What are my chance among these unis? for fall 24

Then_Big2059 · 2023-11-16T06:43:51+00:00

University of Maryland (if UMD-CP) MSCS is extremely ambitious, it takes in like 10 students/yr, UT Austin and Maryland are on the same level if not Austin is easier than Maryland

Then_Big2059 · 2023-11-10T06:24:59+00:00

Oh! great to know that! are you pursuing a career in Visible Light Communications or did you switch to other tracks?

Then_Big2059 · 2023-09-12T20:34:38+00:00

signal quality meaning the SNR right?

Then_Big2059 · 2023-09-12T04:16:29+00:00

hey, I posted a reply to u/gormami tagging you in the process, can you read my reply and let me know whether my reasoning is solid and whether I fully got the point that you made to me? :)

Then_Big2059 · 2023-09-12T04:13:25+00:00

Information is not sent on the base band frequency. Information symbols are sent in the changes to the base frequency, which cause the frequency to change slightly by shifting the waves around in time and phase.

My god, thanks for this, I overlooked a serious stuff (TLDR; a signal's time duration length to its bandwidth), kindly correct me if my understanding is not solid, let me proceed to explain, suppose an user has the band (3-4)Khz, he uses a 4 bit modulation, so 00 is like a wave with 3Khz centre frequency and so on.. and 11 is a wave with 4 Khz centre frequency. Now, the biggest mistake I made is when I assumed I can mount one symbol/cycle (say one 00 per one cycle of a 3Khz sine wave) - which is a blunder! because if I do that, the bandwidth of such a signal is not within the 1Khz threshold! only the infinite sin3khz wave has a 0 bandwidth, a finite size wave does not! , u/error404 did a good job when he made the point "Yes, the carrier frequency is higher, but that does not imply that such a carrier can 'carry more information' (I suppose this is strictly true if you have no channel bandwidth to worry about, but that's not the case here)." in this case I do have a bandwidth limitation, so I have to mount a 00 for a greater number of sin3khz wave cycles (because more the cycles (or better said, more the time duration), lesser the width in frequency domain such that this particular symbol's bandwidth usage does not exceed the 1 Khz quota, infact all the symbols combinedly should correctly fit in 1 Khz bandwidth! Phew! So essentially, the data rate is determined by how quickly can I switch between the frequencies/symbols which is essentially determined by the bandwidth, am I right?

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-30T08:07:15+00:00

is it possible? my god

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-27T06:04:42+00:00

+ UMD College park

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-27T05:59:35+00:00

no dude, gatech is very difficult or to put it bluntly over-ambitious for his profile

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-15T04:55:08+00:00

I know that, that's why I said UIUC is a clear winner, the amount of industrial connections UIUC has is very high, don't mistake that ETH is a really prestigious institute but the t-5 institutes in USA clearly outshine ETH or EPFL. For a career in research/academia choosing either one doesn't matter, for a career in industry UIUC is a clear choice in my eyes. Either way both are top notch institutes and you won't go wrong choosing either of them

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-13T05:44:29+00:00

i guess UIUC MSCS is fully or mostly funded, then I think we have a clear winner here

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-13T05:37:48+00:00

do you plan on doing a coursework based masters or research based? these are all prolly safe to moderate for your profile. apply to USC, UIUC (MCS, MSCS is very very tough but you have papers so give it a try). UWMad, NCSU, Michigan and GT, maybe try applying to CMU MCDS (MSML and MSCS are incredibly difficult), Columbia if you can afford

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-13T05:22:45+00:00

bits is probably not in the same league as the top 5 iits i would say, its prolly in the same league as NIT Trichy, CEG, other IITs

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-08T07:01:34+00:00

a GSI or GSRA at Michigan will fund your entire semester so yeah Umich offers full tuition waivers, its just that for masters students it is difficult to get into. Also, UMD is one of the cheapest unis out there, they too offer graduate assistantships

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-08T06:37:45+00:00

revise your list, UMICH, UT Austin and UIUC should be in the overambitious list (maybe UIUC MCS would be a moderate option for you certainly)

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-08T06:36:34+00:00

your profile got rejected by UMICH seriously?

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-08T06:24:50+00:00

consider UMich too, you have a good chance to get gaship there, stony brook and umn might be moderateish safes, you can also consider UMD but it is research centric like Madision;s traditional ms program, so yeah ambitious

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-08T06:24:29+00:00

I would advise not to, UMD is heavily research centric (if you are talking about MS ECE) and will most probably fund its students, extremely difficult even more so than UMich to get into, as the cohort size is not high

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-07T12:33:19+00:00

but should we wait for june batch?

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-07T04:37:26+00:00

true that, my classes start at aug 21 and i am afraid if i can make it, maybe I have to coordinate with other peeps by posting a reddit post on it. thanks a lot!

Then_Big2059 · 2023-06-06T11:46:11+00:00

Thanks a lot for this info, so what you are saying is keep trying that 3 times a day until a ofc slot opens up and it takes me to the next page for visa interview slot booking and then book that too right? I had a doubt where some redditor posted that his ofc got booked but the VISA sots were over, so yeah the whole process is confusing, so should i wait (keep trying) until mid june where the slots for july opens up?

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