Andrewknudsen96

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-graduate-programs-for-HCI-in-the-United-States-and-Europe

I did not have any publication and I graduated from not-so famous undergraduate schools. But I got into Top 5. Universities don't expect you to publish as an undergrad. If you publish you have great chance but not automatically in. It is holistic approach - your test scores, your undergraduate performance, courses you took, research statement, research fit with the department etc.

If I were you I would go GA Tech computing. UIUC CS is known for machine learning, operating systems and distributed computing. They do not have strong HCI side. My top choice for HCI would be GATech college of computing, CMU HCII, UW-Seattle CS (not HCDE, not iSchool), MIT Media lab, Stanford, Cornell iSchool, Penn State IST, Virginia Tech IST, UCIrvine., UC Berkeley iSchool, Indiana University. http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-graduate-programs-for-HCI-in-the-United-States-and-Europe

For Computer Science, Information Science and Electrical Engineering http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-admission-statistics-for-top-schools-in-computer-science-information-science-and-electrical-engineering

For acceptance statistics, look at this folks: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-admission-statistics-for-top-schools-in-computer-science-information-science-and-electrical-engineering