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<p>Hi everyone,
I am a 4th year student and will apply for Fall 2009. Kindly evaluate my position and tell me if I should take the Subject GRE again or not.</p>

<p>Course: Integrated MSc (Physics), IIT (India)
CGPA:6.6/10
Subject GRE : 830
Haven't appeared for general GRE and TOEFL yet.
Publications:
I have a publication as one of the three authors of CERN notes.
4 citations in various CERN conferences.</p>

<p>Currently working on:
Exploitation of top events in the ttbar channel in ATLAS, LHC.
(Institute of Physics, University of Bonn)
Projects:
1. Signal and Background separation in the ttH channel of ATLAS in LHC, (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,Oxford)
2.Wavelet Analysis of Satellite Signals ( Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta)
3. Particle Detectors in a High Energy Collider. (Harish Chandra Research Institute)
4. Analysis of growth and kinetics of nano-structured material using
Atomic Force Microscopy (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur)
5. Diffusive Wave Spectroscopy on emulsions (Raman Research Institute )
Seminars:
Two seminars in CERN, One in Oxford, One in Durham.
I will be interning in CERN as a UCLA supported student coming summer.
I am worried about my CGPA and Subject GRE score . What should be the universities that I can aim for? My interest is in Particle Physics.
Please help!
Thanks</p>

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<p>You may want to move this to the graduate forum.</p>

<p>Click on “Discussion Home” in the upper left of the screen, and then scroll down until you find it.</p>

<p>For programs in Particle Physics, you first need to start with the groups that have been publishing research that is interesting to you. Where are they? Who is the lead investigator? Is he/she still taking students?</p>

<p>Then, you need to find out where the researchers you are working with did their graduate studies. Are their old advisors still working? Where did their classmates end up? Where have other students from your program gone for their graduate studies?</p>

<p>Often the most successful graduate school applications are to programs where the potential student has some kind of “family” connection.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>