Hi I hope this is the right place to ask this, This fall I will be a senior at a small college in Oklahoma about to finish my BS in Computer Science and plan on pressuring a PhD in CS in Oklahoma, Texas, or Kansas.
I am wondering what my chances are of getting in anywhere let alone getting financial aid given the grad school admission climate that I have heard of lately.
Some background about my education, The university I am at was in the past a community college but is now a small regional commuter university our CS program has graduates about 10 people a year and only has about 4 full time teachers and has ABSOLUTELY NO research opportunities unfortunately.
So, I have no prior research, my gpa is good its a 3.76635 on a 4.0 scale my gre scores are less than stellar but I plan on retaking it this summer. My scores are 157 verbal 144 qualitative and 4.0 writing.
I'm interested in studying artificial intelligence in my PhD program but may change given that I haven't explored many specialties in CS due to lack of classes in my department.
I'm interested in applying to Oklahoma University, University of Texas Austin, Dallas, and Arlington, University of Texas A & M ,and University of Kansas. Are theses schools too far out of reach should I try to find other places or what?
Basically I just want to know if anyone has any opinion on my chances with my grades and test scores and such and if I even stand a chance of getting in preferably with an assistanceship at any of the schools I mentioned, thank you!