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As a fellow slow reader, I'd say it usually helps to figure out your pace and manage time and coursework load accordingly. Yes, time management is key here. You say you're full time with 12 credit hours, any chance you could reduce the load? e.g. For us, the minimum for full-time enrollment is 8 credit hours; 6 if you're on assistantship. Since it's going to be my first time at a new place and all on my own, I took the minimum, 8 credits (2 4-hour courses). If I find this easy to manage, I might increase it for the next semester. However, I can still complete my degree requirements with minimum load throughout.

The way I'm doing it is looking among the flights with shorter duration and as fewer stops as possible. See what fits your price range better. I'd say (depending on where you live) try not to have more than two stops. If it's not significantly pricier (and out of your price range), one stop is the best (given a direct one isn't possible).

I'm looking at available routes and airlines from Trip Advisor and Expedia, and then checking them out on the airlines' sites.

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Don't get so disheartened already! You have plenty of time to improve on your quant, so get working! Also, the GRE doesn't make the full package, you'll have your undergrad performance, SOP, research/publications, and LORs to boost you even if you don't get a 160+ quant score. Just work hard at it and hope for the best. The results search could give you an idea of the kind of applicants that get accepted: http://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php?q=anthropology&t=a&o=&p=1

As far as I know, dependents are required to be on university insurance as well. Whether insurance from an external company is allowed or not depends on your university's rules. You should check with your university.

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From what I know: University of Michigan's ECE, Purdue's CompE track within ECE, and Ohio State's ECE and CSE (both departments; ECE offers CV + image processing and robotics + intelligent transportation; CSE offers CV and machine learning)

I presume the greater percentage of them make the "E"? Digressing here, but I should add that the curricula that a lot of us "third world countries" follow are based off of the British system we where choose and specialise towards the end of high school; meaning, it isn't the general kind of high school education as practised in the US (although yes, I'm aware of the AP and IB). Since I had already decided that I wanted to pursue a degree in engineering, I only took science and maths based subjects (+ English) for my IGCSEs. Later on for my A Levels, I just had Maths, Physics, and Chemistry. That way we're made to already focus on science and maths before the more rigorous college training sets in. Similarly, the SSC (Secondary School Certificate; taken after completing grade 10) and HSC (High School Certificate; after 12th grade) of Bangladesh each offer 3 kinds of curricula depending on your interests: 1) science and maths, 2) commerce, 3) arts and humanities. Number 1 has the greatest advantage if chosen for SSC since they are allowed to transfer into 2 or 3 later for HSC (one of my younger cousins went from 1 in SSC to 3 for HSC). This means that people choose their tracks early on and only follow onwards. Pros: Better prepared for college/undergrad Cons: Did not receive a well-rounded education Forced to choose future education track very early on And vice versa for the "general" high school curriculum in the US. I just had to spell out the difference since it came up.

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Hi Nick! I hope you try out Manhattan's prep books as well, I hear they're very good. So far I haven't heard too many positive reviews on Kaplan, though. I myself used Magoosh for one month and scored 160Q/152V (I'm a non-native speaker). Magoosh's verbal strategies are great if you can apply them properly. If you still have the subscription, I suggest you go back and look carefully at the strategies (in their product + the ones on their blog) vs. where you're going wrong. Do you understand the meanings of most of the words? If not, you'll need to learn more words. There's another new test prep site called Empower GRE, I hope you check that out as well. Their reviews are mostly positive so far. All this test advice aside, try finding out what the programs want first before jumping into GRE prep again. There are some universities that don't require the GRE if you've graduated from a US university. Also, a quick results search reveals that most Hispanic programs do not really need that high of a GRE score (just as eyepod suggested). The rest of your profile looks excellent, I'm sure you'll make it into a top program.

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The way I see it, it seems that you aren't thinking the way the GRE wants you to think for the test. What test prep materials did you use?

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Have you checked the ECE/EE departments of potentials schools you're interested in? I'm asking this because some departments (like UMich's EECS) have computer vision and machine learning within EE/ECE rather than in CS/CSE/CE, usually as a part or an extension of the signal and image processing area. Even if they are within CS/CSE/CE, it wouldn't be problem for your graduate degree since you'd be studying a specific area. In addition, the courses on computer vision and machine learning are either senior or graduate level courses anyway, so you don't have to worry much about not having the courses done yet. If you do get about taking those courses though, better for you and your chances for a PhD in CV/ML, just that you wouldn't need to. For a PhD, you'd need research experience and/or publications. So if you can get some (related) research with a professor in CV/ML at your school done right now, that's what's going to count. So yeah, you're fine applying whether it be in EE/ECE or CS/CSE/CE. But more importantly, are you ready to jump into a PhD right now? You could possibly talk this out with a professor or an advisor, especially in CV/ML. If you're a junior or a rising senior asking this, then you still have time left to finish your undergrad. In case you're still not sure after talking it out, I'd advise you to take the courses, see how you like them, and in the meantime join a professor's research in the area. Then, you'd have a much stronger case for yourself. Alternatively, you could take the MS route, which could either be very expensive or not depending on whether or not you get funded. It's much easier to get admitted into MS, and you wouldn't need much of a background in terms of research.

Interestingly, my program is one of the few at my new school where there are more international students than US resident students: % of international PhD students : % US residents is ~ 70% : 30%. For most programs, it's either ~ 50/50, or more US students. Stats here: https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/academic_information/programs/

I'm not in PhD (yet), but: I'm going to finish off with the required ones for my area first before I broaden my scope. One of the courses I wanted to take but didn't is taught by a PI. The reason I left it out was 1)I'm familiar with most of the material and 2) time conflict with a lab course. However I did take a course that's taught by another PI. I have in total of 3 PIs here. The other remaining one is going to take a course required course for my area in the winter semester (aka spring everywhere else).

I'm not sure how a 10-point GPA scale works. Is your GPA very good in your class? Is it your percentile score? But then your GRE scores are really good. Also, your internships and work experience should carry some weight too (given they are related to your field). If it's only for a master's then getting in shouldn't be too difficult. I'd tell you try within the top 20 or top 30 programs, but that really depends on your GPA.

I got exactly this topic on my actual GRE. Don't remember what I wrote, but it was somewhere along the lines of "if someone were to start studying a society, large cities may be a good place to start, but they don't quite give the full picture". Disclaimer: I got a 3.5, which is pretty sad (my entire academic life has been in English). Didn't have the time to practise more and resit.

I find "advisor" more commonly used than "adviser". Or maybe that's sort of my subconscious confirmation bias working... That said, "advisor" isn't recognised by Chrome; it isn't added to its spell-check dictionary. Just googled to find out the peeps on Grammarist seem to echo TakeruK's idea of the distinction between the two.

In grad school, you specialise in a certain area i.e. you study and research more on a specific area that you're interested in. Examples of areas of research in chemical engineering that I took from a grad school site: Catalysis & reactions Biomolecular engineering Cellular engineering Computing & simulation Nanotechnology Materials Polymers & complex fluids Sustainable energy Microfabricated systems Hope that helps.

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