Can anyone please suggest me universities for MS-HCI:
Shortlisted so far:
CMU, UC-Irvine, WashU, UMich, Iowa State
Want to apply to 10 universities. Please help me add/delete.
GRE: 313: 152v, 161q)
TOEFL: Scheduled for 8 Nov
UG: B.tech in Comp Sc- 71%.. highest was 80%
12th: 83%
10th: 91%
Projects: 2 during semester internship for 3 months each; 1 was development both backend and frontend and the other was for quality assurance
Papers: None
Seminars: Did some research on DNA computing on my own and delivered a seminar to students in my college. This was part of college semester program.
Work ex: 2.5 years
Working as a quality assurance engineer in a Washington based company's India office in India. Been a part of 3 projects so far. Responsibilities include user interface testing primarily, database , end to end testing, requirement analysis, automation testing with java and selenium.
Programming: Java, selenium
Accolades: Awards for extraordinary contribution to the organization in overall development of the products.(Got this in office)
Extra Curricular: I own a student pilot license. Have done few hours of flying.
Won in some advertisement related competitions etc at college level
Have won few non work related competitions in office.
Social Work: Associated with an NGO for child education.
LOR: I can manage one from a PHD prof in my colg and 2 from my managers at work. I can also get recommendation from my remote manager in US if that will leave an impact else India if that would suffice.