So what exactly is the right timing for applications? When should you be done with your GRE? When should you start looking at universities and their deadlines? Here are a few deadlines i have come up with that you might be benefited in following. Remember, this is not the only way to time your apps business - this one way which has proved successful for many. Many people start so late in the game, but they still make it to some top tier universities.
GRE Deadline: Try to be done …

SOP - or statement of purpose is one of the most important documents in your application. You have only about 3-5 minutes of time before a reviewer comes to a decision about whether to give your SOP for further consideration (spend more time) or to just reject it (i.e. - give you a low score). You need to get it right the first time. Here are 5 DON’Ts you should keep in mind while writing your SOP.
1. Typos: I have seen many SOPs while i was part of the …

Mrunal continues his series about the differences between MS and PhD - this time concentrating on the differences in funding scenarios between the two.
PHD is a long term commitment. Mostly in 99% cases students get admits from university if he shows a potential to be a PHD candidate and some professors finds him worthy to be working in his group. Professors control the funding. Professors have control on everything. They design the syllabus, teach, design labs, design exams, homeworks. They receive grants from different sources like industry, Government, national …

This past weekend, we guys came out with a unique product - we call it mGRE. Its an SMS based GRE Vocab learning product - all you need to do is register your mobile number with us here: www.kaaledge.com/register-gre/ and we send out 1 to 4 SMSs daily to your cell phone - so that you can learn, revise and prepare for GRE on your cell phone, whenever and wherever you go!! A lot more features such as tests and ranking related stuff is going to come out with it …

We had a brief conversation with Sudipti Gupta who is pursuing Masters in Information Systems Management at Carnegie Mellon University currently. We talked to her about what MIS is all about, the career opportunities after it and what is the difference between an MIS and MS. Here is Sudipti with her views.
1. What course are engaged in right now and where?
Sudipti: Masters in Information Systems Management at Carnegie Mellon University
2. Why did you decide on MIS as your next move in your career after BTech in IT?
Sudipti: Didn’t want …

This post from Dhruv talks in detail about the Management Science and Engineering Masters program at Stanford University. This follows his earlier post on how MS&E program
It’s a tough job trying to summarize the Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) Program in a few words. I can boldly say that it is not perfectly equivalent to any of the programs found at other Universities. It must, therefore, be understood in terms of its constituent courses and the ultimate goal that Stanford wishes to achieve with this eclectic combination of Management …

So we have been talking a whole lot about universities in the US. But there are some really nice universities in Canada where people find good education at cheap rates and its good value for money. Many times its easier to find scholarships at Canadian univs. We spoke to Amod Gupta, who is a Masters student in computer science at University of Waterloo. We asked him why he chose to go to this university, how he was funding himself and what avenues he saw after his masters. He also talks …

What are some of the chief reasons why some candidates make it and other dont reach the expectations of the admissions committee at US universities is that - those candidates that do get in - have started preparing early and so there is always time to correct mistakes if any. This is what Awantika Manohar talks about. Awantika has been accepted to many graduate programs in Law (LLM) in the US and she has chosen to accept Cornell. She shares with kaaledge.com what she feels are important aspects of applying …

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 …

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.