General help for CompSci

[anthromind]

Hey Guys,

I'm a US-born grad student in the social sciences at Uchicago and i've been charged with trying to get my cousin into a terminal MS program in computer science. She's getting her BA in engineering at Punjab University, and is in a master's program right now there. I dont have all of her stats and dont want to add another "RATE MY CHANCES NOW BCHES" post anyways. Instead, can anyone point me to threads/resources which will help me get a better feeling of general trends etc.? For example, I'm having trouble seeing if she should continue her MS program in India. A family friend recommended that she shouldn't, because she will repeat the coursework here (that friend is from the same school in india and came here for ms now phd...but she got admission with an m.s. so I dont know)

Anyways I could go on for days...any help would be much appreciated!