergrad was in a different field and I had to take pre req's I couldn't get direct funding for CS degree. I transferred to Cornell a
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   by beenthere 16y ago

   I am Indian (student) as well! I did my undergrad in chemical engineering and had 8 K.T.s yet I could mange to get wait listed at MIT Media Lab (my group didn't take anyone that year due to lack of funds). Currently I am at Cornell.
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   by beenthere 16y ago

   I will send you mail once I reach home. Directly Stanford PhD would be difficult maybe you can get an MS from a second tier college and then go for a PhD. Anyway it would be interesting to talk