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Hi all,
Its my pleasure to invite my senior - Abhishek Gutgutia to share some information about life @ Michigan Ann Arbor. He pursued his Masters degree there. Gutgutia is now handing his family business back in India.

* Entry Criteria:
- Approx CGPA range
The CGPA criteria depends on the specialization you want to do. A CGPA of 8.5 or more is good for most branches but for the in-demand branches it can be 9 and more too.
- Research Experience at undergraduage level.UMich is a basically a research institute. So any research done at the undergraduate level will be highly valued.
- Gre & Toefl scores range..
The GRE requirements also depend on the branch. 1400 and …

Amandeep Khurana, from Thapar Institute of Technology, is part of the fresh crop of grad students to join the Department of Computer Science at University of California, Santa Cruz. In this short but sweet interview - Amandeep gives us a glimpse on how he is adjusting to life away from home, and trying to adjust in with the new settings. Many times when you are unfamiliar with the new environment, the grad student community which is living there already - often pitches in with a great deal of support. Here is Amandeep talking about his initial few days as a grad student in the US:
1. Which program did you get into here in the US and when did you …

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 to US universities in general and to law schools in specific….
Awantika: Good grades, Work Experience, Presentations, Moot Courts and Publications are the essentials of getting through a good Law School …

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 …

I got the chance to meet and interact with Mona Sharma here at Stanford this year and I must say Mona is a really inspiring person. I talked to her about various issues and i thought it would be good to get it out on kaaledge.com for everyone’s benefit. Mona is at Stanford on a year long Fullbright Scholarship - under the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching program.