Rate my chances in Ph D program->purdue/case western/

[babaatiit]

I am considering applying to Case Western Reserve(rank 7th-10th in biomedical in various rankings in biomedical but overall ranking not great!) for biomedical engineering(PHD -sub field imaging) and i need

some advice regarding the same.

I am a student at Punjab Engineering College , chandigarh, India with

81.4% marks (class rank 2) i have done my graduation in Electronics

and have no coursework whatsoever in DIP or computer vision or

Biomedical Engineering.

However, I have done one project in 3D reconstruction using single

stripe illumination method..

my GRE score is 1350 and 4/6

TOEFL->110/120

1 average reco from Indian inistitute of technology kharagpur 9 Summer project)

1 good reco from interra systems (internship)

1 good reco from college

please let me know my chances for a direct Ph D

also let me know the number of foreign students in your institute for

a ph d program.

Being a top ranked program is the admission very competitive or beinga realtively unknown school in over all rankings it improves my chances? How good

are my chances? typically what kind of stundets come here?

i have heard that the univ

is a n a deficit.. does that make the funding situation tight?

please be candid.. i don't wanna end uplosing my application fee..

however if there is some chance i'd apply

I have also applied to purdue stony brook and columbia for ph d in e and ce major digital image processing

i have done 1 project in computer vision but no course work in vision/digital image processing

please rate my chances. for ph d NOT MS

[crossedfingers]

have u heard back from purdue yet? I applied to their BME program as well and only got an email saying they would send out invitations at the end of this month ( only 10 more days!!!)

where else did u apply?

[miketakena]

Case Western Reserve is not an unknown school... its has some repute in biomedical engineering!

[Polymers! JHU!]

Actually, based on your stats, a direct PhD admission would be tough! So, maybe you look into a tier II school. Case Western is a top-notch Biomed School.