Profile evaluation request

Applying to College
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I'm new to this forum and would be grateful if experienced folks shed some light on my chances as explained below.</p>

<p>Fall 2014 PhD applicant from India
School boards >90% (school top 10)
Strong extra-curriculars like classical music (not all that necessary, I guess)
BTech in Electronics & Communication from NIT (GPA: 7.2/10)
Reasons explained in SOP
MS in Microelectronics and microsystems from IIT (GPA: 9.7/10)
Departmental topper
MS thesis work on a particular topic but had interest in a broadly similar but category-wise different area (resulting in some conference publications while journal publications cover main thesis topic as given below)</p>

<p>4 extremely strong LORs and a good SOP (I think!)</p>

<p>BTech internship at IIT
MS internship at USC</p>

<p>Some TA experience in MS
Extensive research experience as a research fellow at IIT (~3.5 years)</p>

<p>6 international conference publications (2 IEEE SENSORS and 1 VLSID)
2 international journal publications (1 Springer and 1 Elsevier)
1 IEEE EDL (under review)
1 patent filed
[All publications are 1st author except for 1 conference]</p>

<p>GRE: 322 (nearly even scores 160/162) & 3.0
TOEFL: 112</p>

<p>Already accepted at Cambridge but waiting for US results (basically MIT and Berkeley)</p>

<p>Realistic inputs would be welcome.
Thanks a lot!</p>

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<p>Since you are new I will point out that most of this board is for high school students and you are posting in the undergraduate admissions area. If you go to the forum home, you can scroll down to see the Graduate and Professional School forums and the Grad School forum there is where you need to be. I’m sure you know that no one knows PhD chances as there are so many subjective factors.</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot.
I shall remove this thread then.</p>