Hi, I'd like to apply for CS MS this year (for Fall 2016), and I'm struggling with deciding the "list of schools". Please kindly help me evaluate my background/profile and help me check if my list of schools are safe or not, or is there any missing school I should apply for. Thanks! Education / English Testing B.S. in Math in National Taiwan University (NTU)GPA: 3.45/4.30 (overall), 3.87/4.30 (Last60)No PublicationGRE: 327 -- V157, Q170, AWA 3.5TOEFL: 102 -- R28, L27, S20, W27CS related courses: Machine Learning and Optimization / Algorithm / Data Structure and Programming / Database / Scientific ComputingAcademic Experience 1.5 years in Machine Learning research, # of research projects is roughly 3~41 Teaching Assistant to Machine Learning in NTU2015 KDD Cup 4th prize (NTU Team)Industrial Experience 4+ years in web development (intern for 4 startup companies)Open Source Experiences: maintain / contribute several projects such as Scikit-Learn / Go-OpenCV (github: https://github.com/lazywei)Participated in Google Summer of Code both 2014 and 2015 (with Ruby on Rails and GitHub respectively) And my draft of list of schools -- Dreaming for: CMU CS, ML, LTI, INIStanford ICMECornell / Cornell Tech CS MengGaTech CS MSUT AustinShooting for: UCLAUW MadisonUCSD CSEUSCNYUUC DavisIs there any school/program I miss, or is this list too dangerous / unsafe (according to my low GPA)? Please kindly help me evaluate my profile, thanks!
Hi, I'd like to apply for CS MS this year (for Fall 2016), and I'm struggling with deciding the "list of schools". Please kindly help me evaluate my background/profile and help me check if my list of schools are safe or not, or is there any missing school I should apply for. Thanks! Education / English Testing B.S. in Math in National Taiwan University (NTU)GPA: 3.45/4.30 (overall), 3.87/4.30 (Last60)No PublicationGRE: 327 -- V157, Q170, AWA 3.5TOEFL: 102 -- R28, L27, S20, W27CS related courses: Machine Learning and Optimization / Algorithm / Data Structure and Programming / Database / Scientific ComputingAcademic Experience 1.5 years in Machine Learning research, # of research projects is roughly 3~41 Teaching Assistant to Machine Learning in NTU2015 KDD Cup 4th prize (NTU Team)Industrial Experience 4+ years in web development (intern for 4 startup companies)Open Source Experiences: maintain / contribute several projects such as Scikit-Learn / Go-OpenCV (github: https://github.com/lazywei)Participated in Google Summer of Code both 2014 and 2015 (with Ruby on Rails and GitHub respectively) And my draft of list of schools -- Dreaming for: CMU CS, ML, LTI, INIStanford ICMECornell / Cornell Tech CS MengGaTech CS MSUT AustinShooting for: UCLAUW MadisonUCSD CSEUSCNYUUC DavisIs there any school/program I miss, or is this list too dangerous / unsafe (according to my low GPA)? Please kindly help me evaluate my profile, thanks!