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As you have mentioned SoP for several times can you list what should be included in SoP or direct me to some place where I can find some examples to get the idea.

Thank you so much for your answer. I am aware that top 10 even 20 is not easy to get acceptance. I have tried to select universities with big computer architecture groups. So that there will be more professors which might want to work with me. But unfortunately there is not so many safe universities with good computer architecture research groups. In most of them there is just one or two. About third LOR: For one of the courses I took (Aspect Oriented Development) we had a project and at the end of the course we wrote a paper and did presentation about our work at a local conference run in our university. Professor was always giving positive comments about our work since we did something different from other groups. Instead of just doing some implementation we have compared different approaches to re-factor legacy code and showed how Aspect Oriented approach can be beneficial. I can ask him to write LOR and maybe he can mention this work. But I am not sure. I also got an A from that course but the problem is that the course is not related to my research area. I am worried about my GRE Verbal score. I am not good at memorizing words and I do have lots of work to do (TA, RA etc.) I hope that I wont get rejection by some automated system or removed by some excel macro.

Hi dear members. I am in need of urgent profile evaluation and recommendations to improve my chances. I am applying for PhD. to US universities. I am working on computer architecture so sometimes this area is placed under CS and sometimes ECE. Here is my profile. CS UG GPA: 3.18 (CS Courses GPA:3.38) CS MS GPA: 3.88 TOEFL: 108 (R:28 L:30 S:26 W:24) GRE: 1110 (Q:780 V:330 AW:4) Publications: 1 Poster at international conference and a short paper. (will submit a paper to a well known conference but will get results in February) Research: 3rd rank during undergraduate studies at national CPU development competition. Have been working as RA at my university on several topics (Also working as TA). Have been to INRIA as a visiting researcher and did collaborative work. Work Exp.: Worked as software developer / intern at two companies for 7 months. LOR: One from my own advisor (expect it to be good), one from the professor I have worked with in France (Well known person and expect him to write good things), third from probably a professor who knows me from classes from which I get good grades. Can you please tell me about my chances to get acceptance from following universities. 1- Carnegie Mellon University (have met a professor during a conference and he wanted me remind him after application) 2- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 3- University Texas-Austin 4- Cornell 5- Georgia Tech 6- University of California San-Diego 7- Ohio State University 8- Penn. State University (my advisor's university. can recommend to his own advisor.) 9- University of Utah 10-Rochester 11-Northeastern 12-Syracuse I am aware of that most of these universities are hard to get acceptance. But please write something even if there is no chance.

University of Saarland @ Saarbrücken, GERMANY [ Dont underestimate this university ] http://www.cs.uni-saarland.de/ Very good university and they are strong at cs. They have several institutes related to cs within their campus and they work together. Max Planck Institute of Informatics http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/ Max Planck Institute of Software Systems http://www.mpi-sws.org/ German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence http://www.dfki.de/ Center for Bioinformatics http://zbi-www.bioin...nguage=en&cl=en Visual Computing Institute http://www.intel-vci...nd.de/index.php

Hi everyone. I am not sure whether there are any people on the site these days but I am doing my research about universities to do my PhD. The area that I am interested in is Computer Architecture and especially multi-core, many-core architectures and heterogeneous processors. There are some top 10 universities like Carnegie Mellon, Illinois, Georgia Tech, Texas-Austin but they are pretty ambitious for me. Can you recommend me some mid level or backup universities and professors who are doing research in this area. Thanks in advance. (Short Profile: 3.18 UG GPA, 3.88 MS GPA, 1 Conference, 1 Poster, worked as visiting researcher at INRIA-FRANCE, TOEFL and GRE I need to retake)

You are totaly right about this. I didnt study for GRE except some sample exams. I remember that my reading comprehention questions were too hard (when compared to TOEFL since I got 29/30 from that) and I couldnt give satisfying answers. Or maybe I have solved them correct but I did alot of mistakes at prior parts and my score suffered alot from that.

Unfortunately I dont know about any GRE class in my city (Ankara) but eventhough there is one I dont have enough time to attend them because I am still taking classes at the university and working as RA and TA. I have just added asking a native speaker to check my application materal before sending them I am sure that I have lots of grammer errors and miss typo. About GRE verbal books I should check local stores and illegal ways to get them since ordering books from Amazon can even take a month for shipping. (I have Barron's GRE book in my shelf) I am planing to contact professors that I want to work but first I want to get some outcome from my research projects. I will be at INRIA (France) this summer as visiting RA hopefully after that I will be done with at least one project.

First of all thank you for your replies. I am aware that my verbal and analytical scores are pretty low compared to vast majority of people on this forum but I really do not get the idea of memorizing those hundereds or even thousands of words just to get high from this exam. I am sure that I can increase my analytical writing score and probably get higher from toefl but for verbal I seriously need some advice. Altough I am not from a country where English is the native language I am attanding classes in English at the university and I have also been to Poland and Germany as exchange student and never had difficulty to communicate people (especially with native speakers) or understand course material, text books, papers etc. I can easily convince professors that I have enough English for graduate study if I can have a chance to talk to them. But it doesnt seem to be a likely option. I am starting to think that studying for GRE General instead of GRE Subject can help me more. So any unique, fast rewarding tips, guides for GRE verbal? I have a weak memory but maybe manage to memorize 500-1000 words in 1-2 months so which list/s should I study? Lastly my dream schools is Gatech. What can you say about their admission criteria? What matters most for them?

Hi to all gradcafe members, I have completed my undergradute with 3,18 GPA (CS,EE courses only 3.40, other topics and math grades are low unfortunately ) and now doing my master degree with the hope finish with GPA between 3,7-4,0. I doubt that due to my low undergrad GPA, I will not get an acceptand for Phd from a good university (i.e. Cornell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Texas at Austin, Georgia Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University ...) My last exam scores were TOEFL IBT 100 (29-27-22-22) and GRE (800-320-3.5). I am working on some research topics and by the end of the year hope them to be publish or at least submitted. Will my graduate GPA make admission commitee members think more positive about me or not? Research, papers, high GRE subject/ GRE general, TOEFL what should I focus on? Thanks in advance.