What are the odds that I could get a NIT or a central university with GATE score 418 (GEN)?
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18th Mar, 2019
Dear Ashutosh
what was the branch in which you appeared in GATE 2019?
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Thanks for replying, Year: 2019, Branch: CS.
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18th Mar, 2019
Dear AshutoshTo be honest at the score of 418, although you are GATE qualified, getting into any of the decent NITs will not be possible.However, if you are strongly looking forward to get admissions this year, you might stand some chance to get admission into the very newly established NITs like Tadepalligudem (NIT A.P.), NITs in North East (Mizoram, Manipur, Sikkim). Also, there are very small chances of getting into some of the new IIITs like IIIT Guwahati, Lucknow, Bhagalpur, Bhopal, Manipur, Ranchi, Pune etc.Many of the students they don't even apply to these colleges thinking that cutoffs might be very high, but it's not always the case.One of my friend got admission into IIIT Guwahati last year through some other mode (not using GATE score) as he didn't qualified GATE but is currently pursuing M.Tech there.Please visit the sites of all the new IIITs to have a more clear cut idea about these.Hope this helpsLet me know if anything else is required.
18th Mar, 2019
Dear AshutoshJust checked admission alert for IIIT Banglore and IIIT Hyderabad.IIIT Banglore is not considering GATE score for admission, you have have all the details here:https://pravesh.iiitb.ac.in/#/IIIT Hyderabad is conducting it's own test for M.Tech/MS admissions, details in the link:https://www.iiit.ac.in/admissions/postgraduate/
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