flowereater

Probably 0% chance. Maybe a small possibility for Princeton if there is a *perfect* fit. But the no research is going to kill you. Your letters are all going to say "divideBy0 did well in my class, asked insightful questions, and would do well in grad school". To be honest, your profile just doesn't stand out in any way.

For HCI, there are many subareas. Here's my unofficial ranking (totally my opinion, so don't flame me): Social computing/CSCW: CMU HCII UC Irvine Michigan iSchool Cornell Georgia Tech Maryland Washington Minnesota Northwestern Illinois Stanford HCI Systems (engineering): MIT Media Lab CMU HCII Berkeley KAIST UToronto MIT CSAIL Stanford Washington Wisconsin Crowdsourcing/MOOCs: CMU HCII Stanford MIT Oxford Rochester Texas Behavioral Data: Washington Harvard Brown CMU HCII MIT Michigan iSchool UNC iSchool Qualitative: CMU HCII UC Irvine Cornell Washington iSchool Maryland Indiana UBC Health/Mobile: Georgia Tech CMU HCII Washington Maryland Northeastern Minnesota Interaction Techniques: Toronto CMU HCII Hasso Platner Institute Waterloo Maryland Washington Usability/Human Factors/Design: Maryland KAIST Indiana CMU HCII Washington Penn State UCSD Maryland Stanford Visualization: Utah Washington Georgia Tech UBC Brown Maryland Virginia Tech