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How can an engineering student from India get accepted to a masters program at a top American university?

• What steps should be taken by an Indian engineering student at a not-so-well-known private engineering school to get accepted to a top American university to pursue a MS. Something one should take into account when answering this question is if nothing significant has been done by the student in their first two years at undergrad.

• Answer:

  First of all I would like to tell you that , Despite the fact that you study in a private engineering college and you haven't done in your first two years, you still are concerned about your dreams... I really like that. So you want to go to top american University may MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Like wise. So how do we go about it First of all look out for internship opportunities in IIT, CSIR and other research labs in country, There you will get exposure about how you can do research? and what are the current key areas of the research Start updating your communication skills, verbal as well as written Start learning softwares concerned with your discipline and try to do as many courses online which give certificate or you can do offline courses as well, but if you will do online courses from MIT, Stanford.. you will get motivated to take admission there and study there Look for some interesting problems for your final year project and start working with your faculties from now itself and work hard to get it published somewhere in Journal or international conference. it will give you a big boost up Next is start some vocational activities club related to your subject like if you are from electronics then related to robotics you can also start a IEEE club , which will give a lot of weightage Make good relations with your faculties so that you can get good recommendation letter for internships and higher studies Last but not the least maintain your CGPA above 9 or atleast above 8.5, that matters a lot too when you are dreaming of top notch universities Comment if you need more tips