Hi All
I want general advice from people about my future prospects for Grad School. I want to pursue my masters in Computer Science from the Fall 0f 2013. After my masters, I want to get work experience ( or get a job first and then masters, however that may pan out ), and eventually apply for an MBA in Finance.
Coming back to the situation at hand, I want critiques on how my existing profile looks for admission into Grad Schools. I'll be a senior in Fall 2012 and am doing my bachelor's from a private tech school in Chicago, IL. My GPA is a 3.0, which I admit is not so stellar. Although I have been a MATH tutor on campus, I don't know if that cuts it. I also have work experience from this summer. My internship is currently in progress in downtown chicago.
As far as research goes, I don't have any. Although I am looking to start some independent research with an Artificial Intelligence Professor from the fall semester. This also brings me to the point of mentioning, that the schools I would want to apply into are the ones with deadlines around mid-end December 2012 till Feb-March 2013. I am preparing for the GRE as well and plan to write it sometime around October.
In the meantime, I'll be working on couple of independent projects on development on CentOS. I think it might an edge to my admissions profile. As for my recommendations, I have four choices-
1) My supervisor at my internship
2) My math professor who also knows me well and that I am Math tutor
3) My supervisor from On-Campus tutoring job.
4) A professor from my CS dept, whom I am trying to get to know better (the AI professor with whom I want to do research and will also take a class with him)..
Given that my GRE and recommendations come off well, and I land the research, how do my prospects look for a good comp. sci MS program? It would be nice if I could also get a few suggestions, about schools that I should apply into.. I plan to apply to around 8-9 schools from the following-
1) UC - Santa barbara
2) UC - Santa Cruz ....... the deadlines for the UCs are not in the optimum range.
3) University of Colorado - Denver
4) University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
5) University of Florida
6) University of Maryland - College Park
7) UMass - Amherst
8) UMinn - Twin Cities
9) Rutgers
10) Polytechnic Institute of NYU
11) Stony Brook - SUNY
12) UNC - Chapel Hill
13) UNC - Charolette
14) Ohio State University
Please feel free to suggest some schools not in the list that I should also look into..
Thank you so much.
