comp_bio_boy

I know I am very late in posting here but any help will be appreciated. Institution: DY Patil University (not well known, India), Masters- Indian Institute of Information Technology- Hyderabad (reputed school, India) Major(s): Undergrad- Bioinformatics, Masters-Bioinformatics GPA in Major: Overall GPA: Undergrad- 3.0/4.0, Grad- 3.3/4.0 Position in Class: no idea Type of Student: International Male GRE Scores (revised/old version): Q: 159 V: 150 W: 2.5 TOEFL - 87 (planning to reappear) Research Experience: August 2014 to Nov 2014: Internship at a Pharma company where my project was applying machine learning methods for text analytics. May 2014 to August 2014 - Interned at a genomics company and worked on a project to Analyse mutation data using different machine learning classifier July 2013 to April 2014:- Masters thesis exploring methods for sequence prediction. From Jan 2012 to June 2012 - Undergrad thesis at TATA institute of cancer research, India (renowned) on drug docking and modelling From Dec 2010 to Jan 2011- project on In-silco drug discovery at a research company in Bangalore. poster presentation at 3 national conferences. Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Work experience at well known Pharma company (1 year) I am working on a research project which includes applying IRE, NLP and ML techniques on digital media data to gain deeper insights. Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Won 2 and 3 prize at technical paper presentation held by other colleges Special Bonus Points: 2 strong recommendations (one from advisor and one form current manager). One medium recommendation from one professor. Publications: None Applying to Where: · MSKCC · IUB - School of Informatics and computing · INDIANA UNIVERSITY–PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · USC comp biology · scripps research institute · Georgia tech bioinformatics · University of Virginia- School of medicine · ut southwestern medical school Questions: Please provide your input regarding the choice of universities. Also suggest other university I should look at. Thanks in advance