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  1. Assuming that you are from a reasonable undergrad institute from your home country, you should be able to get into a top 20 program because of your gpa and availability of funding. Because the grad school won't have to spend on you, they will be happy to get you on board with your gpa (Personally, I know that Michigan Ann Arbor takes many MSEE students). However, beware, this may easily not hold for MIT and Stanford.
  2. Thanks, that makes sense, doing good in Masters should get the message across that you can handle the rigors of graduate coursework - coursework that will allow you to do meaningful research in turn... Somehow, there seems to be too much bias over the importance of research experience over gradcafe and internet in general.
  3. I think you should next contact the Professor when you have submitted your application (by replying to the mail in which he recommended you to apply). That way, the Professor would have the opportunity to clarify any doubts regarding your interests and capabilities. The Professor may be less willing to talk to a prospective student who may not even apply to his university at the end. Once your application is in, and he has evaluated your application, he will be much willing to talk to you if he thinks that you can be a potentially good fit.
  4. Hi, there are many success stories on gradcafe regarding how a low gpa undergrad did a Masters with thesis to improve on his/her gpa, published in international journals and conferences, and subsequently got into one of the top 20 PhD programs. Though doing Masters is a natural option for those with low undergrad gpa's, is a Masters degree before PhD admissions 'recommended' for those with reasonable (3.6-3.7) undergrad gpa's and reasonable-strong research experience? (I have heard that even those PhD programs that allow direct PhD admissions actually prefer post MS-applicants) Also, may I ask those who have taken the Masters route to PhD admissions whether it was their graduate coursework or actually the research experience during MS that got them into PhD programs? Comments from people who will be or are pursuing PhD in math-intensive areas are really welcome. Thanks for reading through I am an international applicant, if that makes a difference...
  5. I am an international applicant from an unknown undergrad program, planning to apply for PhD programs in Signal Processing for the Fall 2013 session. The popular view on PhD admissions is that its the research experience that matters in the admission process. But, after a lot of personal research on the admissions process, and a few interviews, I have discovered that people who make into top 20-25 PhD programs in US are those who were either among the top 2% in their undergrad (usually without any publications) or had a Masters degree with thesis and a few publications. Because I am an undergrad, I am concerned about the roughly top 2% policy of top PhD programs regarding undergrads. I am among the top 15 - 20 % of my undergrad batch (3.67 gpa). Do you people think I can compensate for my apparent academic non-awesomeness by publishing at reasonable-to-impressive conferences/journals ? I am currently a Research Assistant at my undergrad institution, with 2 publications in the pipeline, but I am not sure now if even publishing will make me eligible for top 25 EE PhD programs in US. Another problem is that I may be lacking the math coursework for a highly mathematical area like Signal Processing, so I am not sure if publications will fill that gap (I have math coursework in Calculus, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Probability and Stochastic Processes).
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