Profile Evaluation Help

[sachuin23]

Hi everyone, I am applying to PhD program in Information Management (Wharton/Stanford/MIT) and Quantitative Modeling (Marketing) at (Booth/Berkeley/CMU) for fall 2010. I would appreciate if you all can help me evaluate my chances.

Undergrad GPA: B.S (Hons) in mechanical Engineering from a Top 15 ranked Engineering School in India. GPA~ 3.80.

Graduate GPA: M.S in computer Science (Top 15 US University). GPA 3.70

Math courses: Probability and Stats, Calculus I,II,III, differential equations, Linear algebra, math modeling, abstract algebra, discrete, advanced calculus, vector calculus etc.

GRE V610/Q750/W4.0

LORs: From research Advisers (1 PhD MIT, 2 PhD Berkeley, 3 PhD IIT Bombay)

RESEARCH :

• 2years as UG RA at Govt. of India funded research lab.
• 4 months Research Internship at ETH Zurich.
• 1.5 years as an RA on National Endowment for Humanities funded project. It was a joint proposal submitted along with a faculty at my university and we were selected for US 30,000 NEH grant.
• 1.0 years on a project partially sponsored by NSF.

Honors:

1. Computer science Fellowship by the University.

2. State Science Talent Scholarship (India).

3. NEH Grant.

4. Best high school graduate and school leader.

5. BPCL fellowship(India) awarded to 7 students from all over India.

6. Ranked (20/45,000 in High School and 24/20000 Engineering Entrance Examination)

WORK Experience:

2 years as a Engineer at a leading semiconductor design company.

Publications:

10 Conference Publications in computer science (IEEE, ICM, Springer) (4 as co author)

1 Journal Publication (in Submission).

Also assisted my advisor in reviewing research papers/ writing grant proposals / conferences.

Schools Applied to:

1. Wharton

2. Chicago Booth

3. Haas Berkeley

4. Stanford

5. MIT

6. CMU

I know I have applied to Top ranked B Schools. I applied to couple of business schools after interacting with their faculty who are working on similar research areas I am interested in. They encouraged me to apply and let them know when I submit my application.