Selecting a major not related to your thesis

[thered]

Hey, I did my graduation in Electrical Engineering and my final year thesis was about 4G Network Planning. Now I intend to get into a grad school in the US but I wanna study VLSI, a completely different area than wireless communication. Will it affect my chances of getting admission that my thesis in undergrad was in a different study area. I've got good scores on my GRE (670 verbal, 800 quantitative) and a good CGPA (81%) as well.

[Amogh]

Hey, I did my graduation in Electrical Engineering and my final year thesis was about 4G Network Planning. Now I intend to get into a grad school in the US but I wanna study VLSI, a completely different area than wireless communication. Will it affect my chances of getting admission that my thesis in undergrad was in a different study area. I've got good scores on my GRE (670 verbal, 800 quantitative) and a good CGPA (81%) as well.

Well, i don't see why that should be a problem. You have done EE in your undergrad so you are free to pick anything in the entirety of EE to study. People actually do encourage you diversify your interests as that gives you a wider spectrum of view. I don't think this will affect your chance of admission in anyway.

[ktel]

I don't think it would matter at all. The professor that I'm currently working with did his Masters in vehicle control systems and then totally switched to biomedical engineering for his PhD. My previous supervisor did something similar. I think he did his undergrad in engineering physics, Masters in chemistry and PhD in pharmaceutical aerosols...