<p>masters in computer science: from st xavier's college kolkata(autonomous),calcutta university->72.42%(highest was 81.5%)
bachelors in computer science honours calcutta university->68.25%(marks are usually low)
class XII(ISc)->82%
class X(ICSE)->80%</p>
<p>papers:submitted one,awaiting acceptance on a modified version of merge sort with a best case of O(n)</p>
<p>projects: i) uncharted terrain navigation using swarm intelligence...lead the group
ii)distributed programming software for a system of homogeneously connected nodes or machines
iii)buffer overflow protection where stack protection is not feasible.</p>
<p>recommendations:from head of the department of computer science at st. xavier's college
from two professors
from our dean of science who has published numerous books on computer science and electronics</p>
<p>i want to apply to the following: (for PhD in computer science)
michigan state university
university of illinois urbana champaign
purdue university
university of washington...</p>
<p>please inform me whether i am aiming too high and what are my chances of getting in.</p>
<p>Bbose, your question is probably too specialized to get any accurate advice in this section (try each individual college section and label your headline “phD question”). My son will soon apply to UIUC’s combination master’s/phD program and he tells me that one needs a minimum 3.8 undergraduate GPA and 3 letters of recommendation. It sounds like you should be OK, but acceptance rates for international students can frequently be lower.</p>
<p>Frankly, I think you are approaching this the wrong way. You should be looking at your specialized experience and interest in CS and then look for a professor who in doing cutting edge research in that area. Contact him, see if there is rapport, and then apply to that university.</p>
<p>As everyone said, graduate program chances are really hard to calculate. You haven’t actually published any papers which will be a negative, but if you get really good recommendations, that will make up for the lack of papers published.</p>
<p>I personally think you have some chance of getting accepted, given that you have recommendations from some fairly highly ranked staff.</p>