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Vishal Bandi

fall 2024

7 years ago

Below is my profile: 1. B.E. EEE CGPA=6.61 (Bits Pilani, Pilani campus) 2. 1 year PGP in Big Data

Below is my profile:
1.
B.E. EEE CGPA=6.61 (Bits Pilani, Pilani campus)

2.
1 year PGP in Big Data Engineering (Ends this november)
Expected CGPA=8
(Bits Pilani, Hyderabad Campus)

3.
3 very good projects ( 1 end to end: music recommendation app using ML ) and 8 decent projects all as a part of course curriculum using several big data tools like Hive, Spark, Pig and concepts like MapReduce. Also have decent hands-on with other Big Data tools.
Projects had large data sets ranging from 1gb to 44gb.

4.
Certification in R and Python covering mostly EDA and ML basics and case studies using small data sets. Also text mining using R.

5. Think i can end up with a Decent SOP highlighting branch change, passion for data and also my future plans.

6. All 3 LORs from Bits Hyderabad campus faculty

7. GRE is on 10th Sep ( Expected around 322 )

I want to pursue my masters in Data Science.
I found the following programs offered by these universties in line with my interests. Could you tell me if i could get into any of them given my low bachelors cgpa.

Note: List is in the order of my liking towards the program.

1. MSIA- Northwestern University
2. MSDS- University of San Francisco
3. MSIA- The University of Chicago
4. Big Data Analytics- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
5. MSDS - New York University
6. MSDS - Illinois Institute of Technology
7. MSA- North Carolina State University
8. MSADS- Syracuse University

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