Thread: PhD Profile Evaluation for Fall '13

Hi, I'm hoping to get into the PhD Program of a reputed school in the US next fall. My interests are basically inclined towards Vision/Image Processing and practically based on that I have shortlisted the schools below:-

University of Maryland College Park
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Notre Dame
Columbia University
NYU
Rutgers University
Boston University
SUNY Buffalo
Lehigh University
University of Central Florida
UC-Irvine
UC-Santa Barbara
Brigham Young University
RIT, NY
IIT, Chicago

It would help me a lot if any senior can categorize them into ambitious, moderate and safe lists and also point out any school which I might have missed.

Here is my profile in brief:-

BTech CSE NIT Durgapur 7.9/10 (Shall pass out this May).

4 Research Projects at ISI-Kolkata, Jadavpur University and at our department on Computer Vision and Document Processing.

1 Paper accepted for publication in an international conference to be included in Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science Series.

GRE - 1520 (800Q/720V/4.0AWA). (Took the test on 21/03/11)

TOEFL - Shall take the test this June.

Will be joining Unisys Corp. this July as a Development Consultant and planning to work there for a year before going to grad school on Fall '13.

Guys please help me out!

Originally Posted by Sherzil

You are looking for MS + PhD or direct PhD??

I guess there are only two programs available: either you enroll as an MS student or a potential PhD student (with the MS coursework taken care of by the first year). I'm looking for the latter.