Fwd: Please Advise
Madhav Krishna
From: Shradha Budhiraja <shr...@stanford.edu>
Date: Oct 18, 2006 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: Please Advise
To: Madhav Krishna <madh...@gmail.com>
Your profile looks good. But, I and probably noone can tell you your chances
based on that. It really depends on other applicants as well. But you should
go forward and apply.
You can't really apply for financial aid for MS while applying, as they
clearly say they have no funding for masters students. Thet have one
checkbox in their application which says "Do you wish to be considereed for
financial aid". You can check that. And there is another one that says" Will
you consider admission even if you are not given financial aid" You should
check that too.
RA/TAships come much later once you already have admission.. and you start
writing to profs..
Hope that helps.
Good luck
Shradha
Quoting Madhav Krishna <madh...@gmail.com>:
> Dear Ma'am,
>
> Thank you for a very helpful reply.
>
> Another query - does applying for financial aid during the admission
> process harm one's chances of admission into a Master's program? And
> if one were to apply for assistantships exclusively and not other
> forms of aid then how are one's chances affected?
>
> Given my profile, briefly, could you guage my chances of admission
> into a Master's program? I would be thoroughly grateful.
>
> Here is my profile in brief, with emphasis on significant previous
> research and project work:
>
> I am currently involved in a project related with NLP; the details of
> which are as follows: we - a colleague, my guide (Dr. Niladri
> Chatterjee, IIT, Delhi) and I - have implemented a translation quality
> metric for the Hindi language that takes advantage of the fact that
> this language is relatively word-order free. We have
> obtained exciting results from our experiments with our
> implementation. Our metric achieves a high correlation with human
> judgement of translation quality, in fact, this correlation is higher
> than that achieved by BLEU (Papineni et al. 2002) which is currently,
> the most widely used metric for this purpose. Further, our metric
> requires the use of only one human generated translation of the source
> text to act as a reference translation in order to measure the quality
> of a translation of the source text; BLEU requires several such
> references in order to output a reliable score.
>
> I have also worked on developing semantically-rich data representation
> strategies along with the semantic integration of heterogeneous data
> on the web. I have authored a paper entitled 'Retaining Semantics in
> Relational Databases by Mapping them to RDF' in which I utilise the
> Resource Description Framework (Semantic Web) to model relational
> databases while making the semantics as expressed by the latter more
> explicit. This paper has been selected to appear in the Proceedings of
> the WI-IAT Workshops (IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web
> Intelligence/Intelligent Agent Technology/International Conference on
> Data Mining, Decemeber 2006, Hong Kong).
>
> At school, I am ranked 11 in the Department of Computer Engineering
> that consists of a 100 students. I am also a post-bearer in the NSIT
> Students' Welfare Forum - we handle students' day-to-day as well as
> their long-term grievances by consulting appropriate school
> authorities and then working in a direction so as to iron-out these
> issues. My responsibilities include handling this forum's official
> documentation as well as handling its publicity. My interests include
> quizzing, music, playing the guitar and drama and I never miss an
> opportunity to participate in any activity that involves one, or a
> combination of the above.
>
> Looking forward to your reply.
>
> Sincerely,
> Madhav Krishna
>
> >On 10/13/06, Shradha Budhiraja <shr...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Madhav,
> >
> > you can find my answers within the text below:
> >
> > Quoting Madhav Krishna <madh...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Dear Ma'am,
> > >
> > > I am a final year undergraduate computer engineering stundent at the
> > > Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT, formerly Delhi Institute
> > > of Technology), Delhi, India.
> > >
> > > I am keen on pursuing a Master's Degree in Computer Science and am
> > > planning on applying to Stanford for the same. I would be grateful to
> > > you if you could answer certain queries/requests that I have:
> > >
> > > 1. Is it difficult for MS students to get university funding or
> > > assistantships? If not, then how many such students do manage to get
> > > some sort of financial aid?
> >
> > For CS Students, its not very difficult. Though you have to really work
> hard
> > to get an assistantship. Some MS students come here with funding. The
> number
> > is very few. Mostly the Phd students are funded by the department. In
> my
> > batch, most of us came without an assistantship and didn't have one
> atleast
> > for the first 1-2 quarters. But, by now, almost all have found one.
> There
> > are students from other departments(mech, MS&E) who don't have
> > assistantships yet. However, managing a TAship is also not very hard,
> again
> > if you really pursue it.
> >
> > > 2. Is it easier gaining admission into an MS program vis-a-vis a
> Ph.D.
> > > program?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > 3. I would like to pursue the MS with Distinction in Research program
> > > at the SCS - could you provide me with the contact of a student who
> is
> > > currently enrolled in this program?
> > >
> >
> > I really don't know many people doing that. Sorry about that.
> >
> > > I realise that expecting a response from a person as busy as you may
> > > be unreasonable on my part; but I feel that your help will prove to
> be
> > > invaluable for me in formulating any decisions regarding my future
> > > course of study.
> > >
> >
> > I may not be as prompt as this reply. But, feel free to ask more
> queries if
> > you have.
> >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Madhav Krishna
> > >
> >
> > Good Luck!
> > Shradha
> >
>
--
Madhav Krishna
Undergraduate Student
Department of Computer Engineering
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
New Delhi, India
Akhil Jaggarwal
No professor/faculty would obviously discourage any one about their
programs, and neither would they give a negative comment about the
profile. All they've to say is to look forward and apply.
The fact is, when a professor asks about further information about the
research your've conducted and about your academia, that's when you
say you've got a slim chance.
Best of luck to all.
Inderpreet Singh
But thanks Madhav for the info! The TA RA thing is a good point you mentioned, coz a lot of people dont apply to Stanford for this reason.
There is no telling how many miles you will run, when chasing a dream.
Inderpreet Singh
I wanted to ask that most unis ask about the dates.
At present I am writing start date as
08/2003 to 06/2007 and date when degree will be awarded as 08/2007.
Is this right? Any suggestions?
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There is no telling how many miles you will run, when chasing a dream.
--
With Regards,
Inderpreet Singh
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