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Hi juilletmercredi, If lees CGPA in bachelor and graduate courses is the reason so which universities can I apply? In India though 72% and 7.91/10 are decent scores but while applying one has to convert these marks in 4.0 GPA which changes its interpretation. Also from the replies of professors to whom I contacted they seemed pretty interested in my research and asked to put their names as proposed supervisor. Feeling very sad whether will be able to get admit or not??

Hi bsharpe269, Thank you very much for your reply. Yes, I have narrowed down my research interest its "low/high power and novel device design" and I contacted only those professors who are having similar research interest also mentioned it in my SOP. Yes, there are more than 3 professors with primary research interest as mine, wherever I applied.

Hi, I need help for getting a phd admission. I applied for Fall-2014 session in 17 US universities, but I did not get call. I am really puzzled regarding where should I apply and all. I need your advise for my next attempt. Following are my details: B.E. in ECE 72% M.Tech. from IIT 7.9 cgpa, 4 years of work experience GRE: 311 (V 149, Q 162, W 4.0) TOEFL: 101 (Reading: 25, Listening: 26, Speaking: 22, Writing: 28). 2 conference papers both as the first author. 1 is pending patent, 1 rejected, both as the first author. Apart from this I am suspecting that one of my recommendation out of three was not good. I got this by the incident that I gave 3 professors name as recommender in all universities except one (ASU). In ASU I replaced the prof under doubt with the 4th prof. I applied in 17 colleges. Out of all 17 I got admit only from ASU, but that too for MS without funding. So I am suspecting there might be something wrong with the 3rd prof. Below is the list of universities where I applied: UC Berkeley, Cornell University, Purdue University WEST LAfyte, Stanford University, University of Texas at Austin, U California San Diego, UCLA , University of Michigan, north Carolina state university, Texas A&M University–​College Station (Look), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of California, Santa Barbara, Arizona State University, University of Southern California (Viterbi), University of Minnesota, Georgia Inst of Tech, NUS. Before applying I contacted several professors from all the above universities and got +ve response from many of them. But I am really puzzled regarding my rejection from all the above colleges. Please advise me on the following: 1. Is the university selection was not good?? Please suggest where should I apply? 2. Does my CGPA is too less to get admission?? 3. Does my GRE/TOEFL score is too low to get admission? 4. May the negative recommendation (as I am suspecting) might be the cause of rejection from all above universities? 5. What would you suggest me to do next? 6. Please suggest me European Universities where I should apply.