Happy Points Method to Select Graduate Schools
By HSB
I’m getting wonderful responses from the posts. I really appreciate your comments and thanks for visiting Happy Schools Blog. If you can spread the word about Happy Schools to your friends, college juniors, it will help them. I know there are so many students looking for information about U.S. Universities, Graduate School Admission and so many other finer details. I have good news to share in this post.
1) New Blog Layout and new .com site for Happy Schools will be launched soon. It will have more features and easy to access contents.
2) I’m creating Happy Point : Method students can use to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of different universities and help you decide based on question system. Main advantage of this method is to make you think and decide for yourself, university you need to attend, instead of some consultancy suggesting which university to attend.
Suppose, if you are asking me to short list universities, I will follow the same Happy Point method I’m going to explain later. Everyone who have asked me, like
‘I have admits from SDSU, SJIC, NJIT and not sure which one to select’, this Happy Point method is the way to decide and put an end to your confusion.
It would take some 2 hours to complete the work. I just started creating the spreadsheet with questions and how to weigh each factors. Happy Point Method will work like this.
1) List of all possible factors ( Questions ) student should ask
2) Put weight ( importance to each factor )
3) University that gets the highest point is where student would possibly attend.
Factors will include long list of questions( I would call it as Happy Factors), like part time jobs, climate, cost of living, internships, …
So, hang on and wait is almost over. Just hang tight you will have the Happy Point Method available.
I started working on the Spreadsheet and some of the Happy Factors are
| Tuition fee per year – Out-StateTuition fee per year – In-StateRA/TAScholarshipPart Time Job
Cost of Living Jobs after M.S. Internship Length of M.S. Program Thesis/Non-Thesis International Student Population Quality of Education Climate/Location Current Student Satisfaction Can you Afford |
There are so many questions you need to ask to fill the values for the spreadsheet. I’m creating the questions to that will help you to make informed decision about universities. The article is growing in length than I expected, so I need more time.
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Can u suggest me what universities i should apply my GRE 1190 GPA 58%
with own funds. Please reply soon as I need to apply in this month. Iwill take Toefel now
my gre score is 1090 and toefl score is 88.I got 81% in U.G(B.E. in EEE)I got 93% in Xstd and 95% in XIIstd.My final year project received a national award.suggest me some good universities where i have the chances to get through
University selection is only through Premium Membership. Your Project with National award will help you a lot in getting admission.
Hi HSB,
Thanks for your help last time.
I have a query on university selection.
Now I have completed M.Tech and I am looking to do MS in USA. But while selecting Universities for admission, should I consider my M.Tech marks and apply or should I consider B E Marks and apply.
I have 67.35% in M.Tech but in BE I have 61%. On what basis I should select universities for applying to MS. Should I consider M.Tech percentage or BE percentage.
Please help in this matter.
THanks
Ajay R
hi
Can you please tell me what are my chances to get into decent university, I don’t want to hurry up, as I have an internship with electronics company,wanna apply for jan2010. is dat k! whaz the effect that my backlogs are gonna show on my univs. I want to spclz in embedded systems, can u suggest me sme univz too.
well, acaedemics go like 10th-86%, 12th-84%, engg in ece with 68% with 8backlogs ive cleared all of them. I’ve done my project work from rocket launching centre SHAR, nd am also gonna take an internship at electronics company which manufactures cellphones for 4months. I’ve gotta score of 1100 split is 680quant nd 420 verbal nd expecting an AWA score of 3 or 3.5.
thank u.
regards,
sasi.
@Sasirekha You should be ok to get admission with 1100. If you have cleared all the backlogs then you should be fine. Internship adds more value to your application.