Fwd: Please Advise

[Madhav Krishna]

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From: Surabhi Gupta <sur...@cs.stanford.edu>
Date: Nov 28, 2006 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: Please Advise
To: Madhav Krishna <madh...@gmail.com>

Hi,
Hope these answers help.

> 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?

You can but its hard to get funding right at the start. You can
Teaching Assistants after you have spent a couple of quarters here, or
even earlier is you have the right prior experience. Some students, if
lucky, manage to get Research Assistant-ships also.

> 2. Is it easier gaining admission into an MS program vis-a-vis a Ph.D. program?
You shouldn't count on it, but if you do well and have letters of
recommendation from faculty at stanford, then it makes your
application stronger. The Admissions Committee does make a distinction
between the two and by no means is there guaranteed acceptance.

> 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?
>
There is information on this online.

> Further, I am greatly interested in NLP and am currently involved in a
> project that is related with the same. I would love to be a part of
> the Jurafsky Lab; given my profile, briefly, could you guage my
> chances of admission into a Master's program? I would be thoroughly
> grateful.
>
Admission depends on the strength of your application and the
Admissions Committee's decision. Sorry I cannot comment on this.

Surabhi


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Madhav Krishna
Undergraduate Student
Department of Computer Engineering
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
New Delhi, India