Recently i have received a larger than expected number of emails and queries as to what it takes to get into stanford. I am not claiming that i am any sort of authority or any sort of seer - who knows exactly what it takes. But what i do have is the opportunity of being in the company of people who make such decisions and people who got in as a result of those decisions (as I was part of the CS admissions committee at Stanford) and also i have been in a position to be able to influence such decisions. Here is a very short analysis of what it takes to get into a Masters program at Stanford in …

Alhad Palkar has just recently graduated with an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from CMU. He holds a Bachelors in Computer Engineering from KJ Somaiya College of Engineering ( Mumbai University). Alhad has had a good stint with the industry as well while at CMU - doing his summer internship at Oracle and then now coming to work for Cisco full time. Here he shares his views on what, how and when of getting into CMU, in an interview with kaaledge.com . He talks about how a Masters in CMU is a big value addition to his career.

Sapna Kaul is heading to the wonderful state of Florida in the US for her Phd in Environmental Economics at the University of Central Florida this Fall. She shares her experience through the application process and has a very inspiring message for all aspirants - GRE is only 1 of the many criteria for admission - its the complete package which should look good…here is what Sapna had to share:
After finishing my bachelors in Economics from Miranda House, Delhi University, I wanted to pursue research in economics as my field of profession. I completed my masters in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia in June 2007 and took up teaching at Delhi University. In Economics, I realized that PhD is of …

Not many people know about Masters in the area of Industrial engineering or as it is known in the US as Management Science and Engineering. Graduates from this field land up jobs at some of the most admired companies of the world like Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Google, Microsoft along with a host of start up companies. Dhruv Sampat just recently graduated with an MS in MS&E from Stanford. He shares some of his thoughts and his background with us here:
kaaledge: What is your background - i.e. - education in india - which college
and course?
DS: I did my Bachelor of Computer Engineering from Mumbai University at DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering. I worked as a Programmer Analyst at Tata Consultancy …

Samir Menon, MS ‘09 in Computer Science at Stanford took his GRE back when he was in college in 2006. He scored 1570 which is quite impressive. We are grateful to him for sharing some of his thoughts on GRE in general and also sharing his approach to the test itself. Here is what Samir had to say:

The first thing that comes to one’s mind when planning one’s graduate school applications is the Graduate Record Examination or GRE. By virtue of being a requisite of the “grad-school app” for most US universities, taking the GRE has become synonomous with applying to graduate schools in the US. I clearly remember the palpable tension that used to grip the “GRE crowd” as the deadlines for the examination would draw close. I shall share my personal experience with the GRE and some strategies I pursued as I prepared for it. I hope you find this post useful while preparing for and taking the test.