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Dear Personal Prospecting:
We are honored that you are seeking our views. We must, however, note that it is extremely difficult for us to judge the prospects of someone for some endeavor in some field. The reason, at least in part, is that we have not seen the future yet and our crystal ball, no doubt, has suspect reliability. We can express our views based on knowledge and experiences, but be sure to take them for what they are worth.
We get many inquiries like yours asking us to predict the future. Our rule-of-thumb advice is to keep focused and work hard towards improving the actual final result, and not be distracted by the interesting "what-if" scenarios.
The first part of your inquiry is entirely speculative. As you can see from the
IISc website, for example, the admission into ME is based strictly the GATE score, provided you meet the eligibility requirements. First, you have not taken the GATE and you don't know your score. At best, you or we can only speculate on how you would perform. Second, even if you knew your GATE performance, your prospects of admission are relative to the candidate pool since the number of seats is pre-defined. Not knowing the GATE performance of other candidates, you or we can at best only speculate. Is this exercise interesting, amusing, or entertaining? Perhaps. Is it particularly insightful, revealing, or valuable? Perhaps not. You need to assess how well you can perform on the GATE. We can not add much to that.
You can choose any discipline on the GATE you wish, including computer science. We have addressed the GATE in earlier columns:
Long-term prospects for mechanical engineering and computer science are quite good. However, as we have seen through the recent dotcom bust, near-term fortunes can change quickly, contrary to the earlier pronouncement by the pundits. Your decisions should be based on your own understanding of the future and your personal interests, ambitions, and goals.
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