International student needs advice on Computer Science Phd/MS programs

Graduate School
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<p>Hello guys,</p>

<p>I am from Pakistan. I would like some of you to evaluate my profile and suggest me ways I can improve it.
Since I haven't studied in the US at all so I therefore need your valuable suggestions. I am targeting the year 2015.
I would like to go for my Phd as I need to get the full funding. Otherwise MS is also a choice. Are there universities where I can get into as full time Phd student considering my current profile? My top priority is the US though Canada is also a choice.</p>

<p>Following are my particulars:</p>

<p>GPA: 3.7
Major: Computer and Information Systems
GRE: 308 ( V:151 Q: 157, 4 AW)
IELTS : 8</p>

<p>Intending field of research: Computer science- data science and distributed computing</p>

<p>Undergrad project:</p>

<p>Multiagent simulation and its optimization on GPUs using CUDA(hardly anyone has heard of it in my place and we were the first group of students to do that project)</p>

<p>ECs(very few)</p>

<ul>
<li>I was in the marketing team of my university event and reached out for sponsors and had meetings with various marketing heads</li>
<li>was manager in Network security competition organized by our departmental event and managed the competition in which 40 teams participated</li>
<li>participated in K foundation project. K foundation is a non profit social service body formed by the university alumni. My project was selected among other three from all over the university. It was about developing an sms based application that would help the poor people of our city to get information related to bus routes within the city on their phone via sms(sms is very cheap here). Our project was completely funded by K foundation.</li>
<li>taught data structures and computer architecture to students who failed in the exams privately(don't know this should be included or not)</li>
<li>was part of the baskteball team</li>
</ul>

<p>Academic experience:(after graduation)</p>

<p>Served as an external project adviser for final year university students in the Telecommunications department. The project was about AES implementation on GPU and FPGA.</p>

<p>Professional experience:</p>

<p>About 2.5 years as software developer.
Right now working as an ERP technical consultant. Have worked for dozens of clients in the north american region (remotely). In my CV I have almost a dozen projects from clients in the US</p>

<p>I have sometime right now. The application deadlines are like in December 2014. Could anyone suggest some ways I can utilize this time to improve my chances? I am planning to retake the Gre as I am confident I can get around 320 now. What else shall I do? Shall I do some project or something too? Thanks!</p>

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<p>bump-anyone?</p>

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<p>There is likely a university that you will be accepted to as a Ph.D. student with funding. This, however is not something that anyone can tell you. You need to do a bit of homework and find universities that suit you and have admissions standards that you can meet. I will say that your Quantitative GRE score is probably not high enough to get you into any selective schools. Your work experience is good and your thesis project helps.</p>

<p>You might need to come as a Masters student first and then move to a Ph.D. program once you have a track record in the U.S. or Canada.</p>

<p>Bottom line, you need to look into universities which have the programs you want and then see if you are a good candidate for admission.</p>