<p>Hi Guys</p>
<p>Please evaluate my profile and do recommend some university</p>
<p>I am very keen to do MS in Electronics with major in VLSI </p>
<p>1 10th and 12th : : more than 82 % in both
2 undergrad :: 89 % DR rank 8 in class of 130 from a prestigious institue in india ( top 15)
3? workexp :: 2+ years that tooo in semiconductor field as a Verification engineer and a DFT engineer
4 Gre score ::: I screwed the verbal section but got 1200 in GRe ( 800 quant + 400 verbal )</p>
<p>5 TOEFL awaited </p>
<p>Please do advise me making a wise decision </p>
<p>thanx</p>
<p>aspirant002, </p>
<p>Your 10th and 12th marks are not going to matter for graduate school admission.
Your college stats look good and your work experience is a huge plus.
I can’t comment on your GRE verbal scores. I haven’t looked at graduate school requirements recently. If I remember correctly, some schools needed Advanced GRE or whatever it is called these days.</p>
<p>There are several good schools you can attend for MS in EE with emphasis on VLSI design. It is good to do this at a place which has good industrial connection. </p>
<p>Here are some schools for you to consider (not in any order):</p>
<p>1) UC Berkeley,
2) USC
3) University of Washington
4) University of Texas at Austin
5) Texas A&M
6) UIUC
7) University of Michigan
8) Georgia Tech
9) UMN </p>
<p>I am sure there are many more equally good or better than these. I deliberately omitted MIT, Stanford and CalTech. You don’t have to go to these schools to get a well paying job after graduate studies if your intention is to do just MS and not PhD.</p>
<p>My advice is to do your own research.
Visit department web sites and learn more about their research work and publications.</p>
<p>Send e-mail to HR at a few semiconductor companies and find out where they usually hire people from. Since you have already worked at a semiconductor company, I am sure you know the major players in this field - Intel, AMD, TI, Qualcomm, nVIDIA, Cisco, Broadcom etc. etc…</p>
<p>I think you can increase your chances of admission and scholarship with good recommendations from your work place. Is it a MNC?</p>
<p>Anyway, what do I know? 
Sometimes I forget that, on CC, I am just a high schooler and that I am not supposed to know anything about graduate school admissions. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Tippu you seem to know everything under the sun about admissions! Amazing!</p>
<p>I think you can become a part-time GC :P</p>
<p>only under the sun? i feel insulted. ha ha</p>
<p>Hahahahahahahhahaha</p>
<p>But if Google can’t find it, you’re screwed (or just use Bing lmao)</p>
<p>The Microsoft recruiter who came here insisted Bing would someday somehow overtake Google.</p>
<p>Yea, right.</p>
<p>The probability of that happening is the probability of me getting into MIT without applying, the probability of a regular die showing the number 7 and the probability of the sky falling on our heads.</p>