ajc

I would like to find out information regarding Stanford, Berkeley, MIT. Basically top CS schools. My undergraduate studies were B.Eng (Software). Completed in Australia, The University of New South Wales, which is the top engineering school in Australia (at least). I did fairly well, ranking 1st in the class, thus earning first class honours and the university medal in software engineering. I have a bunch of awards (6 or so), came first in 10 subjects, have a publication from my thesis work. At the moment I am working on more papers but they won't be done for some time. So... I'm trying to find out chances to get into a USA CS PHD program and costs associated with international phd study. Anyone got any insights. I have been reading these boards for a bit now, a lot of discussion is centered around gpa and gre scores. With gpa australia uses a 7 system, whilst america uses 4 and gre, I will need to take it this coming october. Cheers.