Applying for CS PhD, what are my chances?

[Pauli]

Most of those people have done either BS or MS at well-known schools...

Correct. Well-known schools but not the name schools that the OP posted. And some of them are less generally known schools. aberrant still makes an indirect point that those applicants got in by the strength of their academic portfolio, not simply where they came from.

[R Deckard]

Correct. Well-known schools but not the name schools that the OP posted. And some of them are less generally known schools. aberrant still makes an indirect point that those applicants got in by the strength of their academic portfolio, not simply where they came from.

Coincidentally, almost none of the applicants came from unknown domestic schools. (I can't speak about foreign institutions)

[emmm]

That's a pretty impressive list. It makes it seem as though you both need to come from a well-known school and you need to have done exceptionally well there

That's why I think it's better not to dwell on this too much. You can't change what school you went to. If you know you have weak areas in your application, do what you can now to remedy those. And don't push yourself out of the running by assuming every other applicant will be better than you. You don't know that for a fact, and you are probably not a great judge of your own accomplishments.

[Pauli]

Coincidentally, almost none of the applicants came from unknown domestic schools. (I can't speak about foreign institutions)

There's a decent number of foreign universities on that list, especially from the Indian and Korean. And regarding the domestic schools, I don't think there really are applicants that apply to those schools from unknown domestic schools, lol. Adcomms do have a pretty good knowledge of many universities already, and people who apply to grad school tend to come from at least a somewhat familiar university.

[victor.s.andrei]

Also, mentioning that you have external funding is a big plus. That makes you free for them, so there's much less for them to lose by accepting you.

I agree with this.

[victor.s.andrei]

Joseph Calandrino - Bachelor and Masters @ University of Virginia

Nice. One of my TAs as an undergrad. I forget which class, though...it was so long ago.

[KaviSiromani]

to put light on the discussion, all the in Indian Univ mentioned are the TOP schools (not just near TOP but the highest in ranking)

(This kinda makes me sad since not a single Indian from an average collg (like mine)))

[alhus]

Have I chance for 50 top university? (in US)

or 100 top university? (in US)

What about universities with rank under 200  (in US)?

 

CS bachelors GPA:2.75 (university with rank: about 4000)

CS master: GPA:3.36 (university with rank: about 4000 )

toefl ibt: 80

Instructor of Data Structures and Parallel Algorithms at university with rank: about 14000 (2009 - present)

Four published paper in below journals and conferences:

Soft Computing http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/journal/500 ,

Information Sciences http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/

Conference paper (published by IEEE)

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (new submitted paper – under review)

[qualthian]

@alhus

 

Some schools requre Toefl 100, so you better fix that.